Definition for DAM

DAM, n.1 [supposed to be from Dame, – which see.]

  1. A female parent; used of beasts, particularly of quadrupeds.
  2. A human mother, in contempt. Shak.
  3. [Fr. dame, the queen; Sp. dama.] A crowned man in the game of draughts.

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