tapering point

Spikelets 5–12-flowered, few and scattered; flowering glume oblong-lanceolate, acute, shorter than the long tapering point of the palet.—Wet places, Penn. to Maine; rather rare.

A sharpening; termination in a sharp point; a tapering point.

Acuminate, ending in a tapering point.

Here all was graceful pinnacle, delicate spire, tapering point, and slender pillar, each frosted alike with silvery rime, which made the finger shrink when touching them; for it seemed, according to everyday knowledge, quite startling that these beautiful works of nature should feel cool and temperate; the visitor felt that they ought to sting the nerves with pain, for their sparkling effect looked so exactly as though it had been produced by frost.

They include exposure to almost every kind of catastrophe mentioned in the Litany, from battle, murder, and sudden death, through hunger and thirst, to the tapering point of mere necessity and tribulation.