dag

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. A lock of matted or dung-coated wool.
2. n. A hanging end or shred.
3. abbr. decagram.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. In parts of Scotland, a thin or gentle rain, a thick fog or mist, or a heavy shower.
2. To bedew; daggle.
3. To rain gently; drizzle: as, it dags.
4. To run thick.
5. n. A dagger (which see).
6. n. A pistol; a long, heavy pistol, with the handle only slightly curved, formerly in use. Also called, especially in Scotland, tack.
7. n. [From the verb.] A stab or thrust with a dagger.
8. To pierce or stab with a dagger.
9. To cut into slips.
10. To cut out a pattern on (the edge of a garment).
11. To cut off the skirts of, as the fleece of sheep.
12. n. A loose pendent end; a pointed strip or extremity.
13. n. Specifically— A leather strap; a shoe-latchet, or the like.
14. n. An ornamental pointed form, one of many into which the edge of a garment was cut, producing an effect something like a fringe: used especially in the second half of the fourteenth century. Also spelled dagge.
15. n. A short tapering or pointed piece of metal like the point of a dagger, used to interlock timbers with each other, or to form the stabbing or piercing teeth on rolls for breaking coal.
16. n. The first antler of a buck, which is slender, almost straight, and without branches, thus resembling a dagger or dag.

Wiktionary

1. n. A dangling lock of sheep’s wool matted with dung.
2. v. To shear the hindquarters of a sheep in order to remove dags or prevent their formation.
3. interj. US, informal Expressing shock, awe or surprise; used as a general intensifier.
4. n. metrology Symbol for the decagram, an SI unit of mass equal to 101 grams.
5. n. One who dresses unfashionably or without apparent care about appearance.
6. n. graph theory A directed acyclic graph; an ordered pair such that is a subset of some partial ordering relation on .
7. n. A hanging end or shred, in particular a long pointed strip of cloth at the edge of a piece of clothing, or one of a row of decorative strips of cloth that may ornament a tent, booth or fairground.
8. v. UK, dialect To be misty; to drizzle.
9. n. A skewer.
10. n. A spit, a sharpened rod used for roasting food over a fire.
11. v. transitive To skewer food, for roasting over a fire
12. v. transitive To cut or slash the edge of a garment into dags

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. obsolete A dagger; a poniard.
2. n. obsolete A large pistol formerly used.
3. n. (Zoöl.) The unbranched antler of a young deer.
4. n. obsolete A misty shower; dew.
5. n. A loose end; a dangling shred.
6. v. Prov. Eng. To daggle or bemire.
7. v. obsolete To cut into jags or points; to slash.
8. v. Prov. Eng. To be misty; to drizzle.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. 10 grams
2. n. a flap along the edge of a garment; used in medieval clothing