Definition of dam

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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..

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Suckle :: Sucking (a.) Drawing milk from the mother or dam; hence, colloquially, young, inexperienced, as, a sucking infant; a sucking calf..
Physicist :: Physicist (n.) A believer in the theory that the fundamental phenomena of life are to be explained upon purely chemical and physical principles; -- opposed to vitalist.
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..
Homotype :: Homotype (n.) That which has the same fundamental type of structure with something else; thus, the right arm is the homotype of the right leg; one arm is the homotype of the other, etc..
Rib :: Rib (n.) A wife; -- in allusion to Eve, as made out of Adam's rib..
Damar :: Damar (n.) See Dammar.
Damask :: Damask (n.) A deep pink or rose color.
Washy :: Washy (a.) Watery; damp; soft.
Damn :: Damn (v. t.) To doom to punishment in the future world; to consign to perdition; to curse.
Tymp :: Tymp (n.) A hollow water-cooled iron casting in the upper part of the archway in which the dam stands.
Damageable :: Damageable (a.) Capable of being injured or impaired; liable to, or susceptible of, damage; as, a damageable cargo..
Damp :: Damp (n.) To put out, as fire; to depress or deject; to deaden; to cloud; to check or restrain, as action or vigor; to make dull; to weaken; to discourage..
Constitution :: Constitution (n.) The fundamental, organic law or principles of government of men, embodied in written documents, or implied in the institutions and usages of the country or society; also, a written instrument embodying such organic law, and laying down fundamental rules and principles for the conduct of affairs..
Stepdaughter :: Stepdame (n.) A stepmother.
Damnably :: Damnably (adv.) Odiously; detestably; excessively.
Well :: Well (v. i.) An inclosure in the middle of a vessel's hold, around the pumps, from the bottom to the lower deck, to preserve the pumps from damage and facilitate their inspection..
Damnation :: Damnation (n.) A sin deserving of everlasting punishment.
Waterwork :: Waterwork (n.) An hydraulic apparatus, or a system of works or fixtures, by which a supply of water is furnished for useful or ornamental purposes, including dams, sluices, pumps, aqueducts, distributing pipes, fountains, etc.; -- used chiefly in the plural..
Dame :: Dame (n.) A woman in general, esp. an elderly woman..
Disprofit :: Disprofit (n.) Loss; damage.
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