6. pl. (Com.) The four large shell plates on the sides, and the five large ones of the middle, of the carapace of the sea turtle, which yield the best tortoise shell. De Colange.
7. A sharp-witted, dashing, wild, or reckless, fellow; -- a word of somewhat indefinite meaning.
He saw a turnkey in a trice
Fetter a troublesome blade.
Coleridge.
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Blade (bld), v. t. To furnish with a blade.
Blade, v. i. To put forth or have a blade.
As sweet a plant, as fair a flower, is faded
As ever in the Muses' garden bladed.
P. Fletcher.
Blade"bone` (-bn`), n. The scapula. See Blade, 4.
Blad"ed (bld"d), a. 1. Having a blade or blades; as, a two-bladed knife.
Decking with liquid pearl the bladed grass.
Shak.