Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for STAB
STAB, v.i.
- To give a wound with a pointed weapon. None shall dare / With shorten'd sword to stab in closer war. – Dryden.
- To give a mortal wound. He speaks poniards, and every word stabs. – Shak. To stab at, to offer a stab; to thrust a pointed weapon at.
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