Brazil is the largest coffee producer in the world. Each year Brazil exports more than 44 million bags of coffee. Vietnam follows at exporting over 27 million bags each year.
POUNCED
Verb
pounced
simple past tense and past participle of pounce
Adjective
pounced (not comparable)
(obsolete) Furnished with claws or talons.
(obsolete) Ornamented with perforations or dots.
Anagrams
• uncoped
Source: Wiktionary
Pounced, a.
1. Furnished with claws or talons; as, the pounced young of the eagle. Thomson.
2. Ornamented with perforations or dots. [Obs.] "Gilt bowls pounced and pierced." Holinshed.
POUNCE
Pounce, n. Etym: [F. ponce pumice, pounce, fr. L. pumex, -icis, pumice. See Pumice.]
1. A fine powder, as of sandarac, or cuttlefish bone, -- formerly used to prevent ink from spreading on manuscript.
2. Charcoal dust, or some other colored powder for making patterns through perforated designs, -- used by embroiderers, lace makers, etc. Pounce box, a box for sprinkling pounce.
– Pounce paper, a transparent paper for tracing.
Pounce, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Pounded; p. pr. & vb. n. Pouncing.]
Definition: To sprinkle or rub with pounce; as, to pounce paper, or a pattern.
Pounce, n. Etym: [Prob. through French, from an assumed LL. punctiare to prick, L. pungere, punctum. See Puncheon, Punch, v. t.]
1. The claw or talon of a bird of prey. Spenser. Burke.
2. A punch or stamp. [Obs.] "A pounce to print money with." Withals.
3. Cloth worked in eyelet holes. [Obs.] Homilies.
Pounce, v. t.
1. To strike or seize with the talons; to pierce, as with the talons. [Archaic] Stooped from his highest pitch to pounce a wren. Cowper. Now pounce him lightly, And as he roars and rages, let's go deeper. J. Fletcher.
2. To punch; to perforate; to stamp holes in, or dots on, by way of ornament. [Obs.] Sir T. Elyot.
Pounce, v. i.
Definition: To fall suddenly and seize with the claws; -- with on or upon; as, a hawk pounces upon a chicken. Also used figuratively. Derision is never so agonizing as when it pounces on the wanderings of misguided sensibility. Jeffrey.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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