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Definition of Blades

1. blade [v] - See also: blade

Lexicographical Neighbors of Blades

Literary usage of Blades

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States, Canada and the British by Nathaniel Lord Britton, Addison Brown (1913)
"blades glabrous on the upper surface ; spikelets about Yi" long. 46. ... blades pubescent on the upper surface with long hairs ; Spikelets i" long or more. ..."

2. Gray's New Manual of Botany: A Handbook of the Flowering Plants and Ferns of by Asa ( Gray, Merritt Lyndon Fernald, Benjamin Lincoln Robinson (1908)
"Ligule less than 1 mm. long a, X. blades velvety on both surfaces; nodes bearded . ... Panicle not more than half as wide aa long; blades Panicle nearly as ..."

3. Dictionary of national biography by Leslie Stephen, Sidney Lee (1901)
"It was only one of many books, articles, and papers devoted by blades to the study of England's first printing-press. A notable result of his labours was to ..."

4. Pennsylvania Trees by Joseph Simon Illick, Pennsylvania Dept. of Forestry (1914)
"Leaf-blades or their lobes bristle-tipped; acorns maturing at end of the second ... Leaf-blades entire; rarely lobed or toothed except on vigorous coppice ..."

5. Flora of the Rocky Mountains and Adjacent Plains, Colorado, Utah, Wyoming by Per Axel Rydberg (1917)
"Leaf-blades deeply lobed ; lobes again lobed and toothed ; petals narrowly ... Hypanthium with the sepals 4 mm. high, yellowish; blades or the pétala ..."

6. American Machinists' Handbook and Dictionary of Shop Terms: A Reference Book by Fred Herbert Colvin, Frank Arthur Stanley (1909)
"Two clearance lines, and B, are ground on the blades, a being the cutting clearance d 6 the second clearance called for in the table. The object of . ..."

7. Modern American Poetry by Louis Untermeyer (1921)
"THE blades OF GRASS In Heaven, Some little blades of grass Stood before God. ... Then all save one of the little blades Began eagerly to relate The merits ..."

8. Modern American Poetry by Louis Untermeyer (1921)
"THE blades OF GRASS In Heaven, Some little blades of grass Stood before God. ... Then all save one of the little blades Began eagerly to relate The merits ..."

9. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States, Canada and the British by Nathaniel Lord Britton, Addison Brown (1913)
"blades glabrous on the upper surface ; spikelets about Yi" long. 46. ... blades pubescent on the upper surface with long hairs ; Spikelets i" long or more. ..."

10. Gray's New Manual of Botany: A Handbook of the Flowering Plants and Ferns of by Asa ( Gray, Merritt Lyndon Fernald, Benjamin Lincoln Robinson (1908)
"Ligule less than 1 mm. long a, X. blades velvety on both surfaces; nodes bearded . ... Panicle not more than half as wide aa long; blades Panicle nearly as ..."

11. Dictionary of national biography by Leslie Stephen, Sidney Lee (1901)
"It was only one of many books, articles, and papers devoted by blades to the study of England's first printing-press. A notable result of his labours was to ..."

12. Pennsylvania Trees by Joseph Simon Illick, Pennsylvania Dept. of Forestry (1914)
"Leaf-blades or their lobes bristle-tipped; acorns maturing at end of the second ... Leaf-blades entire; rarely lobed or toothed except on vigorous coppice ..."

13. Flora of the Rocky Mountains and Adjacent Plains, Colorado, Utah, Wyoming by Per Axel Rydberg (1917)
"Leaf-blades deeply lobed ; lobes again lobed and toothed ; petals narrowly ... Hypanthium with the sepals 4 mm. high, yellowish; blades or the pétala ..."

14. American Machinists' Handbook and Dictionary of Shop Terms: A Reference Book by Fred Herbert Colvin, Frank Arthur Stanley (1909)
"Two clearance lines, and B, are ground on the blades, a being the cutting clearance d 6 the second clearance called for in the table. The object of . ..."

15. Modern American Poetry by Louis Untermeyer (1921)
"THE blades OF GRASS In Heaven, Some little blades of grass Stood before God. ... Then all save one of the little blades Began eagerly to relate The merits ..."

16. Modern American Poetry by Louis Untermeyer (1921)
"THE blades OF GRASS In Heaven, Some little blades of grass Stood before God. ... Then all save one of the little blades Began eagerly to relate The merits ..."

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