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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.

ng distinctness; hardly perceptible; striking the senses feebly; not bright, or loud, or sharp, or forcible; weak; as, a faint color, or sound.

A curved and sharp-pointed claw.

Curved and sharppointed, like a falcula, or claw of a falcon.

mony, in which a certain note in a chord appears in the next chord prefixed by a flat or sharp. -- False return (Law), an untrue return made to a process by the officer to whom it was delivered for execution. -- False ribs (Anat.), the asternal rebs, of which there are five pairs in man. -- False roof (Arch.), the s…

, or occupation; a distinguished example or teacher. The father of all such as handle the harp and organ. Gen. iv. 21. Might be the father, Harry, to that thought. Shak. The father of good news. Shak.

easy feel. The difference between these two tumors will be distinguished by the feel. S. Sharp.

An instrument for playing on the harp; a plectrum. [Obs.] Chapman.

To rub, smooth, or cut away, with a file; to sharpen with a file; as, to file a saw or a tooth.

Keenness or sharpness; as, the fineness of a needle's point, or of the edge of a blade.

A spear with barbed prongs used for harpooning fish. Knight.

Sharpened to a point; pointed. Cross fitché, a cross having the lower arm pointed.

Not sharp or shrill; not acute; as, a flat sound.

Depression of tone; the state of being below the true pitch; -- opposed to sharpness or acuteness.

To lower the pitch of; to cause to sound less sharp; to let fall from the pitch. To flatten a sail (Naut.), to set it more nearly fore-and-aft of the vessel. -- Flattening oven, in glass making, a heated chamber in which split glass cylinders are flattened for window glass.

A sharp instrument used for opening veins, lancing gums, etc.; a kind of lancet. Fleam tooth, a tooth of a saw shaped like an isosceles triangle; a peg tooth. Knight.

olor usually of a gray to brown or nearly black, breaking with a conchoidal fracture and sharp edge. It is very hard, and strikes fire with steel.