pounced

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /paʊnst/
• Rhymes: -aʊnst

Verb

pounced

1. simple past and past participle of pounce

Adjective

pounced (not comparable)

1. (obsolete) Furnished with claws or talons.
   • 1728, 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

2. (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.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “pounced”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• uncoped