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   Dump (dŭmp), 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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   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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   ☞ 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.
   
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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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   Dump (dŭmp), 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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   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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   dump n. a coarse term for defecation.
   
   Syn. -- shit.
   
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