pounced
English
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]pounced
- simple past and past participle of pounce
Adjective
[edit]pounced (not comparable)
- (obsolete) (Can we verify(+) this sense?) Furnished with claws or talons.
- a. 1749 (date written), James Thomson, “Spring”, in The Seasons, London: […] A[ndrew] Millar, and sold by Thomas Cadell, […], published 1768, →OCLC:
- The royal eagle draws his vigorous young, Strong-pounced, and ardent with paternal fire
- (obsolete) Ornamented with perforations or dots.
- 1577, Raphaell Holinshed, “The Historie of Englande”, in The Firste Volume of the Chronicles of England, Scotlande, and Irelande […], volume I, London: […] [Henry Bynneman] for Iohn Harrison, →OCLC:
- Gilt bowls pounced or pierced.
References
[edit]- “pounced”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.