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See Pouncet box.
A box with a perforated lid, for sprinkling pounce, or for holding perfumes.
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v. i.
To fall suddenly and seize with the claws; -- with on or upon; as, a hawk pounces upon a chicken. Also used figuratively.
v. t.
To punch; to perforate; to stamp holes in, or dots on, by way of ornament.
p. pr. & vb. n.
of Pounce
n.
To take fast hold of; to seize and hold firmly; to pounce upon.
a.
Furnished with claws or talons; as, the pounced young of the eagle.
v. t.
To sprinkle or rub with pounce; as, to pounce paper, or a pattern.
n.
A fine powder, as of sandarac, or cuttlefish bone, -- formerly used to prevent ink from spreading on manuscript.
v. t.
To pounce upon.
a.
Ornamented with perforations or dots.
n.
A white or yellow resin obtained from a Barbary tree (Callitris quadrivalvis or Thuya articulata), and pulverized for pounce; -- probably so called from a resemblance to the mineral.
v. t.
To strike or seize with the talons; to pierce, as with the talons.
v. t.
The claw or talon of a bird of prey.
imp. & p. p.
of Pounce
v. t.
A punch or stamp.
n.
The art or practice of transferring a design by means of pounce.
v. t.
Cloth worked in eyelet holes.
v. i.
To come down as a hawk does on its prey; to pounce; to souse; to swoop.
n.
Charcoal dust, or some other colored powder for making patterns through perforated designs, -- used by embroiderers, lace makers, etc.
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