Dag"ger, n. [Perh. from diagonal.] A timber placed diagonally in a ship's frame. Knight.
Dagges (dgz), 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.
Dag"gle (dg"g'l), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Daggled (-g'ld); p. pr. & vb. n. Daggling (-glng).] [Freq. of dag, v. t., 1.] To trail, so as to wet or befoul; to make wet and limp; to moisten.
The warrior's very plume, I say,
Was daggled by the dashing spray.
Sir W. Scott.
Dag"gle, v. i. To run, go, or trail one's self through water, mud, or slush; to draggle.
Nor, like a puppy [have I] daggled through the town.
Pope.
{ Dag"gle-tail` (dg"g'l-tl`), Dag"gle- tailed` (-tld`), } a. Having the lower ends of garments defiled by trailing in mire or filth; draggle- tailed.
Dag"gle-tail` (-tl`), n. A slovenly woman; a slattern; a draggle-tail.
Dag"lock` (-lk`), n. [Dag a loose end + lock.] A dirty or clotted lock of wool on a sheep; a taglock.
Da"go (d"g), n.; pl. Dagos (-gz). [Cf. Sp. Diego, E. James.] A nickname given to a person of Spanish (or, by extension, Portuguese or Italian) descent. [U. S.]
||Da*go"ba (d*g"b), n. [Singhalese dgoba.] A dome- shaped structure built over relics of Buddha or some Buddhist saint. [East Indies]
Da"gon (d"gn), [Heb. Dgon, 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.
This day a solemn feast the people hold
To Dagon, their sea idol.
Milton.
They brought it into the house of Dagon.