Chapter Dulcoration to Duncify of D by Webster's Dictionary (1913 Edition)

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 caror 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
(Dump), n.

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.

Dumpage
(Dump"age) n.

1. The act of dumping loads from carts, especially loads of refuse matter; also, a heap of dumped matter.

2. A fee paid for the privilege of dumping loads.

Dumpiness
(Dump"i*ness) n. The state of being dumpy.

Dumpish
(Dump"ish), a. Dull; stupid; sad; moping; melancholy. " A . . . dumpish and sour life." Lord Herbert.

— Dump"ish*ly, adv. — Dump"ish*ness, n.

Dumple
(Dum"ple) v. t. [See Dumpling.] To make dumpy; to fold, or bend, as one part over another. [R.]

He was a little man, dumpled up together.

Sir W. Scott.

Dumpling
(Dump"ling) n. [Dimin. of dump an illshapen piece; cf. D. dompelen to plunge, dip, duck, Scot. to dump in to plunge into, and E. dump, v. t.] A roundish mass of dough boiled in soup, or as a sort of pudding; often, a cover of paste inclosing an apple or other fruit, and boiled or baked; as, an apple dumpling.

Dumpy
(Dump"y) a. [Compar. Dumpier ; superl. Dumpiest.] [

1. From Dump a short ill-shapen piece. 2. From Dump sadness.]

1. Short and thick; of low stature and disproportionately stout.

2. Sullen or discontented. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

Dun
(Dun) n. [See Dune.] A mound or small hill.

Dun
(Dun), v. t. To cure, as codfish, in a particular manner, by laying them, after salting, in a pile in a dark place, covered with salt grass or some like substance.