dagger 
lisk ; a mark of reference in the form of a dag- 
ger, thus: t. It is the second mark of reference used 
when a page has more than one, following the asterisk or 
star (*). See ulteti*!;. 
4. In rntom., the popular name of several noc- 
tuid moths of the genus Acronycta : so called 
from a black dagger-like mark near the inner 
angle of the fore wings. The poplar-dagger, A. 
/Kijnili, feeds in the larval state on cottonwood-leaves. 
The caterpillar is closely covered with long yellow hairs, 
and carries five long black tufts. See cut on preceding 
page. The smeared dagger, A. tiUinita, feeds in the larval 
Caterpillar of Smeared Dagger {Acronycta oblinita), natural sue. 
state on many plants, as asparagus, cotton, and smart- 
weed ; it is black, with a bright-yellow band at the side 
and a cross-row of crimson warts and stiff yellowish or 
rust-red bristles across each joint. 
5. In Sollas's nomenclature of sponge-spicules, 
a form of the sexradiate spicule resulting from 
reduction of the distal ray and great develop- 
ment of the proximal ray. 6. pi. In tot. : (a) 
The sword-grass, PJialaris arnndinacea, or per- 
haps Poa aquatica. (6) The yellow flag, Iris 
Pseudacorus.A.t daggers drawn, with daggers ready 
to strike ; hence, in a state of hostility ; mutually antago- 
nistic. 
They have been at daggers drawn ever since, and Sefton 
has revenged himself by a thousand jokes at the King's 
expense. Qreville, Memoirs, June 24, 1829. 
Dagger of lath, the weapon given to the Vice in the old 
plays called moralities: often used figuratively of any 
weak or insufficient means of attack or defense. 
Like to the old Vice, . . . 
Who with dagger of lath, 
In his rage and his wrath, 
Cries, Ah, ha ! to the devil. 
Sliak., T. N., iv. 2 (song). 
If I do not beat thee out of thy kingdom with a dagger 
of lath, and drive all thy subjects afore thee like a flock of 
wild geese, I'll never wear hair on my face more. 
Shak., 1 Hen. IV., ii. 4. 
Double dagger, in printing, a reference-mark (t) used 
next in order after the dagger. Also called dieiri*. Span- 
ish dagger. See danger-plant. To look or speak 
daggers, tn look or speak liercelyor savagely. 
I will speak daggers to her, but use none. 
Shot., Hamlet, iii. 2. 
As you have spoke daggers to him, you may justly dread 
the use of them against your own breast. 
Junius, Letters, xxvi. 
dagger 1 (dag'er), v. t. [< ME. daggeren (in def. 
2); < dagger*, .] 1. To pierce with a dagger; 
stab. 
How many gallants have drank healths to me 
Out of their dagger' A arms? Dekker, Honest Whore. 
2f. To provide with a dagger. 
Thei knowen not how to ben clothed ; now long, now 
schort, . . . now swerded, now daggered. 
Mandeville, Travels, p. 137. 
To dagger annst. See <mi. 
dagger" (dag'er), n. [Supposed to be a corrup- 
tion of diagonal.'] In ship-building, any tim- 
ber lying diagonally. 
dagger-alet, A kind of ale much spoken of 
in the sixteenth and early part of the seven- 
teenth century, sold at the Dagger, a celebrated 
public house in Holborn. Nares. 
But we must have March beere, dooble dooble beere, 
dagger-ale, Rhenish. 
Gascoigne, Delicate Diet for Droonkardes. 
dagger-cheapt (dag'er-chep), a. [< dagger* 
(said to allude also to the name of a public 
house in Holborn: see dagger-ale) + cheap."] 
Dirt-cheap. 
We set our wares at a very easy price ; he [the devil] 
may buy us even dagger-cheap, as we say. 
Bp. Andrews, Sermons, V. 546. 
dagger-fiber (dag'er-fl"ber), n. The fiber of 
the dagger-plant. 
dagger-knee (dag'er-ne), . [< dagger"* + knee."] 
In ship-building, a knee that is inclined from 
the perpendicular, 
dagger-knife (dag'er-nif), . A dirk-knife. 
Scott. 
dagger-moneyt (dag'er-mun"i), . A sum of 
money formerly paid in England to the justices 
1442 
of assize on the northern circuit to provide 
arms against marauders, 
dagger-plant (dag'er-plant), n. A name of 
several cultivated species of yucca. The fiber 
of this plant is known as dagger-fber. Also 
called Spanish dagger. See yucca. 
daggers-drawing! (dag'erz-dra"ing), . Readi- 
ness to fight, or a state of contest, as or as if 
with daggers. 
They are at daggers-drainng among themselves. 
Holland, tr. of Ammianus Marcellinus (1609). 
They always are at daggers-draining, 
And one another clapperclawing. 
S. Butler, Hudibras, II. ii. 79. 
daggesweynet, See dagswain. 
daggett (dag'et), n. A dark red-brown tar ob- 
tained by the dry distillation of the wood and 
bark of species of birch. It has a strong and 
persistent odor, like that of Russia leather. 
daggle (dag'l), v. ; pret. and pp. daggled, ppr. 
daggling. [Freq. of dag 1 , .] I. trans. To 
draggle ; trail through mud or water, as a gar- 
ment. [Obsolete or rare.] 
Prithee go see if in that 
Croud of daggled Gowns there, thou canst find her. 
Wycherley, Plain Dealer, iii. 
The warrior's very plume, I say, 
Was dattglfd by the dashing spray. 
Scott, L. of L. M., i. 29. 
II. t intrans. 1. To run through mud and 
water. 
Nor, like a puppy, daggled through the town, 
To fetch and carry sing-song up and down. 
Pope, Prol. to Satires, 1. 225. 
2. To run about like a child; toddle. Grose. 
Like a dutiful son you may daggle about with your mo- 
ther and sell paint. Vanbnigh, Confederacy, i. 
daggletailt (dag'1-tal), . and u. [< daggle + 
obj. tail*.'] I. . One whose garments trail on 
the wet ground ; a slattern ; a draggletail. 
II. a. Having the lower ends or skirts of 
one's garments defiled with mud. Also dag- 
tailcd. 
The gentlemen of wit and pleasure are apt to be choaked 
at the sight of so many daggle-tail parsons that happen to 
fall in their way. Swift. 
daggly (dag'H), a. [< daggle + -y*.~] Wet; 
showery. [Prov. Eng.] 
daghesh (dag'esh), . [Also written dagesJi, 
repr. Heb. daghesh."] In Heb. gram., a point 
placed in the bosom of a letter, to indicate its 
degree of hardness. Daghesh lene (Latin lent., soft), 
when used with the consonants bh, gh, dh, kh, ph, and 
th, removes the ft-sound, thus: 2, l>h, 3, b; daghesh forte 
(Latin forte, hard) doubles the letter in which it is placed. 
The latter is always preceded by a vowel ; the former 
d'ag-lock (dag'lok), n. [< dag* + lock 1 *. Cf. 
dew-lap.'] A lock of wool on a sheep that hangs 
and drags in the wet. [Scotch.] 
Dago (da'go), n. [Said to be a corruption by 
American and English sailors of the frequent 
Sp. name Diego (= E. Jack, James, ult. < LL. 
Jacobus) : applied from its frequency to the 
whole class of Spaniards.] Originally, one born 
of Spanish parents, especially in Louisiana: 
used as a proper name, and now extended to 
Spaniards, Portuguese, and Italians in general. 
dagoba (dag'o-ba), n. In Buddhist countries, a 
monumental structure containing relics of Bud- 
dha or of some Buddhist saint. It is constructed 
of brick or stone, in a dome-like form, sometimes of great 
Ceyloncse Dagoba. 
height, and is erected on a natural or artificial mound. 
The dagoba is included under the generic term tope, and 
is sometimes confounded with the stupa. See stupa and 
tope. 
All kinds and forms are to be found, . . . the bell- 
shaped pyramid of dead brickwork in all its varieties, . . . 
the bluff knob-like dome of the Ceylon Dayobas. 
Yule, Missiou to Ava. 
dahabiyeh 
dagonH, [ME., also dagoun, an extension of 
dagge : see dag."] A slip or piece. 
Yeve us ... 
A dagnn of your blanket, Iceve dame. 
Chaucer, Summoner's Tale, 1. 4:i. 
Dagon- (da'gon), . [L. Dagon, Gr. Aayi6i>,<Heb. 
rlnt/. a fish.] The national god of the Philis- 
tines, represented as 
formed of the upper 
part of a man and the 
lower part of a fish. 
His most famous temples 
were at Gaza and Awhiloil. 
He had a female correla- 
tive among the Syrians, 
called Atargatis or Derce- 
to. In Babylonian or As- 
syrian mythology, the name 
Dagon is given to a fish-like 
being who rose from the 
waters of the Red Sea as 
of the great benefac- 
Dagon his name ; sea-monster, upward man 
And downward fish. Milton, t. L., i. 462. 
Dagonal (da'gou-al), . [< DngowP + -al, as in 
Lupercal.'] A feast in honor of Dagon. [Rare.] 
A banquet worse than Job's children's, or the Dagonals of 
the Philistines (like the Bacchanals of the Msenades), when 
for the shutting up of their stomachs the house fell down 
and broke their necks. Rev. I. Adams, Works, I. 160. 
dagswaint (dag'swan), n. [< ME. daggysweyne, 
dagsicayne; of obscure origin, but prob. con- 
nected with dag 3 , q. y.] A kind of carpet; a 
rough or coarse covering for a bed. 
Payntede clothys, 
Iche a pece by pece prykkyde tylle other, 
Dubbyde with dagswavnnex dowblede they seme. 
Morte Arthure (E. E. T. S.), 1. 361(1. 
Under coverlets made of dagsivain. 
Harrison, Descrip. of Britain (Holinshed's Chron.). 
dag-tailedt (dag'tald), a. Same as daggletail. 
Would it not vex thee, where thy sires did keep, 
To see the dunged folds of dag-tayl'd sheep? 
Bp. Hall, Satires, V. i. 116. 
dague (dag), n. [P. : see d</ 2 .] If. A dagger. 
2. A spike-horn, or unbranched antler. 
Its deer, which are few, include those which never pro- 
duce more than the dague, or the first horn of the northern 
Cervus. E. D. Cope, Origin of the Fittest, p. 116. 
Dague a roellet, a dagger which has a disk-shaped guard 
and pommel. 
Daguerrean (da-ger'e-an), a. Pertaining to 
Daguerre, or to his invention of the daguerre- 
otype. 
daguerreotype (da-ger'o-tip), n. and a. [< F. 
daguerreotype; < Daguerre + -type."] I. n. 1. 
One of the earliest processes of photography, 
the invention of L. J. M. Daguerre of Paris, 
first published in 1839, by which the lights and 
shadows of a landscape or a figure are fixed 
on a prepared metallic plate by the action of 
actinic light-rays. A plate of copper, thinly coated 
with silver, is subjected in a close box in a dark room 
to the action of the vapor of iodine ; and when it has 
assumed a yellow color it is placed in the chamber of a 
camera obscura, and an image of the object to be repro- 
duced is projected upon it by means of a lens. The plate is 
then withdrawn and exposed to vapor of mercury to bring 
out the impression distinctly ; after which it is plunged 
into a solution of sodium hyposulphite, and lastly washed 
in distilled water. See photography. 
2. A picture produced by the above process. 
II. a. Relating to or produced by daguerreo- 
type. 
daguerreotype (da-ger'o-tip), v. t.; pret. and 
pp. daguerreotyped,\>fiT. dag uerreoty ping. [< 
daguerreotype, n.~] To produce by the daguer- 
reotype process, as a picture. 
dagn'erreotyper, daguerreotypist (da-ger'o- 
ti-per, -pist), n. One who takes daguerreotype 
pictures. 
daguerreotypic, daguerreotypical (da-ger-o- 
tip'ik, -i-kal), a. [< daguerreotype + -ic, -ical."] 
Pertaining to or of the nature of a daguerreo- 
type. 
daguerreotypy (da-ger'o-tl-pi), i. [As da- 
guerreotype + -y.] The art of producing pho- 
tographic pictures by the method introduced by 
Daguerre. 
dahabiyeh, dahabieh (dii-ha-be'e), . [Also 
dahabeeyah, repr. Ar. dajiabiya, daliebiya.] A 
kind of boat used on the Nile. It is of considerable 
breadth at the stern, which is rounded, but narrows to- 
ward the prow, which terminates in ^ sharp, gracefully 
curving cutwater. It has one or two masts, each furnished 
with a yard supporting a triangular or lateen sail. Da- 
habiyehs are of various sizes, and afford good accommo- 
dation for passengers. There is a deck fore and aft, on 
the center of which are seats for rowers when oars are 
needed to propel the boat. (Hi the fore part of the deck is 
the kitchen, and n the after part there is a large raised 
cabin, which contains a sitting-room and sleeping-apart- 
