From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Dump \Dump\ (d[u^]mp), 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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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Dump \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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Note: 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 Cann[ae]." --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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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Dump \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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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
dump \dump\ n.
a coarse term for defecation.
Syn: shit.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Dump \Dump\ (d[u^]mp), 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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