Part 2737

<hw>Dame</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[F. <ets>dame</ets>, LL. <ets>domna</ets>, fr. L. <ets>domina</ets> mistress, lady, fem. of <ets>dominus</ets> master, ruler, lord; akin to <ets>domare</ets> to tame, subdue. See <er>Tame</er>, and cf. <er>Dam<?/</er> mother, <er>Dan</er>, <er>Danger</er>, <er>Dangeon</er>, Dungeon, <er>Dominie</er>, <er>Don</er>, <tt>n.</tt>, <er>Duenna</er>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>A mistress of a family, who is a lady; a womam in authority; especially, a lady.</def>

<blockquote>Then shall these lords do vex me half so much, As that proud <b>dame</b>, the lord protector's wife. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>The mistress of a family in common life, or the mistress of a common school; <as>as, a <ex>dame's</ex> school</as>.</def>

<blockquote>In the <b>dame's</b> classes at the village school.

<i>Emerson.</i>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>A woman in general, esp. an elderly woman.</def>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>A mother; -- applied to human beings and quadrupeds.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Chaucer.</i>

<h1>Damewort</h1> <Xpage=364>

<hw>Dame"wort`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <fld>(Bot.)</fld> <def>A cruciferrous plant (<spn>Hesperis matronalis</spn>), remarkable for its fragrance, especially toward the close of the day; -- called also <altname>rocket</altname> and <altname>dame's violet</altname>.</def>

<i>Loudon.</i>

<h1>Damiana</h1> <Xpage=364>

<hw>Da`mi*a"na</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[NL.; of uncertain origin.]</ety> <fld>(Med.)</fld> <def>A Mexican drug, used as an aphrodisiac.</def>

<note>&hand; There are several varieties derived from different plants, esp. from a species of <spn>Turnera</spn> and from <spn>Bigelovia veneta</spn>.

<i>Wood & Bache.</i> </note>

<h1>Damianist</h1> <Xpage=364>

<hw>Da"mi*an*ist</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <fld>(Eccl. Hist.)</fld> <def>A follower of Damian, patriarch of Alexandria in the 6th century, who held heretical opinions on the doctrine of the Holy Trinity.</def>

<h1>Dammar, Dammara</h1> <Xpage=364>

<hw><hw>Dam"mar</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <hw>Dam"ma*ra</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>,<hw> <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Jav. & Malay. <ets>damar</ets>.]</ety> <def>An oleoresin used in making varnishes; dammar gum; dammara resin. It is obtained from certain resin trees indigenous to the East Indies, esp. <spn>Shorea robusta</spn> and the dammar pine.</def>

<cs><col>Dammar pine</col>, <fld>(Bot.)</fld>, <cd>a tree of the Moluccas (<spn>Agathis, &or; Dammara, orientalis</spn>), yielding dammar.</cd></cs>

<h1>Dammara</h1> <Xpage=364>

<hw>Dam"ma*ra</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <fld>(Bot.)</fld> <def>A large tree of the order <spn>Conifer\'91</spn>, indigenous to the East Indies and Australasia; -- called also <altname>Agathis</altname>. There are several species.</def>

<h1>Damn</h1> <Xpage=364>

<hw>Damn</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Damned</er> <tt>(?)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Damning</er> <tt>(?)</tt>.]</wordforms> <ety>[OE. <ets>damnen</ets> da<?/pnen (with excrescent <ets>p</ets>), OF. <ets>damner</ets>, <ets>dampner</ets>, F. <ets>damner</ets>, fr. L. <ets>damnare</ets>, <ets>damnatum</ets>, to condemn, fr. <ets>damnum</ets> damage, a fine, penalty. Cf. <er>Condemn</er>, <er>Damage</er>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>To condemn; to declare guilty; to doom; to adjudge to punishment; to sentence; to censhure.</def>

<blockquote>He shall not live; look, with a spot I <b>damn</b> him. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <fld>(Theol.)</fld> <def>To doom to punishment in the future world; to consign to perdition; to curse.</def>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>To condemn as bad or displeasing, by open expression, as by denuciation, hissing, hooting, etc.</def>

<blockquote>You are not so arrant a critic as to <b>damn</b> them [the works of modern poets] . . . without hearing. <i>Pope.</i></blockquote>