*dump*

n. [ See Dumpling. ] A thick, ill-shapen piece; a clumsy leaden counter used by boys in playing chuck farthing. [ Eng. ] Smart. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

March slowly on in solemn dump. Hudibras. [ 1913 Webster ]

Doleful dumps the mind oppress. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

I was musing in the midst of my dumps. Bunyan. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Absence of mind; revery. Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A melancholy strain or tune in music; any tune. [ Obs. ] “Tune a deploring dump.” “Play me some merry dump.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. An old kind of dance. [ Obs. ] Nares. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A car or boat for dumping refuse, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A ground or place for dumping ashes, refuse, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. That which is dumped. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Mining) A pile of ore or rock. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a coarse term for defecation.
Syn. -- shit. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. 1. The act of dumping loads from carts, especially loads of refuse matter; also, a heap of dumped matter. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A fee paid for the privilege of dumping loads; called in some cases tipping fee. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a cart that can be tilted to empty the contents without handling them.
Syn. -- tumbrel, tumbril. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. (Railroads) same as dump car.
Syn. -- dumping car, dumping cart, dump car. [ PJC ]

adj. 1. p. p. of dump, v. t.; as, The money was there, dumped all over the floor. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. same as dump truck.
Syn. -- dump truck. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. The state of being dumpy. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Dull; stupid; sad; moping; melancholy. “ A . . . dumpish and sour life.” Lord Herbert.

-- Dump"ish*ly, adv. -- Dump"ish*ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ See Dumpling. ] To make dumpy; to fold, or bend, as one part over another. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

He was a little man, dumpled up together. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. pl. a gloomy mental state; same as 2nd dump{ 1 }; -- used mostly in the phrase “in the dumps”. [ PJC ]

n. a truck, usually with an open top, the carrying bopdy of which can be tilted so as to emptied its contents without handling.
Syn. -- dumper. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Sullen or discontented. See 2nd dump{ 1 }. [ Prov. Eng. ] Halliwell. [ 1913 Webster ]

. (Surv.) A level having a short telescope (hence its name) rigidly fixed to a table capable only of rotatory movement in a horizontal plane. The telescope is usually an inverting one. It is sometimes called the
Troughton level, from the name of the inventor, and a variety improved by one Gavatt is known as the
Gavatt level. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

. (Eng.) (a) A kind of boiled dumpling made in Norfolk. (b) A native or inhabitant of Norfolk. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]