Definition of dam

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Dam (v. t.) To shut up; to stop up; to close; to restrain.

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Hurter :: Hurter (n.) Injury; damage; detriment; harm; mischief.
Landamman :: Landamman (n.) The president of the diet of the Helvetic republic.
Damsel :: Damsel (n.) An attachment to a millstone spindle for shaking the hopper.
Standstill :: Standpoint (n.) A fixed point or station; a basis or fundamental principle; a position from which objects or principles are viewed, and according to which they are compared and judged..
Hake''s-dame :: Hake's-dame (n.) See Forkbeard.
Damianist :: Damianist (n.) A follower of Damian, patriarch of Alexandria in the 6th century, who held heretical opinions on the doctrine of the Holy Trinity..
Damourite :: Damourite (n.) A kind of Muscovite, or potash mica, containing water..
Damage Feasant :: Damage feasant () Doing injury; trespassing, as cattle..
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..
Quidam :: Quidam (n.) Somebody; one unknown.
Family :: Family (v. t.) The group comprising a husband and wife and their dependent children, constituting a fundamental unit in the organization of society..
Average :: Average (n.) A contribution to a loss or charge which has been imposed upon one of several for the general benefit; damage done by sea perils.
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..
Underwrite :: Underwrite (v. t.) To subscribe one's name to for insurance, especially for marine insurance; to write one's name under, or set one's name to, as a policy of insurance, for the purpose of becoming answerable for loss or damage, on consideration of receiving a certain premium per cent; as, individuals, as well as companies, may underwrite policies of insurance..
Plastin :: Plastin (n.) A substance associated with nuclein in cell nuclei, and by some considered as the fundamental substance of the nucleus..
Rib :: Rib (n.) A wife; -- in allusion to Eve, as made out of Adam's rib..
Assumpsit :: Assumpsit (n.) An action to recover damages for a breach or nonperformance of a contract or promise, express or implied, oral or in writing not under seal. Common or indebitatus assumpsit is brought for the most part on an implied promise. Special assumpsit is founded on an express promise or undertaking..
Sufferable :: Suffer (v. i.) To be injured; to sustain loss or damage.
Columbium :: Columbium (n.) A rare element of the vanadium group, first found in a variety of the mineral columbite occurring in Connecticut, probably at Haddam. Atomic weight 94.2. Symbol Cb or Nb. Now more commonly called niobium..
Dank :: Dank (a.) Damp; moist; humid; wet.
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