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The quality or condition of being sharp; keenness; acuteness.

The quality of being sour; sourness; tartness; sharpness to the taste; as, the acidity of lemon juice.

A quality of bodies which corrodes or destroys others; also, a harsh or biting sharpness; as, the acrimony of the juices of certain plants. [Archaic] Bacon.

Sharpness; keenness. [Obs.]

Sharpness or acuteness, as of a needle, wit, etc.

The quality of being acute or pointed; sharpness; as, the acuteness of an angle.

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

Characterized by sharpness, severity, or cruelty; harsh; stern; virulent; as, bitter reproach. Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them. Col. iii. 19.

Want of edge or point; dullness; obtuseness; want of sharpness. The multitude of elements and bluntness of angles. Holland.

Acuteness (of the faculties); sharpness 9wit. The brightness of his parts . . . distinguished him. Prior.

To deprive of an edge; to blunt; to dull. Served a little to disedge The sharpness of that pain about her heart. Tennyson.

Not keen in edge or point; lacking sharpness; blunt. "Thy scythe is dull." Herbert.

Sharpness; readiness of fitness to cut; keenness; intenseness of desire. The full edge of our indignation. Sir W. Scott. Death and persecution lose all the ill that they can have, if we do not set an edge upon them by our fears and by our vices. Jer. Taylor.

Keenness or sharpness; as, the fineness of a needle's point, or of the edge of a blade.

Depression of tone; the state of being below the true pitch; -- opposed to sharpness or acuteness.

The compass or sharpness of a ship's stern under the water, having a tendency to make her keep a good wind. (c) pl.

To gaze beyond; to exceed in sharpness or persistence of seeing or of looking; hence, to stare out of countenance.

To acquire sharpness of figure or features; hence, to look thin or sicky. "Dwindle, peak, and pine." Shak.

n distant objects. Aërial perspective is the expression of space by any means whatsoever, sharpness of edge, vividness of color, etc. Ruskin.

Characterized by sharpness, directness, or pithiness of expression; terse; epigrammatic; especially, directed to a particular person or thing. His moral pleases, not his pointed wit. Pope. Pointed arch (Arch.), an arch with a pointed crown. -- Pointed style (Arch.), a name given to that style of architecture in which…