[ adj ] painful as if caused by a sharp instrument <adj.all> a cutting windkeen winds knifelike cold piercing knifelike pains piercing cold piercing criticism a stabbing pain lancinating pain
Lancinate \Lan"ci*nate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Lancinated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Lancinating}.] [L. lancinatus, p. p. of lancinare to fear.] To tear; to lacerate; to pierce or stab. --De Quincey.