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.
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.
Blade (blād), v. t. To furnish with a blade.
Blade (blād), n. [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 same as that of AS.
blōwan, 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.
Hear it pronounced