DAGGERS. In Dickens's Greet Expectations, Miss Havisham's man of business and Pip's guar dian. He is a hard, suspicious lawyer. interested only in facts. not in opinions, and of unprepos sessing appearance.
(Anglo-Ind., from Hind. shakkar, from Prak. sakkara. from Skt. ;farkara, sugar). The name given in the East Indies to the sugar obtained by inspissation from the sap (viera or toddy) of palms, especially the jaggery paints, the cocoanut palm. and the Palmyra palm. It is. as generally sold and used in the East Indies, a coarse kind of sugar; chemically it is the same as cane-sugar. The sap, which by inspissation yields jaggcry, becomes also, by fermentation, palm wine, and from it, by distillation, arrack is made.
yiVgich, VATnost.Av (1S3S—). A Slavic philologist, born at Warasdin, and educat ed at Vienna. In 1560 he was appointed a teacher at Agram, and in 1870 he was elected member of the South Slavic Academy. But in
the same year he was dismissed from Agram, and became professor of comparative philology at Odessa. Ile resigned this position in 1874 to take the new chair of Slavic philology at Berlin, where he founded (1875) the A rrhir jar slawische Philologic. In 18S0 he succeeded Sresn•vski nt Saint Petersburg, and six years afterwards be came professor of Slavonic philology at Vienna. Ile was chosen member of the Royal Servian Academy of of the Imperial Academy of Cracow, and of the Imperial Academy of Saint Peters burg. this Works, besides contributions to knji i'ernik, Rad, Xturine, and the Proceedings of the Vienna Aeadeln y, are on the history of the Croa tian and Servian peoples, and of their languages and literatures.