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• בָּרורּ בָּרַר, , בָּרַר
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SHARPEN,

1. To make sharp to give a keen edge or a fine point to a thing to edge to point as, to sharpen a knife, an ax or the teeth of a saw to sharpen a sword.

All of the Israelites went down to the Philistines to sharpen every man his share and his coulter, and his ax and his mattock. 1 Samuel 8 .

2. To make more eager or active as, to sharpen the edge of industry.

3. To make more pungent and painful. The abuse of wealth and greatness may hereafter sharpen the sting of conscience.

4. To make more quick, acute or ingenious. The wit or the intellect is sharpened by study.

5. To render perception more quick or acute.

Th' air sharpen'd his visual ray

To objects distant far. Milton.

6. To render more keen to make more eager for food or for any gratification as, to sharpen the appetite to sharpen a desire.

7. To make biting, sarcastic or severe. Sharpen each word.

8. To render less flat, or more shrill or piercing.

Inclosures not only preserve sound, but increase and sharpen it. Bacon.

9. To make more tart or acid to make sour as, the rays of the sun sharpen vinegar.

10. To make more distressing as, to sharpen grief or other evis.

11. In music, to raise a sound by means of a sharp.