Hypertext Webster Gateway: "daggers"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Dagger \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.


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