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 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.
2. n. A dangling lock of sheep’s wool matted with dung.
3. n. A skewer.
4. n. A spit, a sharpened rod used for roasting food over a fire.
5. n. One who dresses unfashionably. May be used as form of endearment emphasizing that they are different, outsiders.
6. n. A directed acyclic graph; an ordered pair (V, E) such that E is a subset of some partial ordering relation on V.
7. v. To shear the hindquarters of a sheep in order to remove dags or prevent their formation.
8. v. To skewer food, for roasting over a fire
9. v. To cut or slash the edge of a garment into dags
10. interj. Expressing shock, awe or surprise; used as a general intensifier.

GNU Webster's 1913

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