dag

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• abbreviation decagram
• noun A lock of matted or dung-coated wool.
• noun A hanging end or shred.

from The Century Dictionary.

• noun A dagger (which see).
• noun A pistol; a long, heavy pistol, with the handle only slightly curved, formerly in use. Also called, especially in Scotland, tack.
• noun [From the verb.] A stab or thrust with a dagger.
• To pierce or stab with a dagger.
• To cut into slips.
• To cut out a pattern on (the edge of a garment).
• To cut off the skirts of, as the fleece of sheep.
• noun A loose pendent end; a pointed strip or extremity.
• noun Specifically— A leather strap; a shoe-latchet, or the like.
• noun 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.
• To bedew; daggle.
• To rain gently; drizzle: as, it dags.
• To run thick.
• noun 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.
• noun The first antler of a buck, which is slender, almost straight, and without branches, thus resembling a dagger or dag.
• noun In parts of Scotland, a thin or gentle rain, a thick fog or mist, or a heavy shower.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• noun obsolete A misty shower; dew.
• noun A loose end; a dangling shred.
• noun obsolete A dagger; a poniard.
• noun obsolete A large pistol formerly used.
• noun (Zoöl.) The unbranched antler of a young deer.
• transitive verb Prov. Eng. To daggle or bemire.
• transitive verb obsolete To cut into jags or points; to slash.
• intransitive verb Prov. Eng. To be misty; to drizzle.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• noun 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.
• noun A dangling lock of sheep’s wool matted with dung.
• verb To shear the hindquarters of a sheep in order to remove dags or prevent their formation.
• noun metrology Symbol for the decagram, an SI unit of mass equal to 101 grams.
• noun One who dresses unfashionably or without apparent care about appearance.
• interjection US, informal Expressing shock, awe or surprise; used as a general intensifier.
• noun A skewer.
• noun A spit, a sharpened rod used for roasting food over a fire.
• verb transitive To skewer food, for roasting over a fire
• verb transitive To cut or slash the edge of a garment into dags
• noun graph theory A directed acyclic graph; an ordered pair such that is a subset of some partial ordering relation on .
• verb UK, dialect To be misty; to drizzle.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• noun 10 grams
• noun a flap along the edge of a garment; used in medieval clothing