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Cosset :: Cosset (n.) A lamb reared without the aid of the dam. Hence: A pet, in general..

Dam :: Dam (n.) 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..

Flashboard :: Flashboard (n.) A board placed temporarily upon a milldam, to raise the water in the pond above its usual level; a flushboard..

Amomum :: Amomum (n.) A genus of aromatic plants. It includes species which bear cardamoms, and grains of paradise..

Wreck :: Wreck (v. t.) To destroy, disable, or seriously damage, as a vessel, by driving it against the shore or on rocks, by causing it to become unseaworthy, to founder, or the like; to shipwreck..

Dambose :: Dambose (n.) A crystalline variety of fruit sugar obtained from dambonite.

Damnable :: Damnable (a.) Liable to damnation; deserving, or for which one deserves, to be damned; of a damning nature..

Magna Charta :: Magna Charta () Hence, a fundamental constitution which guaranties rights and privileges..

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..

Regulative :: Regulative (a.) Necessarily assumed by the mind as fundamental to all other knowledge; furnishing fundamental principles; as, the regulative principles, or principles a priori; the regulative faculty..

Apron :: Apron (n.) A flooring of plank before a dam to cause the water to make a gradual descent.

Wound :: Wound (n.) Fig.: An injury, hurt, damage, detriment, or the like, to feeling, faculty, reputation, etc..

Adamite :: Adamite (n.) One of a sect of visionaries, who, professing to imitate the state of Adam, discarded the use of dress in their assemblies..

Expense :: Expense (n.) That which is expended, laid out, or consumed; cost; outlay; charge; -- sometimes with the notion of loss or damage to those on whom the expense falls; as, the expenses of war; an expense of time..

Ablactation :: Ablactation (n.) The weaning of a child from the breast, or of young beasts from their dam..

Injury :: Injury (a.) Any damage or violation of, the person, character, feelings, rights, property, or interests of an individual; that which injures, or occasions wrong, loss, damage, or detriment; harm; hurt; loss; mischief; wrong; evil; as, his health was impaired by a severe injury; slander is an injury to the character..

Damsel :: Damsel (n.) A young unmarried woman; a girl; a maiden.

Pampero :: Pampero (n.) A violent wind from the west or southwest, which sweeps over the pampas of South America and the adjacent seas, often doing great damage..

Dame :: Dame (n.) A mother; -- applied to human beings and quadrupeds.

Element :: Element (n.) The simplest or fundamental principles of any system in philosophy, science, or art; rudiments; as, the elements of geometry, or of music..

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