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A minute abrupt point, as of a leaf; any small, sharp point or process, terminating a larger part or organ.

Ending abruptly in a sharp point; abruptly tipped with a short and sharp point; as, a mucronate leaf. -- Mu"cro*nate*ly, adv.

Formed with sharp points; full of sharp points or of pickles; covered, or roughened, as a surface, with sharp points or excrescences.

the elevated parts of Central Asia. The upper canine teeth of the male are developed into sharp tusks, curved downward. The male has scent bags on the belly, from which the musk of commerce is derived. The deer is yellow or red-brown above, whitish below. The pygmy musk deer are chevrotains, as the kanchil and napu. -…

of or pertaining to a key which has neither a flat nor a sharp for its signature, as the key of C major.

A small instrument of steel, sharply pointed at one end, with an eye to receive a thread, -- used in sewing. Chaucer.

A plant of the genus Urtica, covered with minute sharp hairs containing a poison that produces a stinging sensation. Urtica gracitis is common in the Northern, and U. chamædryoides in the Southern, United States. the common European species, U. urens and U. dioica, are also found in the Eastern united States. U. piluli…

Capable of seeing at night; sharp-eyed. "Your night-eyed Tiberius." B. Jonson.

To vex or pain, as by nipping; hence, to taunt. And sharp remorse his heart did prick and nip. Spenser. To nip in the bud, to cut off at the verycommencement of growth; to kill in the incipient stage.

To gaze beyond; to exceed in sharpness or persistence of seeing or of looking; hence, to stare out of countenance.

Of or pertaining to pagans; heathenish. "The old paganish idolatry." Sharp

A strong, long stake, one end of which is set firmly in the ground, and the other is sharpened; also, a fence formed of such stakes set in the ground as a means of defense.

To strike with a quick succession of slight, sharp sounds; as, pattering rain or hail; pattering feet. The stealing shower is scarce to patter heard. Thomson.

A point; the sharp end or top of anything that terminates in a point; as, the peak, or front, of a cap. "Run your beard into a peak." Beau. & Fl.

Having features thin or sharp, as from sickness; hence, sickly. [Colloq.]

A quick, sharp stroke, as with the beak of a bird or a pointed instrument.

the back and sides. The horns are black, long, slender, straight, nearly smooth, and very sharp. Called also rheeboc, and rehboc.

The sharp-edged end of the head of a mason's hammer. [Spelt also pane, pein, and piend.]

Inquisitive; suspicious; sharp. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.] "Two peery gray eyes." Sir W. Scott.

Fig.: A writer, or his style; as, he has a sharp pen. "Those learned pens." Fuller.