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Originally appearing in Volume V07, Page 780 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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DAM  . (1) (A

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common
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Teutonic word, cf . Swed. and Ger. damm, and the
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Gothic verb faurdammjan, to
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block up), a barrier of
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earth or
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masonry erected to restrain, divert or contain a
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body of
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water, particularly in
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order to
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form a
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reservoir . (2) (Fr.
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dame, dame;
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Lat. domina, feminine of
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dominus,
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lord,
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master), the
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mother of an
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animal, now chiefly used of the larger quadrupeds, and particularly of a
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mare, the mother of a foal .

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