Drabber
Drab´ber, n. One who associates with drabs; a wencher. Massinger.

Drabbet
Drab´bet, n. A coarse linen fabric, or duck.

Drabbish
Drab´bish, a. Somewhat drab in color.

Drabbish
Drab´bish, a. Having the character of a drab or low wench. "The drabbish sorceress." Drant.

Drabble
Drab´ble, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Drabbled p. pr. & vb. n. Drabbling ] [.See Drab, Draff.] To draggle; to wet and befoul by draggling; as to drabble a gown or cloak. Halliwell.

Drabble
Drab´ble, v. i. To fish with a long line and rod; as to drabble for barbels.

Drabbler
Drab´bler, n. (Naut.) A piece of canvas fastened by lacing to the bonnet of a sail, to give it a greater depth, or more drop.

Drabble-tail
Drab´ble-tail, n. A draggle- tail; a slattern. Halliwell.

Dracaena
Dra•cae´na, n. [NL., fr. Gr. she-dragon.] (Bot.) A genus of liliaceous plants with woody stems and funnel-shaped flowers. Dracaena Draco, the source of the dragon’s blood of the Canaries, forms a tree, sometimes of gigantic size.

Dracanth
Dra´canth, n. A kind of gum; - - called also gum tragacanth, or tragacanth. See Tragacanth.

Draconin
Dra•co´nin, n. [Cf. F. draconine. See Draco.] (Chem.) A red resin forming the essential basis of dragon’s blood; — called also dracin.

Dracunculus
Dra•cun´cu•lus, n. ; pl. Dracunculi (#). [L., dim. of draco dragon.] (Zoöl.) (a) A fish; the dragonet. (b) The Guinea worm ( Filaria medinensis).

Drad, p. p. & a. Dreaded. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Dradde
Drad´de, imp. of Dread. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Draff (draf), n. [Cf. D. draf the sediment of ale, Icel. draf draff, husks. Cf. 1st Drab.] Refuse; lees; dregs; the wash given to swine or cows; hogwash; waste matter.
"Prodigals lately come from swine keeping, from eating draff and husks." Shak.
"The draff and offal of a bygone age." Buckle.
"Mere chaff and draff, much better burnt." Tennyson.

Draffy
Draff´y, a. Dreggy; waste; worthless.
"The dregs and draffy part." Beau. & Fl.

Draft (draft), n. [The same word as draught. OE. draught, draht, fr. AS. dragan to draw. See Draw, and cf. Draught.]
1. The act of drawing; also the thing drawn. Same as Draught.
"Everything available for draft burden." S. G. Goodrich.
2. (Mil.) A selecting or detaching of soldiers from an army, or from any part of it, or from a military post; also from any district, or any company or collection of persons, or from the people at large; also the body of men thus drafted.
"Several of the States had supplied the deficiency by drafts to serve for the year." Marshall.
3. An order from one person or party to another, directing the payment of money; a bill of exchange.
"I thought it most prudent to defer the drafts till advice was received of the progress of the loan." A. Hamilton.
4. An allowance or deduction made from the gross weight of goods. Simmonds.
5. A drawing of lines for a plan; a plan delineated, or drawn in outline; a delineation. See Draught.
6. The form of any writing as first drawn up; the first rough sketch of written composition, to be filled in, or completed. See Draught.
7. (Masonry) (a) A narrow border left on a finished stone, worked differently from the rest of its face. (b) A narrow border worked to a plane surface along the edge of a stone, or across its face, as a guide to the stone-cutter.
8. (Milling) The slant given to the furrows in the dress of a millstone.
9. (Naut.) Depth of water necessary to float a ship; the depth below the water surface to which the bottom of a ship sinks when bearing a specific load. See Draught.
10. A current of air. Same as Draught.

Draft, a.
1. Pertaining to, or used for, drawing or pulling (as vehicles, loads, etc.). Same as Draught.
2. Relating to, or characterized by, a draft, or current of air. Same as Draught. The forms draft and draught, in the senses above-given, are both in approved use. Draft box, Draft engine, Draft horse, Draft net, Draft ox, Draft tube. Same as Draught box, Draught engine, etc. See under Draught.

Draft, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Drafted; p. pr. & vb. n. Drafting.]
1. To draw the outline of; to delineate.
2. To compose and write; as to draft a memorial.
3. To draw from a military band or post, or from any district, company, or society; to detach; to select.
"Some royal seminary in Upper Egypt, from whence they drafted novices to supply their colleges and temples." Holwell.
4. To transfer by draft.
"All her rents been drafted to London." Fielding.

Draggle-tail
Drag´gle-tail, n. A slattern who suffers her gown to trail in the mire; a drabble-tail.

Draggle-tailed
Drag´gle-tailed, a. Untidy; sluttish; slatternly. W. Irving.

Draglink
Drag´link, n. (Mach.) (a) A link connecting the cranks of two shafts. (b) A drawbar.

Dragman
Drag´man, n. ; pl. Dragmen . A fisherman who uses a dragnet. Sir M. Hale.

Dragnet
Drag´net, n. [Cf. AS. draegnet.] A net to be drawn along the bottom of a body of water, as in fishing.

Dragoman
Drag´o•man, n. ; pl. Dragomans (#). [From F. dragoman, or Sp. dragoman, or It. dragomanno; all fr. LGr., Ar. tarjuman, from the same source as E. targum. Cf. Drogman, Truchman.] An interpreter; — so called in the Levant and other parts of the East.

Dragonish
Drag´on•ish, a. resembling a dragon. Shak.

Dragonlike
Drag´on•like (-lik•), a. Like a dragon. Shak.

Dragonnade
Drag•on•nade´ (drag•on•nad"), n. [F., fr. dragon dragoon, because Louis XIV., in persecuting the Protestants of his kingdom, quartered dragoons upon them.] The severe persecution of French Protestants under Louis XIV., by an armed force, usually of dragoons; hence, a rapid and devastating incursion; dragoonade.
"He learnt it as he watched the dragonnades, the tortures, the massacres of the Netherlands." C. Kingsley. { Drag"on’s blood, Drag"on’s head, Drag"on’s tail }. See Dragon’s blood, Dragon’s head, etc., under Dragon.

Drail (dral), v. t. & i. [rad.73.] To trail; to draggle. [Obs.] South.

Drain (dran), v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Drained (drand); p. pr. & vb. n. Draining.] [AS. drehnigean to drain, strain; perh. akin to E. draw.]
1. To draw off by degrees; to cause to flow gradually out or off; hence, to cause the exhaustion of.
"Fountains drain the water from the ground adjacent." Bacon.
"But it was not alone that the he drained their treasure and hampered their industry." Motley.
2. To exhaust of liquid contents by drawing them off; to make gradually dry or empty; to remove surface water, as from streets, by gutters, etc.; to deprive of moisture; hence, to exhaust; to empty of wealth, resources, or the like; as to drain a country of its specie.
"Sinking waters, the firm land to drain, Filled the capacious deep and formed the main." Roscommon.
3. To filter.
"Salt water, drained through twenty vessels of earth, hath become fresh." Bacon.

Drain, v. i.
1. To flow gradually; as the water of low ground drains off.
2. To become emptied of liquor by flowing or dropping; as let the vessel stand and drain.

Drain, n.
1. The act of draining, or of drawing off; gradual and continuous outflow or withdrawal; as the drain of specie from a country.
2. That means of which anything is drained; a channel; a trench; a water course; a sewer; a sink.
3. pl. The grain from the mashing tub; as brewers’ drains. [Eng.] Halliwell. Box drain, Counter drain. See under Box, Counter. — Right of drain (Law), an easement or servitude by which one man has a right to convey water in pipes through or over the estate of another. Kent.

Drainage
Drain´age, n.
1. A draining; a gradual flowing off of any liquid; also that which flows out of a drain.
2. The mode in which the waters of a country pass off by its streams and rivers.
3. (Engin.) The system of drains and their operation, by which superfluous water is removed from towns, railway beds, mines, and other works.
4. Area or district drained; as the drainage of the Po, the Thames, etc. Latham.
5. (Surg.) The act, process, or means of drawing off the pus or fluids from a wound, abscess, etc. Drainage tube (Surg.), a tube introduced into a wound, etc., to draw off the discharges.

Draine, n. [F.] (Zoöl.) The missel thrush.

Drainer
Drain´er, n. One who, or that which, drains.

Draining
Drain´ing, vb. n. of Drain, v. t. (Agric.) The art of carrying off surplus water, as from land. Draining tile. Same as Draintile.

Draintile
Drain´tile, n. A hollow tile used in making drains; — called also draining tile.

Draintrap
Drain´trap, n. See 4th Trap, 5.

Drakestone
Drake´stone, n. A flat stone so thrown along the surface of water as to skip from point to point before it sinks; also the sport of so throwing stones; — sometimes called ducks and drakes.
"Internal earthquakes, that, not content with one throe, run along spasmodically, like boys playing at what is called drakestone." De Quincey.

Dram (dram), n. [OF. drame, F. drachme, L. drachma, drachm, drachma, fr. Gr. drachmh•, prop., a handful, fr. dra•ssesqai to grasp. Cf. Drachm, Drachma.]
1. A weight; in Apothecaries’ weight, one eighth part of an ounce, or sixty grains; in Avoirdupois weight, one sixteenth part of an ounce, or 27.34375 grains.
2. A minute quantity; a mite.
"Were I the chooser, a dram of well-doing should be preferred before many times as mush the forcible hindrance of evildoing." Milton.
3. As much spirituous liquor as is usually drunk at once; as a dram of brandy; hence, a potation or potion; as a dram of poison. Shak.
4. (Numis.) A Persian daric. Ezra ii. 69.Fluid dram, or Fluid drachm. See under Fluid.

Dram, v. i. & t. To drink drams; to ply with drams. [Low] Johnson. Thackeray.

Drama
Dra´ma (drä"ma or dra"ma; 277), n. [L. drama, Gr. dra^ma, fr. dra^n to do, act; cf. Lith. daryti.]
1. A composition, in prose or poetry, accommodated to action, and intended to exhibit a picture of human life, or to depict a series of grave or humorous actions of more than ordinary interest, tending toward some striking result. It is commonly designed to be spoken and represented by actors on the stage.
"A divine pastoral drama in the Song of Solomon." Milton.
2. A series of real events invested with a dramatic unity and interest. "The drama of war." Thackeray.
"Westward the course of empire takes its way; The four first acts already past, A fifth shall close the drama with the day; Time’s noblest offspring is the last." Berkeley.
"The drama and contrivances of God’s providence." Sharp.
3. Dramatic composition and the literature pertaining to or illustrating it; dramatic literature. The principal species of the drama are tragedy and comedy; inferior species are tragi-comedy, melodrama, operas, burlettas, and farces. The romantic drama, the kind of drama whose aim is to present a tale or history in scenes, and whose plays (like those of Shakespeare, Marlowe, and others) are stories told in dialogue by actors on the stage. J. A. Symonds. { Dra•mat´ic, Dra•mat´ic•al } a. [Gr., fr. : cf. F. dramatique.] Of or pertaining to the drama; appropriate to, or having the qualities of, a drama; theatrical; vivid.
"The emperor … performed his part with much dramatic effect." Motley.

Dramatically
Dra•mat´ic•al•ly, adv. In a dramatic manner; theatrically; vividly.

Dramatis personae
Dram"a•tis per•so"nae [L.] The actors in a drama or play.

Dramatist
Dram´a•tist, n. [Cf. F. dramatiste.] The author of a dramatic composition; a writer of plays.

Dramatizable
Dram´a•ti•za•ble, a. Capable of being dramatized.

Dramatization
Dram•a•ti•za´tion, n. Act of dramatizing.

Dramatize
Dram´a•tize, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Dramatized p. pr. & vb. n. Dramatizing ] [Cf. F. dramatiser.] To compose in the form of the drama; to represent in a drama; to adapt to dramatic representation; as to dramatize a novel, or an historical episode.
"They dramatized tyranny for public execration." Motley.

Dramaturgist
Dram´a•tur•gist, n. One versed in dramaturgy. Carlyle.

Dramaturgy
Dram´a•tur•gy, n. [Gr. dramatic composition; drama + a root akin to E. work: cf. F. dramaturgie.] The art of dramatic composition and representation.

Dramming
Dram´ming, n. The practice of drinking drams.

Dramseller
Dram´sell•er, n. One who sells distilled liquors by the dram or glass.

Dramshop
Dram´shop, n. A shop or barroom where spirits are sold by the dram.

Drank, imp. of Drink.

Drank, n. [Cf. 3d Drake.] Wild oats, or darnel grass. See Drake a plant. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

Drape, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Draped p. pr. & vb. n. Draping ] [F. draper, fr. drap cloth. See 3d Drab.]
1. To cover or adorn with drapery or folds of cloth, or as with drapery; as to drape a bust, a building, etc.
"The whole people were draped professionally." De Quincey.
"These starry blossoms, [of the snow] pure and white, Soft falling, falling, through the night, Have draped the woods and mere". Bungay.
2. To rail at; to banter. [Obs.] Sir W. Temple.

Drape, v. i.
1. To make cloth. [Obs.] Bacon.
2. To design drapery, arrange its folds, etc., as for hangings, costumes, statues, etc.

Draper
Dra´per, n. [F. drapier.] One who sells cloths; a dealer in cloths; as a draper and tailor.

Draperied
Dra´per•ied, a. Covered or supplied with drapery. [R.] Byron.

Drapery
Dra´per•y, n. ; pl. Draperies (#). [F. draperie.]
1. The occupation of a draper; cloth-making, or dealing in cloth. Bacon.
2. Cloth, or woolen stuffs in general.
"People who ought to be weighing out grocery or measuring out drapery." Macaulay.
3. A textile fabric used for decorative purposes, especially when hung loosely and in folds carefully disturbed; as: (a) Garments or vestments of this character worn upon the body, or shown in the representations of the human figure in art. (b) Hangings of a room or hall, or about a bed.
"Like one that wraps the drapery of his couch About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams." Bryant.
"All the decent drapery of life is to be rudely torn off." Burke. Casting of draperies. See under Casting.
"The casting of draperies … is one of the most important of an artist’s studies." Fairholt.

Drastic
Dras´tic, a. [Gr., fr. to do, act: cf. F. drastique. See Drama.] (Med.) Acting rapidly and violently; efficacious; powerful; — opposed to bland; as drastic purgatives. — n. (Med.) A violent purgative. See Cathartic.

Draugh, n. See Draft. [Obs.]

Draughts, n. pl. A mild vesicatory. See Draught, n. , 3 (c).

Draughts, n. pl. A game, now more commonly called checkers. See Checkers. Polish draughts is sometimes played with 40 pieces on a board divided into 100 squares. Am. Cyc.

Draughtsmanship
Draughts´man•ship, n. The office, art, or work of a draughtsman.

Draughty
Draught´y, a. Pertaining to a draught, or current of air; as a draughtly, comfortless room.

Drave, old imp. of Drive. [Obs.]

Dravidian
Dra•vid´i•an, a. [From Skr. Dravida, the name of the southern portion of the peninsula of India.] (Ethnol.) Of or pertaining to the Dravida. Dravidian languages, a group of languages of Southern India, which seem to have been the idioms of the natives, before the invasion of tribes speaking Sanskrit. Of these languages, the Tamil is the most important.

Draw (dra), v. t. [ imp. Drew (dru); p. p. Drawn (dran); p. pr. & vb. n. Drawing.] [OE. dra&yogh;en, drahen, draien, drawen, AS. dragan; akin to Icel. & Sw. draga, Dan. drage to draw, carry, and prob. to OS. dragan to bear, carry, D. dragen, G. tragen, Goth. dragan; cf. Skr. dhraj to move along, glide; and perh. akin to Skr. dhar to hold, bear. rad.73. Cf. 2d Drag, Dray a cart, 1st Dredge.]
1. To cause to move continuously by force applied in advance of the thing moved; to pull along; to haul; to drag; to cause to follow.
"He cast him down to ground, and all along Drew him through dirt and mire without remorse." Spenser.
"He hastened to draw the stranger into a private room." Sir W. Scott.
"Do not rich men oppress you, and draw you before the judgment seats?" James ii. 6.
"The arrow is now drawn to the head." Atterbury.
2. To influence to move or tend toward one’s self; to exercise an attracting force upon; to call towards itself; to attract; hence, to entice; to allure; to induce.
"The poet Did feign that Orpheus drew trees, stones, and floods." Shak.
"All eyes you draw, and with the eyes the heart." Dryden.
3. To cause to come out for one’s use or benefit; to extract; to educe; to bring forth; as: (a) To bring or take out, or to let out, from some receptacle, as a stick or post from a hole, water from a cask or well, etc.
"The drew out the staves of the ark." 2 Chron. v. 9.
"Draw thee waters for the siege." Nahum iii. 14.
"I opened the tumor by the point of a lancet without drawing one drop of blood." Wiseman. (b) To pull from a sheath, as a sword.
"I will draw my sword, my hand shall destroy them." Ex. xv. 9. (c) To extract; to force out; to elicit; to derive.
"Spirits, by distillations, may be drawn out of vegetable juices, which shall flame and fume of themselves." Cheyne.
"Until you had drawn oaths from him." Shak. (d) To obtain from some cause or origin; to infer from evidence or reasons; to deduce from premises; to derive.
"We do not draw the moral lessons we might from history." Burke. (e) To take or procure from a place of deposit; to call for and receive from a fund, or the like; as to draw money from a bank. (f) To take from a box or wheel, as a lottery ticket; to receive from a lottery by the drawing out of the numbers for prizes or blanks; hence, to obtain by good fortune; to win; to gain; as he drew a prize. (g) To select by the drawing of lots.
"Provided magistracies were filled by men freely chosen or drawn." Freeman.
4. To remove the contents of; as: (a) To drain by emptying; to suck dry.
"Sucking and drawing the breast dischargeth the milk as fast as it can generated." Wiseman. (b) To extract the bowels of; to eviscerate; as to draw a fowl; to hang, draw, and quarter a criminal.
"In private draw your poultry, clean your tripe." King.
5. To take into the lungs; to inhale; to inspire; hence, also to utter or produce by an inhalation; to heave. "Where I first drew air." Milton.
"Drew, or seemed to draw, a dying groan." Dryden.
6. To extend in length; to lengthen; to protract; to stretch; to extend, as a mass of metal into wire.
"How long her face is drawn!" Shak.
"And the huge Offa’s dike which he drew from the mouth of Wye to that of Dee." J. R. Green.
7. To run, extend, or produce, as a line on any surface; hence, also to form by marking; to make by an instrument of delineation; to produce, as a sketch, figure, or picture.
8. To represent by lines drawn; to form a sketch or a picture of; to represent by a picture; to delineate; hence, to represent by words; to depict; to describe.
"A flattering painter who made it his care To draw men as they ought to be, not as they are." Goldsmith.
"Can I, untouched, the fair one’s passions move, Or thou draw beauty and not feel its power?" Prior.
9. To write in due form; to prepare a draught of; as to draw a memorial, a deed, or bill of exchange.
"Clerk, draw a deed of gift." Shak.
10. To require (so great a depth, as of water) for floating; — said of a vessel; to sink so deep in (water); as a ship draws ten feet of water.
11. To withdraw. [Obs.] Chaucer.
"Go wash thy face, and draw the action." Shak.
12. To trace by scent; to track; — a hunting term. Draw, in most of its uses, retains some shade of its original sense, to pull, to move forward by the application of force in advance, or to extend in length, and usually expresses an action as gradual or continuous, and leisurely. We pour liquid quickly, but we draw it in a continued stream. We force compliance by threats, but we draw it by gradual prevalence. We may write a letter with haste, but we draw a bill with slow caution and regard to a precise form. We draw a bar of metal by continued beating. To draw a bow, to bend the bow by drawing the string for discharging the arrow. — To draw a cover, to clear a cover of the game it contains. - - To draw a curtain, to cause a curtain to slide or move, either closing or unclosing. "Night draws the curtain, which the sun withdraws." Herbert. — To draw a line, to fix a limit or boundary. — To draw back, to receive back, as duties on goods for exportation. — To draw breath, to breathe. Shak. — To draw cuts or lots. See under Cut, n. — To draw in. (a) To bring or pull in; to collect. (b) To entice; to inveigle. — To draw interest, to produce or gain interest. — To draw off, to withdraw; to abstract. Addison. — To draw on, to bring on; to occasion; to cause. "War which either his negligence drew on, or his practices procured." Hayward. — To draw (one) out, to elicit cunningly the thoughts and feelings of another. — To draw out, to stretch or extend; to protract; to spread out. — "Wilt thou draw out thine anger to all generations?" Ps. lxxxv. 5. "Linked sweetness long drawn out." Milton. — To draw over, to cause to come over, to induce to leave one part or side for the opposite one. — To draw the longbow, to exaggerate; to tell preposterous tales. — To draw (one)to or on to (something), to move, to incite, to induce. "How many actions most ridiculous hast thou been drawn to by thy fantasy?" Shak. — To draw up. (a) To compose in due form; to draught; to form in writing. (b) To arrange in order, as a body of troops; to array. "Drawn up in battle to receive the charge." Dryden.
Syn. — To Draw, Drag. Draw differs from drag in this, that drag implies a natural inaptitude for drawing, or positive resistance; it is applied to things pulled or hauled along the ground, or moved with toil or difficulty. Draw is applied to all bodies moved by force in advance, whatever may be the degree of force; it commonly implies that some kind of aptitude or provision exists for drawing. Draw is the more general or generic term, and drag the more specific. We say, the horses draw a coach or wagon, but they drag it through mire; yet draw is properly used in both cases.

Draw, v. i.
1. To pull; to exert strength in drawing anything; to have force to move anything by pulling; as a horse draws well; the sails of a ship draw well. A sail is said to draw when it is filled with wind.
2. To draw a liquid from some receptacle, as water from a well.
"The woman saith unto him, Sir, thou hast nothing to draw with, and the well is deep." John iv. 11.
3. To exert an attractive force; to act as an inducement or enticement.
"Keep a watch upon the particular bias of their minds, that it may not draw too much." Addison.
4. (Med.) To have efficiency as an epispastic; to act as a sinapism; — said of a blister, poultice, etc.
5. To have draught, as a chimney, flue, or the like; to furnish transmission to smoke, gases, etc.
6. To unsheathe a weapon, especially a sword.
"So soon as ever thou seest him, draw; and as thou drawest, swear horrible." Shak.
7. To perform the act, or practice the art, of delineation; to sketch; to form figures or pictures. "Skill in drawing." Locke.
8. To become contracted; to shrink. "To draw into less room." Bacon.
9. To move; to come or go; literally, to draw one’s self; — with prepositions and adverbs; as to draw away, to move off, esp. in racing, to get in front; to obtain the lead or increase it; to draw back, to retreat; to draw level, to move up even (with another); to come up to or overtake another; to draw off, to retire or retreat; to draw on, to advance; to draw up, to form in array; to draw near, nigh, or towards, to approach; to draw together, to come together, to collect.
10. To make a draft or written demand for payment of money deposited or due; — usually with on or upon.
"You may draw on me for the expenses of your journey." Jay.
11. To admit the action of pulling or dragging; to undergo draught; as a carriage draws easily.
12. To sink in water; to require a depth for floating. "Greater hulks draw deep." Shak. To draw to a head. (a) (Med.) To begin to suppurate; to ripen, as a boil. (b) Fig.: To ripen, to approach the time for action; as the plot draws to a head.

Draw, n.
1. The act of drawing; draught.
2. A lot or chance to be drawn.
3. A drawn game or battle, etc. [Colloq.]
4. That part of a bridge which may be raised, swung round, or drawn aside; the movable part of a drawbridge. See the Note under Drawbridge. [U.S.]

Draw, v. t.
1. In various games: (a) (Cricket) To play (a short-length ball directed at the leg stump) with an inclined bat so as to deflect the ball between the legs and the wicket. (b) (Golf) To hit (the ball) with the toe of the club so that it is deflected toward the left. (c) (Billiards) To strike (the cue ball) below the center so as to give it a backward rotation which causes it to take a backward direction on striking another ball. (d) (Curling) To throw up (the stone) gently.
2. To leave (a contest) undecided; as the battle or game was drawn.

Draw, n.
1. The result of drawing, or state of being drawn; specif.: (a) A drawn battle, game, or the like. (b) The spin or twist imparted to a ball, or the like, by a drawing stroke.
2. That which is drawn or is subject to drawing.

Drawable
Draw´a•ble, a. Capable of being drawn.

Drawback
Draw´back, n.
1. A loss of advantage, or deduction from profit, value, success, etc.; a discouragement or hindrance; objectionable feature.
"The avarice of Henry VII … . must be deemed a drawback from the wisdom ascribed to him." Hallam.
2. (Com.) Money paid back or remitted; especially, a certain amount of duties or customs, sometimes the whole, and sometimes only a part, remitted or paid back by the government, on the exportation of the commodities on which they were levied. M•Culloch.

Drawbar
Draw´bar, n. (Railroad) (a) An openmouthed bar at the end of a car, which receives a coupling link and pin by which the car is drawn. It is usually provided with a spring to give elasticity to the connection between the cars of a train. (b) A bar of iron with an eye at each end, or a heavy link, for coupling a locomotive to a tender or car.

Drawbench
Draw´bench, n. (Med.) A machine in which strips of metal are drawn through a drawplate; especially, one in which wire is thus made; — also called drawing bench.

Drawbolt
Draw´bolt, n. (Engin.) A coupling pin. See under Coupling.

Drawboy
Draw´boy, n. (Weaving) A boy who operates the harness cords of a hand loom; also a part of power loom that performs the same office.

Drawbridge
Draw´bridge, n. A bridge of which either the whole or a part is made to be raised up, let down, or drawn or turned aside, to admit or hinder communication at pleasure, as before the gate of a town or castle, or over a navigable river or canal. The movable portion, or draw, is called, specifically, a bascule, balance, or lifting bridge, a turning, swivel, or swing bridge, or a rolling bridge, according as it turns on a hinge vertically, or on a pivot horizontally, or is pushed on rollers.

Drawcansir
Draw´can•sir, n. [From the name of a bullying braggart character in the play by George Villiers called "The Rehearsal."] A blustering, bullying fellow; a pot-valiant braggart; a bully.
"The leader was of an ugly look and gigantic stature; he acted like a drawcansir, sparing neither friend nor foe." Addison.

Draw-cut
Draw´-cut, n. A single cut with a knife.

Drawee
Draw•ee´, n. (Law) The person on whom an order or bill of exchange is drawn; — the correlative of drawer.

Drawer
Draw´er, n.
1. One who, or that which, draws; as: (a) One who draws liquor for guests; a waiter in a taproom. Shak. (b) One who delineates or depicts; a draughtsman; as a good drawer. (c) (Law) One who draws a bill of exchange or order for payment; — the correlative of drawee.
2. That which is drawn; as: (a) A sliding box or receptacle in a case, which is opened by pulling or drawing out, and closed by pushing in. (b) pl. An under-garment worn on the lower limbs. Chest of drawers. See under Chest.

Drawgear
Draw´gear, n.
1. A harness for draught horses.
2. (Railroad) The means or parts by which cars are connected to be drawn.

Drawgloves
Draw´gloves, n. pl. An old game, played by holding up the fingers. Herrick.

Drawhead
Draw´head, n. (Railroad) The flanged outer end of a drawbar; also a name applied to the drawgear.

Drawing
Draw´ing, n.
1. The act of pulling, or attracting.
2. The act or the art of representing any object by means of lines and shades; especially, such a representation when in one color, or in tints used not to represent the colors of natural objects, but for effect only, and produced with hard material such as pencil, chalk, etc.; delineation; also the figure or representation drawn.
3. The process of stretching or spreading metals as by hammering, or, as in forming wire from rods or tubes and cups from sheet metal, by pulling them through dies.
4. (Textile Manuf.) The process of pulling out and elongating the sliver from the carding machine, by revolving rollers, to prepare it for spinning.
5. The distribution of prizes and blanks in a lottery. Drawing is used adjectively or as the first part of compounds in the sense of pertaining to drawing, for drawing (in the sense of pulling, and of pictorial representation); as drawing master or drawing-master, drawing knife or drawing-knife, drawing machine, drawing board, drawing paper, drawing pen, drawing pencil, etc. A drawing of tea, a small portion of tea for steeping. — Drawing knife. See in the Vocabulary. — Drawing paper (Fine Arts), a thick, sized paper for draughtsman and for water- color painting. — Drawing slate, a soft, slaty substance used in crayon drawing; — called also black chalk, or drawing chalk. — Free-hand drawing, a style of drawing made without the use of guiding or measuring instruments, as distinguished from mechanical or geometrical drawing; also a drawing thus executed. { Draw"ing knife", Draw´knife• }, n.
1. A joiner’s tool having a blade with a handle at each end, used to shave off surfaces, by drawing it toward one; a shave; — called also drawshave, and drawing shave.
2. (Carp.) A tool used for the purpose of making an incision along the path a saw is to follow, to prevent it from tearing the surface of the wood.

Drawlatch
Draw´latch, n. A housebreaker or thief. [Obs.] Old Play (1631).

Drawling
Drawl´ing, n. The act of speaking with a drawl; a drawl. — Drawl´ing•ly, adv. Bacon.

Drawlink
Draw´link, n. Same as Drawbar (b).

Drawn, p. p. & a. See Draw, v. t. & i.Drawn butter, butter melter and prepared to be used as a sort of gravy. — Drawn fowl, an eviscerated fowl. — Drawn game or battle, one in which neither party wins; one equally contested. — Drawn fox, one driven from cover. Shak. — Drawn work, ornamental work made by drawing out threads from fine cloth, and uniting the cross threads, to form a pattern.

Drawplate
Draw´plate, n. A hardened steel plate having a hole, or a gradation of conical holes, through which wires are drawn to be reduced and elongated.

Drawrod
Draw´rod, n. (Railroad) A rod which unites the drawgear at opposite ends of the car, and bears the pull required to draw the train.

Drawshave
Draw´shave, n. See Drawing knife.

Dray, n. A squirrel’s nest. Cowper.

Dray, n. [AS. draege a dragnet, fr. dragan. . See Draw, and cf. 2d Drag, 1st Dredge.]
1. A strong low cart or carriage used for heavy burdens. Addison.
2. A kind of sledge or sled. Halliwell. Dray cart, a dray. — Dray horse, a heavy, strong horse used in drawing a dray.

Drayman
Dray´man, n. ; pl. Draymen . A man who attends a dray.

Drazel
Draz´el, n. [Cf. Dross, Drossel.] A slut; a vagabond wench. Same as Drossel. [Obs.] Hudibras.

Dreadable
Dread´a•ble, a. Worthy of being dreaded.

Dread-bolted
Dread´-bolt•ed, a. Armed with dreaded bolts. "Dread-bolted thunder." [Poetic] Shak.

Dreader
Dread´er, n. One who fears, or lives in fear.

Dreadful
Dread´ful, a.
1. Full of dread or terror; fearful. [Obs.] "With dreadful heart." Chaucer.
2. Inspiring dread; impressing great fear; fearful; terrible; as a dreadful storm. " Dreadful gloom." Milton.
"For all things are less dreadful than they seem." Wordsworth.
3. Inspiring awe or reverence; awful. [Obs.] "God’s dreadful law." Shak.
Syn. — Fearful; frightful; terrific; terrible; horrible; horrid; formidable; tremendous; awful; venerable. See Frightful.

Dreadfulness
Dread´ful•ness, n. The quality of being dreadful.

Dreadingly
Dread´ing•ly, adv. With dread. Warner.

Dreadless
Dread´less, a.
1. Free from dread; fearless; intrepid; dauntless; as dreadless heart. "The dreadless angel." Milton.
2. Exempt from danger which causes dread; secure. " safe in his dreadless den." Spenser.

Dreadless
Dread´less, adv. Without doubt. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Dreadlessness
Dread´less•ness, n. Freedom from dread.

Dreadly
Dread´ly, a. Dreadful. [Obs.] "Dreadly spectacle." Spenser. — adv. With dread. [Obs.] "Dreadly to shake." Sylvester (Du Bartas).

Dreadnaught
Dread´naught, n.
1. A fearless person.
2. Hence: A garment made of very thick cloth, that can defend against storm and cold; also the cloth itself; fearnaught.

Dreadnought
Dread´nought, n.
1. A British battleship, completed in 1906 — 1907, having an armament consisting of ten 12-inch guns, and of twenty-four 12-pound quick-fire guns for protection against torpedo boats. This was the first battleship of the type characterized by a main armament of big guns all of the same caliber. She has a displacement of 17,900 tons at load draft, and a speed of 21 knots per hour.
2. Any battleship having its main armament entirely of big guns all of one caliber. Since the Dreadnought was built, the caliber of the heaviest guns has increased from 12 in. to 13½ in., 14 in., and 15 in., and the displacement of the largest batteships from 18,000 tons to 30,000 tons and upwards. The term superdreadnought is popularly applied to battleships with such increased displacement and gun caliber.

Dream (drem), n. [Akin to OS. drom, D. droom, G. traum, Icel. draumr, Dan. & Sw. dröm; cf. G. trügen to deceive, Skr. druh to harm, hurt, try to hurt. AS. dreám joy, gladness, and OS. drom joy are, perh., different words; cf. Gr. qry^los noise.]
1. The thoughts, or series of thoughts, or imaginary transactions, which occupy the mind during sleep; a sleeping vision.
"Dreams are but interludes which fancy makes." Dryden.
"I had a dream which was not all a dream." Byron.
2. A visionary scheme; a wild conceit; an idle fancy; a vagary; a revery; — in this sense, applied to an imaginary or anticipated state of happiness; as a dream of bliss; the dream of his youth.
"There sober thought pursued the amusing theme, Till Fancy colored it and formed a dream." Pope.
"It is not them a mere dream, but a very real aim which they propose." J. C. Shairp.

Dream, v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Dreamed (dremd) or Dreamt (dremt); p. pr. & vb. n. Dreaming.] [Cf. AS. dreman, dryman, to rejoice. See Dream, n. ]
1. To have ideas or images in the mind while in the state of sleep; to experience sleeping visions; — often with of; as to dream of a battle, or of an absent friend.
2. To let the mind run on in idle revery or vagary; to anticipate vaguely as a coming and happy reality; to have a visionary notion or idea; to imagine.
"Here may we sit and dream Over the heavenly theme". Keble.
"They dream on in a constant course of reading, but not digesting". Locke.

Dream, v. t. To have a dream of; to see, or have a vision of, in sleep, or in idle fancy; — often followed by an objective clause.
"Your old men shall dream dreams". Acts ii. 17.
"At length in sleep their bodies they compose, And dreamt the future fight". Dryden.
"And still they dream that they shall still succeed". Cowper. To dreamaway, out, through, etc., to pass in revery or inaction; to spend in idle vagaries; as to dream away an hour; to dream through life. " Why does Antony dream out his hours?" Dryden.

Dreamer
Dream´er, n.
1. One who dreams.
2. A visionary; one lost in wild imaginations or vain schemes of some anticipated good; as a political dreamer.

Dreamful
Dream´ful, a. Full of dreams. " Dreamful ease." Tennyson. — Dream´ful•ly, adv.

Dreamily
Dream´i•ly, adv. As if in a dream; softly; slowly; languidly. Longfellow.

Dreaminess
Dream´i•ness, n. The state of being dreamy.

Dreamingly
Dream´ing•ly, adv. In a dreamy manner.

Dreamland
Dream´land, n. An unreal, delightful country such as in sometimes pictured in dreams; region of fancies; fairyland.
"[He] builds a bridge from dreamland for his lay." Lowell.

Dreamless
Dream´less, a. Free from, or without, dreams. Camden. — Dream´less•ly, adv.

Dreamy
Dream´y, a. [ Compar. Dreamier superl. Dreamiest ] Abounding in dreams or given to dreaming; appropriate to, or like, dreams; visionary. "The dreamy dells." Tennyson.

Drearily
Drear´i•ly, adv. Gloomily; dismally.

Dreariment
Drear´i•ment, n. Dreariness. [Obs.] Spenser.

Dreariness
Drear´i•ness, n.
1. Sorrow; wretchedness. [Obs.]
2. Dismalness; gloomy solitude.

Drearing
Drear´ing, n. Sorrow. [Obs.] Spenser.

Drearisome
Drear´i•some (-sum), a. Very dreary. Halliwell.

Dreary
Drear´y (drer"y), a. [ Compar. Drearier superl. Dreariest.] [OE. dreori, dreri, AS. dreórig, sad; akin to G. traurig, and prob. to AS. dreósan to fall, Goth. driusan. Cf. Dross, Drear, Drizzle, Drowse.]
1. Sorrowful; distressful. [Obs.] " Dreary shrieks." Spenser.
2. Exciting cheerless sensations, feelings, or associations; comfortless; dismal; gloomy. " Dreary shades." Dryden. "The dreary ground." Prior.
"Full many a dreary anxious hour." Keble.
"Johnson entered on his vocation in the most dreary part of that dreary interval which separated two ages of prosperity." Macaulay.

Dredge (drej), n. [F. drège, dreige, fish net, from a word akin to E. draw; cf. D. dreg, dregge, small anchor, dregnet dragnet. rad.73. See Draw.]
1. Any instrument used to gather or take by dragging; as: (a) A dragnet for taking up oysters, etc., from their beds. (b) A dredging machine. (c) An iron frame, with a fine net attached, used in collecting animals living at the bottom of the sea.
2. (Mining) Very fine mineral matter held in suspension in water. Raymond.

Dredge (drej), v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Dredged (drejd); p. pr. & vb. n. Dredging.] To catch or gather with a dredge; to deepen with a dredging machine. R. Carew.Dredging machine, a machine (commonly on a boat) used to scoop up mud, gravel, or obstructions from the bottom of rivers, docks, etc., so as to deepen them.

Dredge, n. [OE. dragge, F. dragee, dredge, also sugar plum; cf. Prov. dragea, It. treggea; corrupted fr. LL. tragemata, pl., sweetmeats, Gr., fr. to gnaw.] A mixture of oats and barley. [Obs.] Kersey.

Dredge, v. t. To sift or sprinkle flour, etc., on, as on roasting meat. Beau. & Fl.Dredging box. (a) Same as 2d Dredger. (b) (Gun.) A copper box with a perforated lid; — used for sprinkling meal powder over shell fuses. Farrow.

Dree, v. t. [AS. dreógan to bear, endure, complete.] To endure; to suffer. [Scot.]

Dree, v. i. To be able to do or endure. [Obs.]

Dree, a. Wearisome; tedious. [Prov. Eng.]

Dreg, n. [Prob. from Icel. dregg; akin to Sw. drägg, cf. Icel. & Sw. draga to draw. Cf. Draw.] Corrupt or defiling matter contained in a liquid, or precipitated from it; refuse; feculence; lees; grounds; sediment; hence, the vilest and most worthless part of anything; as the dregs of society.
"We, the dregs and rubbish of mankind." Dryden. Used formerly (rarely) in the singular, as by Spenser and Shakespeare, but now chiefly in the plural.

Dreggish
Dreg´gish, a. Foul with lees; feculent. Harvey.

Dreggy
Dreg´gy, a. Containing dregs or lees; muddy; foul; feculent. Boyle.

Dreibund
Drei´bund, n. [G., fr. drei three + bund league.] A triple alliance; specif., the alliance of Germany, Austria, and Italy, formed in 1882.

Drein, v. i. To drain. [Obs.] Congreve.

Dreinte
Drein´te, imp. , Dreint, p. p. of Drench to drown. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Drench, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Drenched p. pr. & vb. n. Drenching.] [AS. drencan to give to drink, to drench, the causal of drincan to drink; akin to D. drenken, Sw. dränka, G. tränken. See Drink.]
1. To cause to drink; especially, to dose by force; to put a potion down the throat of, as of a horse; hence. to purge violently by physic.
"As "to fell," is "to make to fall," and "to lay," to make to lie." so "to drench," is "to make to drink."" Trench.
2. To steep in moisture; to wet thoroughly; to soak; to saturate with water or other liquid; to immerse.
"Now dam the ditches and the floods restrain; Their moisture has already drenched the plain." Dryden.

Drench, n. [AS. drenc. See Drench, v. t.] A drink; a draught; specifically, a potion of medicine poured or forced down the throat; also a potion that causes purging. "A drench of wine." Dryden.
"Give my roan horse a drench." Shak.

Drench, n. [AS. dreng warrior, soldier, akin to Icel. drengr.] (O. Eng. Law) A military vassal mentioned in Domesday Book. [Obs.] Burrill.

Drenche
Drench´e, v. t. & i. To drown. [Obs.]
"In the sea he drenched." Chaucer.

Drencher
Drench´er, n.
1. One who, or that which, west or steeps.
2. One who administers a drench.

Drengage
Dren´gage, n. (O. Eng. Law) The tenure by which a drench held land. [Obs.] Burrill.

Drent, p. p. [See Dreinte.] Drenched; drowned. [Obs.] "Condemned to be drent." Spenser.

Dress (dres), v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Dressed (drest) or Drest; p. pr. & vb. n. Dressing.] [OF. drecier to make straight, raise, set up, prepare, arrange, F. dresser, (assumed) LL. directiare, fr. L. dirigere, directum, to direct; dis- + regere to rule. See Right, and cf. Address, Adroit, Direct, Dirge.]
1. To direct; to put right or straight; to regulate; to order. [Obs.]
"At all times thou shalt bless God and pray Him to dress thy ways." Chaucer. Dress is used reflexively in Old English, in sense of "to direct one’s step; to address one’s self."
"To Grisild again will I me dresse." Chaucer.
2. (Mil.) To arrange in exact continuity of line, as soldiers; commonly to adjust to a straight line and at proper distance; to align; as to dress the ranks.
3. (Med.) To treat methodically with remedies, bandages, or curative appliances, as a sore, an ulcer, a wound, or a wounded or diseased part.
4. To adjust; to put in good order; to arrange; specifically: (a) To prepare for use; to fit for any use; to render suitable for an intended purpose; to get ready; as to dress a slain animal; to dress meat; to dress leather or cloth; to dress or trim a lamp; to dress a garden; to dress a horse, by currying and rubbing; to dress grain, by cleansing it; in mining and metallurgy, to dress ores, by sorting and separating them.
"And the Lord God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it." Gen. ii. 15.
"When he dresseth the lamps he shall burn incense." Ex. xxx. 7.
"Three hundred horses … smoothly dressed." Dryden.
"Dressing their hair with the white sea flower." Tennyson.
"If he felt obliged to expostulate, he might have dressed his censures in a kinder form." Carlyle. (b) To cut to proper dimensions, or give proper shape to, as to a tool by hammering; also to smooth or finish. (c) To put in proper condition by appareling, as the body; to put clothes upon; to apparel; to invest with garments or rich decorations; to clothe; to deck.
"Dressed myself in such humility." Shak.
"Prove that ever I dress myself handsome till thy return." Shak. (d) To break and train for use, as a horse or other animal. To dress up or out, to dress elaborately, artificially, or pompously. "You see very often a king of England or France dressed up like a Julius Caesar." Addison. — To dress a ship (Naut.), to ornament her by hoisting the national colors at the peak and mastheads, and setting the jack forward; when dressed full, the signal flags and pennants are added. Ham. Nav. Encyc.
Syn. — To attire; apparel; clothe; accouter; array; robe; rig; trim; deck; adorn; embellish.

Dress, v. i.
1. (Mil.) To arrange one’s self in due position in a line of soldiers; — the word of command to form alignment in ranks; as Right, dress!
2. To clothe or apparel one’s self; to put on one’s garments; to pay particular regard to dress; as to dress quickly. "To dress for a ball." Latham.
"To flaunt, to dress, to dance, to thrum." Tennyson. To dress to the right, To dress to the left, To dress on the center (Mil.), to form alignment with reference to the soldier on the extreme right, or in the center, of the rank, who serves as a guide.

Dress, n.
1. That which is used as the covering or ornament of the body; clothes; garments; habit; apparel. "In your soldier’s dress." Shak.
2. A lady’s gown; as silk or a velvet dress.
3. Attention to apparel, or skill in adjusting it.
"Men of pleasure, dress, and gallantry." Pope.
4. (Milling) The system of furrows on the face of a millstone. Knight. Dress circle. See under Circle. — Dress parade (Mil.), a parade in full uniform for review.

Dress coat
Dress" coat A coat with skirts behind only, as distinct from the frock coat, of which the skirts surround the body. It is worn on occasions of ceremony. The dress coat of officers of the United States army is a full-skirted frock coat.

Dress goods
Dress" goods" A term applied to fabrics for the gowns of women and girls; — most commonly to fabrics of mixed materials, but also applicable to silks, printed linens, and calicoes.

Dresser
Dress´er, n.
1. One who dresses; one who put in order or makes ready for use; one who on clothes or ornaments.
2. (Mining) A kind of pick for shaping large coal.
3. An assistant in a hospital, whose office it is to dress wounds, sores, etc.
4. [F. dressoir. See Dress, v. t.] (a) A table or bench on which meat and other things are dressed, or prepared for use. (b) A cupboard or set of shelves to receive dishes and cooking utensils.
"The pewter plates on the dresser Caught and reflected the flame, as shields of armies the sunshine." Longfellow.

Dresser
Dress´er, n. [F. dressoir. See Dress, v. t.] A piece of chamber furniture consisting of a chest of drawers, or bureau, with a mirror. [U. S.]

Dressing
Dress´ing, n.
1. Dress; raiment; especially, ornamental habiliment or attire. B. Jonson.
2. (Surg.) An application (a remedy, bandage, etc.) to a sore or wound. Wiseman.
3. Manure or compost over land. When it remains on the surface, it is called a top-dressing.
4. (Cookery) (a) A preparation to fit food for use; a condiment; as a dressing for salad. (b) The stuffing of fowls, pigs, etc.; forcemeat.
5. Gum, starch, and the like, used in stiffening or finishing silk, linen, and other fabrics.
6. An ornamental finish, as a molding around doors, windows, or on a ceiling, etc.
7. Castigation; scolding; — often with down. [Colloq.] Dressing case, a case of toilet utensils. — Dressing forceps, a variety of forceps, shaped like a pair of scissors, used in dressing wounds. — Dressing gown, a light gown, such as is used by a person while dressing; a study gown. — Dressing room, an apartment appropriated for making one’s toilet. — Dressing table, a table at which a person may dress, and on which articles for the toilet stand. — Top-dressing, manure or compost spread over land and not worked into the soil.

Dressmaker
Dress´mak•er, n. A maker of gowns, or similar garments; a mantuamaker.

Dressmaking
Dress´mak•ing, n. The art, process, or occupation, of making dresses.

Dressy
Dress´y, a. Showy in dress; attentive to dress.
"A dressy flaunting maidservant." T. Hook.
"A neat, dressy gentleman in black." W. Irving.

Drest, p. p. of Dress.

Drevil
Drev´il, n. A fool; a drudge. See Drivel.

Dreynte
Dreyn´te, imp. , Dreynt, p. p., of Drench to drown. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Dribber
Drib´ber, n. One who dribs; one who shoots weakly or badly. [Obs.] Ascham.

Dribble
Drib´ble, v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Dribbled p. pr. & vb. n. Dribbing ] [Freq. of drib, which is a variant of drip.]
1. To fall in drops or small drops, or in a quick succession of drops; as water dribbles from the eaves.
2. To slaver, as a child or an idiot; to drivel.
3. To fall weakly and slowly. [Obs.] "The dribbling dart of love." Shak. (Meas. for Meas., i. 3, 2). [Perhaps an error for dribbing.]

Dribble
Drib´ble, v. t. To let fall in drops.
"Let the cook … dribble it all the way upstairs." Swift.

Dribble
Drib´ble, n. A drizzling shower; a falling or leaking in drops. [Colloq.]

Dribble
Drib´ble, v. t. In various games, to propel (the ball) by successive slight hits or kicks so as to keep it always in control.

Dribble
Drib´ble, v. i.
1. In football and similar games, to dribble the ball.
2. To live or pass one’s time in a trivial fashion.

Dribble
Drib´ble, n. An act of dribbling a ball.

Dribbler
Drib´bler, n. One who dribbles. { Drib´blet, Drib´let } n. [From Dribble.] A small piece or part; a small sum; a small quantity of money in making up a sum; as the money was paid in dribblets.
"When made up in dribblets, as they could, their best securities were at an interest of twelve per cent." Burke.

Driftage
Drift´age, n.
1. Deviation from a ship’s course due to leeway.
2. Anything that drifts.

Driftbolt
Drift´bolt, n. A bolt for driving out other bolts.

Driftless
Drift´less, a. Having no drift or direction; without aim; purposeless.

Driftpiece
Drift´piece´, n. (Shipbuilding) An upright or curved piece of timber connecting the plank sheer with the gunwale; also a scroll terminating a rail.

Driftpin
Drift´pin, n. (Mech.) A smooth drift. See Drift, n. , 9.

Driftwind
Drift´wind, n. A driving wind; a wind that drives snow, sand, etc., into heaps. Beau. & Fl.

Driftwood
Drift´wood, n.
1. Wood drifted or floated by water.
2. Fig.: Whatever is drifting or floating as on water.
"The current of humanity, with its heavy proportion of very useless driftwood." New Your Times.

Drifty
Drift´y, a. Full of drifts; tending to form drifts, as snow, and the like.

Drill, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Drilled p. pr. & vb. n. Drilling.] [D. drillen to bore, drill (soldiers); probably akin to AS. pyrlian, pyrelian, to pierce. See Thrill.]
1. To pierce or bore with a drill, or a with a drill; to perforate; as to drill a hole into a rock; to drill a piece of metal.
2. To train in the military art; to exercise diligently, as soldiers, in military evolutions and exercises; hence, to instruct thoroughly in the rudiments of any art or branch of knowledge; to discipline.
"He [Frederic the Great] drilled his people, as he drilled his grenadiers." Macaulay.

Drill, v. i. To practice an exercise or exercises; to train one’s self.

Drill, n.
1. An instrument with an edged or pointed end used for making holes in hard substances; strictly, a tool that cuts with its end, by revolving, as in drilling metals, or by a succession of blows, as in drilling stone; also a drill press.
2. (Mil.) The act or exercise of training soldiers in the military art, as in the manual of arms, in the execution of evolutions, and the like; hence, diligent and strict instruction and exercise in the rudiments and methods of any business; a kind or method of military exercises; as infantry drill; battalion drill; artillery drill.
3. Any exercise, physical or mental, enforced with regularity and by constant repetition; as a severe drill in Latin grammar.
4. (Zoöl.) A marine gastropod, of several species, which kills oysters and other bivalves by drilling holes through the shell. The most destructive kind is Urosalpinx cinerea. Bow drill, Breast drill. See under Bow, Breast. — Cotter drill, or Traverse drill, a machine tool for drilling slots. — Diamond drill. See under Diamond. — Drill jig. See under Jig. — Drill pin, the pin in a lock which enters the hollow stem of the key. - - Drill sergeant (Mil.), a noncommissioned officer whose office it is to instruct soldiers as to their duties, and to train them to military exercises and evolutions. — Vertical drill, a drill press.

Drill, v. t. [Cf. Trill to trickle, Trickle, Dribble, and W. rhillio to put in a row, drill.]
1. To cause to flow in drills or rills or by trickling; to drain by trickling; as waters drilled through a sandy stratum. [R.] Thomson.
2. To sow, as seeds, by dribbling them along a furrow or in a row, like a trickling rill of water.
3. To entice; to allure from step; to decoy; — with on. [Obs.]
"See drilled him on to five-fifty." Addison.
4. To cause to slip or waste away by degrees. [Obs.]
" This accident hath drilled away the whole summer." Swift.

Drill, v. i.
1. To trickle. [Obs. or R.] Sandys.
2. To sow in drills.

Drill, n.
1. A small trickling stream; a rill. [Obs.]
"Springs through the pleasant meadows pour their drills." Sandys.
2. (Agr.) (a) An implement for making holes for sowing seed, and sometimes so formed as to contain seeds and drop them into the hole made. (b) A light furrow or channel made to put seed into sowing. (c) A row of seed sown in a furrow. Drill is used adjectively, or as the first part of a compound; as drill barrow or drill-barrow; drill husbandry; drill plow or drill-plow. Drill barrow, a wheeled implement for planting seed in drills. — Drill bow, a small bow used for the purpose of rapidly turning a drill around which the bowstring takes a turn. — Drill harrow, a harrow used for stirring the ground between rows, or drills. — Drill plow, or Drill plough, a sort plow for sowing grain in drills.

Drill, n. [Cf. Mandrill.] (Zoöl.) A large African baboon ( Cynocephalus leucophaeus).

Drill, n. [Usually in pl.] (Manuf.) Same as Drilling. Imperial drill, a linen fabric having two threads in the warp and three in the filling.

Driller
Drill´er, n. One who, or that which, drills.

Drilling
Drill´ing, n.
1. The act of piercing with a drill.
2. A training by repeated exercises.

Drilling
Drill´ing, n. The act of using a drill in sowing seeds.

Drilling
Drill´ing, n. [G. drillich, fr. L. trilix having three threads, fr. the of tres three + licium a thread of the warm. See Three, and cf. Twill.] (Manuf.) A heavy, twilled fabric of linen or cotton.

Drillstock
Drill´stock, n. (Mech.) A contrivance for holding and turning a drill. Knight.

Drily
Dri´ly, adv. See Dryly. Thackeray.

Drink (drink), v. i. [ imp. Drank (drank), formerly Drunk (drunk); & p. p. Drunk, Drunken (-’n); p. pr. & vb. n. Drinking. Drunken is now rarely used, except as a verbal adj. in sense of habitually intoxicated; the form drank, not infrequently used as a p. p., is not so analogical.] [AS. drincan; akin to OS. drinkan, D. drinken, G. trinken, Icel. drekka, Sw. dricka, Dan. drikke, Goth. drigkan. Cf. Drench, Drunken, Drown.]
1. To swallow anything liquid, for quenching thirst or other purpose; to imbibe; to receive or partake of, as if in satisfaction of thirst; as to drink from a spring.
"Gird thyself, and serve me, till have eaten and drunken; and afterward thou shalt eat and drink." Luke xvii. 8.
"He shall drink of the wrath the Almighty." Job xxi. 20.
"Drink of the cup that can not cloy." Keble.
2. To quaff exhilarating or intoxicating liquors, in merriment or feasting; to carouse; to revel; hence, to lake alcoholic liquors to excess; to be intemperate in the se of intoxicating or spirituous liquors; to tipple. Pope.
"And they drank, and were merry with him." Gem. xliii. 34.
"Bolingbroke always spoke freely when he had drunk freely." Thackeray. To drink to, to salute in drinking; to wish well to, in the act of taking the cup; to pledge in drinking.
"I drink to the general joy of the whole table, And to our dear friend Banquo." Shak.

Drink, v. t.
1. To swallow (a liquid); to receive, as a fluid, into the stomach; to imbibe; as to drink milk or water.
"There lies she with the blessed gods in bliss, There drinks the nectar with ambrosia mixed." Spenser.
"The bowl of punch which was brewed and drunk in Mrs. Betty’s room." Thackeray.
2. To take in (a liquid), in any manner; to suck up; to absorb; to imbibe.
"And let the purple violets drink the stream." Dryden.
3. To take in; to receive within one, through the senses; to inhale; to hear; to see.
"To drink the cooler air," Tennyson.
"My ears have not yet drunk a hundred words Of that tongue’s utterance." Shak.
"Let me … drink delicious poison from thy eye." Pope.
4. To smoke, as tobacco. [Obs.]
"And some men now live ninety years and past, Who never drank to tobacco first nor last." Taylor (1630.)To drink down, to act on by drinking; to reduce or subdue; as to drink down unkindness. Shak. — To drink in, to take into one’s self by drinking, or as by drinking; to receive and appropriate as in satisfaction of thirst. "Song was the form of literature which he [Burns] had drunk in from his cradle." J. C. Shairp. — To drink off or up, to drink the whole at a draught; as to drink off a cup of cordial. — To drink the health of, or To drink to the health of, to drink while expressing good wishes for the health or welfare of.

Drink, n.
1. Liquid to be swallowed; any fluid to be taken into the stomach for quenching thirst or for other purposes, as water, coffee, or decoctions.
"Give me some drink, Titinius." Shak.
2. Specifically, intoxicating liquor; as when drink is on, wit is out. Drink money, or Drink penny, an allowance, or perquisite, given to buy drink; a gratuity. — Drink offering (Script.), an offering of wine, etc., in the Jewish religious service. — In drink, drunk. "The poor monster’s in drink." Shak. — Strong drink, intoxicating liquor; esp., liquor containing a large proportion of alcohol. " Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging." Prov. xx. 1.

Drinkable
Drink´a•ble, a. Capable of being drunk; suitable for drink; potable. Macaulay. Also used substantively, esp. in the plural. Steele.

Drinkableness
Drink´a•ble•ness, n. State of being drinkable.

Drinker
Drink´er, n. One who drinks; as the effects of tea on the drinker; also one who drinks spirituous liquors to excess; a drunkard. Drinker moth (Zoöl.), a large British moth ( Odonestis potatoria).

Drinking
Drink´ing, n.
1. The act of one who drinks; the act of imbibing.
2. The practice of partaking to excess of intoxicating liquors.
3. An entertainment with liquors; a carousal. Drinking is used adjectively, or as the first part of a compound; as a drinking song, drinking cup, drinking glass, drinking house, etc. Drinking horn, a drinking vessel made of a horn.

Drinkless
Drink´less, a. Destitute of drink. Chaucer.

Drip, v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Dripped or Dript; p. pr. & vb. n. Dripping.] [Akin to LG. drippen, Dan. dryppe, from a noun. See Drop.]
1. To fall in drops; as water drips from the eaves.
2. To let fall drops of moisture or liquid; as a wet garment drips.
"The dark round of the dripping wheel." Tennyson.

Drip, v. t. To let fall in drops.
"Which from the thatch drips fast a shower of rain." Swift.

Drip, n.
1. A falling or letting fall in drops; a dripping; that which drips, or falls in drops.
"The light drip of the suspended oar." Byron.
2. (Arch.) That part of a cornice, sill course, or other horizontal member, which projects beyond the rest, and is of such section as to throw off the rain water. Right of drip (Law), an easement or servitude by which a man has the right to have the water flowing from his house fall on the land of his neighbor.

Dripping
Drip´ping, n.
1. A falling in drops, or the sound so made.
2. That which falls in drops, as fat from meat in roasting. Dripping pan, a pan for receiving the fat which drips from meat in roasting.

Dripple
Drip´ple, a. [From Drip, cf. Dribble.] Weak or rare. [Obs.]

Drivebolt
Drive´bolt, n. A drift; a tool for setting bolts home.

Drivel
Driv´el, v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Driveled or Drivelled; p. pr. & vb. n. Driveling or Drivelling.] [Cf. OE. dravelen, drabelen, drevelen, drivelen, to slaver, and E. drabble. Cf. Drool.]
1. To slaver; to let spittle drop or flow from the mouth, like a child, idiot, or dotard.
2. [Perh. a different word: cf. Icel. drafa to talk thick.] To be weak or foolish; to dote; as a driveling hero; driveling love. Shak. Dryden.

Drivel
Driv´el, n.
1. Slaver; saliva flowing from the mouth.
2. Inarticulate or unmeaning utterance; foolish talk; babble.
3. A driveler; a fool; an idiot. [Obs.] Sir P. Sidney.
4. A servant; a drudge. [Obs.] Huloet.

Driveler
Driv´el•er, n. A slaverer; a slabberer; an idiot; a fool. [Written also driveller.]

Driven
Driv´en, p. p. of Drive. Also adj. Driven well, a well made by driving a tube into the earth to an aqueous stratum; — called also drive well.

Driver
Driv´er, n. [From Drive.]
1. One who, or that which, drives; the person or thing that urges or compels anything else to move onward.
2. The person who drives beasts or a carriage; a coachman; a charioteer, etc.; hence, also one who controls the movements of a locomotive.
3. An overseer of a gang of slaves or gang of convicts at their work.
4. (Mach.) A part that transmits motion to another part by contact with it, or through an intermediate relatively movable part, as a gear which drives another, or a lever which moves another through a link, etc. Specifically: (a) The driving wheel of a locomotive. (b) An attachment to a lathe, spindle, or face plate to turn a carrier. (c) A crossbar on a grinding mill spindle to drive the upper stone.
5. (Naut.) The after sail in a ship or bark, being a fore-and-aft sail attached to a gaff; a spanker. Totten. Driver ant (Zoöl.), a species of African stinging ant; one of the visiting ants ( Anomma arcens); — so called because they move about in vast armies, and drive away or devour all insects and other small animals.

Driving
Driv´ing, a.
1. Having great force of impulse; as a driving wind or storm.
2. Communicating force; impelling; as a driving shaft. Driving axle, the axle of a driving wheel, as in a locomotive. — Driving box (Locomotive), the journal box of a driving axle. See Illust. of Locomotive. — Driving note (Mus.), a syncopated note; a tone begun on a weak part of a measure and held through the next accented part, thus anticipating the accent and driving it through. — Driving spring, a spring fixed upon the box of the driving axle of a locomotive engine to support the weight and deaden shocks. [Eng.] Weale. — Driving wheel (Mach.), a wheel that communicates motion; one of the large wheels of a locomotive to which the connecting rods of the engine are attached; — called also simply, driver. See Illust. of Locomotive.

Driving
Driv´ing, n.
1. The act of forcing or urging something along; the act of pressing or moving on furiously.
2. Tendency; drift. [R.]

Drizzle
Driz´zle, v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Drizzled p. pr. & vb. n. Drizzling ] [Prop. freq. of AS. dreósan to fall. See Dreary.] To rain slightly in very small drops; to fall, as water from the clouds, slowly and in fine particles; as it drizzles; drizzling drops or rain. "Drizzling tears." Spenser.

Drizzle
Driz´zle, v. t. To shed slowly in minute drops or particles. "The air doth drizzle dew." Shak.

Drizzle
Driz´zle, n. Fine rain or mist. Halliwell.

Drizzly
Driz´zly, a. Characterized by small rain, or snow; moist and disagreeable. "Winter’s drizzly reign." Dryden.

Drock, n. A water course. [Prov. Eng.] { Drof´land, Dryf´land }, n. [See Drove.] (Law) An ancient yearly payment made by some tenants to the king, or to their landlords, for the privilege of driving their cattle through a manor to fairs or markets. Cowell.

Droitzschka
Droitzsch´ka, n. See Drosky.

Droller
Droll´er, n. A jester; a droll. [Obs.] Glanvill.

Drollery
Droll´er•y, n. ; pl. Drolleries (#). [F. drôlerie. See Droll.]
1. The quality of being droll; sportive tricks; buffoonery; droll stories; comical gestures or manners.
"The rich drollery of "She Stoops to Conquer."" Macaulay.
2. Something which serves to raise mirth; as: (a) A puppet show; also a puppet. [Obs.] Shak. (b) A lively or comic picture. [Obs.]
"I bought an excellent drollery, which I afterward parted with to my brother George of Wotton." Evelyn.

Drollish
Droll´ish, a. Somewhat droll. Sterne.

Drollist
Droll´ist, n. A droll. [R.] Glanvill.

Dromaeognathous
Dro•mae•og´na•thous, a. [NL. dromaius emu + Gr. jaw.] (Zoöl.) Having the structure of the palate like that of the ostrich and emu.

Dromatherium
Drom•a•the´ri•um, n. [NL., fr. Gr. droma•s running + qhri•on beast. See Dromedary.] (Paleon.) A small extinct triassic mammal from North Carolina, the earliest yet found in America.

Drone fly
Drone" fly (Zoöl.) A dipterous insect ( Eristalis tenax), resembling the drone bee. See Eristalis.

Drongo
Dron´go, n. ; pl. Drongos . (Zoöl.) A passerine bird of the family Dicruridae. They are usually black with a deeply forked tail. They are natives of Asia, Africa, and Australia; — called also drongo shrikes.

Dronish
Dron´ish, a. Like a drone; indolent; slow. Burke. — Dron´ish•ly, adv. — Dron´ish•ness, n.

Dronkelewe
Dron´ke•lewe, a. [See Drink.] Given to drink; drunken. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Drony
Dron´y, a. Like a drone; sluggish; lazy.

Drool, v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Drooled p. pr. & vb. n. Drooling.] [Contr. fr. drivel.] To drivel, or drop saliva; as the child drools.
"His mouth drooling with texts." T. Parker.

Drooper
Droop´er, n. One who, or that which, droops.

Droopingly
Droop´ing•ly, adv. In a drooping manner.

Drop, n. [OE. drope, AS. dropa; akin to OS. dropo, D. drop, OHG. tropo, G. tropfen, Icel. dropi, Sw. droppe; and Fr. AS. dreópan to drip, drop; akin to OS. driopan, D. druipen, OHG. triofan, G. triefen, Icel. drjpa. Cf. Drip, Droop.]
1. The quantity of fluid which falls in one small spherical mass; a liquid globule; a minim; hence, also the smallest easily measured portion of a fluid; a small quantity; as a drop of water.
"With minute drops from off the eaves." Milton.
"As dear to me as are the ruddy drops That visit my sad heart." Shak.
"That drop of peace divine." Keble.
2. That which resembles, or that which hangs like, a liquid drop; as a hanging diamond ornament, an earring, a glass pendant on a chandelier, a sugarplum (sometimes medicated), or a kind of shot or slug.
3. (Arch.) (a) Same as Gutta. (b) Any small pendent ornament.
4. Whatever is arranged to drop, hang, or fall from an elevated position; also a contrivance for lowering something; as: (a) A door or platform opening downward; a trap door; that part of the gallows on which a culprit stands when he is to be hanged; hence, the gallows itself. (b) A machine for lowering heavy weights, as packages, coal wagons, etc., to a ship’s deck. (c) A contrivance for temporarily lowering a gas jet. (d) A curtain which drops or falls in front of the stage of a theater, etc. (e) A drop press or drop hammer. (f) (Mach.) The distance of the axis of a shaft below the base of a hanger.
5. pl. Any medicine the dose of which is measured by drops; as lavender drops.
6. (Naut.) The depth of a square sail; — generally applied to the courses only. Ham. Nav. Encyc.
7. Act of dropping; sudden fall or descent. Ague drop, Black drop. See under Ague, Black. — Drop by drop, in small successive quantities; in repeated portions. "Made to taste drop by drop more than the bitterness of death." Burke. — Drop curtain. See Drop, n. , 4. (d). — Drop forging. (Mech.) (a) A forging made in dies by a drop hammer. (b) The process of making drop forgings. — Drop hammer (Mech.), a hammer for forging, striking up metal, etc., the weight being raised by a strap or similar device, and then released to drop on the metal resting on an anvil or die. — Drop kick (Football), a kick given to the ball as it rebounds after having been dropped from the hands. — Drop lake, a pigment obtained from Brazil wood. Mollett. — Drop letter, a letter to be delivered from the same office where posted. — Drop press (Mech.), a drop hammer; sometimes, a dead- stroke hammer; — also called drop. — Drop scene, a drop curtain on which a scene is painted. See Drop, n. , 4. (d). — Drop seed. (Bot.) See the List under Glass. — Drop serene. (Med.) See Amaurosis.

Drop, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Dropped or Dropt; p. pr. & vb. n. Dropping.] [OE. droppen, AS. dropan, v. i. See Drop, n. ]
1. To pour or let fall in drops; to pour in small globules; to distill. "The trees drop balsam." Creech.
"The recording angel, as he wrote it down, dropped a tear upon the word and blotted it out forever." Sterne.
2. To cause to fall in one portion, or by one motion, like a drop; to let fall; as to drop a line in fishing; to drop a courtesy.
3. To let go; to dismiss; to set aside; to have done with; to discontinue; to forsake; to give up; to omit.
"They suddenly drop’t the pursuit." S. Sharp.
"That astonishing ease with which fine ladies drop you and pick you up again." Thackeray.
"The connection had been dropped many years." Sir W. Scott.
"Dropping the too rough H in Hell and Heaven." Tennyson.
4. To bestow or communicate by a suggestion; to let fall in an indirect, cautious, or gentle manner; as to drop hint, a word of counsel, etc.
5. To lower, as a curtain, or the muzzle of a gun, etc.
6. To send, as a letter; as please drop me a line, a letter, word.
7. To give birth to; as to drop a lamb.
8. To cover with drops; to variegate; to bedrop.
"Show to the sun their waved coats dropped with gold." Milton. To drop a vessel (Naut.), to leave it astern in a race or a chase; to outsail it.

Drop, v. i.
1. To fall in drops.
"The kindly dew drops from the higher tree, And wets the little plants that lowly dwell." Spenser.
2. To fall, in general, literally or figuratively; as ripe fruit drops from a tree; wise words drop from the lips.
"Mutilations of which the meaning has dropped out of memory." H. Spencer.
"When the sound of dropping nuts is heard." Bryant.
3. To let drops fall; to discharge itself in drops.
"The heavens … dropped at the presence of God." Ps. lxviii. 8.
4. To fall dead, or to fall in death.
"Nothing, says Seneca, so soon reconciles us to the thoughts of our own death, as the prospect of one friend after another dropping round us." Digby.
5. To come to an end; to cease; to pass out of mind; as the affair dropped. Pope.
6. To come unexpectedly; — with in or into; as my old friend dropped in a moment. Steele.
"Takes care to drop in when he thinks you are just seated." Spectator.
7. To fall or be depressed; to lower; as the point of the spear dropped a little.
8. To fall short of a mark. [R.]
"Often it drops or overshoots by the disproportion of distance." Collier.
9. To be deep in extent; to descend perpendicularly; as her main topsail drops seventeen yards. To drop astern (Naut.), to go astern of another vessel; to be left behind; to slacken the speed of a vessel so as to fall behind and to let another pass a head. — To drop down (Naut.), to sail, row, or move down a river, or toward the sea. — To drop off, to fall asleep gently; also to die. [Colloq.]

Droplet
Drop´let, n. A little drop; a tear. Shak.

Droplight
Drop´light, n. An apparatus for bringing artificial light down from a chandelier nearer to a table or desk; a pendant. { Drop´meal•, Drop´mele• }, adv. [AS. drop-maelum; dropa drop + mael portion. Cf. Piecemeal.] By drops or small portions. [Obs.]
"Distilling dropmeal, a little at once." Holland.

Dropping
Drop´ping, n.
1. The action of causing to drop or of letting drop; falling.
2. pl. That which falls in drops; the excrement or dung of animals. Dropping bottle, an instrument used to supply small quantities of a fluid to a test tube or other vessel. — Dropping fire, a continued irregular discharge of firearms. — Dropping tube, a tube for ejecting any liquid in drops.

Droppingly
Drop´ping•ly, adv. In drops.

Dropsical
Drop´si•cal, a. [From Dropsy.]
1. Diseased with dropsy; hydropical; tending to dropsy; as a dropsical patient.
2. Of or pertaining to dropsy.

Dropsied
Drop´sied, a. Diseased with drops. Shak.

Dropsy
Drop´sy, n. ; pl. Dropsies (#). [OE. dropsie, dropesie, OF. idropisie, F. hydropisie, L. hydropisis, fr. Gr. dropsy, fr. water. See Water, and cf. Hydropsy.] (Med.) An unnatural collection of serous fluid in any serous cavity of the body, or in the subcutaneous cellular tissue. Dunglison.

Dropworm
Drop´worm (drop"wûrm•), n. (Zoöl.) The larva of any geometrid moth, which drops from trees by means of a thread of silk, as the cankerworm.

Dropwort
Drop´wort (-wûrt•), n. (Bot.) An Old World species of Spiraea ( S. filipendula), with finely cut leaves.

Drosera
Dros´e•ra (dros"e•ra), n. [NL., fr. Gr. drosero•s dewy.] (Bot.) A genus of low perennial or biennial plants, the leaves of which are beset with gland-tipped bristles. See Sundew. Gray.

Drosometer
Dro•som´e•ter, n. [Gr. dro•sos dew + -meter: cf. F. drosometre.] (Meteorol.) An instrument for measuring the quantity of dew on the surface of a body in the open air. It consists of a balance, having a plate at one end to receive the dew, and at the other a weight protected from the deposit of dew.

Dross, n. [AS. dros, fr. dreósan to fall. See Dreary.]
1. The scum or refuse matter which is thrown off, or falls from, metals in smelting the ore, or in the process of melting; recrement.
2. Rust of metals. [R.] Addison.
3. Waste matter; any worthless matter separated from the better part; leavings; dregs; refuse.
"All world’s glory is but dross unclean." Spenser.
"At the devil’s booth are all things sold, Each ounce of dross coats its ounce of gold." Lowell.

Drossy
Dross´y, a. [ Compar. Drossier superl. Drossiest ] Of, pertaining to, resembling, dross; full of dross; impure; worthless. " Drossy gold." Dryden. "Drossy rhymes." Donne. — Dross´i•ness, n.

Droughty
Drought´y, a.
1. Characterized by drought; wanting rain; arid; adust.
"Droughty and parched countries." Ray.
2. Dry; thirsty; wanting drink.
"Thy droughty throat." Philips.

Droumy
Drou´my, a. [Cf. Scot. drum, dram, melancholy, Icel prumr a moper, W. trwm heavy, sad.] Troubled; muddy. [Obs.] Bacon.

Drouth, n. Same as Drought. Sandys.
"Another ill accident is drouth at the spindling of corn." Bacon.
"One whose drouth [thirst], Yet scarce allayed, still eyes the current stream." Milton.
"In the dust and drouth of London life." Tennyson.

Drove, imp. of Drive.

Drove, n. [AS. draf, fr. drifan to drive. See Drive.]
1. A collection of cattle driven, or cattle collected for driving; a number of animals, as oxen, sheep, or swine, driven in a body.
2. Any collection of irrational animals, moving or driving forward; as a finny drove. Milton.
3. A crowd of people in motion.
"Where droves, as at a city gate, may pass." Dryden.
4. A road for driving cattle; a driftway. [Eng.]
5. (Agric.) A narrow drain or channel used in the irrigation of land. Simmonds.
6. (Masonry) (a) A broad chisel used to bring stone to a nearly smooth surface; — called also drove chisel. (b) The grooved surface of stone finished by the drove chisel; — called also drove work.

Drove, v. t. & i. [ imp. & p. p. Droved p. pr. & vb. n. Droving ] [Cf. Drove, n. , and Drover.]
1. To drive, as cattle or sheep, esp. on long journeys; to follow the occupation of a drover.
"He’s droving now with Conroy’s sheep along the Castlereagh." Paterson.
2. To finish, as stone, with a drove or drove chisel.

Drovy
Dro´vy, a. [AS. drf dirty; cf. D. droef, G. trübe, Goth. drbjan to trouble.] Turbid; muddy; filthy. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Drow, imp. of Draw. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Drownage
Drown´age, n. The act of drowning. [R.]

Drowner
Drown´er, n. One who, or that which, drowns.

Drowse, v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Drowsed p. pr. & vb. n. Drowsing.] [AS. drsian, drsan, to sink, become slow or inactive; cf. OD. droosen to be sleepy, fall asleep, LG. drsen, druusken, to slumber, fall down with a noise; prob, akin to AS. dreósan to fall. See Dreary.] To sleep imperfectly or unsoundly; to slumber; to be heavy with sleepiness; to doze. "He drowsed upon his couch." South.
"In the pool drowsed the cattle up to their knees." Lowell.

Drowse, v. t. To make heavy with sleepiness or imperfect sleep; to make dull or stupid. Milton.

Drowse, n. A slight or imperfect sleep; a doze.
"But smiled on in a drowse of ecstasy." Mrs. Browning.

Drowsihead
Drow´si•head, n. Drowsiness. Thomson.

Drowsihed
Drow´si•hed, n. Drowsihead. [Obs.] Spenser.

Drowsily
Drow´si•ly, adv. In a drowsy manner.

Drowsiness
Drow´si•ness, n. State of being drowsy. Milton.

Drowsy
Drow´sy, a. [ Compar. Drowsier superl. Drowsiest.]
1. Inclined to drowse; heavy with sleepiness; lethargic; dozy. "When I am drowsy." Shak.
"Dapples the drowsy east with spots of gray." Shak.
"To our age’s drowsy blood Still shouts the inspiring sea." Lowell.
2. Disposing to sleep; lulling; soporific.
"The drowsy hours, dispensers of all good." Tennyson.
3. Dull; stupid. " Drowsy reasoning." Atterbury.
Syn. — Sleepy; lethargic; dozy; somnolent; comatose; dull heavy; stupid.

Drubber
Drub´ber, n. One who drubs. Sir W. Scott.

Drudge, v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Drudged p. pr. & vb. n. Drudging.] [OE. druggen; prob not akin to E. drag, v. t., but fr. Celtic; cf. Ir. drugaire a slave or drudge.] To perform menial work; to labor in mean or unpleasant offices with toil and fatigue.
"He gradually rose in the estimation of the booksellers for whom he drudged." Macaulay.

Drudge, v. t. To consume laboriously; — with away.
"Rise to our toils and drudge away the day." Otway.

Drudge, n. One who drudges; one who works hard in servile employment; a mental servant. Milton.

Drudger
Drudg´er, n.
1. One who drudges; a drudge.
2. A dredging box.

Drudgery
Drudg´er•y, n. The act of drudging; disagreeable and wearisome labor; ignoble or slavish toil.
"The drudgery of penning definitions." Macaulay.
"Paradise was a place of bliss … without drudgery and with out sorrow." Locke.
Syn. — See Toll.

Druery
Dru´er•y, n. [OF. druerie.] Courtship; gallantry; love; an object of love. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Drug, v. i. [See 1st Drudge.] To drudge; to toil laboriously. [Obs.] "To drugge and draw." Chaucer.

Drug, n. A drudge Shak. (Timon iv. 3, 253).

Drug, n. [F. drogue, prob. fr. D. droog; akin to E. dry; thus orig., dry substance, hers, plants, or wares. See Dry.]
1. Any animal, vegetable, or mineral substance used in the composition of medicines; any stuff used in dyeing or in chemical operations.
"Whence merchants bring"
"Their spicy drugs." Milton.
2. Any commodity that lies on hand, or is not salable; an article of slow sale, or in no demand. "But sermons are mere drugs." Fielding.
"And virtue shall a drug become." Dryden.

Drug, v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Drugged p. pr. & vb. n. Drugging.] [Cf. F. droguer.] To prescribe or administer drugs or medicines. B. Jonson.

Drug, v. t.
1. To affect or season with drugs or ingredients; esp., to stupefy by a narcotic drug. Also Fig.
"The laboring masses … [were] drugged into brutish good humor by a vast system of public spectacles." C. Kingsley.
"Drug thy memories, lest thou learn it." Tennyson.
2. To tincture with something offensive or injurious.
"Drugged as oft, With hatefullest disrelish writhed their jaws." Milton.
3. To dose to excess with, or as with, drugs.
"With pleasure drugged, he almost longed for woe." Byron.

Drugger
Drug´ger, n. A druggist. [Obs.] Burton.

Drugget
Drug´get, n. [F. droguet, prop. dim. of drogue trash, stuff, perh, the same word as drogue drug, but cf. also W. drwg evil, bad, Ir. & Gael. droch, Arm. droug, drouk. See 3d Drug.] (a) A coarse woolen cloth dyed of one color or printed on one side; generally used as a covering for carpets. (b) By extension, any material used for the same purpose.

Druid
Dru´id, n. [L. Druides; of Celtic origin; cf. Ir. & Gael. draoi, druidh, magician, Druid, W. derwydd Druid.]
1. One of an order of priests which in ancient times existed among certain branches of the Celtic race, especially among the Gauls and Britons. The Druids superintended the affairs of religion and morality, and exercised judicial functions. They practiced divination and magic, and sacrificed human victims as a part of their worship. They consisted of three classes; the bards, the vates or prophets, and the Druids proper, or priests. Their most sacred rites were performed in the depths of oak forests or of caves.
2. A member of a social and benevolent order, founded in London in 1781, and professedly based on the traditions of the ancient Druids. Lodges or groves of the society are established in other countries. Druid stones, a name given, in the south of England, to weatherworn, rough pillars of gray sandstone scattered over the chalk downs, but in other countries generally in the form of circles, or in detached pillars.

Druidess
Dru´id•ess, n. A female Druid; a prophetess. { Dru•id´ic, Dru•id´ic•al } a. Pertaining to, or resembling, the Druids. Druidical circles. See under Circle.

Druidism
Dru´id•ism, n. The system of religion, philosophy, and instruction, received and taught by the Druids; the rites and ceremonies of the Druids.

Drum, n. [Cf. D. trom, trommel, LG. trumme, G. trommel, Dan. tromme, Sw. trumma, OHG. trumba a trumpet, Icel. pruma a clap of thunder, and as a verb, to thunder, Dan. drum a booming sound, drumme to boom; prob. partly at least of imitative origin; perh. akin to E. trum, or trumpet.]
1. (Mus.) An instrument of percussion, consisting either of a hollow cylinder, over each end of which is stretched a piece of skin or vellum, to be beaten with a stick; or of a metallic hemisphere (kettledrum) with a single piece of skin to be so beaten; the common instrument for marking time in martial music; one of the pair of tympani in an orchestra, or cavalry band.
"The drums cry bud-a-dub." Gascoigne.
2. Anything resembling a drum in form; as: (a) A sheet iron radiator, often in the shape of a drum, for warming an apartment by means of heat received from a stovepipe, or a cylindrical receiver for steam, etc. (b) A small cylindrical box in which figs, etc., are packed. (c) (Anat.) The tympanum of the ear; — often, but incorrectly, applied to the tympanic membrane. (d) (Arch.) One of the cylindrical, or nearly cylindrical, blocks, of which the shaft of a column is composed; also a vertical wall, whether circular or polygonal in plan, carrying a cupola or dome. (e) (Mach.) A cylinder on a revolving shaft, generally for the purpose of driving several pulleys, by means of belts or straps passing around its periphery; also the barrel of a hoisting machine, on which the rope or chain is wound.
3. (Zoöl.) See Drumfish.
4. A noisy, tumultuous assembly of fashionable people at a private house; a rout. [Archaic]
"Not unaptly styled a drum, from the noise and emptiness of the entertainment." Smollett. There were also drum major, rout, tempest, and hurricane, differing only in degrees of multitude and uproar, as the significant name of each declares.
5. A tea party; a kettledrum. G. Eliot.Bass drum. See in the Vocabulary. — Double drum. See under Double.

Drum, v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Drummed p. pr. & vb. n. Drumming.]
1. To beat a drum with sticks; to beat or play a tune on a drum.
2. To beat with the fingers, as with drumsticks; to beat with a rapid succession of strokes; to make a noise like that of a beaten drum; as the ruffed grouse drums with his wings.
"Drumming with his fingers on the arm of his chair." W. Irving.
3. To throb, as the heart. [R.] Dryden.
4. To go about, as a drummer does, to gather recruits, to draw or secure partisans, customers, etc,; — with for.

Drum, v. t.
1. To execute on a drum, as a tune.
2. (With out) To expel ignominiously, with beat of drum; as to drum out a deserter or rogue from a camp, etc.
3. (With up) To assemble by, or as by, beat of drum; to collect; to gather or draw by solicitation; as to drum up recruits; to drum up customers.

Drum major
Drum" ma"jor .
1. The chief or first drummer of a regiment; an instructor of drummers.
2. The marching leader of a military band. [U.S.]
3. A noisy gathering. [R.] See under Drum, n. , 4.

Drumbeat
Drum´beat, n. The sound of a beaten drum; drum music.
"Whose morning drumbeat, following the sun, and keeping company with the hours, circles the earth with one continuous and unbroken strain of the martial airs of England." D. Webster.

Drumble
Drum´ble, v. i. [See Drumly.]
1. To be sluggish or lazy; to be confused. [Obs.] Shak.
2. To mumble in speaking. [Obs.]

Drumhead
Drum´head, n.
1. The parchment or skin stretched over one end of a drum.
2. The top of a capstan which is pierced with sockets for levers used in turning it. See Illust. of Capstan. Drumhead court-martial (Mil.), a summary court-martial called to try offenses on the battlefield or the line of march, when, sometimes, a drumhead has to do service as a writing table.

Drumly
Drum´ly, a. [Cf. Droumy.] Turbid; muddy. [Scot. & Obs. or Prov. Eng.] Wodroephe (1623). Burns.

Drumming
Drum´ming, n. The act of beating upon, or as if upon, a drum; also the noise which the male of the ruffed grouse makes in spring, by beating his wings upon his sides.

Drummond light
Drum"mond light [From Thomas Drummond, a British naval officer.] A very intense light, produced by turning two streams of gas one oxygen and the other hydrogen, or coal gas in a state of ignition, upon a ball of lime; or a stream of oxygen gas through a flame of alcohol upon a ball or disk of lime; — called also oxycalcium light, or lime light. The name is also applied sometimes to a heliostat, invented by Drummond, for rendering visible a distant point, as in geodetic surveying, by reflecting upon it a beam of light from the sun.

Drumstick
Drum´stick, n.
1. A stick with which a drum is beaten.
2. Anything resembling a drumstick in form, as the tibiotarsus, or second joint, of the leg of a fowl.

Drunk, a. [OE. dronke, drunke, dronken, drunken, AS. druncen. Orig. the same as drunken, p. p. of drink. See Drink.]
1. Intoxicated with, or as with, strong drink; inebriated; drunken; — never used attributively, but always predicatively; as the man is drunk (not, a drunk man).
"Be not drunk with wine, where in is excess." Eph. v. 18.
"Drunk with recent prosperity." Macaulay.
2. Drenched or saturated with moisture or liquid.
"I will make mine arrows drunk with blood." Deut. xxxii. 42.

Drunk, n. A drunken condition; a spree. [Slang]

Drunkard
Drunk´ard, n. [ Drunk + - ard.] One who habitually drinks strong liquors immoderately; one whose habit it is to get drunk; a toper; a sot.
"The drunkard and glutton shall come to poverty." Prov. xxiii. 21.

Drunken
Drunk´en, a. [AS. druncen, prop., that has drunk, p. p. of drincan, taken as active. See Drink, v. i., and cf. Drunk.]
1. Overcome by strong drink; intoxicated by, or as by, spirituous liquor; inebriated.
"Drunken men imagine everything turneth round." Bacon.
2. Saturated with liquid or moisture; drenched.
"Let the earth be drunken with our blood." Shak.
3. Pertaining to, or proceeding from, intoxication.
"The drunken quarrels of a rake." Swift.

Drunkenly
Drunk´en•ly, adv. In a drunken manner. [R.] Shak.

Drunkenness
Drunk´en•ness, n.
1. The state of being drunken with, or as with, alcoholic liquor; intoxication; inebriety; — used of the casual state or the habit.
"The Lacedemonians trained up their children to hate drunkenness by bringing a drunken man into their company." I. Watts.
2. Disorder of the faculties, resembling intoxication by liquors; inflammation; frenzy; rage.
"Passion is the drunkenness of the mind." South.
Syn. — Intoxication; inebriation; inebriety. — Drunkenness, Intoxication, Inebriation. Drunkenness refers more to the habit; intoxication and inebriation, to specific acts. The first two words are extensively used in a figurative sense; a person is intoxicated with success, and is drunk with joy. "This plan of empire was not taken up in the first intoxication of unexpected success." Burke. { Drunk´en•ship, Drunk´ship } n. The state of being drunk; drunkenness. [Obs.] Gower.

Drupal
Drup´al, a. (Bot.) Drupaceous.

Drupe, n. [F. drupe, L. drupa an overripe, wrinkled olive, fr. Gr. .] (Bot.) A fruit consisting of pulpy, coriaceous, or fibrous exocarp, without valves, containing a nut or stone with a kernel. The exocarp is succulent in the plum, cherry, apricot, peach, etc.; dry and subcoriaceous in the almond; and fibrous in the cocoanut. { Drup´el, Drupe´let } n. [Dim. of Drupe.] (Bot.) A small drupe, as one of the pulpy grains of the blackberry.

Dry, a. [ Compar. Drier superl. Driest.] [OE. drue, druye, drie, AS. dryge; akin to LG. dröge, D. droog, OHG. trucchan, G. trocken, Icel. draugr a dry log. Cf. Drought, Drouth, 3d Drug.]
1. Free from moisture; having little humidity or none; arid; not wet or moist; deficient in the natural or normal supply of moisture, as rain or fluid of any kind; — said especially: (a) Of the weather: Free from rain or mist.
"The weather, we agreed, was too dry for the season." Addison. (b) Of vegetable matter: Free from juices or sap; not succulent; not green; as dry wood or hay. (c) Of animals: Not giving milk; as the cow is dry. (d) Of persons: Thirsty; needing drink.
"Give the dry fool drink." Shak (e) Of the eyes: Not shedding tears.
"Not a dry eye was to be seen in the assembly." Prescott. (f) (Med.) Of certain morbid conditions, in which there is entire or comparative absence of moisture; as dry gangrene; dry catarrh.
2. Destitute of that which interests or amuses; barren; unembellished; jejune; plain.
"These epistles will become less dry, more susceptible of ornament." Pope.
3. Characterized by a quality somewhat severe, grave, or hard; hence, sharp; keen; shrewd; quaint; as a dry tone or manner; dry wit.
"He was rather a dry, shrewd kind of body." W. Irving.
4. (Fine Arts) Exhibiting a sharp, frigid preciseness of execution, or the want of a delicate contour in form, and of easy transition in coloring. Dry area (Arch.), a small open space reserved outside the foundation of a building to guard it from damp. — Dry blow. (a) (Med.) A blow which inflicts no wound, and causes no effusion of blood. (b) A quick, sharp blow. — Dry bone (Min.), Smithsonite, or carbonate of zinc; — a miner’s term. — Dry castor (Zoöl.) a kind of beaver; — called also parchment beaver. — Dry cupping. (Med.) See under Cupping. - - Dry dock. See under Dock. — Dry fat. See Dry vat (below). — Dry light, pure unobstructed light; hence, a clear, impartial view. Bacon.
"The scientific man must keep his feelings under stern control, lest they obtrude into his researches, and color the dry light in which alone science desires to see its objects." J. C. Shairp. — Dry masonry. See Masonry. — Dry measure, a system of measures of volume for dry or coarse articles, by the bushel, peck, etc. — Dry pile (Physics), a form of the Voltaic pile, constructed without the use of a liquid, affording a feeble current, and chiefly useful in the construction of electroscopes of great delicacy; — called also Zamboni’s, from the names of the two earliest constructors of it. — Dry pipe (Steam Engine), a pipe which conducts dry steam from a boiler. — Dry plate (Photog.), a glass plate having a dry coating sensitive to light, upon which photographic negatives or pictures can be made, without moistening. — Dry-plate process, the process of photographing with dry plates. — Dry point. (Fine Arts) (a) An engraving made with the needle instead of the burin, in which the work is done nearly as in etching, but is finished without the use acid. (b) A print from such an engraving, usually upon paper. (c) Hence: The needle with which such an engraving is made. — Dry rent (Eng. Law), a rent reserved by deed, without a clause of distress. Bouvier. — Dry rot, a decay of timber, reducing its fibers to the condition of a dry powdery dust, often accompanied by the presence of a peculiar fungus ( Merulius lacrymans), which is sometimes considered the cause of the decay; but it is more probable that the real cause is the decomposition of the wood itself. D. C. Eaton. Called also sap rot, and, in the United States, powder post. Hebert. — Dry stove, a hothouse adapted to preserving the plants of arid climates. Brande & C. — Dry vat, a vat, basket, or other receptacle for dry articles. — Dry wine, that in which the saccharine matter and fermentation were so exactly balanced, that they have wholly neutralized each other, and no sweetness is perceptible; — opposed to sweet wine, in which the saccharine matter is in excess.

Dry, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Dried p. pr. & vb. n. Drying.] [AS. drygan; cf. drugian to grow dry. See Dry, a. ] To make dry; to free from water, or from moisture of any kind, and by any means; to exsiccate; as to dry the eyes; to dry one’s tears; the wind dries the earth; to dry a wet cloth; to dry hay. To dry up. (a) To scorch or parch with thirst; to deprive utterly of water; to consume.
"Their honorable men are famished, and their multitude dried up with thirst." Is. v. 13.
"The water of the sea, which formerly covered it, was in time exhaled and dried up by the sun." Woodward. (b) To make to cease, as a stream of talk.
"Their sources of revenue were dried up." Jowett (Thucyd. ) — To dry, or dry up, a cow, to cause a cow to cease secreting milk. Tylor.

Dry, v. i.
1. To grow dry; to become free from wetness, moisture, or juice; as the road dries rapidly.
2. To evaporate wholly; to be exhaled; — said of moisture, or a liquid; — sometimes with up; as the stream dries, or dries up.
3. To shrivel or wither; to lose vitality.
"And his hand, which he put forth against him, dried up, so that he could not pull it in again to him." I Kings xiii. 4.

Dry dock
Dry" dock (Naut.) See under Dock.

Dry nurse
Dry" nurse A nurse who attends and feeds a child by hand; — in distinction from a wet nurse, who suckles it.

Dryad
Dry´ad, n. [L. dryas, pl. dryades, Gr., pl., fr. oak, tree. See Tree.] (Class. Myth.) A wood nymph; a nymph whose life was bound up with that of her tree.

Dryas
Dry´as, n. ; pl. Dryades (#). [L. See Dryad.] (Class. Myth.) A dryad.

Dry-boned
Dry´-boned, a. Having dry bones, or bones without flesh.

Dryer
Dry´er, n. See Drier. Sir W. Temple.

Dry-fisted
Dry´-fist•ed, a. Niggardly.

Dryfoot
Dry´foot, n. The scent of the game, as far as it can be traced. [Obs.] Shak.

Drying
Dry´ing, a.
1. Adapted or tending to exhaust moisture; as a drying wind or day; a drying room.
2. Having the quality of rapidly becoming dry. Drying oil, an oil which, either naturally or after boiling with oxide of lead, absorbs oxygen from the air and dries up rapidly. Drying oils are used as the bases of many paints and varnishes.

Dryly
Dry´ly, adv. In a dry manner; not succulently; without interest; without sympathy; coldly.

Dryness
Dry´ness, n. The state of being dry. See Dry.

Dryobalanops
Dry•o•bal´a•nops, n. [NL., fr. Gr. dry^s oak + ba•lanos acorn + ’o•psis appearance. The fruit remotely resembles an acorn in its cup.] (Bot.) The genus to which belongs the single species D. Camphora, a lofty resinous tree of Borneo and Sumatra, yielding Borneo camphor and camphor oil.

Dry-rub
Dry´-rub, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Dry-rubbed p. pr. & vb. n. Dry-rubbing.] To rub and cleanse without wetting. Dodsley.

Drysaltery
Dry´salt•er•y, n. The articles kept by a drysalter; also the business of a drysalter.

Dry-shod
Dry´-shod, a. Without wetting the feet.

Dry-stone
Dry´-stone, a. Constructed of uncemented stone. "Dry-stone walls." Sir W. Scott. { Dryth, or Drith }, n. Drought. [Obs.] Tyndale.