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<hw>Dam"age</hw>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Damages</er> <tt>(?)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Damaging</er> <tt>(?)</tt>.]</wordforms> <ety>[Cf. OF. <ets>damagier</ets>, <ets>domagier</ets>. See <er>Damage</er>, <tt>n.</tt>]</ety> <def>To ocassion damage to the soudness, goodness, or value of; to hurt; to injure; to impair.</def>

<blockquote>He . . . came up to the English admiral and gave him a broadside, with which he killed many of his men and <b>damaged</b> the ship. <i>Clarendon.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Damage</h1> <Xpage=364>

<hw>Dam"age</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <def>To receive damage or harm; to be injured or impaired in soudness or value; as. some colors in <?/oth <i>damage</i> in sunlight.</def>

<h1>Damageable</h1> <Xpage=364>

<hw>Dam"age*a*ble</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[Cf. OF. <ets>dammageable</ets>, for sense 2.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>Capable of being injured or impaired; liable to, or susceptible of, damage; <as>as, a <ex>damageable</ex> cargo</as>.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Hurtful; pernicious.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark>

<blockquote>That it be not <b>demageable</b> unto your royal majesty. <i>Hakluit.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Damage feasant</h1> <Xpage=364>

<hw>Dam"age fea`sant</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>. <ety>[OF. <ets>damage</ets> + F. <ets>faisant</ets> doing, p. pr. See <er>Feasible</er>.]</ety> <fld>(Law)</fld> <def>Doing injury; trespassing, as cattle.</def>

<i>Blackstone.</i>

<h1>Daman</h1> <Xpage=364>

<hw>Da"man</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld> <def>A small herbivorous mammal of the genus <spn>Hyrax</spn>. The species found in Palestine and Syria is <spn>Hyrax Syriacus</spn>; that of Northern Africa is <spn>H. Brucei</spn>; -- called also <altname>ashkoko</altname>, <altname>dassy</altname>, and <altname>rock rabbit</altname>. See <er>Cony</er>, and <er>Hyrax</er>.</def>

<h1>Damar</h1> <Xpage=364>

<hw>Dam"ar</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>See <er>Dammar</er>.</def>

<h1>Damascene</h1> <Xpage=364>

<hw>Dam"as*cene</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>Damascenus</ets> of Damascus, fr. <ets>Damascus</ets> the city, Gr. <ets><?/</ets>. See <er>Damask</er>, and cf. <er>Damaskeen</er>, <er>Damaskin</er>, <er>Damson</er>.]</ety> <def>Of or relating to Damascus.</def>

<h1>Damascene</h1> <Xpage=364>

<hw>Dam"as*cene</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>A kind of plume, now called <altname>damson</altname>. See <er>Damson</er>.</def>

<h1>Damascene</h1> <Xpage=364>

<hw>Dam"as*cene</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <def>Same as <er>Damask</er>, or <er>Damaskeen</er>, <tt>v. t. </tt></def> "<i>Damascened</i> armor." <i>Beaconsfield</i>. "Cast and <i>damascened</i> steel." <i>Ure</i>.

<h1>Damascus</h1> <Xpage=364>

<hw>Da*mas"cus</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[L.]</ety> <def>A city of Syria.</def>

<cs><col>Damascus blade</col>, <cd>a sword or scimiter, made chiefly at Damascus, having a variegated appearance of watering, and proverbial for excellence.</cd> -- <mcol><col>Damascus iron</col>, &or; <col>Damascus twist</col></mcol>, <cd>metal formed of thin bars or wires of iron and steel elaborately twisted and welded together; used for making gun barrels, etc., of high quality, in which the surface, when polished and acted upon by acid, has a damasc appearance.</cd> -- <col>Damascus steel</col>. <cd>See <cref>Damask steel</cref>, under <er>Damask</er>, <tt>a.</tt></cd></cs>

<h1>Damask</h1> <Xpage=364>

<hw>Dam"ask</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[From the city <ets>Damascus</ets>, L. <ets>Damascus</ets>, Gr. <ets><?/</ets>, Heb. <ets>Dammesq</ets>, Ar. <ets>Daemeshq</ets>; cf. Heb. <ets>d'meseq</ets> damask; cf. It. <ets>damasco</ets>, Sp. <ets>damasco</ets>, F. <ets>damas</ets>. Cf. <er>Damascene</er>, <er>Damass\'90</er>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>Damask silk; silk woven with an elaborate pattern of flowers and the like.</def> "A bed of ancient <i>damask</i>."

<i>W. Irving.</i>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Linen so woven that a pattern in produced by the different directions of the thread, without contrast of color.</def>