dam2 (dam)

[ Faithle ! forsworn! ne godde was thy dam ! Surrey, Eneid, iv. 477. What, all my pretty chickens, and their dam , At one fell swoop? Shak ., Macbeth, iv. 3. This brat is none of mine;. Hence with it, and, together with the dam , Commit them to the fire. Shak ., W. T., ii. 3. The lost lamb at her feet Sent out a bitter bleating for its dam . Tennyson , Prince , iv. dam3 (dam), n . [See dams .] A crowned man in the game of draughts or checkers. [Local, Eng.] Dama (dā'mä), n . [NL., dāma , damma , a dam arete i on damage (dam'āj), v.; pret. and pp. damaged, ppr. damaging. [Early mod. E. also dammage; When bot he the armyes were approachyng to the other, the aud in a unce shot so terribly and with suche a violence that it sore dammaged and encombred bot he the parties. Hall, Hen. VII., an. 3. It stands me much upon To stop all hopes whose growth may damage me. Shak., Rich. III., iv. 2. II. in trans. To receive damage or injury; be injured or impaired in soundne or value: as, a freshly cut crop will damage in a mow or stack. damageable (dam'āj-a-bl), a . [ damage able , do mage able , F. dom mage able , damagier , damage: see damage , v ., and -able.] 1. Hurtful; pernicious; damaging. [Rare.] The other denied it, because it would be damageable Camden, Elizabeth, an. 1588. blindne . See daltonism. They have since experimented with four Dalton i ans , or color-blind persons. Pop . Sci . Mo. , XX. 143. daltonism (dâl'ton-izm), n. [From John Dal ton , the chemist, who suffered from this defect.] Color-blindne . In those persons who are troubled with Daltonism , or colour-blindne , luminous undulations so different as those of red and green awaken feelings that are identical. J. Fiske , Cosmic Philos., I. 17. Dalton's law. See law.