DAM
\dˈam], \dˈam], \d_ˈa_m]\
Definitions of DAM
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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By Princeton University
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A kind or crowned piece in the game of draughts.
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A barrier to prevent the flow of a liquid; esp., a bank of earth, or wall of any kind, as of masonry or wood, built across a water course, to confine and keep back flowing water.
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A firebrick wall, or a stone, which forms the front of the hearth of a blast furnace.
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To shut up; to stop up; to close; to restrain.
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A female parent; - used of beasts, especially of quadrupeds; sometimes applied in contempt to a human mother.
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To obstruct or restrain the flow of, by a dam; to confine by constructing a dam, as a stream of water; - generally used with in or up.
By Oddity Software
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A kind or crowned piece in the game of draughts.
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A barrier to prevent the flow of a liquid; esp., a bank of earth, or wall of any kind, as of masonry or wood, built across a water course, to confine and keep back flowing water.
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A firebrick wall, or a stone, which forms the front of the hearth of a blast furnace.
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To shut up; to stop up; to close; to restrain.
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A female parent; - used of beasts, especially of quadrupeds; sometimes applied in contempt to a human mother.
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To obstruct or restrain the flow of, by a dam; to confine by constructing a dam, as a stream of water; - generally used with in or up.
By Noah Webster.
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A bank or wall across a watercourse; any man-made contrivance to stop the flow of water or gas; a female parent of mammals; a sheet of rubber used by a dentist.
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To confine, or raise the level of, by a dam; restrain: usually with in or up.
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Dammed.
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Damming.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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An embankment to restrain water.
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To keep back water by a bank or other obstruction:-pr.p. damming; pa.p. dammed.
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A mother, applied to quadrupeds.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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To stop by a dam; restrain.
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A barrier to check the flow of a stream.
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A female parent; said of the lower animals.
By James Champlin Fernald
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A female parent, chiefly among quadrupeds; a human mother in contempt.
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A bank or mound of earth raised to obstruct a current of water, and collect it.
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To obstruct and collect by a dam; to confine or restrain.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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A female parent, now used only for animals.
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A bank or mound of earth and stones; anything to confine wholly or partially a stream of water.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
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Thin sheet India rubber, used to confine fluids in draining cavities in the body as in empyema and in dentistry to keep the saliva from the field of operation.
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
