Index of English words, starting with "da"

(1) - damnum (n.) Harm; detriment, either to character or property.

(1) - Damp (n.) To put out, as fire; to depress or deject; to deaden; to cloud; to check or restrain, as action or vigor; to make dull; to weaken; to discourage.
(2) - Damp (n.) To render damp; to moisten; to make humid, or moderately wet; to dampen; as, to damp cloth.
(3) - Damp (superl.) Dejected; depressed; sunk.
(4) - Damp (superl.) Being in a state between dry and wet; moderately wet; moist; humid.
(5) - Damp (n.) A gaseous product, formed in coal mines, old wells, pints, etc.
(6) - Damp (n.) Dejection; depression; cloud of the mind.
(7) - Damp (n.) Moisture; humidity; fog; fogginess; vapor.

(1) - Dampen (v. i.) To become damp; to deaden.
(2) - Dampen (v. t.) To depress; to check; to make dull; to lessen.
(3) - Dampen (v. t.) To make damp or moist; to make slightly wet.

(1) - Damper (n.) 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.

(1) - Damping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Damp