pounce
Speech parts
1. pounce - Noun
2. pounce - Verb
Meaning
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.
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do what only a true artist can do... pounce upon the forgotten butterfly of revelation.
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.
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.
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.
When critics are waiting to pounce upon poetic style on exactly the same grounds as if it were prose, the poets tremble.
Self-righteousness loves to pounce on an evil which by sheer accident is not its particular evil.