Vocabulary : Dam to Damascene

Dam : A female parent; -- used of beasts, especially of quadrupeds; sometimes applied in contempt to a human mother. ;; A kind or crowned piece in the game of draughts. ;; 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. ;; A firebrick wall, or a stone, which forms the front of the hearth of a blast furnace. ;; 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. ;; To shut up; to stop up; to close; to restrain.
Damage : Injury or harm to person, property, or reputation; an inflicted loss of value; detriment; hurt; mischief. ;; 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. ;; To ocassion damage to the soudness, goodness, or value of; to hurt; to injure; to impair. ;; To receive damage or harm; to be injured or impaired in soudness or value; as. some colors in /oth damage in sunlight.
Damage feasant : Doing injury; trespassing, as cattle.
Damageable : Capable of being injured or impaired; liable to, or susceptible of, damage; as, a damageable cargo. ;; Hurtful; pernicious.
Damages : of Damage
Damaging : of Damage
Daman : 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 : See Dammar.
Damara : A native of Damaraland, German Southwest Africa. The Damaras include an important and warlike Bantu tribe, and the Hill Damaras, who are Hottentots and mixed breeds hostile to the Bantus.
Damascene : Of or relating to Damascus. ;; A kind of plume, now called damson. See Damson. ;; Same as Damask, or Damaskeen, v. t.
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