The staff " I guess I saw that as more like a sword or an unpointed spear " anything that long clearly required technique.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Magic of Recluce]

And so it came as a surprise to me, that moment a couple of years ago, when my Oma dropped some small, unpointed comment that made it suddenly and abundantly clear that to her, I was not, in fact, family.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2006-07-01] Reference

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 Wordnik.com.  [Introduction to the Old Testament] Reference

With its immersive sweetness and gentleness, this is another utterly confident and unhurried ensemble picture from Leigh, containing his distinctively extended dialogue scenes of unpointed ordinariness, and a lowered narrative heartbeat to which you have to make a conscious effort to adjust.    From Wordnik.com.  [Another Year ? review] Reference

See that dark, unpointed house, with its lilac shrubbery.    From Wordnik.com.  [Woman in the Ninteenth Century and Kindred Papers Relating to the Sphere, Condition and Duties, of Woman.] Reference

Rolls that were destined for use in the synagogue were always unpointed.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman] Reference

Windowless, unpointed, the rickety old two-story house gaped sightlessly at him.    From Wordnik.com.  [Slan]

Roll (exquisitely written, as many visitors are aware, in unpointed Hebrew), and asked him to read a few words.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Parish Clerk] Reference

He noticed that she picked up the unpointed pencil and he felt a little desolate feeling, as if he had lost his only friend.    From Wordnik.com.  [Balloons] Reference

The unpointed consonant-text can be made essentially clearer by writing "plene", i.e., by using the so-called quiescent letters (matres lectionis).    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon] Reference

February 9, 2010 Nine days ago, Oceanside lost the regular-season crown and its unblemished record to Plainview by eight-tenths of a point - what amounts to an unpointed toe.    From Wordnik.com.  [WN.com - Business News] Reference

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 Wordnik.com.  [The Rose in the Ring] Reference

(A, No. 1), a Pentateuch roll, unpointed, brought from Derbend in Daghestan, appears by the subscription to have been written previous to A.D. 580 and if so is the oldest known biblical Hebrew MS. in existence.    From Wordnik.com.  [Smith's Bible Dictionary] Reference

Someone stands and extends a leg with great concentration, then lies on the floor and traces shapes with her or his arms, and then the separation of individual fingers (or the way a foot stays emphatically unpointed at the end of a stretched leg) becomes oddly important.    From Wordnik.com.  [NYT > Home Page]

It is true, as your sublime highness's discrimination has observed, that his enunciation, even to those who know the language, may have some appearance of indistinctness, because he is defective in the vowel-points; but we cannot help it, for all our books are unpointed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 449 Volume 18, New Series, August 7, 1852] Reference

Smith explained how the process of making a pin was divided into as many as 18 separate steps, including: drawing out the wire, straightening the wire, cutting it, pointing it, grinding the unpointed end in preparation for adding the head, making the head, affixing the head, whitening the pin, and packaging it (putting the pin "into the paper").    From Wordnik.com.  [Division of Labour] Reference

"house of bread," and the doubt arises from the Hebrew letters being originally unpointed, and the points -- equivalent to vowel sounds -- being inserted in later times; this naturally gives rise to great latitude of interpretation, the vowels being inserted whenever the writer or translator thinks they ought to come in, or where the traditionary reading requires them (see Part 1., pp. 13, and 31, 32).    From Wordnik.com.  [The Freethinker's Text Book, Part II. Christianity: Its Evidences, Its Origin, Its Morality, Its History] Reference

1486 the Prophetae priores (Joshua -- Kings), folio, unpointed with Kimchi's commentary.    From Wordnik.com.  [Smith's Bible Dictionary] Reference

Gurney, it was left unpointed for the nonce.    From Wordnik.com.  [Act the Fifth. Scene V] Reference

But thou in clumfv vtrfc, unlickt, unpointed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Elegant Extracts; Or, Useful and Entertaining Pieces of Poetry: Selected for the Improvement of ...] Reference

Ditto, unpointed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Illustrated Catalogue of the Collections Obtained from the Pueblos of Zuñi, New Mexico, and Wolpi, Arizona, in 1881 Third Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1881-82, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1884, pages 511-594] Reference

1. dull, rounded, not sharp, unpointed, edgeless, unsharpened, thick.    From Wordnik.com.  [Book Randomness Tag!] Reference