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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Dank \Dank\, adjective [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 The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Dank \Dank\, noun Moisture; humidity; water. [Obs.]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Dank \Dank\, noun A small silver coin current in Persia.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
dank
adjective: unpleasantly cool and humid; "a clammy handshake"; "clammy weather"; "a dank cellar"; "dank rain forests" [syn: {clammy}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
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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