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.
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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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.
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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