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n large numbers upon starfishes and echini. Those of starfishes have two movable jaws, or blades, and are usually nearly, or quite, sessile; those of echini usually have three jaws and a pedicel. See Illustration in Appendix.

nters and bookbinders for hanging wet sheets of paper on lines or poles to dry. Also, the blade of an oar.

rawing dotted lines. -- Drawing, or Ruling, pen, a pen for ruling lines having a pair of blades between which the ink is contained. -- Fountain pen, Geometric pen. See under Fountain, and Geometric. -- Music pen, a pen having five points for drawing the five lines of the staff. -- Pen and ink, or pen-and-ink, execu…

A leafstalk; the footstalk of a leaf, connecting the blade with the stem. See Illust. of Leaf.

A petiole dilated into the form of a blade, and usually with vertical edges, as in the Australian acacias.

A pick with a point at one end, a transverse edge or blade at the other, and a handle inserted at the middle; a hammer with a flattened end for driving wedges and a pointed end for piercing as it strikes. Shak.

ong the axis, of a complete turn of the thread of a screw, or of the helical lines of the blades of a screw propeller.

A knife with one or more blades, which fold into the handle so as to admit of being carried in the pocket.

A kind of dagger, -- usually a slender one with a triangular or square blade. She speaks poniards, and every word stabs. Shak.

, etc. Parr. Probe, or Probe-pointed, scissors (Surg.), scissors used to open wounds, the blade of which, to be thrust into the orifice, has a button at the end. Wiseman.

at thus propelled; a screw steamer. Propeller wheel,the screw, usually having two or more blades, used in propelling a vessel.

A straight sword, with a narrow and finely pointed blade, used only for thrusting. Rapier fish (Zoöl.), the swordfish. [Obs.] Grew.

prive of the beard; to shave. [R.] Shak. Reaping hook, an instrument having a hook-shaped blade, used in reaping; a sickle; -- in a specific sense, distinguished from a sickle by a blade keen instead of serrated.

A skate with a curved blade, somewhat resembling in shape the rocker of a cradle.

sport; commonly in the form rollicking. [Colloq.] He described his friends as rollicking blades. T. Hook.

ce by means of which a vessel is guided or steered when in motion. It is a broad and flat blade made of wood or iron, with a long shank, and is fastened in an upright position, usually by one edge, to the sternpost of the vessel in such a way that it can be turned from side to side in the water by means of a tiller, wh…

The shank of a rudder, having the blade at one end and the attachments for operating it at the other.

The main part or blade of the rudder, which is connected by hinges, or the like, with the sternpost of a vessel.

One of the pieces on which a sled or sleigh slides; also the part or blade of a skate which slides on the ice.

A sword with a broad and heavy blade, thick at the back, and usually more or less curved like a scimiter; a cavalry sword. Saber fish, or Sabre fish (Zoöl.), the cutlass fish.