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A projecting or sharp corner; an angular fragment. Though but an angle reached him of the stone. Dryden.

Sharp; keen; stimulated. [R.] I never ate with angrier appetite. Tennyson.

Relating to an angle or to angles; having an angle or angles; forming an angle or corner; sharp-cornered; pointed; as, an angular figure.

sure; adverse criticism; reproof; blame. He dismissed their commissioners with severe and sharp animadversions. Clarendon.

An elephant goad with a sharp spike and hook, resembling a short-handled boat hook. [India] Kipling.

A comprehensive maxim or principle expressed in a few words; a sharply defined sentence relating to abstract truth rather than to practical matters. The first aphorism of Hippocrates is, "Life is short, and the art is long." Fleming.

Extremely observant; watchful; sharp-sighted.

Sharp; shrill. [Obs.] Johnson.

Having a slender, sharp, or spinelike tip.

The sharp edge or salient angle formed by two surfaces meeting each other, whether plane or curved; -- applied particularly to the edges in moldings, and to the raised edges which separate the flutings in a Doric column. P. Cyc. Arris fillet, a triangular piece of wood used to raise the slates of a roof against a chimn…

Consisting of arrows. How quick they wheeled, and flying, behind them shot Sharp sleet of arrowy showers. Milton.

Craftily; artfully. [Obs.] Sharp dissembled so artificially. Bp. Burnet.

Sharpness; disagreeableness; difficulty. The acclivities and asperities of duty. Barrow.

Watchful; circumspect. [Obs.] With sharp, aviseful eye. Spenser.

emurs, found in Madagascar (Cheiromys Madagascariensis), remarkable for its long fingers, sharp nails, and rodent-like incisor teeth.

A sword with one sharp edge.

etc., to prevent it from being easily extracted. Hence: Anything which stands out with a sharp point obliquely or crosswise to something else. "Having two barbs or points." Ascham.

rrow; barbed wire. Barbed wire, a wire, or a strand of twisted wires, armed with barbs or sharp points. It is used for fences.

A barb or sharp point of an arrow or other instrument, projecting backward to prevent the head from being easily drawn out.

To stick over, as with sharp points pressed in; to mark by infixing points or spots here and there; to pierce. Truth shall retire Bestuck with slanderous darts. Milton.