STAB, This word contains the elements, and is probably from the primary sense, of the L., to point or prick, and a multitude of others in many languages. The radical sense is to thrust but I know not to what oriental roots they are allied.

1. To pierce with a pointed weapon as, to be stabbed by a dagger or a spear to stab fish or eels.
2. To wound mischievously or mortally to kill by the thrust of a pointed instrument.
3. To injure secretly or by malicious falsehood or slander as, to stab reputation.

STAB,

1. To give a wound with a pointed weapon.

None shall dare with shortend sword to stab in closer war.

2. To give a mortal wound.

He speaks poniards, and every word stabs.

To stab at, to offer a stab to thrust a pointed weapon at.

STAB, n.

1. The thrust of a pointed weapon.
2. A wound with a sharp pointed weapon as, to fall by the stab of an assassin.
3. An injury given in the dark a sly mischief as a stab given to character.