Found 3 items, similar to Pounce.
English → Indonesian (quick)
Definition: pounce
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English → English (WordNet)
Definition: pounce
pounce
n : the act of pouncing
v : move down on as if in an attack;
“The raptor swooped down on
its prey”;
“The teacher swooped down upon the new
students” [syn:
swoop]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Pounce
Pounce
\Pounce\, v. i.
To fall suddenly and seize with the claws; -- with on or
upon; as, a hawk pounces upon a chicken. Also used
figuratively.
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Derision is never so agonizing as when it pounces on
the wanderings of misguided sensibility. --Jeffrey.
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Pounce
\Pounce\, n. [F. ponce pumice, pounce, fr. L. pumex,
-icis, pumice. See
Pumice.]
1. A fine powder, as of sandarac, or cuttlefish bone, --
formerly used to prevent ink from spreading on manuscript.
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2. Charcoal dust, or some other colored powder for making
patterns through perforated designs, -- used by
embroiderers, lace makers, etc.
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Pounce box, a box for sprinkling pounce.
Pounce paper, a transparent paper for tracing.
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Pounce
\Pounce\, v. t. [imp. & p. p.
Pounded; p. pr. & vb. n.
Pouncing.]
To sprinkle or rub with pounce; as, to pounce paper, or a
pattern.
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Pounce
\Pounce\, n. [Prob. through French, from an assumed LL.
punctiare to prick, L. pungere, punctum. See
Puncheon,
Punch, v. t.]
1. The claw or talon of a bird of prey. --Spenser. Burke.
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2. A punch or stamp. [Obs.]
“A pounce to print money with.”
--Withals.
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3. Cloth worked in eyelet holes. [Obs.] --Homilies.
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Pounce
\Pounce\, v. t.
1. To strike or seize with the talons; to pierce, as with the
talons. [Archaic]
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Stooped from his highest pitch to pounce a wren.
--Cowper.
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Now pounce him lightly,
And as he roars and rages, let's go deeper. --J.
Fletcher.
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2. To punch; to perforate; to stamp holes in, or dots on, by
way of ornament. [Obs.] --Sir T. Elyot.
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