damn.1
/dam/, U.S. /dæm/ 1.
a. A bank or barrier of earth, masonry, etc., constructed across a stream to obstruct its flow and raise its level, so as to make it available for turning a mill-wheel or for other purposes; a similar work constructed to confine water so as to form a pond or reservoir, or to protect land from being flooded.
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the world > the earth > water > lake > pool > [noun] > artificially confined water > contrivance for impounding water > dam
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c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 113 Dame, or hye bankys (K. dam or heybanck), agger.
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 212/1 Damme of a myll, escluse.
1626 T. Hawkins tr. N. Caussin Holy Court I. 525 As a Torrent, which after it hath a long tyme been restrayned, breaketh the forced dammes, and..drowneth the fields.
c1630 T. Risdon Chorogr. Surv. Devon (1714) II. 152 Whose House was called Hemeanton, now Weare, by Reason of certain Damps. which we call Weares.
1650 H. Brooke Υγιεινη 93 Banks and Dambs.
1841 M. Elphinstone Hist. India II. vi. iii. 71 50 dams across rivers, to promote irrigation.
1842 Ld. Tennyson Miller's Daughter (rev. ed.) in Poems (new ed.) I. 107 The sleepy pool above the dam, The Pool beneath it never still.
b. The barrier constructed in a stream by beavers.
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1748 F. Smith Voy. Discov. N.W. Passage 139 The Plenty of Water was..owing to its being kept up by Dams, the work of the Beavers; which..had also built a House on the side of this Creek.
1834 H. McMurtrie tr. G. Cuvier Animal Kingdom (abridged ed.) 89 Beavers..keep the water at an equal height, by dams composed of branches of trees, mixed with clay and stones.
1875 W. D. Whitney Life & Growth Lang. xiv. 290 Building a particular style of shelter, as the beaver its dam.
c. A causeway through fens.
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society > travel > means of travel > route or way > other means of passage or access > [noun] > causeway across water or bog
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1812 G. Crabbe Tales x. 178 When next appear'd a dam,—so call the place,—Where lies a road confin'd in narrow space..on either side Is level fen.
d. figurative.
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the world > action or operation > difficulty > hindrance > [noun] > one who or that which hinders > a hindrance, impediment, or obstacle
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1602 J. Marston Antonios Reuenge v. iii. sig. I3 The States of Venice..Like high-swoln floods, driue down the muddie dammes Of pent allegeance.
1642 D. Rogers Naaman 528 To keep up the damme of their owne consciences from breaking in upon them.
a1711 T. Ken Hymnotheo in Wks. (1721) III. 138 Thou down the sensual Dam dost throw, Which made me stagnate here below.
2.
a. The body of water confined by a dam or embankment. (Now local, Yorkshire, etc.)
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the world > the earth > water > lake > pool > [noun] > artificially confined water
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pen pond1904
a1340 R. Rolle Psalter 509 Þe dam of waters [L. gurges aquarum].
1391 Selby Cartulary (Yorks. Archæol. Soc.) I. 4 Indentura..de Stagno vocato le Damme [Selby Dam].
14.. in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 736/29 Hoc stangnum, a dame.
c1400 (?c1380) Patience l. 312 Þy stryuande stremez..In on daschande dam, dryuez me ouer.
c1530 Remedy of Love xxxv Wer..All water ynke in damme or in flood.
1621 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy iii. iv. i. i. 719 As a damme of water stopt in one place, breakes out in another.
1857 D. Livingstone Missionary Trav. S. Afr. v. 103 The industry of the Boers augurs well for future formation of dams and tanks.
c1869 Gatty Hunter's Hallamshire ix. 186 (note) Several of the smaller dams at Crook's Moor [Sheffield] were filled up in 1839..The large dams are still made use of by the company.
1878 A. K. Johnston Africa 380 Wherever there is a homestead, there is generally a water ‘dam’, with an orchard and garden.
1888 S. O. Addy Gloss. Words Sheffield Dam, a piece of water impounded by damming up a stream.
1892 K. Lentzner Austral. Word-bk. 19 Dam (up-country), a pond for watering cattle..made by throwing up a bank across a hollow or little gully.
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b. In south of Scotland, the stream of water from a weir or pond, which drives a mill; a mill-race; tail-dam, a tail-race. (The dam in sense 1 is a ‘cauld’.)
3. A flat land from which water is drained off and excluded. local.
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the world > food and drink > farming > farm > farmland > land suitable for cultivation > [noun] > reclaimed or improved land
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1629 tr. S. Pelegromius Descr. S'hertogenbosh 13 It lyeth as it were in a Myre, hauing on the one side a small moore or damp.
1800 in G. C. Davies Norfolk Broads (1884) xv. 107 Tame and meadowed flats, here called dams, between Yarmouth and Norwich, producing turf, peat, furze, flag and sedge.
4.
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a. Mining. A partition of boards, masonry, etc. in a mine to keep out water, fire, or gas.
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b. Smelting. (See quot. 1881.)
c. floating dam: †(a) = camel n. 2a; (b) ‘a caisson used instead of gates for a dry-dock’ (Smyth Sailor's Word-bk.).
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment for moving ship over bar or shoal > [noun] > apparatus giving increased buoyancy
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camel1716
caisson1811
camel-engine186.
float-case1874
1706 London Gaz. No. 4262/3 A Machine, termed a Floating-Damm, whereby he is capable of carrying Barges..over..Shallows.
1881 Trans. Amer. Inst. Mining Engineers 1880–1 9 125 Dam... The wall of refractory material, forming the front of the fore-hearth of a blast furnace. It is built on the inside of a supporting iron plate (dam-plate).
d. A reservoir or tank, as of loam and brick construction, in which metal is collected for heavy castings.
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1874 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. I. 674/2 Dam,..2. Of a blast-furnace. See Dam-plate.
1880 Encycl. Brit. XIII. 299/2 The tymp arch usually projects a little forward from the earth wall, constituting the ‘fore hearth’, at the base of the front of which is the dam, a block of stone or mass of firebrick pierced by a vertical cavity..through which the molten pig iron is drawn off from time to time.
e. In full rubber dam. A sheet of soft rubber pierced with one or more holes and fitted in the mouth so as to protect the exposed tooth or teeth from saliva while a filling or other operation is done; also (without an article), rubber in the form used for this purpose. Chiefly U.S.It was invented by S. C. Barnum, of New York, in 1864.
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1872 L. P. Meredith Teeth 117 By the use of the rubber-dam inconvenience and unsuccessful operations may be avoided.
1908 G. E. Hunt in C. N. Johnson Text-bk. Oper. Dentistry ix. 146 For operations on the anterior six teeth a triangular shaped piece of dam will be found both efficient and economical.
1927 J. D. H. Jamieson Oper. Dentistry iii. 30 It is used in the form of strips of rubberdam.
1927 J. D. H. Jamieson Oper. Dentistry iii. 33 Rubberdam is supplied in three grades of thickness.
1940 S. D. Tylman Theory & Pract. Crown & Bridge Prosthesis xxiii. 284 In those patients whose flow of saliva is copious, much time may be saved by the use of a rubber dam.
1969 R. E. McDonald Dentistry for Child & Adolescent x. 176/2 A few explanatory words and referral to the rubber dam as a ‘raincoat’ for the tooth or as a ‘Halloween mask’ will invariably allay the child's fear.
f. A soft rubber guard to protect a tooth from saliva while it is being prepared for filling. U.S.
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1875 Dental Cosmos 17 514 The next step is the application of the ‘rubber dam’ to the four teeth.
Compounds
dam-head n. Scottish a weir or cauld on a river for diverting the water into a mill-race.
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the world > the earth > water > lake > pool > [noun] > artificially confined water > contrivance for impounding water > weir > types of
mill weirlOE
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1762 D. Wark in Philos. Trans. 1761 (Royal Soc.) 52 2 Locks and dam-heads might be raised..by the help of furze.
1776 A. Smith Inq. Wealth of Nations II. iv. v. 96 As much water must run over the dam-head as if there was no dam at all.
1820 W. Scott Monastery I. v. 181 A strong wier or dam-head, running across the river.
dam-plate n. (see sense 4b).
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1881 Trans. Amer. Inst. Mining Engineers 1880–1 9 126 Dam-plate, the plate upon the dam-stone or front stone of the bottom of a blast furnace.
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1540 Sc. Acts Jas. V (1814) 37 The dene of Logy, dame and damsched tharof, and thair pertinentis.
dam-stone n. (see sense 4b).
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1881 [see dam-plate n.].
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damn.2
/dam/, U.S. /dæm/ΘΚΠ
society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabitant > inhabitant by type of accommodation > [noun] > inhabitant of house > mistress of household
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society > society and the community > social class > nobility > title > title or form of address for persons of rank > [noun] > for woman of rank > prefixed to name
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La1869
1297 R. Gloucester's Chron. (Rolls) 11732 Dam Maud þe Mortimer.
1340 R. Rolle Pricke of Conscience 1273 Dam fortone..turnes about ay hir whele.
c1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) Pref. Epist. Jerome vi. 67/1 The olde chaterynge damme.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 2312 Melcha, loth, and dam sarra.
c1430 Hymns Virg. 3 (Mätz.) Þou deintiest damme.
2. † b. the devil and his dam; the devil's dam, applied opprobriously to a woman. Obsolete.
a. A female parent (of animals, now usually of quadrupeds). Correlative to sire.
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the world > animals > family unit > [noun] > female > parent
mothereOE
damc1320
damec1320
c1320 tr. J. Bonaventura Medit. 286 As chekenes crepyn vndyr þe dame wyng.
1486 Bk. St. Albans E iv a A fawne sowkyng on his dam.
?1530 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Husbandry (rev. ed.) f. xxxv A sandy colte..neyther lyke syre nor dame.
1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 466 The duckling the first day [can] swim in the water with his dam.
1665 R. Hooke Micrographia 216 I have observed the young ones of some Spiders have almost kept the same proportion to their Dam.
1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Pastorals i, in tr. Virgil Wks. 2 So Kids and Whelps their Syres and Dams express.
1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth III. 25 Calves..taken from the dam in a savage state.
1834 R. Mudie Feathered Tribes Brit. Islands I. 300 And when the dam [robin] leaves her eggs.
1870 W. C. Bryant tr. Homer Iliad I. v. 162 Two young lions, nourished by their dam.
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1393 W. Langland Piers Plowman C. xxi. 284 Rys vp ragamoffyn and reche me alle þe barres, That belial þy bel-syre beot with þy damme.
?1548 J. Bale Comedy Thre Lawes Nature iii. sig. Dv The deuyll or hys dam.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Comedy of Errors (1623) iv. iii. 52 Ant. It is the diuell. S. Dro. Nay, she is worse, she is the diuels dam. View more context for this quotation
1707 J. Stevens tr. F. de Quevedo Comical Wks. 405 Such Words and Sayings are a Discredit to your self, and a Scandle to the Beauty of our Language; as for Instance..the Devil and his Dam.
1783 Ainsworth's Thes. Linguæ Latinæ (new ed.) ii Trivenefica, a great witch, a devil's dam.
3. = Mother (human): usually in contempt.
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society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > parent > mother > [noun]
mothereOE
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a1547 Earl of Surrey tr. Virgil Fourth Bk. Aeneas (1554) iv. sig. Ciii Thy dame ne Goddes was [L. nec tibi Diva parens].
1606 N. Breton Choice, Chance, & Change sig. I3v His Dad a Tinker, and his Dam a Tit.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Winter's Tale (1623) ii. iii. 95 This Brat is none of mine..Hence with it, and together with the Dam, Commit them to the fire. View more context for this quotation
1801 ‘P. Pindar’ Tears & Smiles 72 And said, that George allow'd his Dam But thirty pounds a year.
4. figurative.
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the world > existence and causation > causation > source or origin > [noun]
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c1540 Pilgrim's Tale 116 in F. Thynne Animaduersions (1875) App. i. 80 As we be taught of the churche our dam.
1594 R. Barnfield Affectionate Shepheard ii. liv. sig. Dijv Ignorance..the Damme of Errour.
1628 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy (ed. 3) iii. iv. i. ii. 585 That high Priest of Rome, the damme of that monstrous and superstitious brood.
1892 R. Kipling Barrack-room Ballads 80 What dam of lances brought thee forth to jest..with Death?
Compounds
In combinations.
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1606 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. (new ed.) ii. iii. 152 Dam-Murdering Vipers, Monsters in-humane.
1622 J. Boys Wks. 936 As the carefull Dam-bird [loves] her unfeathered brood.
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damn.3
/dam/, U.S. /dæm/, Scottish English /dam/ Chiefly Scottish.
Each of the pieces in the game of draughts or checkers (obsolete); plural the game itself.Apparently in early times a piece, pawn, or ‘man’ in various games. Dame is given by Cotgrave 1611 as ‘also, a man at Tables or Draughts’, and dames is the name of Draughts in Rabelais; Florio 1598 has Italian ‘dame, men to play at tables or chesse with’.
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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > board game > draughts > [noun]
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chequers1838
1580 C. Hollyband Treasurie French Tong Le jeu des Merelles, the playe of dammes. [ Cotgr. ‘Le Jeu des merelles, the boyish game called Merills, or fiue-pennie Morris; played here most commonly with stones, but in France with pawnes, or men made of purpose, and tearmed Merelles.’]
1653 T. Urquhart tr. F. Rabelais 1st Bk. Wks. xxii. 94 There he played..at the Dames or draughts.
1814 C. I. Johnstone Saxon & Gaël I. 94 (Jam.) After playing twa or three games at the dams.
1828 N. Webster Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. Dam..3. a crowned man in the game of draughts.
1870 E. B. Ramsay Reminisc. Sc. Life (ed. 18) vi. 246 Dams were the pieces with which the game of draughts was played.
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† damdampn.4
Obsolete.c1386 G. Chaucer Nun's Priest's Prol. (Harl.) 26 Wherfor sir monk, damp Pieres by ȝour name.1490 W. Caxton tr. Foure Sonnes of Aymon (1885) xvi. 382 ‘Damp emperour,’ sayd thenne the duke naymes.1490 W. Caxton tr. Foure Sonnes of Aymon (1885) ix. 201 Damp bysshop, ye be welcom.1490 W. Caxton tr. Foure Sonnes of Aymon (1885) ix. 199 They met wyth damp Rambault, the free knyght.
Lord; as a prefix = Sir, Master. Cf. Dan n.1
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society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > lord > [noun]
lordOE
lordingOE
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flaith1861
flath1873
society > society and the community > social class > nobility > title > title or form of address for persons of rank > [noun] > for a lord
lordOE
damc1300
society > society and the community > social class > nobility > title > title or form of address for persons of rank > [noun] > for a lord > prefixed to a name
damc1300
c1300 Havelok (Laud) (1868) 2468 He knew, þe swike dam, Euerildel god was him gram.
c1375 Lay Folks Mass Bk. (MS. B.) 18 Dam Ieremy [v.rr. Dane Ieremi, Saynte Ierome] was his name.
1506 in S. Tymms Wills & Inventories Bury St. Edmunds (1850) 108 Dame John Barkyng, pytauncer of the monasterij in Bury.
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damn.5
/dɑːm/ Obsolete exc. Historical.
An Indian copper coin of the value of one fortieth of a rupee.
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society > trade and finance > money > medium of exchange or currency > coins collective > foreign coins > [noun] > coins of Indian subcontinent
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R1711
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naya paisa1956
poisha1974
1781 F. Balfour tr. Harikarana Multānī Forms of Herkern 39 The sum of twenty one lacks. of dams.
1801 R. Patton Princ. Asiatic Monarchies 182 A crore of dams.
1871 E. Balfour Cycl. India (ed. 2) II. D-10/1 Dam, Hind. This coin..is considered to be the 40th part of a rupee.
1884 Encycl. Brit. XVII. 343/1 The gold coinage and the silver rupee are seldom seen [in Nepal], the ordinary currency consisting of the copper dāms and paisā, and the mōhar or half rupee.
1962 R. A. G. Carson Coins 515 On occasional issues both of Sher Shah and his successor Islam Shah (1545–52) the coins were struck on a square flan. A new denomination, the dam, was struck in copper at a weight of 21·5 gm.
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damv.1
/dam/, U.S. /dæm/ 1. transitive. To furnish with a dam; to obstruct or confine (a stream, or water) by means of a dam. Usually with up; also (rarely) with back, out, etc.
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the world > the earth > water > lake > pool > [verb (transitive)] > impound water > dam
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1563 W. Fulke Goodle Gallerye Causes Meteors iv. f. 57 Wells that haue been dammed vp.
1656 B. Harris tr. J. N. de Parival Hist. Iron Age i. iv. vii. 110 He had dammed up the Rivers.
1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Pastorals iii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 16 Now dam the Ditches, and the Floods restrain.
1850 C. Lyell 2nd Visit U.S. (ed. 2) II. 253 The Mississippi forms long bars of sand, which frequently unite with some part of the coast, so as to dam out the sea and form lagoons.
1867 F. Parkman Jesuits in N. Amer. xxi. 314 The beavers had dammed a brook and formed a pond.
2. transferred and figurative. To stop up, block, obstruct; to shut up, confine:
a. things material.
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the world > space > relative position > closed or shut condition > close or shut [verb (transitive)] > close by obstruction or block up
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to ball up1884
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1553 J. Brende tr. Q. Curtius Rufus Hist. vii. f. 132 The sand in the plaines is blowen together..wherby the accustomed wayes be damned.
1590 R. Greene Neuer too Late ii. sig. F3 Hauing the Ouen the hotter within for that it was damd vp.
1603 J. Florio tr. M. de Montaigne Ess. i. xxiv. 61 Lampes dammed with too much oyle.
1652 J. Wadsworth tr. P. de Sandoval Civil Wars Spain 351 Don Hernande..dammed up all the doors but one.
1794 R. J. Sulivan View of Nature I. 347 When a ridge of mountains thus dams the cloud.
b. things immaterial.
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the world > action or operation > difficulty > hindrance > hinder [verb (transitive)]
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to take the wind out of the sails of1822
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gum1901
slow-walk1965
1582 T. Bentley et al. Monument of Matrones iii. 261 Vnthankfulnesse..dammeth vp the fountaine of thy godlie mercie.
1632 R. Sanderson 12 Serm. 522 He doth also dambe vp the mercy of God by his contempt.
1875 A. Maclaren Serm. 2nd Ser. iv. 66 His love [is] too divine for us to dam it back.
a1876 G. Dawson Improvers of Shaks. They dammed up all human energy into two channels—the chapel and the shop.
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† damv.2
Obsolete. rare.
To give birth to (young): said of animals.
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the world > animals > animal body > general parts > sexual organs and reproduction > [verb (intransitive)] > bring forth young
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1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry iii. f. 139 Such [lambs] as are afterwarde dammed, are feeble and weake.
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