unpointed

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At most there were some unpointed toes, some “oafishness,” to use Johnny Weir’s highly technical language, some uncoordinated twizzling, some wobbly, burning knees.

From Slate • Feb. 18, 2014

Hadst thou the glories of thy King exprest, Thy praises had been satires at the best; But thou in clumsy verse, unlicked, unpointed, Hast shamefully defied the Lord's anointed.

From Library of the World's Best literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 12 by Various

Gurney, it was left unpointed for the nonce;    Edwardum occidere nolite timere,    That's his meaning.

From Edward the Second by Marlowe, Christopher

More probably it simply means "number, weigh, divide"—the ambiguity being caused by the different possibilities of pointing and therefore of precisely interpreting these words, which were of course unpointed in the original.

From Introduction to the Old Testament by McFadyen, John Edgar

Eight o'clock,—no more,—and yet it seemed to these men that they had plowed forever through the blackness of this evil night, through a hundred villainous shadows by unpointed paths.

From The Rose in the Ring by McCutcheon, George Barr