Blade
- Blade
- Blade Blade (bl[=a]d), n. [OE. blade, blad, AS. bl[ae]d leaf;
akin to OS., D., Dan., & Sw. blad, Icel. bla[eth], OHG. blat,
G. blatt, and perh. to L. folium, Gr. fy`llon. The root is
prob. the same as that of AS. bl[=o]wan, E. blow, to blossom.
See {Blow} to blossom, and cf. {Foil} leaf of metal.]
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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.
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The crimson dulse . . . with its waving blade.
--Percival.
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First the blade, then ear, after that the full corn
in the ear. --Mark iv. 28.
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2. The cutting part of an instrument; as, the blade of a
knife or a sword.
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3. The broad part of an oar; also, one of the projecting arms
of a screw propeller.
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4. The scapula or shoulder blade.
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5. pl. (Arch.) The principal rafters of a roof. --Weale.
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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.
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7. A sharp-witted, dashing, wild, or reckless, fellow; -- a
word of somewhat indefinite meaning.
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He saw a turnkey in a trice
Fetter a troublesome blade. --Coleridge.
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8. The flat part of the tongue immediately behind the tip, or
point.
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``Lower blade'' implies, of course, the lower
instead of the upper surface of the tongue. --H.
Sweet.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
2000.
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