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knives
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Knife \Knife\ (n[imac]f), n.; pl. Knives (n[imac]vz). [OE. knif, AS. cn[=i]f; akin to D. knijf, Icel. kn[=i]fr, Sw. knif, Dan. kniv.]
An instrument consisting of a thin blade, usually of steel and having a sharp edge for cutting, fastened to a handle, but of many different forms and names for different uses; as, table knife, drawing knife, putty knife, pallet knife, pocketknife, penknife, chopping knife, etc..
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A sword or dagger.
The coward conquest of a wretch's knife.
--Shak.Knife grass (Bot.) a tropical American sedge ( Scleria latifolia), having leaves with a very sharp and hard edge, like a knife.
War to the knife, mortal combat; a conflict carried to the last extremity.
Knives \Knives\, n. pl. of Knife. See Knife.
Wiktionary
n. (plural of knife English)
WordNet
n. edge tool used as a cutting instrument; has a pointed blade with a sharp edge and a handle
a weapon with a handle and blade with a sharp point
any long thin projection that is transient; "tongues of flame licked at the walls"; "rifles exploded quick knives of fire into the dark" [syn: tongue]
[also: knives (pl)]
See knife
Wikipedia
"Knives" is an episode from the second season of the science fiction television series Babylon 5.
Knives is the fourth studio album released by punk rock band Aiden. The album is a return to Aiden's punk rock style, after the lighter style of the album Conviction. The album was released on May 11, 2009, in the UK and May 12, 2009, in the United States through Victory Records. The band has described this album as, "raw, it's fast, it's pissed". It was recorded and produced by WiL at his own studio, Sleepy Hollow, in Seattle.
On April 1, 2009, "Scavengers of the Damned" was announced as the first single from the album and was made available to buy on iTunes as well as uploaded to the band's MySpace page.
Usage examples of "knives".
Shortly thereafter we were apprehended by a mixed group of unlikely allies, representatives of Sleen, Yellow Knives and Kaiila, who in virtue of the Memory, as it is called, had joined forces to attack the wagon train and soldiers.
The knives were about fourteen inches long and all but two inches of that was blade.
They both held the bare blades of the wavy knives in their left hands, in their right was clutched the ring of the parachute release.
One's lodge, and robes, and possessions could be taken away or cut to pieces with knives and scattered to the winds.
I did not doubt but what the Fleer and the Yellow Knives, and other peoples, too, might have similar ceremonies, in which, in one way or another, a similar profession might take place, there being danced or enacted also by a woman of another group, perhaps even, in those cases, by a maiden of the Kaiila.
Thus, indirectly, even tribes hostile to the Kaiila, or normally so, such as te Fleer and the Yellow Knives might, quite possibly, have heard of Cuwignaka.
Hci, I think, would rather kill Fleer and Yellow Knives than master slaves.
I wished to find Grunt, to query him as to the possible significance, if any, of the information I had earlier received from Oiputake, as to the identity of the Yellow Knives in the camp.
In my intense awareness of this being the day of the great dance, pobably a function of Cuwignaka's almost overwhelming concern about it, and in my concern over the fate of Canka, and my concern with the information obtained from Oiputake, I had forgotten that this day, too, was the day of peace council, a day in which was to be seen, supposedly, at least the first stages of the ratiffication of a peace agreement between the Yellow Knives and the Kaiila.
They sheathed their knives and resumed their stance, arms folded, before the threshold of the great lodge.
Iwoso, on the other hand, like the other three, who were presumably Yellow Knives, seemed quite calm.
On the basis of her experience with the Yellow Knives she had told me that the three Yellow Knives in the camp are not civil cheiftains, as is claimed, but war chiefs.
It was through these gaps that Yellow Knives had perhaps entered the lodge.
Five Yellow Knives, in single file, astride kaiila, moved quickly past.
Too, if other Yellow Knives should approach the area it scarcely seemed appropriate to ahve it lying about.