Category:Point-device

Point`-de*vice", point`-de*vise", a. Etym: [oe. at point devis; at at + point point, condition + devis exact, careful, of. devis fixed, Set. See device.]

Defn: uncommonly nice and exact; precise; particular. You are rather point-devise in your accouterments. Shak. Thus he grew up, in logic point-devise, perfect in grammar, and in Rhetoric nice. Longfellow.

Point-device; point-devise Point`-de*vice", point`-de*vise", adv.

Defn: exactly. [obs.] Shak.