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Originally appearing in Volume V07, Page 780 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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DAM . (1) (A See also:

common See also:Teutonic word, cf. Swed. and Ger. damm, and the See also:Gothic verb faurdammjan, to See also:block up), a barrier of See also:earth or See also:masonry erected to restrain, divert or contain a See also:body of See also:water, particularly in See also:order to See also:form a See also:reservoir. (2) (Fr. See also:dame, dame; See also:Lat. domina, feminine of See also:dominus, See also:lord, See also:master), the See also:mother of an See also:animal, now chiefly used of the larger quadrupeds, and particularly of a See also:mare, the mother of a foal.

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