Definition of dam

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Dam (n.) A female parent; -- used of beasts, especially of quadrupeds; sometimes applied in contempt to a human mother..

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Harm :: Harm (n.) To hurt; to injure; to damage; to wrong.
Beldame :: Beldame (n.) An old woman in general; especially, an ugly old woman; a hag..
Shopworn :: Shopworn (a.) Somewhat worn or damaged by having been kept for a time in a shop.
Expire :: Expire (v. t.) To give forth insensibly or gently, as a fluid or vapor; to emit in minute particles; to exhale; as, the earth expires a damp vapor; plants expire odors..
Coffer :: Coffer (n.) The chamber of a canal lock; also, a caisson or a cofferdam..
Dignity :: Dignity (n.) Fundamental principle; axiom; maxim.
Medusoid :: Medusoid (a.) Like a medusa; having the fundamental structure of a medusa, but without a locomotive disk; -- said of the sessile gonophores of hydroids..
Principle :: Principle (n.) A fundamental truth; a comprehensive law or doctrine, from which others are derived, or on which others are founded; a general truth; an elementary proposition; a maxim; an axiom; a postulate..
Derivative :: Derivative (n.) A chord, not fundamental, but obtained from another by inversion; or, vice versa, a ground tone or root implied in its harmonics in an actual chord..
Endamaging :: Endamaging (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Endamag.
Lorette :: Lorette (n.) In France, a name for a woman who is supported by her lovers, and devotes herself to idleness, show, and pleasure; -- so called from the church of Notre Dame de Lorette, in Paris, near which many of them resided..
General :: General (a.) Having a relation to all; common to the whole; as, Adam, our general sire..
Slide :: Slide (n.) An apparatus in the trumpet and trombone by which the sounding tube is lengthened and shortened so as to produce the tones between the fundamental and its harmonics.
Damageable :: Damageable (a.) Capable of being injured or impaired; liable to, or susceptible of, damage; as, a damageable cargo..
Leatherwood :: Leatherwood (n.) A small branching shrub (Dirca palustris), with a white, soft wood, and a tough, leathery bark, common in damp woods in the Northern United States; -- called also moosewood, and wicopy..
Dampen :: Dampen (v. i.) To become damp; to deaden.
Hornbug :: Hornbug (n.) A large nocturnal beetle of the genus Lucanus (as L. capreolus, and L. dama), having long, curved upper jaws, resembling a sickle. The grubs are found in the trunks of old trees..
Sufferance :: Sufferance (n.) Loss; damage; injury.
Cardamom :: Cardamom (n.) The aromatic fruit, or capsule with its seeds, of several plants of the Ginger family growing in the East Indies and elsewhere, and much used as a condiment, and in medicine..
Dam :: Dam (n.) A female parent; -- used of beasts, especially of quadrupeds; sometimes applied in contempt to a human mother..
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