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mucronare

mucronare [CL] , to provide with sharp end, make pointed. b (p. ppl., her.) fitchy. gladius [swordfish] dicitur eo quod rostro mucrinato fit ob hoc naves perfossas mergit Best. Ashmole f. 87v; quod fistulosum est, dic, queso, qualiter / acumen habeat et pungat acriter; / nam mucronatum est et cavum pariter / quod cutem terebrat vix visibiliter Walt. Wimb. Carm. 397.  b G. de Clinton, Huntingtoniae comes ‥ sex nigras cruces in spicum ~atas aliis terminatas cruciculis adjecit Upton app. 81.

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