1. pounce - Noun
2. pounce - Verb
A fine powder, as of sandarac, or cuttlefish bone, -- formerly used to prevent ink from spreading on manuscript.
Charcoal dust, or some other colored powder for making patterns through perforated designs, -- used by embroiderers, lace makers, etc.
To sprinkle or rub with pounce; as, to pounce paper, or a pattern.
The claw or talon of a bird of prey.
To strike or seize with the talons; to pierce, as with the talons.
To punch; to perforate; to stamp holes in, or dots on, by way of ornament.
To fall suddenly and seize with the claws; -- with on or upon; as, a hawk pounces upon a chicken. Also used figuratively.
Source: Webster's dictionarydo what only a true artist can do... pounce upon the forgotten butterfly of revelation. Vladimir Nabokov
They are presented attractively for the same reason that kittens are cute - so that they can draw you in, then pounce on you for the kill. Seriously. Stay away from kittens. Brandon Sanderson
I want to go south, where there is no autumn, where the cold doesn't crouch over one like a snow leopard waiting to pounce. The heart of the North is dead, and the fingers of cold are corpse fingers. D. H. Lawrence
I wonder that religion can live or die on the strength of a faint, stirring breeze. The scent trail shifts, causing the predator to miss the pounce. One god draws in the breath of life and rises; another god expires. Barbara Kingsolver
When critics are waiting to pounce upon poetic style on exactly the same grounds as if it were prose, the poets tremble. John Crowe Ransom
Self-righteousness loves to pounce on an evil which by sheer accident is not its particular evil. Vernon Howard