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noun

damper n. That which damps or checks; as:

(a)

A valve or movable plate in the flue or other part of a stove, furnace, etc., used to check or regulate the draught of air.

(b)

A contrivance, as in a pianoforte, to deaden vibrations; or, as in other pieces of mechanism, to check some action at a particular time. "Nor did Sabrina's presence seem to act as any damper at the modest little festivities."

adjective

Damp adj. (compar. damper; superl. dampest)

Being in a state between dry and wet; moderately wet; moist; humid. "O'erspread with a damp sweat and holy fear."

Dejected; depressed; sunk. (R.) "All these and more came flocking, but with looks Downcast and damp."

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Etymology of 'Damper'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Damper" Quotes from Famous Books

... singular speech, Charles Tracy's countenance had gradually changed from the surprised to the amused; and when I had concluded he laughed—yes, he actually laughed! What a damper of sentiment! ...

— A Grandmother's Recollections • Ella Rodman

... oak trees in their fresh, new garbs of early summer, intermingled with stately pines. All space between these trees was filled with a rich growth of all the flowering shrubs known to our California mountains. In the damper places a wild tangle of ferns and vines and bracken entirely hid the earth from view. Lilacs, white and purple, in full bloom emitted a fragrance which rendered the air intoxicating and nearly overpowered one's senses. Mingled ...

— Out of Doors--California and Oregon • J. A. Graves

... put a damper on matters, and the girls felt it. They talked with the Rovers and Songbird a few minutes longer and then turned in one direction while the Brill ...

— The Rover Boys at College • Edward Stratemeyer

... the car acted as an effectual damper on conversation in so far as Curtis and Devar were concerned. If their suspicions were justified, he was a principal in an atrocious crime, and mere propinquity with such a wretch induced a feeling of loathing comparable only with that shrinking from physical contact to which mankind yields when ...

— One Wonderful Night - A Romance of New York • Louis Tracy

... of the men having been thus supplied I determined, as it was intensely hot, to halt for an hour or two; we each of us therefore ate a little doughboy, or piece of damper, and the men then lay down to rest. As I sat musing alone the first thought that struck me was how providentially it happened that we had not fallen in with this river in the season of the floods, as our crossing it then would ...

— Journals Of Two Expeditions Of Discovery In North-West And Western Australia, Vol. 2 (of 2) • George Grey

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