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Without an edge; not sharp; blunt; obtuse; as, an edgeless sword or weapon.

Easily irritated; sharp; as, an edgy temper.

Sharp; bitter; acid; sour. [Obs.] The egre words of thy friend. Chaucer.

A sharp angle in any surface of wainscoting or other woodwork; the upright sides which flank any paneled work, as the sides of windows, where the jamb makes an elbow with the window back. Gwilt.

waste; to dissipate in extravagance. [Obs.] To embezzle our money in drinking or gaming. Sharp.

To put to death by thrusting a sharpened stake through the body.

A putting to death by thrusting a sharpened stake through the body.

An effusion of wit; a bright thought tersely and sharply expressed, whether in verse or prose.

One who, or that which, erases; esp., a sharp instrument or a piece of rubber used to erase writings, drawings, etc.

inite form, and are important as revealing the molecular structure. -- Etching needle, a sharp-pointed steel instrument with which lines are drawn in the ground or varnish in etching. -- Etching stitch (Needlework), a stitch used outline embroidery.

To whet or sharpen. [Obs.] B. Jonson. -- Ex*ac`u*a"tion, n. [Obs.]

xcuse him from guilt in practicing it, if really and indeed it be against Gog's law. Abp. Sharp.

Exemplariness. [R.] The exemplarity of Christ's life. Abp. Sharp.

discovers no expediency in vice. Cogan. To determine concerning the expedience of action. Sharp. Much declamation may be heard in the present day against expediency, as if it were not the proper object of a deliberative assembly, and as if it were only pursued by the unprincipled. Whately.

se that undertook the religion of our Savior upon his preaching, had no experience of it. Sharp.

d by breathing out, as a sound. The aspirate "he," which is . . . a gentle expiration. G. Sharp.

Extended or contracted as much as possible; -- said of intervals; as, an extreme sharp second; an extreme flat forth. Extreme and mean ratio (Geom.), the relation of a line and its segments when the line is so divided that the whole is to the greater segment is to the less. -- Extreme distance. (Paint.) See Distance.,…

Heaving (such or so many) eyes; -- used in composition; as sharp-eyed; dull-eyed; sad-eyed; ox-eyed Juno; myriad-eyed.

A small, sharp-pointed instrument used in piercing eyelet holes; a stiletto.

The name of the fourth tone of the model scale, or scale of C. F sharp (F #) is a tone intermediate between F and G. F clef, the bass clef. See under Clef.