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n. A short pointed weapon with sharp edges.

n. Something that agonizes, torments, or wounds.

n. Printing See obelisk.

n. Printing A double dagger.

idiom. look daggers at To glare at angrily or hatefully.

n. A timber placed diagonally in a ship's frame.

n. A stabbing weapon, similar to a sword but with a short, double-edged blade.

n. The text character (†).

n. A short weapon used for stabbing. This is the general term: cf. poniard, stiletto, bowie knife, dirk, misericorde, anlace.

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.

v. To pierce with a dagger; to stab.

n. A timber placed diagonally in a ship's frame.

n. An edged and pointed weapon for thrusting, shorter than a sword, and used, commonly in connection with the rapier, by swordsmen in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, held in the left hand to parry the thrust of an adversary's rapier.

n. Any straight stabbing-weapon, as the dirk, poniard, stiletto, etc.

n. In printing, an obelisk; a mark of reference in the form of a dagger, thus: .

n. In entomology, the popular name of several noctuid moths of the genus Acronycta: so called from a black dagger-like mark near the inner angle of the fore wings.

n. In Sollas's nomenclature of sponge-spicules, a form of the sexradiate spicule resulting from reduction of the distal ray and great development of the proximal ray.

n. plural In botany: The sword-grass, Phalaris arundinacea, or perhaps Poa aquatica.

n. The yellow flag, Iris Pseudacorus.

n. Dagger of lath

n. Double dagger

To pierce with a dagger; stab.

To provide with a dagger.

To dagger arms. See arm.

n. In ship-building, any timber lying diagonally.

n. a character used in printing to indicate a cross reference or footnote

n. a short knife with a pointed blade used for piercing or stabbing

"The term dagger itself denotes a sense of mystery, danger and mischief."

to speak daggers   

daggered    daggering    daggers   

grapheme    graphic symbol    character   

witch-hazel dagger    speak daggers    ocher dagger    american dagger    spanish dagger    at daggers drawn   

poniard    stiletto    bowie knife    dirk    misericorde    anlace    obelisk   

stab    dirk    knife    barb    obelus    obelisk   

Magar    bragger    jaeger    jagger    magar    snagger    stagger    swagger   

knife    spear    axe    scimitar    pistol    rapier    bayonet    arrow    revolver    saber