Definition of dam

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Dam (n.) A firebrick wall, or a stone, which forms the front of the hearth of a blast furnace..

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Exemplary :: Exemplary (a.) Serving as a warning; monitory; as, exemplary justice, punishment, or damages..
By-wash :: By-wash (n.) The outlet from a dam or reservoir; also, a cut to divert the flow of water..
Keynote :: Keynote (n.) The fundamental fact or idea; that which gives the key; as, the keynote of a policy or a sermon..
Vidame :: Vidame (n.) One of a class of temporal officers who originally represented the bishops, but later erected their offices into fiefs, and became feudal nobles..
In Commendam :: In commendam () See Commendam, and Partnership in Commendam, under Partnership..
Mesdames :: Mesdames (pl. ) of Madam.
Coffer :: Coffer (n.) The chamber of a canal lock; also, a caisson or a cofferdam..
Landamman :: Landamman (n.) The president of the diet of the Helvetic republic.
Answerable :: Answerable (a.) Obliged to answer; liable to be called to account; liable to pay, indemnify, or make good; accountable; amenable; responsible; as, an agent is answerable to his principal; to be answerable for a debt, or for damages..
Macadamize :: Macadamize (v. t.) To cover, as a road, or street, with small, broken stones, so as to form a smooth, hard, convex surface..
Damask :: Damask (n.) Linen so woven that a pattern in produced by the different directions of the thread, without contrast of color..
Key :: Key (n.) The fundamental tone of a movement to which its modulations are referred, and with which it generally begins and ends; keynote..
Damnably :: Damnably (adv.) In a manner to incur severe censure, condemnation, or punishment..
Abandon :: Abandon (v. t.) To relinquish all claim to; -- used when an insured person gives up to underwriters all claim to the property covered by a policy, which may remain after loss or damage by a peril insured against..
Se–ora :: Se–ora (n.) A Spanish title of courtesy given to a lady; Mrs.; Madam; also, a lady..
Diamantine :: Diamantine (a.) Adamantine.
Raw :: Raw (superl.) Disagreeably damp or cold; chilly; bleak; as, a raw wind..
Family :: Family (v. t.) The group comprising a husband and wife and their dependent children, constituting a fundamental unit in the organization of society..
Darn :: Darn (v. t.) A colloquial euphemism for Damn.
Boomdas :: Boomdas (n.) A small African hyracoid mammal (Dendrohyrax arboreus) resembling the daman.
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