Pointer, n. Index, hand, director.
Pointless, a.
- 1. Blunt, obtuse.
- 2. Dull, stupid, vapid, aimless, vague, flat.
Point out. Indicate, designate, point, show, direct attention to.
Poise, n.
- 1. Weight, gravity.
- 2. Counterweight, counterpoise
- 3. Regulating power, balance.
- 4. Balance, equilibrium, equipoise.
Poise, v. a.
- 1. Balance, hold or place in equilibrium.
- 2. Weight.
Poison, n. Venom, virus, bane, pest, taint, noxious influence.
Poison, v. a. Infect, taint, contaminate, corrupt, canker, mar, impair, vitiate, envenom, pollute.
Poison-ivy, n. Poison-oak, climbing sumac, mercury (Rhus toxicodendron).
Poisonous, a. Venomous, noxious, baneful, pestilential, pestiferous.
Poison-tree, n. Poison-sumac, poison-elder, swamp sumac (Rhus venenata).
Poke, n.
- 1. Thrust, push, shove, jog.
- 2. (Bot.) Garget, pigeon-berry, pogan, cocum, pocan, pocan-bush, poke-weed (Phytolacca decandra).
- 3. Pocket, pouch, bag, sack.