Damaskin Dam"as·kin noun [ Confer French
damasquin , adj., Italian
damaschino , Spanish
damasquino . See
Damaskeen .]
A sword of Damask steel. No old Toledo blades or damaskins .
Howell (1641).
Damassé Da·mas·sé" adjective [ French
damassé , from
damas . See
Damask .]
Woven like damask. --
noun A damassé fabric, esp. one of linen.
Damassin Dam"as·sin (dăm"
a s*sĭn)
noun [ French, from
damas . See
Damask .]
A kind of modified damask or brocade.
Dambonite Dam"bo·nite (-bo*nīt)
noun [ Confer French
dambonite .]
(Chemistry) A white, crystalline, sugary substance obtained from an African caoutchouc.
Dambose Dam"bose (dăm"bōs)
noun (Chemistry) A crystalline variety of fruit sugar obtained from dambonite.
Dame Dame (dām)
noun [ French
dame , Late Latin
domna , from Latin
domina mistress, lady, fem. of
dominus master, ruler, lord; akin to
domare to tame, subdue. See
Tame , and confer
Dam a mother,
Dan ,
Danger ,
Dungeon ,
Dominie ,
Don ,
noun ,
Duenna .]
1. A mistress of a family, who is a lady; a woman in authority; especially, a lady. Then shall these lords do vex me half so much,
As that proud dame , the lord protector's wife.
Shak. 2. The mistress of a family in common life, or the mistress of a common school; as, a dame's school. In the dame's classes at the village school.
Emerson. 3. A woman in general, esp. an elderly woman. 4. A mother; -- applied to human beings and quadrupeds. [ Obsolete]
Chaucer.
Damewort Dame"wort` noun (Botany) A cruciferrous plant ( Hesperis matronalis ), remarkable for its fragrance, especially toward the close of the day; -- called also rocket and dame's violet . Loudon.
Damiana Da`mi·a"na noun [ New Latin ; of uncertain origin.]
(Medicine) A Mexican drug, used as an aphrodisiac. » There are several varieties derived from different plants, esp. from a species of
Turnera and from
Bigelovia veneta .
Wood & Bache.
Damianist Da"mi·an·ist noun (Eccl. Hist.) A follower of Damian, patriarch of Alexandria in the 6th century, who held heretical opinions on the doctrine of the Holy Trinity.
Dammar, Dammara Dam"mar, Dam"ma·ra noun [ Jav. & Malay.
damar .]
An oleoresin used in making varnishes; dammar gum; dammara resin. It is obtained from certain resin trees indigenous to the East Indies, esp. Shorea robusta and the dammar pine. Dammar pine ,
(Botany) ,
a tree of the Moluccas ( Agathis orientalis , or Dammara orientalis ), yielding dammar.
Dammara Dam"ma·ra noun (Botany) A large tree of the order Coniferæ , indigenous to the East Indies and Australasia; -- called also Agathis . There are several species.
Damn Damn (dăm)
transitive verb [
imperfect & past participle Damned (dămd
or dăm"nĕd);
present participle & verbal noun Damning (dăm"ĭng
or dăm"nĭng).] [ Middle English
damnen dampnen (with excrescent
p ), Old French
damner ,
dampner , French
damner , from Latin
damnare ,
damnatum , to condemn, from
damnum damage, a fine, penalty. Confer
Condemn ,
Damage .]
1. To condemn; to declare guilty; to doom; to adjudge to punishment; to sentence; to censure. He shall not live; look, with a spot I damn him.
Shak. 2. (Theol.) To doom to punishment in the future world; to consign to perdition; to curse. 3. To condemn as bad or displeasing, by open expression, as by denuciation, hissing, hooting, etc. You are not so arrant a critic as to damn them [ the works of modern poets] . . . without hearing.
Pope. Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer,
And without sneering teach the rest to sneer.
Pope. »
Damn is sometimes used interjectionally, imperatively, and intensively.
Damn Damn intransitive verb To invoke damnation; to curse. "While I inwardly
damn ."
Goldsmith.
Damnability Dam`na·bil"i·ty noun The quality of being damnable; damnableness. Sir T. More.
Damnable Dam"na·ble adjective [ Latin
damnabilis , from
damnare : confer French
damnable . See
Damn .]
1. Liable to damnation; deserving, or for which one deserves, to be damned; of a damning nature. A creature unprepared unmeet for death,
And to transport him in the mind he is,
Were damnable .
Shak. 2. Odious; pernicious; detestable. Begin, murderer; . . . leave thy damnable faces.
Shak.
Damnableness Dam"na·ble·ness noun The state or quality of deserving damnation; execrableness. The damnableness of this most execrable impiety.
Prynne.
Damnably Dam"na·bly adverb 1. In a manner to incur severe censure, condemnation, or punishment. 2. Odiously; detestably; excessively. [ Low]
Damnation Dam·na"tion noun [ French
damnation , Latin
damnatio , from
damnare . See
Damn .]
1. The state of being damned; condemnation; openly expressed disapprobation. 2. (Theol.) Condemnation to everlasting punishment in the future state, or the punishment itself. How can ye escape the damnation of hell?
Matt. xxiii. 33. Wickedness is sin, and sin is damnation .
Shak. 3. A sin deserving of everlasting punishment. [ R.]
The deep damnation of his taking- off.
Shak.
Damnatory Dam"na·to·ry (dăm"nȧ*to*rȳ)
adjective [ Latin
damnatorius , from
damnator a condemner.]
Dooming to damnation; condemnatory. "
Damnatory invectives."
Hallam.
Damned Damned adjective 1. Sentenced to punishment in a future state; condemned; consigned to perdition. 2. Hateful; detestable; abominable. But, O, what damned minutes tells he o'er
Who doats, yet doubts, suspects, yet strongly loves.
Shak.
Damnific Dam·nif"ic adjective [ Latin
damnificus ;
damnum damage, loss +
facere to make. See
Damn .]
Procuring or causing loss; mischievous; injurious.
Damnification Dam`ni·fi·ca"tion noun [ Late Latin
damnificatio .]
That which causes damage or loss.
Damnify Dam"ni·fy (dăm"nĭ*fī)
transitive verb [ Late Latin
damnificare , from Latin
damnificus : confer Old French
damnefier . See
Damnific .]
To cause loss or damage to; to injure; to impair. [ R.]
This work will ask as many more officials to make expurgations and expunctions, that the commonwealth of learning be not damnified .
Milton.
Damning Damn"ing adjective That damns; damnable; as, damning evidence of guilt.
Damningness Damn"ing·ness noun Tendency to bring damnation. "The damningness of them [ sins]."
Hammond.
damnum dam"num noun [ Latin ]
(law) Harm; detriment, either to character or property.
Damosel Dam"o·sel (dăm"o*zĕl),
Dam`o*sel"la (-zĕl"lȧ),
Da`moi`selle" (dȧ`mwä`zĕl") , noun See Damsel . [ Archaic]
Damourite Dam"our·ite (dăm"o*īt)
noun [ Ater the French chemist
Damour .]
(Min.) A kind of Muscovite, or potash mica, containing water.
Damp Damp (dămp)
noun [ Akin to LG., D., & Danish
damp vapor, steam, fog, German
dampf , Icelandic
dampi , Swedish
damb dust, and to MNG.
dimpfen to smoke, imperfect
dampf .]
1. Moisture; humidity; fog; fogginess; vapor. Night . . . with black air
Accompanied, with damps and dreadful gloom.
Milton. 2. Dejection; depression; cloud of the mind. Even now, while thus I stand blest in thy presence,
A secret damp of grief comes o'er my soul.
Addison. It must have thrown a damp over your autumn excursion.
J. D. Forbes. 3. (Mining) A gaseous product, formed in coal mines, old wells, pints, etc. Choke damp ,
a damp consisting principally of carbonic acid gas; -- so called from its extinguishing flame and animal life. See Carbonic acid , under Carbonic . --
Damp sheet ,
a curtain in a mine gallery to direct air currents and prevent accumulation of gas. --
Fire damp ,
a damp consisting chiefly of light carbureted hydrogen; -- so called from its tendence to explode when mixed with atmospheric air and brought into contact with flame.
Damp Damp adjective [
Compar. Damper ;
superl. Dampest .]
1. Being in a state between dry and wet; moderately wet; moist; humid. O'erspread with a damp sweat and holy fear.
Dryden. 2. Dejected; depressed; sunk. [ R.]
All these and more came flocking, but with looks
Downcast and damp .
Milton.
Damp Damp intransitive verb [
imperfect & past participle Damped ;
present participle & verbal noun Damping .] [ Middle English
dampen to choke, suffocate. See
Damp ,
noun ]
1. To render damp; to moisten; to make humid, or moderately wet; to dampen; as, to damp cloth. 2. To put out, as fire; to depress or deject; to deaden; to cloud; to check or restrain, as action or vigor; to make dull; to weaken; to discourage. "To
damp your tender hopes."
Akenside. Usury dulls and damps all industries, improvements, and new inventions, wherein money would be stirring if it were not for this slug.
Bacon. How many a day has been damped and darkened by an angry word!
Sir J. Lubbock. The failure of his enterprise damped the spirit of the soldiers.
Macaulay.
Damp off Damp" off` To decay and perish through excessive moisture.
Dampen Damp"en transitive verb [
imperfect & past participle Dampened ;
present participle & verbal noun Dampening .]
1. To make damp or moist; to make slightly wet. 2. To depress; to check; to make dull; to lessen. In a way that considerably dampened our enthusiasm.
The Century.
Dampen Damp"en intransitive verb To become damp; to deaden. Byron.
Damper Damp"er noun That which damps or checks; as: (a) A valve or movable plate in the flue or other part of a stove, furnace, etc., used to check or regulate the draught of air. (b) A contrivance, as in a pianoforte, to deaden vibrations; or, as in other pieces of mechanism, to check some action at a particular time. Nor did Sabrina's presence seem to act as any damper at the modest little festivities.
W. Black.
Dampish Damp"ish adjective Moderately damp or moist. --
Damp"ish*ly ,
adverb --
Damp"ish*ness ,
noun
Dampne Damp"ne transitive verb To damn. [ Obsolete]
Chaucer.
Dampness Damp"ness noun Moderate humidity; moisture; fogginess; moistness.
Dampy Damp"y adjective 1. Somewhat damp. [ Obsolete]
Drayton. 2. Dejected; gloomy; sorrowful. [ Obsolete] "Dispel
dampy throughts."
Haywards.
Damsel Dam"sel noun [ Middle English
damosel ,
damesel ,
damisel , damsel, from Old French
damoisele ,
damisele , gentlewoman, French
demoiselle young lady; confer Old French
damoisel young nobleman, French
damoiseau ; from Late Latin
domicella ,
dominicella , fem.,
domicellus ,
dominicellus , masc., dim. from Latin
domina ,
dominus . See
Dame , and confer
Demoiselle ,
Doncella .]
1. A young person, either male or female, of noble or gentle extraction; as, Damsel Pepin; Damsel Richard, Prince of Wales. [ Obsolete]
2. A young unmarried woman; a girl; a maiden. With her train of damsels she was gone,
In shady walks the scorching heat to shun.
Dryden. Sometimes a troop of damsels glad, . . .
Goes by to towered Camelot.
Tennyson. 3. (Milling) An attachment to a millstone spindle for shaking the hopper.
Damson Dam"son (dăm"z'n)
noun [ Middle English
damasin the Damascus plum, from Latin Damascenus. See
Damascene .]
A small oval plum of a blue color, the fruit of a variety of the Prunus domestica ; -- called also damask plum .
Dan Dan noun [ Middle English
dan ,
danz , Old French
danz (prop. only nom.),
dan , master, from Latin
dominus . See
Dame .]
A title of honor equivalent to master , or sir . [ Obsolete]
Old Dan Geoffry, in gently spright
The pure wellhead of poetry did dwell.
Spenser. What time Dan Abraham left the Chaldee land.
Thomson.
Dan Dan noun [ Etymol. uncertain.]
(Mining) A small truck or sledge used in coal mines.
Danaide Da"na·ide noun [ From the mythical
Danaides , who were condemned to fill with water a vessel full of holes.]
(Machinery) A water wheel having a vertical axis, and an inner and outer tapering shell, between which are vanes or floats attached usually to both shells, but sometimes only to one.
Danaite Da"na·ite noun [ Named after J. Freeman
Dana .]
(Min.) A cobaltiferous variety of arsenopyrite.
Danalite Da"na·lite noun [ Named after James Dwight
Dana .]
(Min.) A mineral occuring in octahedral crystals, also massive, of a reddish color. It is a silicate of iron, zinc manganese, and glucinum, containing sulphur.
Danburite Dan"bu·rite noun (Min.) A borosilicate of lime, first found at Danbury , Conn. It is near the topaz in form. Dana.
Dance Dance (dȧns)
intransitive verb [
imperfect & past participle Danced ;
present participle & verbal noun Dancing .] [ French
danser , from Old High German
dansōn to draw; akin to
dinsan to draw, Goth.
apinsan , and probably from the same root (meaning
to stretch ) as English
thin . See
Thin .]
1. To move with measured steps, or to a musical accompaniment; to go through, either alone or in company with others, with a regulated succession of movements, (commonly) to the sound of music; to trip or leap rhythmically. Jack shall pipe and Gill shall dance .
Wither. Good shepherd, what fair swain is this
Which dances with your daughter?
Shak. 2. To move nimbly or merrily; to express pleasure by motion; to caper; to frisk; to skip about. Then, 'tis time to dance off.
Thackeray. More dances my rapt heart
Than when I first my wedded mistress saw.
Shak. Shadows in the glassy waters dance .
Byron. Where rivulets dance their wayward round.
Wordsworth. To dance on a rope , or
To dance on nothing ,
to be hanged.
Dance Dance transitive verb To cause to dance, or move nimbly or merrily about, or up and down; to dandle. To dance our ringlets to the whistling wind.
Shak. Thy grandsire loved thee well;
Many a time he danced thee on his knee.
Shak. To dance attendance ,
to come and go obsequiously; to be or remain in waiting, at the beck and call of another, with a view to please or gain favor. A man of his place, and so near our favor,
To dance attendance on their lordships' pleasure.
Shak.
Dance Dance noun [ French
danse , of German origin. See
Dance ,
intransitive verb ]
1. The leaping, tripping, or measured stepping of one who dances; an amusement, in which the movements of the persons are regulated by art, in figures and in accord with music. 2. (Mus.) A tune by which dancing is regulated, as the minuet, the waltz, the cotillon, etc. » The word
dance was used ironically, by the older writers, of many proceedings besides dancing.
Of remedies of love she knew parchance
For of that art she couth the olde dance .
Chaucer. Dance of Death (Art) ,
an allegorical representation of the power of death over all, -- the old, the young, the high, and the low, being led by a dancing skeleton. --
Morris dance .
See Morris . --
To lead one a dance ,
to cause one to go through a series of movements or experiences as if guided by a partner in a dance not understood.
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