| n. | 1. | The act of sharpening. |
| 2. | The act of designating, as a position or direction, by means of something pointed, as a finger or a rod. | |
| 3. | The act or art of punctuating; punctuation. | |
| 4. | The act of filling and finishing the joints in masonry with mortar, cement, etc.; also, the material so used. | |
| 5. | The rubbing off of the point of the wheat grain in the first process of high milling. | |
| 6. | (Sculpt.) The act or process of measuring, at the various distances from the surface of a block of marble, the surface of a future piece of statuary; also, a process used in cutting the statue from the artist's model. |
| Adj. | 1. | pointing - that points |