Sharpness - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: sharpnessSharpness
The quality or condition of being sharp keenness acuteness...
Sharp set
Eager in appetite or desire of gratification affected by keen hunger ravenous as an eagle or a lion sharp set...
Sharping corn
Sharping corn, a customary gift of corn which, at every Christmas, the farmers in some parts of England give to their smith for sharpening their plough-irons, harrowtines, etc., Blount....
Muricate
Formed with sharp points full of sharp points or of pickles covered or roughened as a surface with sharp points or excrescences...
Mucronate
Ending abruptly in a sharp point abruptly tipped with a short and sharp point as a mucronate leaf...
Pointed
Sharp having a sharp point as a pointed rock...
Prickle
A little prick a small sharp point a fine sharp process or projection as from the skin of an animal the bark of a plant etc a spine...
razor edged
having an edge as sharp as that of a razor very sharp...
Scrape
To rub over the surface of something with a sharp or rough instrument to rub over with something that roughens by removing portions of the surface to grate harshly over to abrade to make even or bring to a required condition or form by moving the sharp edge of an instrument breadthwise over the surface with pressure cutting away excesses and superfluous parts to make smooth or clean as to scrape a bone with a knife to scrape a metal plate to an even surface...
Shrill
Acute sharp piercing having or emitting a sharp piercing tone or sound said of a sound or of that which produces a sound...
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