DUMP
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Dump (dŭmp), n. [See Dumpling.] A thick, ill-shapen piece; a clumsy leaden counter used by boys in playing chuck farthing. [Eng.] Smart.
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Dump, n. [Cf. dial. Sw. dumpin melancholy, Dan.dump dull, low, D. dompig damp, G. dumpf damp, dull, gloomy, and E. damp, or rather perh. dump, v. t. Cf. Damp, or Dump, v. t.] 1. A dull, gloomy state of the mind; sadness; melancholy; low spirits or a mild depression; despondency; ill humor; -- now used only in the plural.
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March slowly on in solemn dump.
Hudibras.
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Doleful dumps the mind oppress.
Shak.
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I was musing in the midst of my dumps.
Bunyan.
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&hand_; The ludicrous associations now attached to this word did not originally belong to it. “Holland's translation of Livy represents the Romans as being `in the dumps' after the battle of Cannæ.” Trench.
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2. Absence of mind; revery. Locke.
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3. A melancholy strain or tune in music; any tune. [Obs.] “Tune a deploring dump.” “Play me some merry dump.” Shak.
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4. An old kind of dance. [Obs.] Nares.
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Dump (dŭmp), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Dumped (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Dumping.] [OE. dumpen to throw down, fall down, cf. Icel. dumpa to thump, Dan. dumpe to fall suddenly, rush, dial. Sw. dimpa to fall down plump. Cf. Dump sadness.] 1. To knock heavily; to stump. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.
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2. To put or throw down with more or less of violence; hence, to unload from a cart by tilting it; as, to dump sand, coal, etc. [U.S.] Bartlett.
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Dumping car or Dumping cart, a railway car, or a cart, the body of which can be tilted to empty the contents; -- called also dump car, or dump cart.
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Dump, n. 1. A car or boat for dumping refuse, etc.
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2. A ground or place for dumping ashes, refuse, etc.
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3. That which is dumped.
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4. (Mining) A pile of ore or rock.
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dump n. a coarse term for defecation.
Syn. -- shit.
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