About The Word Dagger
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Dagger
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What's The Definition Of Dagger?
[n] a short knife with a pointed blade used for piercing or stabbing
[n] a character used in printing to indicate a cross reference or footnote Synonyms | Synonyms for Dagger: obelisk | sticker Related Terms | Find terms related to Dagger: ankh | avellan cross | ax | bayonet | blade | bowie knife | Calvary cross | chi | chi-rho | christcross | Christogram | cold steel | crisscross | cross | cross ancre | cross botonee | cross bourdonee | cross fitche | cross fleury | cross formee | cross fourchee | cross grignolee | cross moline | cross of Cleves | cross of Lorraine | cross patee | cross recercelee | crossbones | cross-crosslet | crosslet | crucifix | cruciform | crux | crux ansata | crux capitata | crux decussata | crux gammata | crux immissa | crux ordinaria | cutlery | cutter | dirk | dudgeon | edge tools | ex | exing | fork cross | gammadion | Greek cross | impale | inverted cross | Jerusalem cross | knife | lance | Latin cross | long cross | Maltese cross | naked steel | papal cross | pectoral cross | pierce | pigsticker | plunge in | point | poniard | potent cross | puncturer | rood | run through | Russian cross | saber | saltire | sharpener | spear | spike | spit | stab | steel | stick | stiletto | swastika | sword | T | tau | toad sticker | transfix | transpierce | trefled cross | voided cross | whittle | X See Also | bodkin | character | dirk | grapheme | graphic symbol | haft | helve | hilt | knife | poniard | stiletto Dagger In Webster's Dictionary \Dag"ger\ (-g[~e]r), n. [Cf. OE. daggen to pierce, F.
daguer. See {Dag} a dagger.]
1. A short weapon used for stabbing. This is the general
term: cf. {Poniard}, {Stiletto}, {Bowie knife}, {Dirk},
{Misericorde}, {Anlace}.
2. (Print.) A mark of reference in the form of a dagger
[[dagger]]. It is the second in order when more than one
reference occurs on a page; -- called also {obelisk}.
{Dagger moth} (Zo["o]l.), any moth of the genus {Apatalea}.
The larv[ae] are often destructive to the foliage of fruit
trees, etc.
{Dagger of lath}, the wooden weapon given to the Vice in the
old Moralities. --Shak.
{Double dagger}, a mark of reference [[dag]] which comes next
in order after the dagger.
{To look, or speak}, {daggers}, to look or speak fiercely or
reproachfully.
\Dag"ger\, v. t. To pierce with a dagger; to stab. [Obs.] \Dag"ger\, n. [Perh. from diagonal.] A timber placed diagonally in a ship's frame. --Knight. |
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