Sharp

sharp, adj. hating a thin, cutting edge or line point peaked or ridged affecting the senses as if pointed or cutting severe keen of keen or quick perception pungent luting sareasuc eager fierce impetuous shrill.- an acute sound (music) a note raised a semitone the character directing this —adv. Sharply. Sharp'nesa. IA.S. stemft; cog. with Ice. skarft-r, Ger. scharf; from a root sharp seen in A.S. sceorfan, to split, sccrau, to Shear conn, with L. sarg-ere, to prune, Gr fuirft-e. Cf also Scarf and Escarp.] Sharpen, shkrp'n, v to make sharp or keen give edge or point to to make pungent or painful to make severe to make eager, active, or acute. v.t. to grow sharp [cheat. Sharper, shiirp'er, u. a trickster: a swindler: Sharp-set, sharp‘~>et, adj eager keen ravenous. Sharp-Sighted, sh -slt'ed, adj. having acute sight shrewd discerning. \wtt sagacious