Definition of Pearcing

1. pearce [v] - See also: pearce

Lexicographical Neighbors of Pearcing

pear
pear-shaped
pear-shaped area
pear blight
pear haw
pear hawthorn
pear of anguish
pear tree
pear trees
pearce
pearced
pearceite
pearces
pearch
pearches
pearcing (current term)
peare
peares
pearl
pearl-ash
pearl-bordered fritillaries
pearl-bordered fritillary
pearl-fish
pearl-necklace
pearl-weed
pearl-worker's disease
pearl ash
pearl barley
pearl cyst
pearl diver

Literary usage of Pearcing

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Publications by Musical Antiquarian Society (1847)
"... streight did shew The pearcing arrowes and the fearefull bow That kild great Pithon, & with that did threat him, To bring his beasts againe, ..."

2. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1876)
"bad ones. He has twice as much bonk, and cie-ire to play as ever lie had in his life, and can't find a moment's leisure. From construing and pearcing Greek, ..."

3. Five Hundred Pointes of Good Husbandrie by Thomas Tusser (1878)
"... Condemned and tormented was, with all the force they might. 13 To liuing wight more euill, what could such wretches do ? More pearcing ..."

4. The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including the Series by Alexander Chalmers, Samuel Johnson (1810)
"But cast thy pearcing dart, into my panting brest, That 1 may leaue both loue and life, and thereby purchase rest. Haud ictus sapio. ..."

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