▪ I. pounced, a.
(paʊnst)
[f. pounce n.1 + -ed2.]
Having talons like a hawk: usually in comb.
| 1687 Dryden Hind & P. iii. 1117 Some haggar'd Hawk..Well pounc'd to fasten, and well wing'd to fly. 1700 ― Pythagorean Philos. 570 The strong pounc'd Eagle and the billing dove. 1787 Generous Attachment III. 5 The soft doves of Venus will then flit away before the strong pounced eagle of ambition. |
▪ II. pounced, ppl. a.1
(paʊnst)
[f. pounce v.1]
1. Of metal-work: Embossed or chased by way of ornament. Obs. exc. Hist.
| [1430, etc.: see pounce v.1 1.] 1502 Bury Wills (Camden) 258 My best pownsyd peece. 1513 Douglas æneis ix. v. 94 Twa siluer coupis..With figuris grave and punsyt ymagery. 1552 Huloet, Pounced plate, anaglypha, anaglypta. 1582 Lanc. Wills (1857) I. 132 A pounse [? pounsed] bolle parcell gylt. |
2. Of clothing: Perforated, punctured, or laciniated for ornament; pinked. Obs. exc. Hist.
| c 1386 [see pounce v.1 2]. a 1548 Hall Chron., Hen. VIII 11 b, All in Crymosyn Satyn, garded with a pounced garde of grene Veluet. 1589 Puttenham Eng. Poesie iii. xxiv. (Arb.) 290 Who would not thinke it a ridiculous thing to see..a Gentleman of the Countrey among the bushes and briers, goe in a pounced dublet and a paire of embrodered hosen? |
| fig. a 1653 G. Daniel Idyll. iv. 116 Wrought Pillow's bring Pownc'd Law, Stitched Common-wealth, and purled King. |
† b. Cut or laciniated at the edges, as a leaf. Obs.
| 1681 Grew Musæum ii. v. ii. 248 The Pounced Sea-Wrack, Alga marina. |
† 3. Beaten, bruised. Obs.
| 1551 Beware the Cat (1570) 81 The young woman to whom she shewed her pounced thies, said I was an unnatural daughter to deal so with my mother. |
† 4. Pricked, marked by pricking; tattooed. Obs.
| 1555 Eden Decades 144 With a sharpe prycke made eyther of bone or elles with a thorne, they make holes in their faces: and foorthwith sprinkelynge a pouder theron, they moiste the pounced place with a certeyne blacke or redde iuise. 1610 Holland Camden's Brit. i. 115 That their Nobilitie and Gentry thus spotted, may carrie these starres about them, in their painted pownced limmes, as badges. |
▪ III. pounced, ppl. a.2
[f. pounce v.3 + -ed1.]
1. Powdered, dusted.
| 1619 H. Hutton Follie's Anat. A viij b, And that he may obtaine his lust, compares Her eyes to starres, to Amber her pounc't hayres. 1633 Prynne Histrio-m. i. vi. xv. 546 b, Their frizled Periwigs, Love-lockes, and long effeminate pouldred pounced haire. 1683 Capt. Wylde Let. to Pepys in P.'s Life (1841) I. 422 Cotton yarn..which they dip in the liquor, squeezing it gently,..so running along the pounced work, where it turns black in a trice. 1807 Crabbe Par. Reg. i. 151 Tulips tall-stemm'd and pounc'd auriculas rise. 1855 W. Williams Transparency Painting on Linen 28 The pattern being removed, the pounced design is secured by being traced with a soft black-lead pencil, and drawn in with a reed pen. |
2. Sprinkled with minute specks as if powdered.
| 1727 Bradley Fam. Dict. s.v. Carnation, The Flowers of the Picketees are always of a white Ground, spotted or pounced, as they call it, with Red or Purple. 1892 E. Castle Eng. Bk.-Plates 145 The achievements and scrolls and pounced background common to the printers' mark. |