Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
1. (
n.) Moisture; humidity; fog; fogginess; vapor.
2. (n.) Dejection; depression; cloud of the mind.
3. (n.) A gaseous product, formed in coal mines, old wells, pints, etc.
4. (superl.) Being in a state between dry and wet; moderately wet; moist; humid.
5. (superl.) Dejected; depressed; sunk.
6. (n.) To render damp; to moisten; to make humid, or moderately wet; to dampen; as, to damp cloth.
7. (n.) To put out, as fire; to depress or deject; to deaden; to cloud; to check or restrain, as action or vigor; to make dull; to weaken; to discourage.
Strong's Hebrew
7447a. rasis -- a drop (of dew)... a drop (of dew). Transliteration: rasis Short Definition:
damp. Word Origin from
rasas Definition a drop (of dew) NASB Word Usage
damp (1). 7447, 7447a.
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The True Spirit of Missions.
... simple illustration. You are a captive in a foreign land, and have long
been immured in a deep, damp, and gloomy dungeon. Sorrow ...
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John's Witness to Jesus, and God's
... Adherence to him takes the place of obedience to his message, and, if he
is a true man, he has to damp down misdirected enthusiasm. ...
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Letter x. The Preservation of Health.
... This you may do without regard to the weather, provided you observe the following
precautions, when it is cold, damp, or wet:"1. Exert yourself sufficiently ...
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The Resurrection
... The seeds must have heat, and damp, and darkness, and electricity, before they can
sprout; but the heat, and damp, and darkness, do not make them sprout; they ...
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The Way of Transgressors.
... THE WAY OF TRANSGRESSORS. "Do not go out to-night, Amanda. The pavements are damp,
and the air is loaded with vapour." "Indeed, ma, I must go.". ...
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The City of Gold
... What with his delicate chest, and his African constitution sensitive to
cold, he must have suffered from this damp cold climate. ...
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The Adventures of Saint David of Wales.
... Thus manfully cutting and hewing away, they at length came in sight of the dark
and frowning, damp, and moss-overgrown walls of an ancient castle. ...
/.../kingston/the seven champions of christendom/chapter ten the adventures of.htm
Satan's Devices
... And, 1. He endeavours to damp our joy in the Lord by the consideration of our own
vileness, sinfulness, unworthiness; added to this, that there must be a far ...
/.../wesley/sermons on several occasions/sermon 42 satans devices.htm
Galatians v. 16, 17
... He who stands in a sheltered place, where the wind cannot reach him, and with no
branches over his head to cause a damp shade, and then holds up his face or ...
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Meetings for Prayer.
... there is nobody to pray. Every one feels that such a silence is like the
cold damp of death over the meeting. 9. It is exceedingly ...
/.../finney/lectures on revivals of religion/lecture viii meetings for prayer.htm
Thesaurus
Damp (1 Occurrence)... 5. (superl.) Dejected; depressed; sunk. 6. (n.) To render
damp; to moisten; to make
humid, or moderately wet; to dampen; as, to
damp cloth.
...Damp (1 Occurrence).
.../d/damp.htm - 7kOppress (57 Occurrences)
... 4. (vt) To produce a sensation of weight in (some part of the body); as, my lungs
are oppressed by the damp air; excess of food oppresses the stomach. ...
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Wet (25 Occurrences)
... a wet cloth; a wet table. 2. (superl.) Very damp; rainy; as, wet weather;
a wet season. 3. (superl.) Employing, or done by means ...
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Fever (13 Occurrences)
... During the day one uses as light clothing as possible, but immediately after sunset
the air becomes chilly and damp, and the physiological resistance to the ...
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Triumph (52 Occurrences)
... savor" of his triumph would be to the wretched captives the "savor," or intimation,
of a rapidly approaching death in the Roman arena or in the damp vaults of ...
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Rather (176 Occurrences)
... 6. (a.) More properly; more correctly speaking. 7. (a.) In some degree; somewhat;
as, the day is rather warm; the house is rather damp. ...
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Raw (10 Occurrences)
... sore. 13. (superl.) Sore, as if by being galled. 14. (superl.) Disagreeably
damp or cold; chilly; bleak; as, a raw wind. 15. (n.) A ...
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Expire (14 Occurrences)
... 2. (vt) To give forth insensibly or gently, as a fluid or vapor; to emit in minute
particles; to exhale; as, the earth expires a damp vapor; plants expire odors ...
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Entangle (7 Occurrences)
... of God's judgments, we read in Nahum 1:10, "For entangled like thorns" (the King
James Version "while they be folden together as thorns"), damp, closely packed ...
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