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To decay and perish through excessive moisture.

To make damp or moist; to make slightly wet.

That which damps or checks; as: (a) A valve or movable plate in the flue or other part of a stove, furnace, etc., used to check or regulate the draught of air. (b) A contrivance, as in a pianoforte, to deaden vibrations; or, as in other pieces of mechanism, to check some action at a particular time. Nor did Sabrina's p…

Moderately damp or moist. -- Damp"ish*ly, adv. -- Damp"ish*ness, n.

To damn. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Moderate humidity; moisture; fogginess; moistness.

Somewhat damp. [Obs.] Drayton.

A young person, either male or female, of noble or gentle extraction; as, Damsel Pepin; Damsel Richard, Prince of Wales. [Obs.]

oval plum of a blue color, the fruit of a variety of the Prunus domestica; -- called also damask plum.

system of warfare . . . which had already converted immense tracts into one universal aceldama. De Quincey.

"Original sin;" human frailty. And whipped the offending Adam out of him. Shak. Adam's ale, water. [Coll.] -- Adam's apple.

See under Adam.

tical name for the embodiment of impenetrable hardness. Opposed the rocky orb Of tenfold adamant, his ample shield. Milton.

Of adamant; hard as adamant. Milton.

Made of adamant, or having the qualities of adamant; incapable of being broken, dissolved, or penetrated; as, adamantine bonds or chains.

Next to the ambulacra; as, the adambulacral ossicles of the starfish.

Of or pertaining to Adam, or resembling him. Adamic earth, a name given to common red clay, from a notion that Adam means red earth.

A descendant of Adam; a human being.

An irrespirable gas, remaining after an explosion of fire damp in mines; choke damp. See Carbonic acid.

A kind of movable dam, in one form consisting of two leaves resting against each other at the top when raised and folding down one over the other when lowered, for deepening shallow parts in a river.