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Dag   /dæg/   Listen
noun
Dag  n.  
1.
A dagger; a poniard. (Obs.)
2.
A large pistol formerly used. (Obs.) "The Spaniards discharged their dags, and hurt some." "A sort of pistol, called dag, was used about the same time as hand guns and harquebuts."
3.
(Zool.) The unbranched antler of a young deer.


Dag  n.  A misty shower; dew. (Obs.)


Dag  n.  A loose end; a dangling shred. "Daglocks, clotted locks hanging in dags or jags at a sheep's tail."


verb
Dag  v. t.  
1.
To daggle or bemire. (Prov. Eng.)
2.
To cut into jags or points; to slash; as, to dag a garment. (Obs.)


Dag  v. i.  To be misty; to drizzle. (Prov. Eng.)





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"Dag" Quotes from Famous Books



... two kin species growing in Turkestan—Juglans regia L and J fallasc Dode; the first in the Kopet-Dag, the second in the Fansha mountains, in guissar and Darwas. The J. regia is further cultivated in Turkestan gardens and in the Lowawschan Valley. The J. Kamaonia Dode is occasionally to be observed likewise in gardens. I did not chance to see it personally ...
— Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Twenty-Fifth Annual Meeting • Northern Nut Growers Association
... sir—Gad bliss you. Maybe if I'd make up to the mishthress, yer haner! Thrath she wouldn't turn the crathur from the place, in regard that the tindherness ow the feelin' would come ower her—the rale gintlewoman, any way! 'Tis dag chape you have her at what I said, sir; an' Gad ...
— Phil Purcel, The Pig-Driver; The Geography Of An Irish Oath; The Lianhan Shee • William Carleton
... he was set on by theeues, and was shot into the knee with an arrow, who had very hardly escaped with his life and goods, but that by good hap he killed one of the theeues horses with his caliuer, and shot a Turke thorow both cheeks with a dag. [Sidenote: Zere Island.] On the sixt day of August the factors being aduertised at Derbent that their ship was so rotten and weake, that it was doubtfull she would not cary them backe to Astracan, did thereupon ...
— The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of The English Nation v. 4 • Richard Hakluyt
... determined to go below, Helga, in her Danish manner, shook hands with Hardy, and said, "Tak for i dag" (thank you for to-day). "I have never ...
— A Danish Parsonage • John Fulford Vicary
... Dag) was originally issued in the Norwegian Magazine "Nyt Tidsscrift," late in 1893; and was republished in a volume of short stories ...
— The Bridal March; One Day • Bjornstjerne Bjornson


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