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bladish
adj 2
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3ADJ.
little
BLADISH + NOUN
tachylite
ADV.
perhaps
Definitions
adj
1
Resembling or characteristic of a blade (sharp edge of a knife or similar).
[…] a bladish flake of tachylite […] recovered from the tilted basal hardened sandy fine gravel ascribable to the second phase of this period.
2
Resembling or characteristic of a blade (dashing young man).
[…] the smaller portrait painted a brisk, unentangled, young bachelor, gayly ranging up and down in the world; light-hearted, and a very little bladish perhaps; […]
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[…] a bladish flake of tachylite […] recovered from the tilted basal hardened sandy fine gravel ascribable to the second phase of this period.
Wiktionary02
[…] the smaller portrait painted a brisk, unentangled, young bachelor, gayly ranging up and down in the world; light-hearted, and a very little bladish perhaps; […]
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