| damnation | 1. The state of being damned; condemnation; openly expressed disapprobation. 2. Condemnation to everlasting punishment in the future state, or the punishment itself. "How can ye escape the damnation of hell?" (Matt. Xxiii. 33) "Wickedness is sin, and sin is damnation." (Shak) 3. A sin daserving of everlasting punishment. "The deep damnation of his taking-off." (Shak) Origin: F. Damnation, L. Damnatio, fr. Damnare. See Damn. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| damourite | <chemical> A kind of Muscovite, or potash mica, containing water. Origin: Ater the French chemist Damour. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| damp | 1. Moisture; humidity; fog; fogginess; vapor. "Night . . . With black air Accompanied, with damps and dreadful gloom." (Milton) 2. Dejection; depression; cloud of the mind. "Even now, while thus I stand blest in thy presence, A secret damp of grief comes o'er my soul." (Addison) "It must have thrown a damp over your autumn excursion." (J. D. Forbes) 3. <chemical> A gaseous prodact, formed in coal mines, old wells, pints, etc. Choke damp, a damp consisting principally of carboni acid gas; so called from its extinguishing flame and animal life. See Carbonic acid, under Carbonic. Damp sheet, a curtain in a mine gallery to direct air currents and prevent accumulation of gas. Fire damp, a damp consisting chiefly of light carbureted hydrogen; so called from its tendence to explode when mixed with atmospheric air and brought into contact with flame. Origin: Akin to LG, D, & Dan. Damp vapor, steam, fog, G. Dampf, Icel. Dampi, Sw. Damb dust, and to MNG. Dimpfen to smoke, imp. Dampf. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| damping | Bringing a mechanism to rest with minimal oscillation; e.g., in echocardiography, electrical or mechanical loading to reduce duration of echo, transmitter pulse, and transmitter complex. Origin: M.E. Damp, poisonous vapor (05 Mar 2000) |
| damsel | 1. A young person, either male or female, of noble or gentle extraction; as, Damsel Pepin; Damsel Richard, Prince of Wales. 2. A young unmarried woman; a gerl; a maiden. "With her train of damsels she was gone, In shady walks the scorching heat to shum." (Dryden) "Sometimes a troop of damsels glad, . . . Goes by to towered Cameleot." (Tennyson) 3. An attachment to a millstone spindle for shaking the hoppe. Origin: OE. Damosel, damesel, damisel, damsel, fr. OF. Damoisele, damisele, gentlewoman, F. Demoiselle young lady; cf. OF. Damoisel young nobleman, F. Damoiseau; fr. LL. Domicella, dominicella, fem, domicellus, dominicellus, masc, dim. Fr. L. Domina, dominus. See Dame, and cf. Demoiselle, Doncella. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| damson | A small oval plum of a blue colour, the fruit of a variety of the Prunus domestica; called also damask plum. Origin: OE. Damasin the Damascus plum, fr. L. Damascenus. See Damascene. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| Damus-Kaye-Stancel procedure | A procedure for subaortic stenosis, entails the creation of an end-to-side pulmonary trunk/aortic anastomosis, performed along with a Fontan procedure, particularly for patients with a double inlet left ventricle. Synonym: Damus-Stancel-Kaye anastomosis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Damus-Stancel-Kaye anastomosis | A procedure for subaortic stenosis, entails the creation of an end-to-side pulmonary trunk/aortic anastomosis, performed along with a Fontan procedure, particularly for patients with a double inlet left ventricle. Synonym: Damus-Stancel-Kaye anastomosis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| dan | A title of honor equivalent to master, or sir. "Old Dan Geoffry, in gently spright The pure wellhead of poetry did dwell." (Spenser) "What time Dan Abraham left the Chaldee land." (Thomson) Origin: OE. Dan, danz, OF. Danz (prop. Only nom), dan, master, fr. L. Dominus. See Dame. <chemical> A small truck or sledge used in coal mines. Origin: Etymol. Uncertain. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| Dana's operation | Section of posterior spinal root. Synonym: Dana's operation. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Dana, Charles | <person> U.S. Neurologist, 1852-1935. See: Dana's operation, Putnam-Dana syndrome. (05 Mar 2000) |
| danaite | <chemical> A cobaltiferous variety of arsenopyrite. Origin: Named after J. Freeman Dana. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| danalite | <chemical> A mineral occuring in octahedral crystals, also massive, of a reddish colour. It is a silicate of iron, zinc manganese, and glicinum, containing sulphur. Origin: Named after James Dwight Dana. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| danazol | <drug> A synthetic androgen frequently prescribed for endometriosis. (09 Oct 1997) |
| danburite | <chemical> A borosilicate of lime, first found at Danbury, Conn. It is near the topaz in form. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |