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Commonness; frequency. [Obs.] Eyes . . . sick and blunted with community. Shak.

The iron head of a tilting spear, divided into two, three, or four blunt points. [Written also cronel.] Grose.

A scoop or ring with either a blunt or a cutting edge, for removing substances from the walls of a cavity, as from the eye, ear, or womb.

o impair in vigor, force, activity, or sensation; to lessen the force or acuteness of; to blunt; as, to deaden the natural powers or feelings; to deaden a sound.

To deprive of an edge; to blunt; to dull. Served a little to disedge The sharpness of that pain about her heart. Tennyson.

To deprive of exercise; to leave untrained. [Obs.] By disexercising and blunting our abilities. Milton.

A blunt javelin used in military games in Moslem countries.

Plain; direct; unceremonious; blunt; positive; as, he spoke in his downright way. A man of plain, downright character. Sir W. Scott.

Not keen in edge or point; lacking sharpness; blunt. "Thy scythe is dull." Herbert.

The state of being dull; slowness; stupidity; heaviness; drowsiness; bluntness; obtuseness; dimness; want of luster; want of vividness, or of brightness. [Written also dulness.] And gentle dullness ever loves a joke. Pope.

Beaten; hence, blunted. [Obs.] Fencer's swords . . . having the edge dunted. Fuller.

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

To remove the epidermis of (a skin) with a concave knife, blunt in its middle part, -- as in making chamois leather.

One who fences; one who teaches or practices the art of fencing with sword or foil. As blunt as the fencer's foils. Shak.

A two-handled, convex, blunt-edged knife, for scraping hides; a fleshing knife.

A foil; a blunt sword used in fencing. [Obs.] Cotgrave.

To blunt; to dull; to spoil; as, to foil the scent in chase. Addison.

To soften and make of even thickness by rubbing, as with pumice stone or a blunt instrument. Frizzing machine. (a) (Fabrics) A machine for frizzing the surface of cloth. (b) (Wood Working) A bench with a revolving cutter head slightly protruding above its surface, for dressing boards.

A grooved instrunent used in performing various operations; -- called also blunt gorget. Dunglison.

Zoöl.), a small burrowing American snake (Celuta amoena). It is salmon colored, and has a blunt tail. -- Ground squirrel. (Zoöl.) (a) One of numerous species of burrowing rodents of the genera Tamias and Spermophilus, having cheek pouches. The former genus includes the Eastern striped squirrel or chipmunk and some all…