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An African fruit bat (Hypsignathus monstrosus); -- so called from its large blunt nozzle.

ties; austere; crabbed; morose; abusive; abusive; severe; rough. Clarence is so harsh, so blunt. Shak. Though harsh the precept, yet the charmed. Dryden.

To render obtuse; to dull; to blunt; to stupefy; as, to hebetate the intellectual faculties. Southey

The act of making blunt, dull, or stupid.

extremity or cusp of the moon when crescent-shaped. The moon Wears a wan circle round her blunted horns. Thomson.

A blunt javelin used by the people of the Levant, especially in mock fights. [Written also jerreed, jerid.] Byron.

An American marine fish (Vomer setipennis); -- called also bluntnosed shiner, horsefish, and sunfish.

To dispirit or deaden; to dull or blunt. Shak.

Without a point or pointed process; blunt.

To reduce the edge, pungency, or violent action of; to dull; to blunt; to deaden; to quell; as, to obtund the acrimony of the gall. [Archaic] Harvey. They...have filled all our law books with the obtunding story of their suits and trials. Milton.

A substance which sheathes a part, or blunts irritation, usually some bland, oily, or mucilaginous matter; -- nearly the same as demulcent. Forsyth.

That which obtunds or blunts; especially, that which blunts sensibility.

Not pointed or acute; blunt; -- applied esp. to angles greater than a right angle, or containing more than ninety degrees.

The act or process of making obtuse or blunt.

According to due order; regularly; methodically; duly. You are blunt; go to it orderly. Shak.

e in little pits or depressions. -- Pick hammer, a pick with one end sharp and the other blunt, used by miners.

ormerly divided into eight reals. -- To give a piece of one's mind to, to speak plainly, bluntly, or severely to (another). Tackeray. -- Piece broker, one who buys shreds and remnants of cloth to sell again. -- Piece goods, goods usually sold by pieces or fixed portions, as shirtings, calicoes, sheetings, and the li…

ng beyond the compass of an octave. (b) A simple melody. -- Plain speaking, plainness or bluntness of speech.

Having no point; blunt; wanting keenness; obtuse; as, a pointless sword; a pointless remark.

Having a blunt or button-shaped extremity; -- said of cutting instruments.