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BLADE, n. [Gr.broad.]

1. The stalk or spire of a plant,particularly of grass and corn; but applicable to the stalk of any herbaceous plant, whether green or dry.

2. A leaf. In this sense much used in the Southern States of N. America, for the leaves of maize, which are used as fodder.

3. The cutting part of an instrument, as the blade of a knife, or sword,so named from its length or breadth. Usually, it is made of iron or steel, but may be of any other metal, cast or wrought to an edge or point. Also,the broad part of an oar.

4. The blade of the shoulder,shoulder-blade, or blade-bone, is the scapula, or scapular bone. It is the broad upper bone of the shoulder, so called from its resemblance to a blade or leaf.

5. A brisk man; a bold, forward man; a rake.

BLADE, v.t. To furnish with a blade.

1913 Definition
Blade (blade)
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Blade
[OE. blade, blad, AS. blæd leaf; akin to OS., D., Dan., *** Sw. blad, Icel. blað], OHG. blat, G. blatt, and perh. to L. folium, Gr. fy`llon. The root is prob. the sa
  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. The principal rafters of a roof.
    Weale.
  6. 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.

  8. To furnish with a blade.
  9. 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.

  10. 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.

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