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  • English Word Damping Definition of Damp
  • English Word Dampish Definition Moderately damp or moist.
  • English Word Dampne Definition To damn.
  • English Word Dampness Definition Moderate humidity; moisture; fogginess; moistness.
  • English Word Dampy Definition Somewhat damp.
  • English Word Dampy Definition Dejected; gloomy; sorrowful.
  • English Word Damsel Definition A young person, either male or female, of noble or gentle extraction; as, Damsel Pepin; Damsel Richard, Prince of Wales.
  • English Word Damsel Definition A young unmarried woman; a girl; a maiden.
  • English Word Damsel Definition An attachment to a millstone spindle for shaking the hopper.
  • English Word Damson Definition A small oval plum of a blue color, the fruit of a variety of the Prunus domestica; -- called also damask plum.
  • English Word Dan Definition A title of honor equivalent to master, or sir.
  • English Word Dan Definition A small truck or sledge used in coal mines.
  • English Word Danaide Definition 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.
  • English Word Danaite Definition A cobaltiferous variety of arsenopyrite.
  • English Word Danalite Definition A mineral occuring in octahedral crystals, also massive, of a reddish color. It is a silicate of iron, zinc manganese, and glucinum, containing sulphur.
  • English Word Danburite Definition A borosilicate of lime, first found at Danbury, Conn. It is near the topaz in form.
  • English Word Dance Definition To cause to dance, or move nimbly or merrily about, or up and down; to dandle.
  • English Word Dance Definition A tune by which dancing is regulated, as the minuet, the waltz, the cotillon, etc.
  • English Word Dance Definition 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.
  • English Word Dance Definition 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.
  • English Word Dance Definition To move nimbly or merrily; to express pleasure by motion; to caper; to frisk; to skip about.
  • English Word Danced Definition of Dance
  • English Word Dancer Definition One who dances or who practices dancing.
  • English Word Danceress Definition A female dancer.
  • English Word Dancette Definition Deeply indented; having large teeth; thus, a fess dancette has only three teeth in the whole width of the escutcheon.
  • English Word Dancing Definition of Dance
  • English Word Dancing Definition from Dance.
  • English Word Dancy Definition Same as Dancette.
  • English Word Dandelion Definition A well-known plant of the genus Taraxacum (T. officinale, formerly called T. Dens-leonis and Leontodos Taraxacum) bearing large, yellow, compound flowers, and deeply notched leaves.
  • English Word Dander Definition Dandruff or scurf on the head.