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Webster 1913 Edition
Dump
Dump
(dŭmp)
, Noun.
[See
Dumpling
.] A thick, ill-shapen piece; a clumsy leaden counter used by boys in playing chuck farthing.
[Eng.]
Smart.
Dump
,Noun.
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.
March slowly on in solemn
dump
. Hudibras.
Doleful
dumps
the mind oppress. Shakespeare
I was musing in the midst of my
dumps
. Bunyan.
☞ 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.
2.
Absence of mind; revery.
Locke.
3.
A melancholy strain or tune in music; any tune.
[Obs.]
“Tune a deploring dump.” “Play me some merry dump.” Shak.
4.
An old kind of dance.
[Obs.]
Nares.
Dump
(dŭmp)
, Verb.
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.
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.
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
.Dump
,Noun.
1.
A car or boat for dumping refuse, etc.
2.
A ground or place for dumping ashes, refuse, etc.
3.
That which is dumped.
4.
(Mining)
A pile of ore or rock.
Webster 1828 Edition
Dump
DUMP
,Noun.
1.
A dull gloomy state of the mind; sadness; melancholy; sorrow; heaviness of heart.In doleful dumps.
2.
Absence of mind; reverie.3.
A melancholy tune or air. [This is not an elegant word, and in America, I believe, is always used in the plural; as, the woman is in the dumps.]