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noun

Stiletto n. (pl. stilettos)

A kind of dagger with a slender, rounded, and pointed blade.

A pointed instrument for making eyelet holes in embroidery.

A beard trimmed into a pointed form. (Obs.) "The very quack of fashions, the very he that Wears a stiletto on his chin."

verb

Stiletto v. t. (past & past part. stilettoed; pres. part. stilettoing) To stab or kill with a stiletto.

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"Stiletto" Quotes from Famous Books

... work in her hand, and after she had spoken to all the little girls and asked them how their mothers were, she went and sat down in one of the front windows, and made little scollops and eyelets. I remember her long ivory stiletto, with a loop of green ribbon through the head of it, and the sharp, tiny, big-bowed scissors that lay in her lap, and the bright, tapering ...

— Real Folks • Mrs. A. D. T. Whitney

... uneasily of himself. "Why?" He had repeatedly told himself that any other man, in his position, would do as he had done, yet it was as though some one had slipped a stiletto under his armour and ...

— A Spinner in the Sun • Myrtle Reed

... tries two assumptions (s 1, b 2/3, and s 1/2 b 5/6), and (naturally) ends in contradictions. Then she returns to the first assumption, and finds the 3 unknowns separately: quod est absurdum. STILETTO identifies sandwiches and biscuits, as "articles." Is the word ever used by confectioners? I fancied "What is the next article, Ma'am?" was limited to linendrapers. TWO SISTERS first assume that biscuits are 4 a penny, and then that they ...

— A Tangled Tale • Lewis Carroll

... asked him the usual questions, but he maintained a dogged silence. That his object had been assassination no one could doubt, for in addition to the automatic pistol, which he had obviously intended using at short range, trusting to luck to make his escape, they found a long stiletto in ...

— The Secret House • Edgar Wallace

... striking distance, and in a dark place where no one can see them. We know by history that most murders are committed on the stairs. Timar had no weapon with him, not even a walking-stick; but Herr Athanas had a stiletto two feet long. ...

— Timar's Two Worlds • Mr Jkai

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