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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Blade \Blade\ (bl[=a]d), noun [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.
8. 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. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Blade \Blade\ (bl[=a]d), verb (used with an object) To furnish with a blade.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Blade \Blade\, verb (used without an object) 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 WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
blade
noun
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
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
167 Moby Thesaurus words for "blade": Beau Brummel, Excalibur, Skimobile, Sno-Cat, alveolar ridge, alveolus, apex, arytenoid cartilages, ax, back, battler, bayonet, beau, belligerent, belted knight, bickerer, blood, boulevardier, bract, bracteole, bractlet, bravo, brawler, bully, bullyboy, clotheshorse, cold steel, combatant, competitor, contender, contestant, cotyledon, coxcomb, cutlass, cutlery, cutter, cutting edge, dagger, dandy, disputant, dorsum, dude, duelist, edge tools, enforcer, exquisite, fashion plate, fencer, feuder, fighter, fighting cock, fine gentleman, flag, floral leaf, foilsman, foliole, fop, fribble, frond, gallant, gamecock, gladiator, glume, goon, gorilla, hard palate, hatchet man, hood, hoodlum, hooligan, involucre, involucrum, jack-a-dandy, jackanapes, jackknife, jouster, knife, knight, lady-killer, lamina, larynx, leaf, leaflet, lemma, ligule, lips, macaroni, man-about-town, masher, militant, naked steel, nasal cavity, needle, oral cavity, palate, penknife, petal, pharyngeal cavity, pharynx, pigsticker, pile, pine needle, playboy, plug-ugly, point, poniard, puncturer, puppy, quarreler, rapier, rioter, rival, rough, rowdy, ruffian, runner, sabreur, scrapper, scuffler, seed leaf, sepal, sharpener, shoot, sled, sleigh, snowmobile, soft palate, spark, spathe, spear, speech organ, spire, sport, squabbler, steel, stiletto, stipula, stipule, strong arm, strong-arm man, strong-armer, struggler, swashbuckler, swell, sword, swordplayer, swordsman, syrinx, teeth, teeth ridge, thug, tilter, tip, toad sticker, tongue, tough, trusty sword, tussler, velum, vocal chink, vocal cords, vocal folds, vocal processes, voice box, weasel, whittle, wrangler
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 Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (Version 1.9, June 2002) [vera]:
BLADE Basic Linear Algebra for Distributed Environments
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