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(a) The keynote of the normal or "natural" scale, which has neither flats nor sharps in its signature; also, the third note of the relative minor scale of the same (b) C after the clef is the mark of common time, in which each measure is a semibreve (four fourths or crotchets); for alla breve time it is written (c) The…

To make a sharp, broken noise or cry, as a hen or goose does. When every goose is cackling. Shak.

To make sharp or pointed. [Obs.]

A sharp-pointed piece or iron or steel projecting downward on the shoe of a nore or an ox, to prevent the animal from slipping; -- called also calker, calkin.

esh, though some of them, as the bears, also eat vegetable food. The teeth are large and sharp, suitable for cutting flesh, and the jaws powerful.

chitectural adornments, etc. "The carver's chisel." Dodsley. The carver of his fortunes. Sharp (Richardson's Dict. )

horny substance, consisting of plates overlapping each other, and it has a group of long sharp spines on each wing which are used as defensive organs. It is a shy bird, and runs with great rapidity. Other species inhabit New Guinea, Australia, etc.

A double-edged, sharp-pointed dismembering knife. [Spelt also catlin.] Crobb.

Severe; satirical; sharp; as, a caustic remark. Caustic curve (Optics), a curve to which the ray of light, reflected or refracted by another curve, are tangents, the reflecting or refracting curve and the luminous point being in one plane. -- Caustic lime. See under Lime. -- Caustic potash, Caustic soda (Chem.), the…

An old mname for the harpsichord.

To become cemented or firmly united; to cohere. S. Sharp.

A short, sharp, cheerful noise; a chirp; a chirrup; as, the cherup of a cricket.

Chevalier d'industrie ( Etym: [F.], one who lives by persevering fraud; a pickpocket; a sharper. -- The Chevalier St. George (Eng. Hist.), James Francis Edward Stuart (son of James II.), called "The Pretender." -- The Young Chevalier, Charles Edward Stuart, son of the Chevalier St. George.

Mean or unfair artifice to perplex a cause and obscure the truth; stratagem; sharp practice; sophistry. Irritated by perpetual chicanery. Hallam.

A short, sharp sound, as of metal struck with a slight degree of violence. "Chink of bell." Cowper.

To make a shop, sharp, cheerful, as of small birds or crickets.

To cut by striking repeatedly with a sharp instrument; to cut into pieces; to mince; -- often with up.

. When Jubal struck the chorded shell. Dryden. Even the solitary old pine tree chords his harp. Beecher.

principles of the Christian religion. Sufferings . . . patiently and Christianly borne. Sharp.

ish between the essentials in religious worship . . . and what is merely circumstantial. Sharp.