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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (9)

1. especially a leaf of grass or the broad portion of a leaf as distinct from the petiole;
[syn: blade, leaf blade]

2. a dashing young man;
- Example: "gay young blades bragged of their amorous adventures"

3. something long and thin resembling a blade of grass;
- Example: "a blade of lint on his suit"

4. a cutting or thrusting weapon that has a long metal blade and a hilt with a hand guard;
[syn: sword, blade, 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: blade, vane]

9. the flat part of a tool or weapon that (usually) has a cutting edge;


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Blade \Blade\ (bl[=a]d), v. t. To furnish with a blade. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Blade \Blade\, v. i. To put forth or have a blade. [1913 Webster] As sweet a plant, as fair a flower, is faded As ever in the Muses' garden bladed. --P. Fletcher. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

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.] [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] The crimson dulse . . . with its waving blade. --Percival. [1913 Webster] First the blade, then ear, after that the full corn in the ear. --Mark iv. 28. [1913 Webster] 2. The cutting part of an instrument; as, the blade of a knife or a sword. [1913 Webster] 3. The broad part of an oar; also, one of the projecting arms of a screw propeller. [1913 Webster] 4. The scapula or shoulder blade. [1913 Webster] 5. pl. (Arch.) The principal rafters of a roof. --Weale. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] 7. A sharp-witted, dashing, wild, or reckless, fellow; -- a word of somewhat indefinite meaning. [1913 Webster] He saw a turnkey in a trice Fetter a troublesome blade. --Coleridge. [1913 Webster] 8. The flat part of the tongue immediately behind the tip, or point. [1913 Webster] "Lower blade" implies, of course, the lower instead of the upper surface of the tongue. --H. Sweet. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

blade n 1: especially a leaf of grass or the broad portion of a leaf as distinct from the petiole [syn: blade, 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 that has a long metal blade and a hilt with a hand guard [syn: sword, blade, 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: blade, vane] 9: the flat part of a tool or weapon that (usually) has a cutting edge