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ke sacs in the brain of sheep, causing the fatal disease known as water brain, vertigo, staggers or gid.

An exaggerated estimate of the importance of giving full assent to any particular formula of the Christian faith. Shaff.

ts; a controversial writer; a controversialist. Some controverters in divinity are like swaggerers in a tavern. B. Jonson.

The expansion of the guard of a sword, dagger, etc.

A knife; a dagger.

A noisy boaster; a swaggering fellow. [Obs.] What cracker is this same that deafs our ears Shak.

r of the imagination; nature. We know that the whole creation groaneth. Rom. viii. 22. A dagger of the mind, a false creation. Shak. Choice pictures and creations of curious art. Beaconsfield.

To move or behave with servility or exaggerated humility; to fawn; as, a creeping sycophant. To come as humbly as they used to creep. Shak.

A dagger or short sword used by the Malays, commonly having a serpentine blade. [Written also crease and kris.] From a Malayan creese to a sailor's jackknife. Julian Hawthorne.

A dagger; a poniard. [Obs.] Johnson.

; susceptibility or tenderness of feeling; refinement; fastidiousness; and hence, in an exaggerated sense, effeminacy; as, great delicacy of behavior; delicacy in doing a kindness; delicacy of character that unfits for earnest action. You know your mother's delicacy in this point. Cowper.

The mark ||; -- called also double dagger.

A kind of dagger or poniard; -- formerly much used by the Scottish Highlander. Dirk knife, a clasp knife having a large, dirklike blade.

of artillery. [Obs.] Two or three shots, made at them by a couple of drakes, made them stagger. Clarendon.

The root of the box tree, of which hafts for daggers were made. Gerarde (1597).

l property; as, the people escaped from the town with their effects. For effect, for an exaggerated impression or excitement. -- In effect, in fact; in substance. See 8, above. -- Of no effect, Of none effect, To no effect, or Without effect, destitute of results, validity, force, and the like; vain; fruitless. "Maki…

Having great tension, or exaggerated action. Dunglison.

A bully; a hector; a swaggerer; an empty boaster. [R.] Dryden.

A swaggering; vain boasting; ostentation; a bluster. Swift.

Exaggerated declamation; rant.