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Fur :: Fur (v. t.) To nail small strips of board or larger scantling upon, in order to make a level surface for lathing or boarding, or to provide for a space or interval back of the plastered or boarded surface, as inside an outer wall, by way of protection against damp..

Principal :: Principal (n.) A thing of chief or prime importance; something fundamental or especially conspicuous.

Paludamentum :: Paludamentum (n.) A military cloak worn by a general and his principal officers.

Stannary :: Stank (n.) A dam or mound to stop water.

Damascene :: Damascene (n.) A kind of plume, now called damson. See Damson..

Element :: Element (n.) Any outline or sketch, regarded as containing the fundamental ideas or features of the thing in question; as, the elements of a plan..

Damn :: Damn (v. t.) To condemn; to declare guilty; to doom; to adjudge to punishment; to sentence; to censure.

Adamantine :: Adamantine (a.) Like the diamond in hardness or luster.

Dampy :: Dampy (a.) Dejected; gloomy; sorrowful.

Theory :: Theory (n.) The philosophical explanation of phenomena, either physical or moral; as, Lavoisier's theory of combustion; Adam Smith's theory of moral sentiments..

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

Coffer :: Coffer (n.) The chamber of a canal lock; also, a caisson or a cofferdam..

Blank :: Blank (v. t.) To blanch; to make blank; to damp the spirits of; to dispirit or confuse.

Damnably :: Damnably (adv.) Odiously; detestably; excessively.

Damper :: Damper (n.) That which damps or checks; as: (a) A valve or movable plate in the flue or other part of a stove, furnace, etc., used to check or regulate the draught of air. (b) A contrivance, as in a pianoforte, to deaden vibrations; or, as in other pieces of mechanism, to check some action at a particular time..

Batardeau :: Batardeau (n.) A cofferdam.

Damningness :: Damningness (n.) Tendency to bring damnation.

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..

Hurter :: Hurter (n.) Injury; damage; detriment; harm; mischief.

Stuff :: Stuff (v. t.) The fundamental material of which anything is made up; elemental part; essence.

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