Dally (v. i.) To interchange caresses, especially with one of the opposite sex; to use fondling; to wanton; to sport.
Dally (v. t.) To delay unnecessarily; to while away.
Dalmania (n.) A genus of trilobites, of many species, common in the Upper Silurian and Devonian rocks.
Dalmanites (n.) Same as Dalmania.
Dalmatian (a.) Of or pertaining to Dalmatia.
Dalmatica (n.) Alt. of Dalmatic
Dalmatic (n.) A vestment with wide sleeves, and with two stripes, worn at Mass by deacons, and by bishops at pontifical Mass; -- imitated from a dress originally worn in Dalmatia.
Dalmatic (n.) A robe worn on state ocasions, as by English kings at their coronation.
Dal segno () A direction to go back to the sign / and repeat from thence to the close. See Segno.
Daltonian (n.) One afflicted with color blindness.
Daltonism (n.) Inability to perceive or distinguish certain colors, esp. red; color blindness. It has various forms and degrees. So called from the chemist Dalton, who had this infirmity.
Dam (n.) A female parent; -- used of beasts, especially of quadrupeds; sometimes applied in contempt to a human mother.
Dam (n.) A kind or crowned piece in the game of draughts.
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.
Dam (n.) A firebrick wall, or a stone, which forms the front of the hearth of a blast furnace.
Dammed (imp. & p. p.) of Dam
Damming (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dam
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.
Dam (v. t.) To shut up; to stop up; to close; to restrain.
Damage (n.) Injury or harm to person, property, or reputation; an inflicted loss of value; detriment; hurt; mischief.
Damage (n.) The estimated reparation in money for detriment or injury sustained; a compensation, recompense, or satisfaction to one party, for a wrong or injury actually done to him by another.
Damages (imp. & p. p.) of Damage
Damaging (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Damage
Damage (n.) To ocassion damage to the soudness, goodness, or value of; to hurt; to injure; to impair.
Damage (v. i.) To receive damage or harm; to be injured or impaired in soudness or value; as. some colors in /oth damage in sunlight.
Damageable (a.) Capable of being injured or impaired; liable to, or susceptible of, damage; as, a damageable cargo.
Damageable (a.) Hurtful; pernicious.
Damage feasant () Doing injury; trespassing, as cattle.
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.
Damar (n.) See Dammar.
Damascene (a.) Of or relating to Damascus.
Damascene (n.) A kind of plume, now called damson. See Damson.
Damascene (v. t.) Same as Damask, or Damaskeen, v. t.
Damascus (n.) A city of Syria.
Damask (n.) Damask silk; silk woven with an elaborate pattern of flowers and the like.
Damask (n.) Linen so woven that a pattern in produced by the different directions of the thread, without contrast of color.
Damask (n.) A heavy woolen or worsted stuff with a pattern woven in the same way as the linen damask; -- made for furniture covering and hangings.
Damask (n.) Damask or Damascus steel; also, the peculiar markings or "water" of such steel.
Damask (n.) A deep pink or rose color.
Damask (a.) Pertaining to, or originating at, the city of Damascus; resembling the products or manufactures of Damascus.
Damask (a.) Having the color of the damask rose.
Damasked (imp. & p. p.) of Damask
Damasking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Damask
Damask (v. t.) To decorate in a way peculiar to Damascus or attributed to Damascus; particularly: (a) with flowers and rich designs, as silk; (b) with inlaid lines of gold, etc., or with a peculiar marking or "water," as metal. See Damaskeen.
Damaskeen (v.) Alt. of Damasken
Damasken (v.) To decorate, as iron, steel, etc., with a peculiar marking or "water" produced in the process of manufacture, or with designs produced by inlaying or incrusting with another metal, as silver or gold, or by etching, etc., to damask.
Damaskin (n.) A sword of Damask steel.
Damasse (a.) Woven like damask.
Damasse (n.) A damasse fabric, esp. one of linen.
Damassin (n.) A kind of modified damask or brocade.
Dambonite (n.) A white, crystalline, sugary substance obtained from an African caoutchouc.
Dambose (n.) A crystalline variety of fruit sugar obtained from dambonite.
Dame (n.) A mistress of a family, who is a lady; a woman in authority; especially, a lady.
Dame (n.) The mistress of a family in common life, or the mistress of a common school; as, a dame's school.
Dame (n.) A woman in general, esp. an elderly woman.
Dame (n.) A mother; -- applied to human beings and quadrupeds.
Damewort (n.) A cruciferrous plant (Hesperis matronalis), remarkable for its fragrance, especially toward the close of the day; -- called also rocket and dame's violet.
Damiana (n.) A Mexican drug, used as an aphrodisiac.
Damianist (n.) A follower of Damian, patriarch of Alexandria in the 6th century, who held heretical opinions on the doctrine of the Holy Trinity.
Dammar (n.) Alt. of Dammara
Dammara (n.) An oleoresin used in making varnishes; dammar gum; dammara resin. It is obtained from certain resin trees indigenous to the East Indies, esp. Shorea robusta and the dammar pine.
Dammara (n.) A large tree of the order Coniferae, indigenous to the East Indies and Australasia; -- called also Agathis. There are several species.
Damned (imp. & p. p.) of Damn
Damning (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Damn
Damn (v. t.) To condemn; to declare guilty; to doom; to adjudge to punishment; to sentence; to censure.
Damn (v. t.) To doom to punishment in the future world; to consign to perdition; to curse.
Damn (v. t.) To condemn as bad or displeasing, by open expression, as by denuciation, hissing, hooting, etc.
Damn (v. i.) To invoke damnation; to curse.
Damnability (n.) The quality of being damnable; damnableness.
Damnable (a.) Liable to damnation; deserving, or for which one deserves, to be damned; of a damning nature.
Damnable (a.) Odious; pernicious; detestable.
Damnableness (n.) The state or quality of deserving damnation; execrableness.
Damnably (adv.) In a manner to incur severe censure, condemnation, or punishment.
Damnably (adv.) Odiously; detestably; excessively.
Damnation (n.) The state of being damned; condemnation; openly expressed disapprobation.
Damnation (n.) Condemnation to everlasting punishment in the future state, or the punishment itself.
Damnation (n.) A sin deserving of everlasting punishment.
Damnatory (a.) Dooming to damnation; condemnatory.
Damned (a.) Sentenced to punishment in a future state; condemned; consigned to perdition.
Damned (a.) Hateful; detestable; abominable.
Damnific (a.) Procuring or causing loss; mischievous; injurious.
Damnification (n.) That which causes damage or loss.
Damnify (v. t.) To cause loss or damage to; to injure; to impair.
Damning (a.) That damns; damnable; as, damning evidence of guilt.
Damningness (n.) Tendency to bring damnation.
damnum (n.) Harm; detriment, either to character or property.
Damosel (n.) Alt. of Damoiselle
Damosella (n.) Alt. of Damoiselle
Damoiselle (n.) See Damsel.
Damourite (n.) A kind of Muscovite, or potash mica, containing water.
Damp (n.) Moisture; humidity; fog; fogginess; vapor.
Damp (n.) Dejection; depression; cloud of the mind.
Damp (n.) A gaseous product, formed in coal mines, old wells, pints, etc.
Damp (superl.) Being in a state between dry and wet; moderately wet; moist; humid.
Damp (superl.) Dejected; depressed; sunk.
Damped (imp. & p. p.) of Damp
Damping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Damp
Damp (n.) To render damp; to moisten; to make humid, or moderately wet; to dampen; as, to damp cloth.
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.
Dampened (imp. & p. p.) of Dampen