Dam Meaning in Spanish

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1. (n.) A barrier to prevent the flow of a liquid; esp., a bank of earth, or wall of any kind, as of masonry or wood, built across a water course, to confine and keep back flowing water.
2. (n.) A female parent; -- used of beasts, especially of quadrupeds; sometimes applied in contempt to a human mother.
3. (n.) A firebrick wall, or a stone, which forms the front of the hearth of a blast furnace.
4. (v. t.) To obstruct or restrain the flow of, by a dam; to confine by constructing a dam, as a stream of water; -- generally used with in or up.
5. (n.) A kind or crowned piece in the game of draughts.
6. (v. t.) To shut up; to stop up; to close; to restrain.

1. (n.) Injury or harm to person, property, or reputation; an inflicted loss of value; detriment; hurt; mischief.
2. (n.) To ocassion damage to the soudness, goodness, or value of; to hurt; to injure; to impair.
3. (n.) The estimated reparation in money for detriment or injury sustained; a compensation, recompense, or satisfaction to one party, for a wrong or injury actually done to him by another.
4. (v. i.) To receive damage or harm; to be injured or impaired in soudness or value; as. some colors in /oth damage in sunlight.

1. () Doing injury; trespassing, as cattle.

1. (a.) Hurtful; pernicious.
2. (a.) Capable of being injured or impaired; liable to, or susceptible of, damage; as, a damageable cargo.

1. (imp. & p. p.) of Damage

1. (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Damage

1. (n.) A small herbivorous mammal of the genus Hyrax. The species found in Palestine and Syria is Hyrax Syriacus; that of Northern Africa is H. Brucei; -- called also ashkoko, dassy, and rock rabbit. See Cony, and Hyrax.

1. (n.) See Dammar.

1. (n.) A native of Damaraland, German Southwest Africa. The Damaras include an important and warlike Bantu tribe, and the Hill Damaras, who are Hottentots and mixed breeds hostile to the Bantus.