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Pounced

Pounced \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.

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pounced
  1. 1 (context obsolete English) Furnished with claws or talons. 2 (context obsolete English) Ornamented with perforations or dots. v

  2. (en-past of: pounce)

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Pounced

Pounced is a Breeders' Cup Juvenile Turf-winning thoroughbred racehorse owned by Lady Rothschild. He was retired to stud in 2010.

He is a son of Rahy who stands in Kentucky and the Storm Cat mare Golden Cat.

On November 7, 2009 at Santa Anita Park, Pounced stalked the front-running Bridgetown for much of the race before blowing past the Florida-bred Summer Stakes winner in the closing.

Usage examples of "pounced".

It got so tense that when the onlookers said anything they were pounced upon.

She saw the confusion in her bar, saw the madman eating the lizard, twitching and tittering, and she pounced on him, hitting him with the head of the long broom, as if he were a cow or a goat.

The man with the bloated eye pounced on me and I smashed his arm with the machete and he did not utter a sound, nor did he bleed.

The lorry driver started his engine, the child screamed, the women rushed towards me, shoved me out of the way, and some of them went under the lorry, while others pounced on the driver and harassed him for parking his ugly vehicle in front of their stalls.

They pounced on one another again, in great rage and velocity, and bits of their wigs and kerchiefs and blouses floated around them in slow motion.

Mum started towards the kitchen and Dad pounced on her and grabbed her neck and pressed her face against the mattress.

Then, breathing heavily, she materialised amongst us, and pounced on our astonishment, quick on her feet for one so heavy.

Mum returned exhausted from hawking, her face a mask of dust and shadows, that Dad suddenly pounced on me.

Then I pounced on its head with a stone, but the lizard escaped me and dropped its tiny accordion, which Isquashedcompletely withthestone,producingalittledinofangrymusic.

Dad pounced on him and unleashed a cascade, an avalanche of punches so fast his hands seemed like a machine.

Then Mum turned on Dad, pounced on him, and began hitting him uncontrollably.

Triumphantly Maelra pounced on his probe, riding rather than challenging it.

Blackgult, and was now leaping for his life about the Throne Chamber as the maddened Serpent pounced at him, biting and missing and biting again.

Then when Clodius pounced on her murmuring endearments through little kisses all over her face, she made the mistake of laughing at his absurdity, and sent him away with the sound of her chuckles booming in his ears.

Suddenly, the thing was within range, and the cat pounced with lithe eagerness.