the Week of Proper 28 / Ordinary 33
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Blade
Webster's Dictionary
or (1):
(v. t.) To furnish with a blade.
(2):
(n.) 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.
(3):
(v. i.) To put forth or have a blade.
(4):
(n.) The principal rafters of a roof.
(5):
(n.) 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.
(6):
(n.) The cutting part of an instrument; as, the blade of a knife or a sword.
(7):
(n.) The broad part of an oar; also, one of the projecting arms of a screw propeller.
(8):
(n.) The flat part of the tongue immediately behind the tip, or point.
(9):
(n.) The scapula or shoulder blade.
(10):
(n.) A sharp-witted, dashing, wild, or reckless, fellow; - a word of somewhat indefinite meaning.
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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Blade'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/b/blade.html. 1828.
