Part 1167

<i>G. Fletcher.</i>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To put up in bladders; <as>as, <ex>bladdered</ex> lard</as>.</def>

<h1>Bladderwort</h1> <Xpage=151>

<hw>Blad"der*wort`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <fld>(Bot.)</fld> <def>A genus (<spn>Utricularia</spn>) of aquatic or marshy plants, which usually bear numerous vesicles in the divisions of the leaves. These serve as traps for minute animals. See <er>Ascidium</er>.</def>

<h1>Bladdery</h1> <Xpage=151>

<hw>Blad"der*y</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Having bladders; also, resembling a bladder.</def>

<h1>Blade</h1> <Xpage=151>

<hw>Blade</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[OE. <ets>blade</ets>, <ets>blad</ets>, AS. <ets>bl\'91d</ets> leaf; akin to OS., D., Dan., & Sw. <ets>blad</ets>, Icel. <ets>bla<?/</ets>, OHG. <ets>blat</ets>, G. <ets>blatt</ets>, and perh. to L. <ets>folium</ets>, Gr. <ets><?/</ets>. The root is prob. the same as that of AS. <ets>bl<?/wan</ets>, E. <ets>blow</ets>, to blossom. See <er>Blow</er> to blossom, and cf. <er>Foil</er> leaf of metal.]</ety>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>Properly, the leaf, or flat part of the leaf, of any plant, especially of gramineous plants. The term is sometimes applied to the spire of grasses.</def>

<blockquote>The crimson dulse . . . with its waving <b>blade</b>. <i>Percival.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>First the <b>blade</b>, then ear, after that the full corn in the ear. <i>Mark iv. 28.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>The cutting part of an instrument; <as>as, the <ex>blade</ex> of a knife or a sword</as>.</def>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>The broad part of an oar; also, one of the projecting arms of a screw propeller.</def>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>The scapula or shoulder blade.</def>

<p><b>5.</b> <pluf>pl.</pluf> <fld>(Arch.)</fld> <def>The principal rafters of a roof.</def>

<i>Weale.</i>

<p><b>6.</b> <pluf>pl.</pluf> <fld>(Com.)</fld> <def>The four large shell plates on the sides, and the five large ones of the middle, of the carapace of the sea turtle, which yield the best tortoise shell.</def>

<i>De Colange.</i>

<p><b>7.</b> <def>A sharp-witted, dashing, wild, or reckless, fellow; -- a word of somewhat indefinite meaning.</def>

<blockquote>He saw a turnkey in a trice Fetter a troublesome <b>blade</b>. <i>Coleridge.</i></blockquote>

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<h1>Blade</h1> <Xpage=152>

<hw>Blade</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <def>To furnish with a blade.</def>

<h1>Blade</h1> <Xpage=152>

<hw>Blade</hw>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <def>To put forth or have a blade.</def>

<blockquote>As sweet a plant, as fair a flower, is faded As ever in the Muses' garden <b>bladed</b>. <i>P. Fletcher.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Bladebone</h1> <Xpage=152>

<hw>Blade"bone`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>The scapula. See <er>Blade</er>, 4.</def>