Definition of dagger

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Dagger (n.) A mark of reference in the form of a dagger [/]. It is the second in order when more than one reference occurs on a page; -- called also obelisk.

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Steel :: Steel (n.) A weapon, as a sword, dagger, etc..
Smeared :: Smeared (a.) Having the color mark ings ill defined, as if rubbed; as, the smeared dagger moth (Apatela oblinita)..
Dudgeon :: Dudgeon (n.) The root of the box tree, of which hafts for daggers were made..
Spud :: Spud (n.) A dagger.
Knife :: Knife (n.) A sword or dagger.
Main-gauche :: Main-gauche (n.) The dagger held in the left hand, while the rapier is held in the right; -- used to parry thrusts of the adversary's rapier..
Misericordia :: Misericordia (n.) A thin-bladed dagger; so called, in the Middle Ages, because used to give the death wound or mercy stroke to a fallen adversary..
Haft :: Haft (v. t.) To set in, or furnish with, a haft; as, to haft a dagger..
Stab :: Stab (v. t.) To pierce with a pointed weapon; to wound or kill by the thrust of a pointed instrument; as, to stab a man with a dagger; also, to thrust; as, to stab a dagger into a person..
Diesis :: Diesis (n.) The mark /; -- called also double dagger.
Haft :: Haft (n.) A handle; that part of an instrument or vessel taken into the hand, and by which it is held and used; -- said chiefly of a knife, sword, or dagger; the hilt..
Hanger :: Hanger (n.) A strap hung to the girdle, by which a dagger or sword is suspended..
Inflict :: Inflict (v. t.) To give, cause, or produce by striking, or as if by striking; to apply forcibly; to lay or impose; to send; to cause to bear, feel, or suffer; as, to inflict blows; to inflict a wound with a dagger; to inflict severe pain by ingratitude; to inflict punishment on an offender; to inflict the penalty of death on a criminal..
Dagger :: Dagger (v. t.) To pierce with a dagger; to stab.
Poniard :: Poniard (n.) A kind of dagger, -- usually a slender one with a triangular or square blade..
Stiletto :: Stiletto (n.) A kind of dagger with a slender, rounded, and pointed blade..
Bodkin :: Bodkin (n.) A dagger.
Dudgeon :: Dudgeon (n.) A dudgeon-hafted dagger; a dagger.
Bayonet :: Bayonet (n.) A pointed instrument of the dagger kind fitted on the muzzle of a musket or rifle, so as to give the soldier increased means of offense and defense..
Obelisk :: Obelisk (n.) A mark of reference; -- called also dagger [/]. See Dagger, n., 2..
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