DPage 16
- 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.