a thick, ill-shapen piece; a clumsy leaden counter used by boys in playing chuck farthing.-a dull, gloomy state of the mind; sadness; melancholy; low spirits; despondency; ill humor; -- now used only in the plural.-absence of mind; revery.-a melancholy strain or tune in music; any tune.-an old kind of dance.-to knock heavily; to stump.-to put or throw down with more or less of violence; hence, to unload from a cart by tilting it; as, to dump sand, coal, etc.-a car or boat for dumping refuse, etc.-a ground or place for dumping ashes, refuse, etc.-that which is dumped.-a pile of ore or rock.