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Webster 1913 Edition
Dudgeon
Dudg′eon
,Noun.
1.
The root of the box tree, of which hafts for daggers were made.
Gerarde (1597).
2.
The haft of a dagger.
Shak.
3.
A dudgeon-hafted dagger; a dagger.
Hudibras.
Dudg′eon
,Noun.
[W.
dygen
anger, grudge.] Resentment; ill will; anger; displeasure.
I drink it to thee in
dudgeon
and hostility. Sir T
. Scott
. Dudg′eon
,Adj.
Homely; rude; coarse.
[Obs.]
By my troth, though I am plain and
I would not be an ass.
dudgeon
,I would not be an ass.
Beau. & Fl.
Webster 1828 Edition
Dudgeon
DUDGEON
,Noun.