dagger plant

[So called because the tips of its endogenous leaves are very sharp.] Bot.: The liliaceous genus Yucca (q. v.). daggers' drawing, daggers-drawing, s. The act of drawing out daggers, hence, approach to actual violence, open violence, or quarreling. They always are at daggers drawing, And one another clapperclawing. Butler: Hudibras. "I have heard of a quarrel in a tavern, where all were the quarrel." Swift . at daggers drawing, till one desired to know the subject of with a dagger. *dăg-ger, v. t. [DAGGER, s.] To pierce or stab *dăg'-gered, a. [Eng. dagger ; -ed . ] 1. Furnished or armed with a dagger, 2. Pierced with a dagger. [DECKER.] dagges, s. pl. [DAG (2), s.]