2. To direct toward an abject; to aim; as, to point a gun at
a wolf, or a cannon at a fort.
3. Hence, to direct the attention or notice of.
Whosoever should be guided through his battles by
Minerva, and pointed to every scene of them. --Pope.
4. To supply with punctuation marks; to punctuate; as, to
point a composition.
5. To mark (as Hebrew) with vowel points.
6. To give particular prominence to; to designate in a
special manner; to indicate, as if by pointing; as, the
error was pointed out. --Pope.
He points it, however, by no deviation from his
straightforward manner of speech. --Dickens.
7. To indicate or discover by a fixed look, as game.
8. (Masonry) To fill up and finish the joints of (a wall), by
introducing additional cement or mortar, and bringing it
to a smooth surface.
9. (Stone Cutting) To cut, as a surface, with a pointed tool.
{To point a rope} (Naut.), to taper and neatly finish off the
end by interweaving the nettles.
{To point a sail} (Naut.), to affix points through the eyelet
holes of the reefs.
{To point off}, to divide into periods or groups, or to
separate, by pointing, as figures.
{To point the yards} (of a vessel) (Naut.), to brace them so
that the wind shall strike the sails obliquely. --Totten.
2. The act of designating, as a position or direction, by
means of something pointed, as a finger or a rod.
3. The act or art of punctuating; punctuation.
4. The act of filling and finishing the joints in masonry
with mortar, cement, etc.; also, the material so used.
5. The rubbing off of the point of the wheat grain in the
first process of high milling.
6. (Sculpt.) The act or process of measuring, at the various
distances from the surface of a block of marble, the
surface of a future piece of statuary; also, a process
used in cutting the statue from the artist's model.