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  • English Word Dam Definition 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.
  • English Word Dam Definition To shut up; to stop up; to close; to restrain.
  • English Word Damage Definition Injury or harm to person, property, or reputation; an inflicted loss of value; detriment; hurt; mischief.
  • English Word Damage Definition The estimated reparation in money for detriment or injury sustained; a compensation, recompense, or satisfaction to one party, for a wrong or injury actually done to him by another.
  • English Word Damage Definition To ocassion damage to the soudness, goodness, or value of; to hurt; to injure; to impair.
  • English Word Damage Definition To receive damage or harm; to be injured or impaired in soudness or value; as. some colors in /oth damage in sunlight.
  • English Word Damage feasant Definition Doing injury; trespassing, as cattle.
  • English Word Damageable Definition Capable of being injured or impaired; liable to, or susceptible of, damage; as, a damageable cargo.
  • English Word Damageable Definition Hurtful; pernicious.
  • English Word Damages Definition of Damage
  • English Word Damaging Definition of Damage
  • English Word Daman Definition A small herbivorous mammal of the genus Hyrax. The species found in Palestine and Syria is Hyrax Syriacus; that of Northern Africa is H. Brucei; -- called also ashkoko, dassy, and rock rabbit. See Cony, and Hyrax.
  • English Word Damar Definition See Dammar.
  • English Word Damascene Definition Of or relating to Damascus.
  • English Word Damascene Definition A kind of plume, now called damson. See Damson.
  • English Word Damascene Definition Same as Damask, or Damaskeen, v. t.
  • English Word Damascus Definition A city of Syria.
  • English Word Damask Definition Damask silk; silk woven with an elaborate pattern of flowers and the like.
  • English Word Damask Definition To decorate in a way peculiar to Damascus or attributed to Damascus; particularly: (a) with flowers and rich designs, as silk; (b) with inlaid lines of gold, etc., or with a peculiar marking or "water," as metal. See Damaskeen.
  • English Word Damask Definition Having the color of the damask rose.
  • English Word Damask Definition Pertaining to, or originating at, the city of Damascus; resembling the products or manufactures of Damascus.
  • English Word Damask Definition A deep pink or rose color.
  • English Word Damask Definition A heavy woolen or worsted stuff with a pattern woven in the same way as the linen damask; -- made for furniture covering and hangings.
  • English Word Damask Definition Linen so woven that a pattern in produced by the different directions of the thread, without contrast of color.
  • English Word Damask Definition Damask or Damascus steel; also, the peculiar markings or "water" of such steel.
  • English Word Damasked Definition of Damask
  • English Word Damaskeen Definition Alt. of Damasken
  • English Word Damasken Definition To decorate, as iron, steel, etc., with a peculiar marking or "water" produced in the process of manufacture, or with designs produced by inlaying or incrusting with another metal, as silver or gold, or by etching, etc., to damask.
  • English Word Damaskin Definition A sword of Damask steel.
  • English Word Damasking Definition of Damask