Defn: The pistil of a plant.
2. A kind of pencil or style used with the tablets of the Middle Ages. "A pair of tablets [i. e., tablets] . . . and a pointel." Chaucer.
3. (Arch.)
Defn: See Poyntel. [Obs. or R.]
POINT ALPHABET
Point alphabet.
Defn: An alphabet for the blind with a system of raised points corresponding to letters.
POINT APPLIQUE
Point appliqué.
Defn: Lace having a needle-made design applied to a net ground, this ground often being machine-made.
POINT-BLANK
Point`-blank", n. Etym: [F. point point + blanc white.]
1. The white spot on a target, at which an arrow or other missile is aimed. [Obs.] Jonson.