Part 3530

<blockquote>Doleful <b>dumps</b> the mind oppress. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>I was musing in the midst of my <b>dumps</b>. <i>Bunyan.</i></blockquote>

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<note>&hand; The ludicrous associations now attached to this word did not originally belong to it. "Holland's translation of Livy represents the Romans as being `in the <i>dumps'</i> after the battle of Cann\'91."</note>

<i>Trench.</i>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Absence of mind; revery.</def>

<i>Locke.</i>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>A melancholy strain or tune in music; any tune.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark> "Tune a deploring <i>dump</i>." "Play me some merry <i>dump</i>."

<i>Shak.</i>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>An old kind of dance.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Nares.</i>

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<hw>Dump</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Dumped</er> <tt>(?)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Dumping</er>.]</wordforms> <ety>[OE. <ets>dumpen</ets> to throw down, fall down, cf. Icel. <ets>dumpa</ets> to thump, Dan. <ets>dumpe</ets> to fall suddenly, rush, dial. Sw. <ets>dimpa</ets> to fall down plump. Cf. <er>Dump</er> sadness.]</ety>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>To knock heavily; to stump.</def> <mark>[Prov. Eng.]</mark>

<i>Halliwell.</i>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To put or throw down with more or less of violence; hence, to unload from a cart by tilting it; <as>as, to <ex>dump</ex> sand, coal, etc.</as></def> <mark>[U.S.]</mark>

<i>Bartlett.</i>

<cs><mcol><col>Dumping car</col> &or; <col>cart</col></mcol>, <cd>a railway car, or a cart, the body of which can be tilted to empty the contents; -- called also <altname>dump car</altname>, or <altname>dump cart</altname>.</cd></cs>

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<hw>Dump</hw>, <tt>n.</tt>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>A car or boat for dumping refuse, etc.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>A ground or place for dumping ashes, refuse, etc.</def>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>That which is dumped.</def>

<p><b>4.</b> <fld>(Mining)</fld> <def>A pile of ore or rock.</def>

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<hw>Dump"age</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>The act of dumping loads from carts, especially loads of refuse matter; also, a heap of dumped matter.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>A fee paid for the privilege of dumping loads.</def>