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Definition of Damps
1. damp [v] - See also: damp
Lexicographical Neighbors of Damps
Literary usage of Damps
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Mineralogia Cornubiensis: A Treatise on Minerals, Mines, and Mining by William Pryce (1778)
"Sometimes they are annoyed with damps in dry ... the damps feem to proceed from
the corrupt effluvia of ... damps are generally moft common in ..."
2. The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan (1860)
"... the pit by looking over the brink thereof, or whether they went down to dig,
or whether they were smothered in the bottom by the damps that commonly ..."
3. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"This tail wire is also furnished with a vane, which works in the acid and damps
the oscillations of the needle. A itout Fie. IS.—Elevation and Section of ..."
4. The Letters and Works of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu by Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1837)
"... occasioned by a cold I got in the damps of the Alps. The doctors here threaten
me with all sorts of distempers, if I dare to leave them ; but I, ..."
5. The Works of Francis Bacon: Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Albans, and Lord by Francis Bacon (1824)
"... and damps of sounds. 139. A HUNTER'S horn being greater at one end than at
the other, doth increase the sound more than if the horn were all of an equal ..."
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