English Dictionary: Blade | by the DICT Development Group |
6 results for Blade | |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Blade \Blade\, n. The flat part of the tongue immediately behind the tip, or point. [bd]Lower blade[b8] implies, of course, the lower instead of the upper surface of the tongue. --H. Sweet. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Blade \Blade\ (bl[amac]d), v. t. To furnish with a blade. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Blade \Blade\, v. i. To put forth or have a blade. As sweet a plant, as fair a flower, is faded As ever in the Muses' garden bladed. --P. Fletcher. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Blade \Blade\ (bl[amac]d), n. [OE. blade, blad, AS. bl[91]d leaf; akin to OS., D., Dan., & Sw. blad, Icel. bla[edh], OHG. blat, G. blatt, and perh. to L. folium, Gr. fy`llon. The root is prob. the same as that of AS. bl[omac]wan, E. blow, to blossom. See {Blow} to blossom, and cf. {Foil} leaf of metal.] 1. Properly, the leaf, or flat part of the leaf, of any plant, especially of gramineous plants. The term is sometimes applied to the spire of grasses. The crimson dulse . . . with its waving blade. --Percival. First the blade, then ear, after that the full corn in the ear. --Mark iv. 28. 2. The cutting part of an instrument; as, the blade of a knife or a sword. 3. The broad part of an oar; also, one of the projecting arms of a screw propeller. 4. The scapula or shoulder blade. 5. pl. (Arch.) The principal rafters of a roof. --Weale. 6. pl. (Com.) The four large shell plates on the sides, and the five large ones of the middle, of the carapace of the sea turtle, which yield the best tortoise shell. --De Colange. 7. A sharp-witted, dashing, wild, or reckless, fellow; -- a word of somewhat indefinite meaning. He saw a turnkey in a trice Fetter a troublesome blade. --Coleridge. | |
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: | |
Blade applied to the glittering point of a spear (Job 39:23) or sword (Nah. 3:3), the blade of a dagger (Judg. 3:22); the "shoulder blade" (Job 31:22); the "blade" of cereals (Matt. 13:26). |