She speaks poniards, and every word stabs.
Shak.
To stab at, to offer or threaten to stab; to thrust a pointed weapon
at.
Stab, n. 1. The thrust of a pointed weapon.
2. A wound with a sharp-pointed weapon; as, to fall by the stab an
assassin. Shak.
3. Fig.: An injury inflicted covertly or suddenly; as, a stab given to
character.
||Sta"bat Ma"ter (?). [L., the mother was standing.] A celebrated Latin
||hymn, beginning with these words, commemorating the sorrows of the
||mother of our Lord at the foot of the cross. It is read in the Mass
||of the Sorrows of the Virgin Mary, and is sung by Catholics when
||making "the way of the cross" (Via Crucis). See Station, 7 (c).
Stab"ber (?), n. 1. One who, or that which, stabs; a privy murderer.