noun.
A dull, gloomy state of the mind; sadness; melancholy; sorrow; heaviness of heart: as, to be in the dumps.
noun.
Meditation; reverie.
noun.
plural Twilight.
noun.
A slow dance with a peculiar rhythm.
noun.
Music for such a dance.
noun.
Any tune.
noun.
A deep hole filled with water.
To throw down violently; plunge; tumble.
To put or throw down, as a mass or load of anything; unload; especially, to throw down or cause to fall out by tilting up a cart: as, to dump a stickful of type (said by printers); to dump bricks, or a load of brick.
To plunge into.
To knock heavily.
To fall or plunge down suddenly.
To unload a cart by tilting it up; dispose of a refuse load by throwing it out at a certain place: as, you must not dump there.
In printing, to remove type from the stick and place it on the galley: as, where shall I dump?
To press closely; subject to severe pressure, as bales of wool. [Australia.]
noun.
The sound of a heavy object falling; a thud.
noun.
Anything short, thick, and heavy.
noun.
Hence A clumsy medal of lead formerly made by casting in moist sand; specifically, a leaden counter used by boys at chuckfarthing and similar games.
noun.
A small coin of Australia.
noun.
plural Money; “chink.”
noun.
A place for the discharge of loads from carts, trucks, etc., by dumping; a place of deposit for offal, rubbish, or any coarse material.
noun.
The pile of matter so deposited; specifically, the pile of refuse rock around the mouth of a shaft or adit-level.
noun.
A nail. See the extract.