1. Having or made by a thin edge or sharp point; suitable for cutting or piercing
2. Keenly and painfully felt; as if caused by a sharp edge or point
3. Quick and forceful
4. Very sudden and in great amount or degree
5. Harsh; SYN. sharp-worded, tart.
6. (Music) Raised in pitch by one chromatic semitone

1. In a sharp manner
2. Exactly

(James) (1859-1924) English collector and compiler of folk dance and song. His work ensured that the English folk-music revival became established in school music throughout the English-speaking world.
He led a movement to record a threatened folk-song tradition for posterity, publishing English Folk Song 1907 (two volumes). In the US he tracked down survivals of English song in the Appalachian Mountains and elsewhere.

Phillip Allen 1944- American biologist

In music, sounding higher in pitch than the indicated note value, or than expected. A sharp sign in front of a written note indicates that it is to be raised by a semitone. It is canceled by a natural sign.

1. A long thin sewing needle with a sharp point.
2. A notation indicating one half step higher than the note named. '#'

1. To raise (as a musical tone) in pitch; especially; to raise in pitch by a half step
2. To sing or play above the proper pitch

The act of dealing in which advantage is taken or sought unscrupulously

A bitter or critical manner of speaking.

Having sharp corners.

Having keen hearing; SYN. quick-eared.

Having keen eyesight.

Having sharp limbs.

1. Keen in smelling
2. Having a pointed nose or snout

Eager in appetite or desire

A common widely distributed American accipiter (Accipiter striatus) that is grayish above, has a chestnut breast, short rounded wings, and a tail with a notched or square tip when folded — called also sharp-shin

1. Having acute sight
2. Mentally keen or alert

Large grouse of prairies and open forests of western North America; SYN. sprigtail, Pedioecetes phasianellus.

Having a sharp tongue; harsh or bitter in speech or language

Having an acute mind.

William Forsyth 1937- American economist

1. To become sharp or sharper
2. To give a point to; SYN. taper, point.
3. To make more acute; as of one's senses; SYN. heighten.
4. To make sharp or sharper, of images and sounds
5. To make sharp or sharper, as of knives.
6. To make sharp or sharper
7. To raise the pitch of (musical notes).

1. Having the point made sharp.
2. Made sharp or sharper.

Any implement that is used to make an edge sharper.

Cheat, swindler; especially; a cheating gambler

Unincorporated community in Florida (USA).

Black township in South Africa, 65 km/40 mi S of Johannesburg and N of Vereeniging; 69 people were killed here when police fired on a crowd of antiapartheid demonstrators 21 March 1960.

ETYM Local, (USA).
A long narrow shallow-draft boat with a flat bottom and a triangular sail; formerly used along the North Atlantic coast of the us.

1. Sharper
2. An exceptionally keen or alert person

K. Barry 1941- American chemist

1. Changing suddenly in direction and degree; SYN. sharp.
2. In a well delineated manner; SYN. crisply.

See resolution (definition 1).

ETYM AS. scearpness.
Thinness of edge or fineness of point; SYN. keenness.

1. Borough in Pennsylvania (USA).
2. City in Iowa (USA); zip code 50862.
3. City in Kentucky (USA); zip code 40374.
4. Town in Georgia (USA); zip code 30277.
5. Town in Maryland (USA); zip code 21782.
6. Town in North Carolina (USA).

To shoot from a concealed position; SYN. snipe.

1. A fast schooner once used by New England fisherman for illegal fishing in Canadian waters.
2. An athlete noted for accurate aim.

1. Shooting with great precision
2. Accurate and usually unexpected attack (as in words)

1. Borough in Pennsylvania (USA); zip code 16150.
2. Town in Indiana (USA); zip code 46068.

Caudal fin has a central projection; SYN. Mola lanceolata.

Town in Maryland (USA).

Sharpie.