Dank

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
dank
    adj 1: unpleasantly cool and humid; "a clammy handshake";
           "clammy weather"; "a dank cellar"; "dank rain forests"
           [syn: {clammy}, {dank}]
from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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
Dank \Dank\, n.
   Moisture; humidity; water. [Obs.]
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from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Dank \Dank\, n.
   A small silver coin current in Persia.
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from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
18 Moby Thesaurus words for "dank":
      boggy, damp, dampish, dewy, fenny, humid, marshy, moist, muggy,
      rainy, roric, roriferous, sticky, swampy, tacky, undried, wet,
      wettish
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