Pouncing

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  • v. Present participle of pounce.
  • n. The art or practice of transferring a design by means of pounce.
  • n. Decorative perforation of cloth.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. The art or practice of transferring a design by means of pounce.
  • n. Decorative perforation of cloth.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. The act of punching holes in or perforating anything for ornament: same as pinking.
  • n. Any design or ornamental effect produced by holes.
  • n. The operation of transferring the outline of a design from one surface to another, as from a cartoon to a wall or from a sheet of paper to a canvas or a piece of muslin, by perforating the surface on which the drawing has been made with small holes along the outlines, then laying it on the surface intended to receive the transfer and dusting over it with a pounce-bag, thus leaving a dotted repetition of the design. This may be fixed with a soft lead-pencil or a reed pen.
  • n. A pattern so produced.
  • n. Same as pounce, 3.
  • Word Usage
    "Conan crept to within pouncing distance, and he was about to grab the creature and snap its neck, when it shrieked, and dropped the pearl."
    Verb Stem
    pounce   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound