DUMP
Dump, n. Etym: [See Dumpling.]
Defn: A thick, ill-shapen piece; a clumsy leaden counter used by boys in playing chuck farthing. [Eng.] Smart.
DUMP
Dump, n. Etym: [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; despondency; ill humor; — now used only in the plural. March slowly on in solemn dump. Hudibras. Doleful dumps the mind oppress. Shak. I was musing in the midst of my dumps. Bunyan.
Note: 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.
2. Absence of mind; revery. Locke.
3. A melancholy strain or tune in music; any tune. [Obs.] "Tune a deploring dump." "Play me some merry dump." Shak.
4. An old kind of dance. [Obs.] Nares.
DUMP
Dump, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Dumped; p. pr. & vb. n. Dumping.] Etym:
[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.