Dank

5 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Dank \Dank\, a. [Cf. dial, Sw. dank a moist place in a field,
     Icel. d["o]kk pit, pool; possibly akin to E. damp or to
     daggle dew.]
     Damp; moist; humid; wet.
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           Now that the fields are dank and ways are mire.
                                                    --Milton.
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           Cheerless watches on the cold, dank ground. --Trench.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Dank \Dank\, n.
     Moisture; humidity; water. [Obs.]
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Dank \Dank\, n.
     A small silver coin current in Persia.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  dank
       adj : unpleasantly cool and humid; "a clammy handshake"; "clammy
             weather"; "a dank cellar"; "dank rain forests" [syn: {clammy}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  18 Moby Thesaurus words for "dank":
     boggy, damp, dampish, dewy, fenny, humid, marshy, moist, muggy,
     rainy, roric, roriferous, sticky, swampy, tacky, undried, wet,
     wettish