Hypertext Webster Gateway: "blade"

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).

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Blade \Blade\, n.
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. --H. Sweet.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Blade \Blade\ (bl[=a]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[=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.]
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 WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

blade
n 1: especially a leaf of grass or the broad portion of a leaf as
distinct from the petiole [syn: {leaf blade}]
2: a dashing young man; "gay young blades bragged of their
amorous adventures"
3: something long and thin resembling a blade of grass; "a
blade of lint on his suit"
4: a cutting or thrusting weapon with a long blade [syn: {sword},
{brand}, {steel}]
5: a cut of beef from the shoulder blade
6: a broad flat body part (as of the shoulder or tongue)
7: the part of the skate that slides on the ice
8: flat surface that rotates and pushes against air or water
[syn: {vane}]
9: the flat part of a tool or weapon that (usually) has a
cutting edge


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