Dummy
(Dum"my), n.; pl. Dummies
1. One who is dumb. H. Smith.
2. A sham package in a shop, or one which does not contain what its exterior indicates.
3. An imitation or copy of something, to be used as a substitute; a model; a lay figure; as, a figure on
which clothing is exhibited in shop windows; a blank paper copy used to show the size of the future book,
etc.
4. (Drama) One who plays a merely nominal part in any action; a sham character.
5. A thick-witted person; a dolt. [Colloq.]
6. (Railroad) A locomotive with condensing engines, and, hence, without the noise of escaping steam; also,
a dummy car.
7. (Card Playing) The fourth or exposed hand when three persons play at a four-handed game of cards.
8. A floating barge connected with a pier. Knight.
To play dummy, to play the exposed or dummy hand in cards. The partner of the dummy plays it.
Dumose
(Du`mose" Du"mous) a. [L. dumosus, fr. dumus a thornbush, a bramble.]
1. Abounding with bushes and briers.
2. (Bot.) Having a compact, bushy form.
Dump
(Dump) n. [See Dumpling.] A thick, ill-shapen piece; a clumsy leaden counter used by boys in
playing chuck farthing. [Eng.] Smart.
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; despondency; ill humor; — now used
only in the plural.
March slowly on in solemn dump.
Hudibras.
Doleful dumps the mind oppress.
Shak.
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
(Dump) 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.]
