cuspid

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The following etymons have been suggested: 1, pilum, Lat. the head of an arrow; the Spaniards and Italians call this ordinary cuspis.

From The Curiosities of Heraldry by Lower, Mark Antony

But the cusp, cuspis, spiny or spearlike point of a thirteenth century illumination, is not in the least necessary to transfix the parchment.

From Val d'Arno by Ruskin, John

Professor Tarrant points out to me that the cuspis does not seem to be attributed to Jupiter, no doubt because the fulmen was too firmly established as his weapon.

From The Last Poems of Ovid by Akrigg, Mark Bear

Page 118, line 8. cuspis is aut lilium.—Gilbert uses cuspis or lilium always of the North-pointing end of the needle.

From On the magnet, magnetick bodies also, and on the great magnet the earth a new physiology, demonstrated by many arguments & experiments by Gilbert, William