Dump

[From dumb; Dan. dom, bell.] A dull, gloomy, morose state of the mind, in which one is disposed to be silent and reserved; despondency; melancholy; -generally used in the plural; as, she is in the dumps. "A college joke to cure the dumps."-Swift. IMG:content-0690.jpg:[graphic] of Paris. From this period the science of organic chem.