Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for DAM
DAM, n.1 [supposed to be from Dame, – which see.]
- A female parent; used of beasts, particularly of quadrupeds.
- A human mother, in contempt. Shak.
- [Fr. dame, the queen; Sp. dama.] A crowned man in the game of draughts.
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