Definition of sharp

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Sharp (n.) A sewing needle having a very slender point; a needle of the most pointed of the three grades, blunts, betweens, and sharps..

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Needle :: Needle (n.) Any slender, pointed object, like a needle, as a pointed crystal, a sharp pinnacle of rock, an obelisk, etc..
Thrillant :: Thrillant (a.) Piercing; sharp; thrilling.
Smacking :: Smacking (n.) A sharp, quick noise; a smack..
Clank :: Clank (n.) A sharp, brief, ringing sound, made by a collision of metallic or other sonorous bodies; -- usually expressing a duller or less resounding sound than clang, and a deeper and stronger sound than clink..
Shriek :: Shriek (v. i.) To utter a loud, sharp, shrill sound or cry, as do some birds and beasts; to scream, as in a sudden fright, in horror or anguish..
Rap :: Rap (v. i.) To strike with a quick, sharp blow; to knock; as, to rap on the door..
Pick :: Pick (n.) A pike or spike; the sharp point fixed in the center of a buckler.
Cony-catcher :: Cony-catcher (n.) A cheat; a sharper; a deceiver.
Quinquefid :: Quinquefid (a.) Sharply cut about halfway to the middle or base into five segments; as, a quinquefid leaf or corolla..
Prick :: Prick (n.) To pierce slightly with a sharp-pointed instrument or substance; to make a puncture in, or to make by puncturing; to drive a fine point into; as, to prick one with a pin, needle, etc.; to prick a card; to prick holes in paper..
Knife-edge :: Knife-edge (n.) A piece of steel sharpened to an acute edge or angle, and resting on a smooth surface, serving as the axis of motion of a pendulum, scale beam, or other piece required to oscillate with the least possible friction..
Umbo :: Umbo (n.) The boss of a shield, at or near the middle, and usually projecting, sometimes in a sharp spike..
Picaroon :: Picaroon (n.) One who plunders; especially, a plunderer of wrecks; a pirate; a corsair; a marauder; a sharper..
Edge :: Edge (v. t.) Any sharp terminating border; a margin; a brink; extreme verge; as, the edge of a table, a precipice..
Quill :: Quill (n.) A pen for writing made by sharpening and splitting the point or nib of the stock of a feather; as, history is the proper subject of his quill..
Metal :: Metal (n.) An elementary substance, as sodium, calcium, or copper, whose oxide or hydroxide has basic rather than acid properties, as contrasted with the nonmetals, or metalloids. No sharp line can be drawn between the metals and nonmetals, and certain elements partake of both acid and basic qualities, as chromium, manganese, bismuth, etc..
Rasp :: Rasp (v.) A coarse file, on which the cutting prominences are distinct points raised by the oblique stroke of a sharp punch, instead of lines raised by a chisel, as on the true file..
Sharped :: Sharped (imp. & p. p.) of Shar.
Quickness :: Quickness (n.) Sharpness; pungency of taste.
Snip-snap :: Snip-snap (a.) Quick; short; sharp; smart.
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