Part 2741

<h1>Dampish</h1> <Xpage=367>

<hw>Damp"ish</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Moderately damp or moist.</def>

-- <wordforms><wf>Damp"ish*ly</wf>, <tt>adv.</tt> -- <wf>Damp"ish*ness</wf>, <tt>n.</tt></wordforms>

<h1>Dampne</h1> <Xpage=367>

<hw>Damp"ne</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <def>To damn.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Chaucer.</i>

<h1>Dampness</h1> <Xpage=367>

<hw>Damp"ness</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>Moderate humidity; moisture; fogginess; moistness.</def>

<h1>Damp off</h1> <Xpage=367>

<hw>Damp" off`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>. <def>To decay and perish through excessive moisture.</def>

<h1>Dampy</h1> <Xpage=367>

<hw>Damp"y</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>Somewhat damp.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Drayton.</i>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Dejected; gloomy; sorrowful.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark> "Dispel <i>dampy</i> throughts."

<i>Haywards.</i>

<h1>Damsel</h1> <Xpage=367>

<hw>Dam"sel</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[OE. <ets>damosel</ets>, <ets>damesel</ets>, <ets>damisel</ets>, damsel, fr. OF. <ets>damoisele</ets>, <ets>damisele</ets>, gentlewoman, F. <ets>demoiselle</ets> young lady; cf. OF. <ets>damoisel</ets> young nobleman, F. <ets>damoiseau</ets>; fr. LL. <ets>domicella</ets>, <ets>dominicella</ets>, fem., <ets>domicellus</ets>, <ets>dominicellus</ets>, masc., dim. fr. L. <ets>domina</ets>, <ets>dominus</ets>. See <er>Dame</er>, and cf. <er>Demoiselle</er>, <er>Doncella</er>.]</ety>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>A young person, either male or female, of noble or gentle extraction; <as>as, <ex>Damsel</ex> Pepin; <ex>Damsel</ex> Richard, Prince of Wales.</as></def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>A young unmarried woman; a gerl; a maiden.</def>

<blockquote>With her train of <b>damsels</b> she was gone, In shady walks the scorching heat to shum. <i>Dryden.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>Sometimes a troop of <b>damsels</b> glad, . . . Goes by to towered Cameleot. <i>Tennyson.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <fld>(Milling)</fld> <def>An attachment to a millstone spindle for shaking the hoppe<?/.</def>

<h1>Damson</h1> <Xpage=367>

<hw>Dam"son</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[OE. <ets>damasin</ets> the Damascus plum, fr. L. Damascenus. See <er>Damascene</er>.]</ety> <def>A small oval plum of a blue color, the fruit of a variety of the <spn>Prunus domestica</spn>; -- called also <altname>damask plum</altname>.</def>

<h1>Dan</h1> <Xpage=367>

<hw>Dan</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[OE. <ets>dan</ets>, <ets>danz</ets>, OF. <ets>danz</ets> (prop. only nom.), <ets>dan</ets>, master, fr. L. <ets>dominus</ets>. See <er>Dame</er>.]</ety> <def>A title of honor equivalent to <i>master</i>, or <i>sir</i>.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<blockquote>Old <b>Dan</b> Geoffry, in gently spright The pure wellhead of poetry did dwell. <i>Spenser.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>What time <b>Dan</b> Abraham left the Chaldee land. <i>Thomson.</i></blockquote>