damı (dam)

t.; pret. and pp. dammed, ppr. damming. [Early mod. E. also damme; men = demma = Sw. dämma = Dan. dæmme, dam; all from the noun.] 1. To obstruct or restrain the flow of by a dam; confine or raise the level of by constructing a dam, as a stream of water: often with in, up. When you dam up a stream of water, as soon as the dam is full as much water must run over the dam-head as if there was no dam at all. Adam Smith , Wealth of Nations, iv. 5. 2. To confine or restrain as if with a dam; stop or shut up or in; obstruct: with up. You that would dam up your ears and harden your heart as iron against the unresistible cries of supplicants calling upon you for mercy,... should first imagine yourself in Hooker , Eccles. Polity, v. 61. their case. IMG:content-2006.jpg:[blocks in formation] Mas singer, Virgin-Martyr, ii. 3. To dam out, to prevent from entering, as water, by means of a dam. Fallow-deer ( Dama platy ceros ). * 2. That may be injured or impaired; susceptible of damage: as, damageable goods. damage-cleert, n. [ML. damn a clericorum, damages of the clerks: see damnum and cleric, clerk.] In Eng. law, a fee formerly paid in the Courts of Common Pleas, King's Bench, and Exchequer, in certain cases where damages were recovered in those courts.