English Dictionary: damp | by the DICT Development Group |
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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
d8Ambo \[d8]Am"bo\, n.; pl. {Ambos}. [LL. ambo, Gr. [?], any rising, a raised stage, pulpit: cf. F. ambon.] A large pulpit or reading desk, in the early Christian churches. --Gwilt. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
d8Hemiopia \[d8]Hem`i*o"pi*a\, Hemiopsia \Hem`i*op"si*a\, n. [NL., fr. Gr. [?] half + Gr. [?] sight.] (Med.) A defect of vision in consequence of which a person sees but half of an object looked at. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
d8Impi \[d8]Im"pi\, n. [Zulu.] A body of Kaffir warriors; a body of native armed men. [South Africa] As early as 1862 he crossed assagais with and defeated a Matabili impi (war band). --James Bryce. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
d8Maffia \[d8]Maf"fi*a\, d8Mafia \[d8]Ma"fi*a\, n. [It. maffia.] A secret society which organized in Sicily as a political organization, but is now widespread among Italians, and is used to further or protect private interests, reputedly by illegal methods. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
d8Maffia \[d8]Maf"fi*a\, d8Mafia \[d8]Ma"fi*a\, n. [It. maffia.] A secret society which organized in Sicily as a political organization, but is now widespread among Italians, and is used to further or protect private interests, reputedly by illegal methods. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
d8N82v82 \[d8]N[82]`v[82]"\, n. [F., fr. [?] nix, nivis, snow.] (Geol.) The upper part of a glacier, above the limit or perpetual snow. See {Galcier}. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
d8Napu \[d8]Na*pu"\, n. [Native name.] (Zo[94]l.) A very small chevrotain ({Tragulus Javanicus}), native of Java. It is about the size of a hare, and is noted for its agility in leaping. Called also {Java musk deer}, {pygmy musk deer}, and {deerlet}. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
d8Nawab \[d8]Na*wab"\, n. [See {Nabob}.] A deputy ruler or viceroy in India; also, a title given by courtesy to other persons of high rank in the East. | |
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d8Nepa \[d8]Ne"pa\, n. [L. nepa scorpion.] (Zo[94]l.) A genus of aquatic hemipterus insects. The species feed upon other insects and are noted for their voracity; -- called also {scorpion bug} and {water scorpion}. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
d8Nova \[d8]No"va\ (n[omac]"v[adot]), n.; pl. L. {Nov[91]} (-v[emac]), E. {Novas} (-v[adot]z). [L., fem. sing. of novus new.] (Astron.) A new star, usually appearing suddenly, shining for a brief period, and then sinking into obscurity. Such appearances are supposed to result from cosmic collisions, as of a dark star with interstellar nebulosities. Note: The most important modern nov[91] are: {[d8]No"va Co*ro"n[91] Bo`re*a"lis}[1866]; {[d8]No"va Cyg"ni}[1876]; {[d8]No"va An*dro"me*d[91]}[1885]; {[d8]No"va Au*ri"g[91]}[1891-92]; {[d8]No"va Per"se*i}[1901]. There are two nov[91] called {Nova Persei}. They are: (a) A small nova which appeared in 1881. (b) An extraordinary nova which appeared in Perseus in 1901. It was first sighted on February 22, and for one night (February 23) was the brightest star in the sky. By July it had almost disappeared, after which faint surrounding nebulous masses were discovered, apparently moving radially outward from the star at incredible velocity. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
d8Onappo \[d8]O*nap"po\, n. (Zo[94]l.) A nocturnal South American monkey ({Callithrix discolor}), noted for its agility; -- called also {ventriloquist monkey}. | |
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d8Tempo \[d8]Tem"po\, n. [It., fr. L. tempus. See {Tense}, n.] (Mus.) The rate or degree of movement in time. {[d8]A tempo giusto} (j[oomac]s"t[osl]) [It.], in exact time; -- sometimes, directing a return to strict time after a tempo rubato. {Tempo rubato}. See under {Rubato}. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
d8Umbo \[d8]Um"bo\, n.; pl. L. {Umbones}, E. {Umbos}. [L.] 1. The boss of a shield, at or near the middle, and usually projecting, sometimes in a sharp spike. 2. A boss, or rounded elevation, or a corresponding depression, in a palate, disk, or membrane; as, the umbo in the integument of the larv[91] of echinoderms or in the tympanic membrane of the ear. 3. (Zo[94]l.) One of the lateral prominence just above the hinge of a bivalve shell. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Damnify \Dam"ni*fy\ (d[acr]m"n[icr]*f[imac]), v. t. [LL. damnificare, fr. L. damnificus: cf. OF. 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. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Damp \Damp\ (d[acr]mp), n. [Akin to LG., D., & Dan. damp vapor, steam, fog, G. dampf, Icel. dampi, Sw. damb dust, and to MNG. dimpfen to smoke, imp. 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. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Damp \Damp\, a. [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. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Damp \Damp\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Damped}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Damping}.] [OE. dampen to choke, suffocate. See {Damp}, n.] 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. [bd]To damp your tender hopes.[b8] --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. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Dampy \Damp"y\, a. 1. Somewhat damp. [Obs.] --Drayton. 2. Dejected; gloomy; sorrowful. [Obs.] [bd]Dispel dampy throughts.[b8] --Haywards. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Diiamb \Di`i*amb"\, n. A diiambus. | |
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Domify \Dom"i*fy\, v. t. [L. domus + -fy: cf. F. domifier.] 1. (Astrol.) To divide, as the heavens, into twelve houses. See {House}, in astrological sense. [Obs.] 2. To tame; to domesticate. [Obs.] --Johnson. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Done \Done\, p. p. from {Do}, and formerly the infinitive. 1. Performed; executed; finished. 2. It is done or agreed; let it be a match or bargain; -- used elliptically. {Done brown}, a phrase in cookery; applied figuratively to one who has been thoroughly deceived, cheated, or fooled. [Colloq.] {Done for}, tired out; used up; collapsed; destroyed; dead; killed. [Colloq.] {Done up}. (a) Wrapped up. (b) Worn out; exhausted. [Colloq.] | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Dumb \Dumb\, a. [AS. dumb; akin to D. dom stupid, dumb, Sw. dumb, Goth. dumbs; cf. Gr. [?] blind. See {Deaf}, and cf. {Dummy}.] 1. Destitute of the power of speech; unable; to utter articulate sounds; as, the dumb brutes. To unloose the very tongues even of dumb creatures. --Hooker. 2. Not willing to speak; mute; silent; not speaking; not accompanied by words; as, dumb show. This spirit, dumb to us, will speak to him. --Shak. To pierce into the dumb past. -- J. C. Shairp. 3. Lacking brightness or clearness, as a color. [R.] Her stern was painted of a dumb white or dun color. --De Foe. {Deaf and dumb}. See {Deaf-mute}. {Dumb ague}, [or] {Dumb chill}, a form of intermittent fever which has no well-defined [bd]chill.[b8] [U.S.] {Dumb animal}, any animal except man; -- usually restricted to a domestic quadruped; -- so called in contradistinction to man, who is a [bd]speaking animal.[b8] {Dumb cake}, a cake made in silence by girls on St. Mark's eve, with certain mystic ceremonies, to discover their future husbands. --Halliwell. {Dumb cane} (Bot.), a west Indian plant of the Arum family ({Dieffenbachia seguina}), which, when chewed, causes the tongue to swell, and destroys temporarily the power of speech. {Dumb crambo}. See under {crambo}. {Dumb show}. (a) Formerly, a part of a dramatic representation, shown in pantomime. [bd]Inexplicable dumb shows and noise.[b8] --Shak. (b) Signs and gestures without words; as, to tell a story in dumb show. {To strike dumb}, to confound; to astonish; to render silent by astonishment; or, it may be, to deprive of the power of speech. Syn: Silent; speechless; noiseless. See {Mute}. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Dumb \Dumb\, v. t. To put to silence. [Obs.] --Shak. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Dump \Dump\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Dumped}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Dumping}.] [OE. dumpen to throw down, fall down, cf. Icel. dumpa to thump, Dan. dumpe to fall suddenly, rush, dial. Sw. dimpa to fall down plump. Cf. {Dump} sadness.] 1. To knock heavily; to stump. [Prov. Eng.] --Halliwell. 2. To put or throw down with more or less of violence; hence, to unload from a cart by tilting it; as, to dump sand, coal, etc. [U.S.] --Bartlett. {Dumping car} [or] {cart}, a railway car, or a cart, the body of which can be tilted to empty the contents; -- called also {dump car}, or {dump cart}. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Dump \Dump\, n. [See {Dumpling}.] A thick, ill-shapen piece; a clumsy leaden counter used by boys in playing chuck farthing. [Eng.] --Smart. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Dump \Dump\, n. 1. A car or boat for dumping refuse, etc. 2. A ground or place for dumping ashes, refuse, etc. 3. That which is dumped. 4. (Mining) A pile of ore or rock. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Dump \Dump\, n. [Cf. dial. Sw. dumpin melancholy, Dan. dump dull, low, D. dompig damp, G. dumpf damp, dull, gloomy, and E. damp, or rather perh. dump, v. t. Cf. {Damp}, or {Dump}, v. t.] 1. A dull, gloomy state of the mind; sadness; melancholy; low spirits; despondency; ill humor; -- now used only in the plural. March slowly on in solemn dump. --Hudibras. Doleful dumps the mind oppress. --Shak. I was musing in the midst of my dumps. --Bunyan. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Dumpy \Dump"y\, a. [Compar. {Dumpier}; superl. {Dumpiest}.] [ 1. From {Dump} a short ill-shapen piece. 2. From {Dump} sadness.] 1. Short and thick; of low stature and disproportionately stout. 2. Sullen or discontented. [Prov. Eng.] --Halliwell. | |
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Danby, VT Zip code(s): 05739 | |
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Danube, MN (city, FIPS 14716) Location: 44.79131 N, 95.10254 W Population (1990): 562 (225 housing units) Area: 1.3 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 56230 | |
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Denby, SD Zip code(s): 57716 | |
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Denhoff, ND Zip code(s): 58430 | |
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Dinuba, CA (city, FIPS 19318) Location: 36.54561 N, 119.38731 W Population (1990): 12743 (3836 housing units) Area: 6.9 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 93618 | |
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]: | |
dump n. 1. An undigested and voluminous mass of information about a problem or the state of a system, especially one routed to the slowest available output device (compare {core dump}), and most especially one consisting of hex or octal {runes} describing the byte-by-byte state of memory, mass storage, or some file. In {elder days}, debugging was generally done by `groveling over' a dump (see {grovel}); increasing use of high-level languages and interactive debuggers has made such tedium uncommon, and the term `dump' now has a faintly archaic flavor. 2. A backup. This usage is typical only at large timesharing installations. | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
DNF {disjunctive normal form} | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
DOMF Distributed Object Management Facility. An {OMG}-compliant object management system; part of {DOE}. Produced by {SunSoft}. (1994-11-04) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
DTMF {Dual Tone Multi Frequency} | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
dump information about a problem or the state of a system, especially one routed to the slowest available output device (compare {core dump}), and most especially one consisting of {hexadecimal} or {octal} {runes} describing the byte-by-byte state of memory, mass storage, or some file. In {elder days}, debugging was generally done by "groveling over" a dump (see {grovel}); increasing use of high-level languages and interactive debuggers has made such tedium uncommon, and the term "dump" now has a faintly archaic flavour. 2. A {backup}. This usage is typical only at large {time-sharing} installations. {Unix manual page}: dump(1). [{Jargon File}] (1994-12-01) | |
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: | |
Dinhabah robbers' den, an Edomitish city, the capital of king Bela (Gen. 36:32). It is probably the modern Dibdiba, a little north-east of Petra. | |
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: | |
Dumb from natural infirmity (Ex. 4:11); not knowing what to say (Prov. 31:8); unwillingness to speak (Ps. 39:9; Lev. 10:3). Christ repeatedly restored the dumb (Matt. 9:32, 33; Luke 11:14; Matt. 12:22) to the use of speech. | |
From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]: | |
Dinhabah, he gives judgment |