Definition of dam

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Dam (v. t.) To obstruct or restrain the flow of, by a dam; to confine by constructing a dam, as a stream of water; -- generally used with in or up..

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Pile :: Pile (n.) A large stake, or piece of timber, pointed and driven into the earth, as at the bottom of a river, or in a harbor where the ground is soft, for the support of a building, a pier, or other superstructure, or to form a cofferdam, etc..
Endamnify :: Endamnify (v. t.) To damnify; to injure.
Tymp :: Tymp (n.) A hollow water-cooled iron casting in the upper part of the archway in which the dam stands.
Keynote :: Keynote (n.) The fundamental fact or idea; that which gives the key; as, the keynote of a policy or a sermon..
Harm :: Harm (n.) To hurt; to injure; to damage; to wrong.
Damiana :: Damiana (n.) A Mexican drug, used as an aphrodisiac..
Cosset :: Cosset (n.) A lamb reared without the aid of the dam. Hence: A pet, in general..
Rocket :: Rocket (n.) Damewort.
Commendator :: Commendator (n.) One who holds a benefice in commendam; a commendatary.
Homomorphy :: Homomorphy (n.) Similarity of form; resemblance in external characters, while widely different in fundamental structure; resemblance in geometric ground form. See Homophyly, Promorphology..
Annicut :: Annicut (n.) A dam or mole made in the course of a stream for the purpose of regulating the flow of a system of irrigation.
Wear :: Wear (n.) A dam in a river to stop and raise the water, for the purpose of conducting it to a mill, forming a fish pond, or the like..
Anchor :: Anchor (n.) Any instrument or contrivance serving a purpose like that of a ship's anchor, as an arrangement of timber to hold a dam fast; a contrivance to hold the end of a bridge cable, or other similar part; a contrivance used by founders to hold the core of a mold in place..
Rhadamanthus :: Rhadamanthus (n.) One of the three judges of the infernal regions; figuratively, a strictly just judge..
Bottom :: Bottom (a.) Of or pertaining to the bottom; fundamental; lowest; under; as, bottom rock; the bottom board of a wagon box; bottom prices..
Harm :: Harm (n.) Injury; hurt; damage; detriment; misfortune.
Daman :: Daman (n.) A small herbivorous mammal of the genus Hyrax. The species found in Palestine and Syria is Hyrax Syriacus; that of Northern Africa is H. Brucei; -- called also ashkoko, dassy, and rock rabbit. See Cony, and Hyrax..
Principle :: Principle (n.) A fundamental truth; a comprehensive law or doctrine, from which others are derived, or on which others are founded; a general truth; an elementary proposition; a maxim; an axiom; a postulate..
Imputation :: Imputation () A setting of something to the account of; the attribution of personal guilt or personal righteousness of another; as, the imputation of the sin of Adam, or the righteousness of Christ..
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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