These are the meanings of the letters DAHMS when you unscramble them.
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Dash (v. t.)
To throw with violence or haste; to cause to strike violently or hastily; -- often used with against.
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Dash (v. t.)
To break, as by throwing or by collision; to shatter; to crust; to frustrate; to ruin.
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Dash (v. t.)
To put to shame; to confound; to confuse; to abash; to depress.
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Dash (v. t.)
To throw in or on in a rapid, careless manner; to mix, reduce, or adulterate, by throwing in something of an inferior quality; to overspread partially; to bespatter; to touch here and there; as, to dash wine with water; to dash paint upon a picture.
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Dash (v. t.)
To form or sketch rapidly or carelessly; to execute rapidly, or with careless haste; -- with off; as, to dash off a review or sermon.
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Dash (v. t.)
To erase by a stroke; to strike out; knock out; -- with out; as, to dash out a word.
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Dash (v. i.)
To rust with violence; to move impetuously; to strike violently; as, the waves dash upon rocks.
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Dash (n.)
Violent striking together of two bodies; collision; crash.
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Dash (n.)
A sudden check; abashment; frustration; ruin; as, his hopes received a dash.
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Dash (n.)
A slight admixture, infusion, or adulteration; a partial overspreading; as, wine with a dash of water; red with a dash of purple.
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Dash (n.)
A rapid movement, esp. one of short duration; a quick stroke or blow; a sudden onset or rush; as, a bold dash at the enemy; a dash of rain.
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Dash (n.)
Energy in style or action; animation; spirit.
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Dash (n.)
A vain show; a blustering parade; a flourish; as, to make or cut a great dash.
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Dash (n.)
A mark or line [--], in writing or printing, denoting a sudden break, stop, or transition in a sentence, or an abrupt change in its construction, a long or significant pause, or an unexpected or epigrammatic turn of sentiment. Dashes are also sometimes used instead of marks or parenthesis.
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Dash (n.)
The sign of staccato, a small mark [/] denoting that the note over which it is placed is to be performed in a short, distinct manner.
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Dash (n.)
The line drawn through a figure in the thorough bass, as a direction to raise the interval a semitone.
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Dash (n.)
A short, spirited effort or trial of speed upon a race course; -- used in horse racing, when a single trial constitutes the race.
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Mash (n.)
A mesh.
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Mash (n.)
A mass of mixed ingredients reduced to a soft pulpy state by beating or pressure; a mass of anything in a soft pulpy state. Specifically (Brewing), ground or bruised malt, or meal of rye, wheat, corn, or other grain (or a mixture of malt and meal) steeped and stirred in hot water for making the wort.
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Mash (n.)
A mixture of meal or bran and water fed to animals.
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Mash (n.)
A mess; trouble.
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Mash (v. t.)
To convert into a mash; to reduce to a soft pulpy state by beating or pressure; to bruise; to crush; as, to mash apples in a mill, or potatoes with a pestle. Specifically (Brewing), to convert, as malt, or malt and meal, into the mash which makes wort.
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Shad (n. sing. & pl.)
Any one of several species of food fishes of the Herring family. The American species (Clupea sapidissima), which is abundant on the Atlantic coast and ascends the larger rivers in spring to spawn, is an important market fish. The European allice shad, or alose (C. alosa), and the twaite shad. (C. finta), are less important species.
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Sham (n.)
That which deceives expectation; any trick, fraud, or device that deludes and disappoint; a make-believe; delusion; imposture, humbug.
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Sham (n.)
A false front, or removable ornamental covering.
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Sham (a.)
False; counterfeit; pretended; feigned; unreal; as, a sham fight.
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Sham (v. t.)
To trick; to cheat; to deceive or delude with false pretenses.
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Sham (v. t.)
To obtrude by fraud or imposition.
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Sham (v. t.)
To assume the manner and character of; to imitate; to ape; to feign.
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Sham (v. i.)
To make false pretenses; to deceive; to feign; to impose.