sharper (sharper)

[ Sharpers , as pikes, prey upon their own kind. Sir R. L'Estrange. A Sharper that with Box and Dice Draws in young Deities to Vice. Prior, Cupid and Ganymede. 2. A sharpener; an instrument or tool used for sharpening. Engine lathes, hand lathes, upright drills, milling-machines, sharpers , etc. Elect . Rev. (Amer.), XV. vii. 10. 3. A long, thin oyster. [Florida to Texas.] sharp-eyed (shärp'id), a. Sharp-sighted. Dryden. To sharp -eyed reason this would seem untrue. Sharpey's fibers. See fiber1 . sharp-fin (shärp'fin), n. An acanthopterygian fish. U. S. Cons. Rep ., No. lxviii. (1886), p. 586. sharp-ground (shärp'ground), a. Ground upon a wheel till sharp; sharpened. Hadst thou no poison mix'd, no sharp - ground knife, No sudden mean of death, though ne'er so mean, But "banished" to kill me? Shak . , R. and J., iii. 3. 44. sharp-headed (shärp'hed"ed), a. Having a sharp head.-Sharp-headed finner. See finner1 , sharpie (shär'pi), n . Same as sharpy . sharp ling, sharplin (shärp'ling, -lin), n. [=G. schärfling , the stickleback; as sharp + -ling1 .] The stickleback, a fish of which there are several species. Also jack - sharp ling . See stickle back and Gasterosteus . [Prov. Eng.] Th' hidden loue that now-adaies doth holde The Steel and Load-stone, Hydrargire and Golde, Th' Amber and straw; that lodgeth in one shell Pearl-fish and sharp ling . Sylvester, tr. of Du Bartas's Weeks, ii., The Furies. sharp-looking (shärp'luk ing), a. Having the appearance of sharpne ; hungry-looking; emaciated; lean. A needy, hollow-eyed, sharp - looking wretch. Shak., C. of E., v. 1. 240. sharply (shärp'li), adv. [