Hypertext Webster Gateway: "dank"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
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.
Now that the fields are dank and ways are mire.
--Milton.
Cheerless watches on the cold, dank ground. --Trench.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Dank \Dank\, n.
Moisture; humidity; water. [Obs.]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Dank \Dank\, n.
A small silver coin current in Persia.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
dank
adj : unpleasantly cool and humid; "a clammy handshake"; "clammy
weather"; "a dank cellar"; "dank rain forests" [syn: {clammy}]
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