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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Knife :: Knife (n.) A sword or dagger.
Skean :: Skean (n.) A knife or short dagger, esp. that in use among the Highlanders of Scotland. [Variously spelt.].
Hilt :: Hilt (n.) A handle; especially, the handle of a sword, dagger, or the like..
Dagger :: 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.
Popper :: Popper (n.) A dagger.
Kris :: Kris (n.) A Malay dagger. See Creese.
Baselard :: Baselard (n.) A short sword or dagger, worn in the fifteenth century..
Chape :: Chape (n.) The transverse guard of a sword or dagger.
Dag :: Dag (n.) A dagger; a poniard.
Creese :: Creese (n.) A dagger or short sword used by the Malays, commonly having a serpentine blade..
Obelisk :: Obelisk (n.) A mark of reference; -- called also dagger [/]. See Dagger, n., 2..
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..
Bodkin :: Bodkin (n.) A dagger.
Hanger :: Hanger (n.) A strap hung to the girdle, by which a dagger or sword is suspended..
Poniard :: Poniard (n.) A kind of dagger, -- usually a slender one with a triangular or square blade..
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..
Dagger :: Dagger (n.) A short weapon used for stabbing. This is the general term: cf. Poniard, Stiletto, Bowie knife, Dirk, Misericorde, Anlace..
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..
Smeared :: Smeared (a.) Having the color mark ings ill defined, as if rubbed; as, the smeared dagger moth (Apatela oblinita)..
Dagger :: Dagger (n.) A timber placed diagonally in a ship's frame.
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