Blunt

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun A fencer's foil.

II. Blunt ·noun Money.

III. Blunt ·adj Hard to impress or penetrate.

IV. Blunt ·adj Having a thick edge or point, as an instrument; dull; not sharp.

V. Blunt ·vt To dull the edge or point of, by making it thicker; to make blunt.

VI. Blunt ·noun A short needle with a strong point. ·see Needle.

VII. Blunt ·adj Dull in understanding; slow of discernment; stupid;

— opposed to acute.

VIII. Blunt ·adj Abrupt in address; plain; unceremonious; wanting the forms of civility; rough in manners or speech.

IX. Blunt ·vt To repress or weaken, as any appetite, desire, or power of the mind; to impair the force, keenness, or susceptibility, of; as, to blunt the feelings.

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