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The root of the box tree, of which hafts for daggers were made.

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  1. n. The root of the box tree, of which hafts for daggers were made.
  2. n. The haft of a dagger.
  3. n. A dudgeon-hafted dagger; a dagger.
  4. n. Resentment; ill will; anger; displeasure.
  5. a. Homely; rude; coarse.
  6. n. a feeling of intense indignation (now used only in the phrase ‘in high dudgeon’)
  7. Resentment; ill will; anger; displeasure.I drink it to thee in dudgeon and hostility.Sir T. Scott.
  8. n:100 n. a feeling of intense indignation (now used only in the phrase `in high dudgeon')