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Having sharp-pointed leaves.

Gait; bearing. The swing, the gait, the pose, the allure of these men. Harper's Mag.

g, characteristic of, or partaking of the nature of, an angel; heavenly; divine. "Angelic harps." Thomson."Angelical actions." Hooker. The union of womanly tenderness and angelic patience. Macaulay. Angelic Hymn, a very ancient hymn of the Christian Church; -- so called from its beginning with the song of the heavenly…

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.

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

ure; 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 production of the tones of a chord in rapid succession, as in playing the harp, and not simultaneously; a strain thus played.

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.

itude; to pose. Maria, who is the most picturesque figure, was put to attitudinize at the harp. Hannah More.

s; to adjust, as one sound or musical instrument to another; as, to attune the voice to a harp.

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