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thority; especially, a lady. Then shall these lords do vex me half so much, As that proud dame, the lord protector's wife. Shak.

able for its fragrance, especially toward the close of the day; -- called also rocket and dame's violet. Loudon.

Grandmother; -- corresponding to belsire. To show the beldam daughters of her daughter. Shak.

Foundation. [Obs.] Chaucer.

e: Essential, as an element, principle, or law; important; original; elementary; as, a fundamental truth; a fundamental axiom. The fundamental reasons of this war. Shak. Some fundamental antithesis in nature. Whewell. Fundamental bass (Mus.), the root note of a chord; a bass formed of the roots or fundamental tones of…

ly; originally; essentially; radically; at the foundation; in origin or constituents. "Fundamentally defective." Burke.

See Forkbeard.

A fabulous sea monster. [Obs.] Spenser.

My lady; -- a French title formerly given to ladies of quality; now, in France, given to all married women. Chaucer.

pl. of Madame and Madam.

of, pertaining to, or baring, eggs or egg capsules; as, the nidament capsules of certain gastropods; nidamental glands. See Illust. of Dibranchiata.

See Paludamentum.

Antiq.) A military cloak worn by a general and his principal officers.

A schoolmistress.

A stepmother. Spenser.

The game of nineholes. [Written also trolmydames.] [Obs.] Shak.

One of a class of temporal officers who originally represented the bishops, but later erected their offices into fiefs, and became feudal nobles.

Applied to one of the cases of the noun in Latin and some other languages, -- the fundamental meaning of the case being removal, separation, or taking away.

ng with; -- followed by with or by; as, he accompanied his speech with a bow. The Persian dames, . . . In sumptuous cars, accompanied his march. Glover. They are never alone that are accompanied with noble thoughts. Sir P. Sidney. He was accompanied by two carts filled with wounded rebels. Macaulay.…

Pertaining to Aphrodite or Venus. "Aphrodisian dames" [that is, courtesans]. C. Reade.