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Definition of Pointels
1. pointel [n] - See also: pointel
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pointels
Literary usage of Pointels
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. New-England's Rarities Discovered in Birds, Beasts, Fishes, Serpents, and by John Josselyn, Edward Tuckerman (1865)
"... like the head of a Serpent, opening at the top like a mouth, and hollow
throughout, containing four crooked pointels, and on the top of every pointel a ..."
2. New-England's Rarities Discovered in Birds, Beasts, Fishes, Serpents, and by John Josselyn, Edward Tuckerman (1865)
"... like the head of a Serpent, opening at the top like a mouth, and hollow
throughout, containing four crooked pointels, and on the top of every pointel a ..."
3. Transactions and Collections by American Antiquarian Society (1860)
"with the pointels, fastened close together ... The crooked pointels are very
stiff and hard from the bottom of the husks, wherein the flower stands. ..."
4. Archaeologia Americana: Transactions and Collections of the American by American Antiquarian Society (1860)
"The crooked pointels are very stiff and hard from the bottom of the husks, wherein
the flower stands. From the top of the seed-vessel shoots out a white ..."
5. Derham's Physico and Astro Theology: Or, A Demonstration of the Being and by William Derham (1786)
"... and in fuch as have but two, by pointels, ... or pointels, are, for tht moft
part, little balls, Jet at the top of a ..."
6. The English Physician; Enlarged with Three Hundred and Sixty-nine Medicines by Nicholas Culpeper (1814)
"... three or four more white flowers, made of five small pointed leaves a-piece,
standing on a stalk together cue above another, with yellow pointels in the ..."
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