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n. [ F. adage, fr. L. adagium; ad + the root of L. aio I say. ] An old saying, which has obtained credit by long use; a proverb. [ 1913 Webster ]

Letting “I dare not” wait upon “I would, ”
Like the poor cat i' the adage. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Axiom; maxim; aphorism; proverb; saying; saw; apothegm. See Axiom. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Pertaining to an adage; proverbial. “Adagial verse.” Barrow. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖ n. A piece of music in adagio time; a slow movement; as, an adagio of Haydn. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖a. & adv. [ It. adagio; ad (L. ad) at + agio convenience, leisure, ease. See Agio. ] (Mus.) Slow; slowly, leisurely, and gracefully. When repeated, adagio, adagio, it directs the movement to be very slow. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Med.) Good against gout. -- n. A medicine for gout. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. Something appended to, or accompanying, a principal or greater thing, though not necessary to it, as a portico to a house. [ 1913 Webster ]

Modesty is the appendage of sobriety. Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Biol.) A subordinate or subsidiary part or organ; an external organ or limb, esp. of the articulates. [ 1913 Webster ]

Antennæ and other appendages used for feeling. Carpenter. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Addition; adjunct; concomitant. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Furnished with, or supplemented by, an appendage. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. bandage, fr. bande. See Band. ] 1. A fillet or strip of woven material, used in dressing and binding up wounds, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Something resembling a bandage; that which is bound over or round something to cover, strengthen, or compress it; a ligature. [ 1913 Webster ]

Zeal too had a place among the rest, with a bandage over her eyes. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Bandaged p. pr. & vb. n. Bandaging ] To bind, dress, or cover, with a bandage; as, to bandage the eyes. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ F. ] Much talking; prattle; chatter. Byron. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

‖n. The sacred books of the Buddhists in Burmah. Malcom. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To daggle. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. blindage. ] (Mil.) A cover or protection for an advanced trench or approach, formed of fascines and earth supported by a framework. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ LL. bondagium. See Bond, a. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. The state of being bound; condition of being under restraint; restraint of personal liberty by compulsion; involuntary servitude; slavery; captivity. [ 1913 Webster ]

The King, when he designed you for my guard,
Resolved he would not make my bondage hard. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Obligation; tie of duty. [ 1913 Webster ]

He must resolve by no means to be . . . brought under the bondage of observing oaths. South. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Old Eng. Law) Villenage; tenure of land on condition of doing the meanest services for the owner. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Thralldom; bond service; imprisonment. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A field worker, esp. a woman who works in the field. [ Scot. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ LL. bordagium. ] The base or servile tenure by which a bordar held his cottage. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. brigandage. ] Life and practice of brigands; highway robbery; plunder. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Mass of clouds; cloudiness. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

A scudding cloudage of shapes. Coleridge. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. cordage. See Cord. ] Ropes or cords, collectively; hence, anything made of rope or cord, as those parts of the rigging of a ship which consist of ropes. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To be misty; to drizzle. [ Prov. Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. dague, LL. daga, D. dagge (fr. French); all prob. fr. Celtic; Cf. Gael. dag a pistol, Armor. dag dagger, W. dager, dagr, Ir. daigear. Cf. Dagger. ] 1. A dagger; a poniard. [ Obs. ] Johnson. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A large pistol formerly used. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

The Spaniards discharged their dags, and hurt some. Foxe. [ 1913 Webster ]

A sort of pistol, called dag, was used about the same time as hand guns and harquebuts. Grose. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Zool.) The unbranched antler of a young deer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Of Scand. origin; cf. Sw. dagg, Icel. dögg. √71. See Dew. ] A misty shower; dew. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. dagge (cf. Dagger); or cf. AS. dāg what is dangling. ] A loose end; a dangling shred. [ 1913 Webster ]

Daglocks, clotted locks hanging in dags or jags at a sheep's tail. Wedgwood. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ 1, from Dag dew. 2, from Dag a loose end. ] 1. To daggle or bemire. [ Prov. Eng. ] Johnson. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To cut into jags or points; to slash; as, to dag a garment. [ Obs. ] Wright. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. the lemonwood tree (Calycophyllum candidissimum); -- it is a tropical American tree which is source of a tough elastic wood.
Syn. -- lemonwood tree, Calycophyllum candidissimum. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

prop. n. the Mesopotanian god of agriculture and earth; it is a counterpart of Phoenician and Philistine Dagon. See references to Dagon in the Bible and in the opera . [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

n. in Irish legend, chief god of the Tuatha De Danann; father of Angus Og and Brigit. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. a relatively nontoxic South African herb (Leonotis leonurus) smoked like tobacco.
Syn. -- Cape dagga, red dagga, wilde dagga, Leonotis leonurus. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Print.) 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

Dagger moth (Zool.), any moth of the genus Apatalea. The larvæ 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 [ ‡ ] which comes next in order after the dagger. --
To look daggers, or
To speak daggers, to look or speak fiercely or reproachfully. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To pierce with a dagger; to stab. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Perh. from diagonal. ] A timber placed diagonally in a ship's frame. Knight. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. pl. [ OE. See Dag a loose end. ] An ornamental cutting of the edges of garments, introduced about a. d. 1346, according to the Chronicles of St Albans. [ Obs. ] Halliwell. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Daggled p. pr. & vb. n. Daggling ] [ Freq. of dag, v. t., 1. ] To trail, so as to wet or befoul; to make wet and limp; to moisten. [ 1913 Webster ]

The warrior's very plume, I say,
Was daggled by the dashing spray. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To run, go, or trail one's self through water, mud, or slush; to draggle. [ 1913 Webster ]

Nor, like a puppy [ have I ] daggled through the town. Pope.

n. A slovenly woman; a slattern; a draggle-tail. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. Having the lower ends of garments defiled by trailing in mire or filth; draggle-tailed. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Dag a loose end + lock. ] A dirty or clotted lock of wool on a sheep; a taglock. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Dagos [ Cf. Sp. Diego, E. James. ] A nickname given to a person of Spanish (or, by extension, Portuguese or Italian) descent. [ U. S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ Singhalese dāgoba. ] A dome-shaped structure built over relics of Buddha or some Buddhist saint. [ East Indies ] [ 1913 Webster ]

[ Heb. Dāgon, fr. dag a fish: cf. Gr. Dagw`n. ] The national god of the Philistines, represented with the face and hands and upper part of a man, and the tail of a fish. W. Smith. [ 1913 Webster ]

This day a solemn feast the people hold
To Dagon, their sea idol. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

They brought it into the house of Dagon. 1 Sam. v. 2. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Dag a loose end. ] A slip or piece. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Dag a loose end + tail. ] Daggle-tailed; having the tail clogged with daglocks. “Dag-tailed sheep.” Bp. Hall.

{ } a. Pertaining to Daguerre, or to his invention of the daguerreotype. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From Daguerre the inventor + -type. ] 1. An early variety of photograph, produced on a silver plate, or copper plate covered with silver, and rendered sensitive by the action of iodine, or iodine and bromine, on which, after exposure in the camera, the latent image is developed by the vapor of mercury. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The process of taking such pictures. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Daguerreotyped p. pr. & vb. n. Daguerreotyping ] 1. To produce or represent by the daguerreotype process, as a picture. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To impress with great distinctness; to imprint; to imitate exactly.

{ } n. One who takes daguerreotypes. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The art or process of producing pictures by method of Daguerre. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ LL. faldagium, fr. AS. fald, E. fold. Cf. Foldage. ] (O. Eng. Law) A privilege of setting up, and moving about, folds for sheep, in any fields within manors, in order to manure them; -- often reserved to himself by the lord of the manor. Spelman. [ 1913 Webster ]