Once the farms have been drained and the dead plants have been cut down and cleared, farmers then have to be alert for signs of black sigatoka, a devastating fungus which flourishes indamp conditions and can destroy banana farms.
1697,Virgil, “The Sixth Book of theÆneis”, inJohn Dryden, transl.,The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis.[…], London:[…]Jacob Tonson,[…],→OCLC,page364, lines84-85:
She said no more. The trembling Trojans hear, O'erspread with adamp sweat and holy fear.
The lawn was stilldamp so we decided not to sit down.
Though Travis's 'Why does it always Rain on Me' boomed around the stands, there were fewdamp spirits in Galway on day two of the races.
1667,John Milton, “Book I”, inParadise Lost.[…], London:[…] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker[…];[a]nd by Robert Boulter[…];[a]nd Matthias Walker,[…],→OCLC; republished asParadise Lost in Ten Books:[…], London: Basil Montagu Pickering[…],1873,→OCLC, lines522-3:
All these and more came flocking; but with looks / Down cast anddamp.
Permitting the possession ofalcoholic beverages, but not theirsale.
2002, Dana Stabenow,A Fine and Bitter Snow,→ISBN, page32:
The Roadhouse was twenty-seve miles down the road from Niniltna, nine feet and three inches outside the Niniltna Native Association's tribal jurisdiction, and therefore not subject to the dry law currently in effect. Or was itdamp? Kate thought it might have changed, yet again, at the last election, from dry todamp, or maybe it was from wet todamp.
Unceasing, soaking rain was falling; the very lamps seemed obscured by thedamp upon the glass, and their light reached but to a little distance from the posts.
But what was worse,damp now began to make its way into every house—damp, which is the most insidious of all enemies, for while the sun can be shut out by blinds, and the frost roasted by a hot fire,damp steals in while we sleep;damp is silent, imperceptible, ubiquitous.
1667,John Milton, “Book X”, inParadise Lost.[…], London:[…] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker[…];[a]nd by Robert Boulter[…];[a]nd Matthias Walker,[…],→OCLC; republished asParadise Lost in Ten Books:[…], London: Basil Montagu Pickering[…],1873,→OCLC:
Night[…] with black air / Accompanied, withdamps and dreadful gloom.
Summer was ending: in the daytime singing insects hung in every sunbeam; vegetation was heavy nightly with globes of dew; and after showers creepingdamps and twilight chills came up from the hollows.
Ev’n now, while thus I stand blest in thy Presence, / A secretDamp of Grief comes o’er my Thoughts,
1728, George Carleton (attributed toDaniel Defoe),The Memoirs of an English Officer, London: E. Symon, p. 72,[4]
But though the War was proclaim’d, and Preparations accordingly made for it, the Expectations from all receiv’d a suddenDamp, by the as sudden Death of KingWilliam.
[…] Mrs. Gummidge[…], I am sorry to relate, cast adamp upon the festive character of our departure, by immediately bursting into tears[…]
1866,James David Forbes, letter to A. Wills dated 2 January, 1866, inLife and Letters of James David Forbes, London: Macmaillan, 1873, p. 429,[5]
[…] I was concerned to hear from your brother that Mrs. Wills’ health had prevented her accompanying you to Sixt as usual. It must have thrown adamp over your autumn excursion[…]
(mining,archaic or historical) A gaseous product, formed in coal mines, old wells, pits, etc.
1733,John Arbuthnot, chapter 1, inAn Essay Concerning the Effects of Air on Human Bodies[6], London: Jacob Tonson, page19:
There are sulphurous Vapours which infect the Vegetables, and render the Grass unwholsom to the Cattle that feed upon it: Miners are often hurt by these Steams. Observations made in some of the Mines inDerbyshire, describe four sorts of thoseDamps.
My Lords, that I am yet to be told that it behoves a Minister of this free country to set bounds to the philanthropy, to cramp the charity, to fetter the public spirit, to contract the enterprise, todamp the independent self-reliance of its people.
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