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Blade   /bleɪd/   Listen
noun
Blade  n.  
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." "First the blade, then ear, after that the full corn in the ear."
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.
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.
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."
8.
The flat part of the tongue immediately behind the tip, or point. ""Lower blade" implies, of course, the lower instead of the upper surface of the tongue."


verb
Blade  v. t.  To furnish with a 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."





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"Blade" Quotes from Famous Books



... picked himself up, whimpering with rage and knife in hand, but as Huldricksson's voice reached him he stopped. Amazement crept into his eyes and as he thrust the blade back into his belt they ...
— The Moon Pool • A. Merritt
... that Dick Prescott made it a point to visit early in his furlough was the office of the morning "Blade," for which paper, in his old High School days, the cadet had worked as a ...
— Dick Prescott's Third Year at West Point - Standing Firm for Flag and Honor • H. Irving Hancock
... whom I like,—one or two for whom I might say I have an affection; but still there is not the same union between us as if they were Americans. A cold, thin medium intervenes betwixt our most intimate approaches. It puts me in mind of Alnaschar and his princess, with the cold steel blade of his scimitar between them. Perhaps if I were at home I might feel differently; but in a foreign land I can never forget the distinction between English ...
— Passages From the English Notebooks, Complete • Nathaniel Hawthorne
... of cream, a quarter of a pound of French barley, the whitest you can get, and boyl it very tender in three or four several waters, and let it be cold; then put both together. Put into it a blade of mace, a nutmeg cut in quarters, a race of ginger cut in four or five pieces, and so let it boyl a good while, still stirring, and season it with sugar to your taste; then take the yolks of four eggs, and beat them with a little cream, and stir them into it, and so let it boyl a little ...
— The Gold that Glitters - The Mistakes of Jenny Lavender • Emily Sarah Holt
... Stone, of Philadelphia, cited many facts to show that birds are nature's great check on the excess of insects, and that they keep the balance between plants and insect life. Ten thousand caterpillars, it has been estimated, could destroy every blade of grass on an acre of cultivated ground. In thirty days from the time it is hatched an ordinary caterpillar increases 10,000 times in bulk, and the food it lives and grows on is vegetable. The insect ...
— Bird Day; How to prepare for it • Charles Almanzo Babcock


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