DRABBING, participle present tense Keeping company with lewd women.

DRABBING, noun An associating with strumpets.

DRABBLE, verb transitive To draggle; to make dirty by drawing in mud and water; to wet and befoul; as, to drabble a gown or cloke. In scottish, this word signifies to dirty by slabbering, as if it were allied to dribble, drivel, from the root of drip, which coincides with drop.

DRABBLE, verb intransitive To fish for barbels with a long line and rod.

DRABBLING, adjective Drawing in mud or water; angling for barbels.

DRABBLING, noun A method of angling for barbels with a rod and a long line passed through a piece of lead.

DRABLER, noun In seamens language, a small additional sail, sometimes laced to the bottom of a bonnet on a square sail, in sloops and schooners. It is the same to a bonnet, as a bonnet is to a course.

DRACHMA, noun [Latin , Gr.]

1. A Grecian coin. Of the value of seven pence, three farthings, sterling, or nearly fourteen cents.

2. The eighth part of an ounce, or sixty grains, or three scruples; a weight used by apothecaries, but usually written dram.

DRACO, noun [See Dragon.]

1. In astronomy, a constellation of the northern hemisphere, containing according to Flamstead, eighty stars.

2. A luminous exhalation from marshy grounds.

3. A genus of animals of two species. [See Dragon.]

DRACONTIC, adjective [Latin] In astronomy, belonging to that space of time in which the moon performs one entire revolution.

DRACUNCULUS, noun [Latin]

1. In botany, a plant, a species of Arum, with a long stalk, spotted like a serpents belly.

2. In medicine, a long slender worm, bred in the muscular parts of the arms and legs called Guinea worm. These are troublesome in tropical climates, and are usually extirpated by the point of a needle.

DRAD, adjective Terrible. [See Dread.] This was also the old preterit tense of dread.

DRAFF, noun Refuse; lees; dregs; the wash given to swine, or grains to cows; waste matter.

DRAFFISH, adjective Worthless.

DRAFFY, adjective Dreggy; waste; worthless

DRAFT, noun [corrupted from draught, from drag, draw, but authorized by respectable use.]

1. A drawing; as, this horse is good for draft In this sense, draught is perhaps most common.

2. A drawing of men from a military band; a selecting or detaching of soldiers from an army, or any part of it, or from a military post. Sometimes a drawing of men from other companies or societies.

Several of the States had supplied the deficiency by drafts to serve for the year.

These important posts, in consequence of heavy drafts, were left weakly defended.

3. An order from one man 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.

4. A drawing of lines for a plan; a figure described on paper; delineation; sketch; plan delineated. [See Draught.]

5. Depth of water necessary to float a ship. [See Draught.]

6. A writing composed.

DRAFT, verb transitive

1. To draw the outline; to delineate.

2. To compose and write; as, to draft a memorial or a lease.

3. To draw men from a military band or post; to select; to detach.

4. To draw men from any company, collection or society.

This Cohen-Caph-El was some royal seminary in Upper Egypt, from whence they drafted novices to supply their colleges and temples.

DRAFTED, participle passive Drawn; delineated; detached.

DRAFTING, participle present tense Drawing; delineating; detaching.

DRAFTS, noun A game played on checkers.

DRAG, verb transitive [G., Latin See Drink and Drench.]

1. To pull; to haul; to draw along the ground by main force; applied particularly to drawing heavy things with labor, along the ground or other surface; as, to drag stone or timber; to drag a net in fishing. John 21:8.

2. To break land by drawing a drag or harrow over it; to harrow; a common use of this word in New England.

3. To draw along slowly or heavily; to draw any thing burdensome; as, to drag a lingering life.

4. To draw along in contempt, as unworthy to be carried.

He drags me at his chariot-wheels.

To drag one in chains.

5. To pull or haul about roughly and forcibly.

In seamens language, to drag an anchor, is to draw or trail it along the bottom when loosened, or when the anchor will not hold the ship.

DRAG, verb intransitive

1. To hang so low as to trail on the ground.

2. To fish with a drag; as, they have been dragging for fish all day, with little success.

3. To be drawn along; as, the anchor drags.

4. To be moved slowly; to proceed heavily; as, this business drags.

5. To hang or grate on the floor, as a door.

DRAG, noun

1. Something to be drawn along the ground, as a net or a hook.

2. A particular kind of harrow.

3. A car; a low cart.

4. In sea-language, a machine consisting of a sharp square frame of iron, encircled with a net, used to take the wheel off from the platform or bottom of the decks.

5. Whatever is drawn; a boat in tow; whatever serves to retard a ships way.

DRAGGED, participle passive Drawn on the ground; drawn with labor or force; drawn along slowly and heavily; raked with a drag or harrow.

DRAGGING, participle present tense Drawing on the ground; drawing with labor or by force; drawing slowly or heavily; raking with a drag.

DRAGGLE, verb transitive To wet and dirty by drawing on the ground or mud, or on wet grass; to drabble.

DRAGGLE, verb intransitive To be drawn on the ground; to become wet or dirty by being drawn on the mud or wet grass.

DRAGGLED, participle passive Drawn on the ground; wet or dirtied by being drawn on the ground or mire.

DRAGGLING, participle present tense Drawing on the ground; making dirty by drawing on the ground or wet grass.

DRAGMAN, noun A fisherman that uses a dragnet.

DRAGNET, noun A net to be drawn on the bottom of a river or pond for taking fish.

DRAGOMAN, DROGMAN, noun An interpreter; a term in general use in the Levant and other parts of the East.

DRAGON, noun [Latin , Gr., G.]

1. A kind of winged serpent, much celebrated in the romances of the middle ages.

2. A fiery, shooting meteor, or imaginary serpent.

Swift, swift, ye dragons of the night! That dawning may bear the ravens eye.

3. A fierce, violent person, male or female; as, this man or woman is a dragon

4. A constellation of the northern hemisphere. [See Draco.]

In Scripture, dragon seems sometimes to signify a large marine fish or serpent, Isaiah 27:1. Where the leviathan is also mentioned; also Psalms 74:13.

Sometimes it seems to signify a venomous land serpent. Psalms 91:13. The dragon shalt thou trample under foot.

It is often used for the devil, who is called the old serpent. Revelations 20:2.

DRAGON, noun A genus of animals, the Draco. They have four legs, a cylindrical tail, and membranaceous wings, radiated like the fins of a flying-fish.

DRAGONET, noun

1. A little dragon.

2. A fish with a slender round body, colored with yellow, blue and white; the head is large and depressed at the top and has two orifices, through which it breathes and ejects water, like the cetaceous tribe.

DRAGONISH, adjective In the form of a dragon; dragonlike.

DRAGONLIKE, adjective Like a dragon; fiery; furious.

DRAGONS, noun A genus of plants, the Dracontium, of several species, natives of the Indies.

DRAGOON, noun [G., L, an ensign bearer; dragon; an appellation given to horsemen, perhaps for their rapidity or fierceness.] A soldier or musketeer who serves on horseback or on foot, as occasion may require. Their arms are a sword, a musket and a bayonet.

DRAGOON, verb transitive

1. To persecute by abandoning a place to the rage of soldiers.

2. To enslave or reduce to subjection by soldiers.

3. To harass; to persecute; to compel to submit by violent measures; to force. [This is the more usual sense.]

The colonies may be influenced to any thing, but they can de dragooned to nothing.

DRAGOONADE, noun The abandoning of a place to the rage of soldiers.

DRAGOONED, participle passive Abandoned to the violence of soldiers; persecuted; harassed.

DRAGOONING, participle present tense Abandoning to the rage of soldiers; persecuting; harassing; vexing.

DRAIL, verb transitive To trail. [Not in use.]

DRAIL, verb intransitive To draggle. [Not in use.]

DRAIN, verb transitive

1. To filter; to cause to pass through some porous substance.

Salt water, drained through twenty vessels of earth, hath become fresh.

2. To empty or clear of liquor, by causing the liquor to drop or run off slowly; as, to drain a vessel or its contents.

3. To make dry; to exhaust of water or other liquor, by causing it to flow off in channels, or through porous substances; as, to drain land; to drain a swamp or marsh.

4. To empty; to exhaust; to draw off gradually; as, a foreign war drains a country of specie.

DRAIN, verb intransitive

1. To flow off gradually; as, let the water of low ground drain off.

2. To be emptied of liquor, by flowing or dropping; as, let the vessel stand and drain; let the cloth hand and drain

DRAIN, noun A channel through which water or other liquid flows off; particularly, a trench or ditch to convey water from wet land; a watercourse; a sewer; a sink.

DRAINABLE, adjective Capable of being drained.

DRAINAGE, noun A draining; a gradual flowing off of any liquid.

DRAINED, participle passive Emptied of water or other liquor by a gradual discharge, flowing or dropping; exhausted; drawn off.

DRAINING, participle present tense Emptying of water or other liquor by filtration or flowing in small channels.

DRAKE, noun [G., L, a duck.]

1. The male of the duck kind.

2. [Latin , dragon.] A small piece of artillery.

3. The drake-fly.

DRAM, noun [contracted from drachma, which see.]

1. Among druggists and physicians, a weight of the eighth part of an ounce, or sixty grains. In avoirdupois weight, the sixteenth part of an ounce.

2. A small quantity; as no dram of judgment.

3. As much spirituous liquor as is drank at once; as a dram of brandy. Drams are the slow poison of life.

4. Spirit; distilled liquor.

DRAM, verb intransitive To drink drams; to indulge in the use of ardent spirit. [ A low word expressing a low practice.]

DRAMA, noun [Gr., to make.] A poem or composition representing a picture of human life, and accommodated to action. The principal species of the drama are tragedy and comedy; inferior species are tragi-comedy, opera, etc.

DRAMATIC, DRAMATICAL, adjective Pertaining to the drama; represent by action; theatrical; not narrative.

DRAMATIC, DRAMATICAL adjective Pertaining to the drama; represent by action; theatrical; not narrative.

DRAMATICALLY, adjective By representation; in the manner of the drama.

DRAMATIST, noun The author of a dramatic composition; a writer of plays.

DRAMATIZE, verb transitive To compose in the form of the drama; or to give to a composition the form of a play.

At Riga in 1204 was acted a prophetic play, that is, a dramatized extract from the history of the Old and New Testaments.

DRANK, preterit tense and participle passive of drink.

DRANK, noun A term for wild oats.

DRAPE, verb transitive To make cloth; also, to banter.

DRAPER, noun One who sells cloths; a dealer in cloths; as a linen-draper or woolen-draper.

DRAPERY, noun

1. Clothwork; the trade of making cloth.

2. Cloth; stuffs of wool.

3. In sculpture and painting, the representation of the clothing or dress of human figures; also, tapestry, hangings, curtains, etc.

DRAPET, noun Cloth; coverlet. [Not in use.]

DRASTIC, adjective [Gr., to make.] Powerful; acting with strength or violence; efficacious; as a drastic cathartic.

DRAUGH. [See Draff.]

DRAUGHT, noun Draft. [from draw, drag.]

1. The act of drawing; as a horse or ox fit for draught

2. The quality of being drawn; as a cart of plow of easy draught

3. The drawing of liquor into the mouth and throat; the act of drinking.

4. The quantity of liquor drank at once.

5. The act of delineating, or that which is delineated; a representation by lines, as the figure of a house, a machine, a fort, etc., described on paper.

6. Representation by picture; figure painted, or drawn by the pencil.

7. The act of drawing a net; a sweeping for fish.

8. That which is taken by sweeping with a net; as a draught of fishes. Luke 5:4.

9. The drawing or bending of a bow; the act of shooting with a bow and arrow.

10. The act of drawing men from a military band, army or post; also, the forces drawn; a detachment. [See Draft, which is more generally used.]

11. A sink or drain. Matthew 15:17.

12. An order for the payment of money; a bill of exchange. [See Draft.]

13. The depth of water necessary to float a ship, or the depth a ship sinks in water, especially when laden; as a ship of twelve feet draught

14. In England, a small allowance on weighable goods, made by the king to the importer, or by the seller to the buyer, to insure full weight.

15. A sudden attack or drawing on an enemy. [Query.]

16. A writing composed.

17. Draughts, a kind of game resembling chess.

DRAUGHT, verb transitive To draw out; to call forth. [See Draft.]

DRAUGHTSMAN, noun

1. A man who draws writings or designs or one who is skilled in such drawings.

2. One who drinks drams; a tippler.

DRAVE, the old participle of drive. We now use drove.

DRAW, verb transitive preterit tense drew; participle passive drawn. [Latin It is only a dialectical spelling of drag, which see.]

1. To pull along; to haul; to cause to move forward by force applied in advance of the thing moved or at the fore-end, as by a rope or chain. It differs from drag only in this, that drag is more generally applied to things moved along the ground by sliding, or moved with greater toil or difficulty, and draw is applied to all bodies moved by force in advance, whatever may be the degree of force. draw is the more general or generic term, and drag, 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.

2. To pull out, as to draw a sword or dagger from its sheath; to unsheathe. Hence, to draw the sword, is to wage war.

3. To bring by compulsion; to cause to come.

Do not rich men oppress you, and draw you before the judgment seat? James 2:6.

4. To pull up or out; to raise from any depth; as, to draw water from a well.

5. To suck; as, to draw the breasts.

6. To attract; to cause to move or tend towards itself; as a magnet or other attracting body is said to draw it.

7. To attract; to cause to turn towards itself; to engage; as, a beauty or a popular speaker draws the eyes of an assembly, or draws their attention.

8. To inhale; to take air into the lungs; as, there I first drew air; I draw the sultry air.

9. To pull or take from a spit, as a piece of meat.

10. To take from a cask or vat; to cause or to suffer a liquid to run out; a, to draw wine or cider.

11. To take a liquid form the body; to let out; as, to draw blood or water.

12. To take from an over; as, to draw bread.

13. To cause to slide; as a curtain, either in closing or unclosing; to open or unclose and discover, or to close and conceal. To draw the curtain is used in both sense.

14. To extract; as, to draw spirit from grain or juice.

15. To produce; to bring, as an agent or efficient cause; usually followed by a modifying word; as, piety draws down blessings; crimes draw down vengeance; vice draws on us many temporal evils; war draws after it a train of calamities.

16. To move gradually or slowly; to extend.

They drew themselves more westerly.

17. To lengthen; to extend in length.

How long her face is drawn.

In some similes, men draw their comparisons into minute particulars of no importance.

18. To utter in a lingering manner; as, to draw a groan.

19. To run or extend, by marking or forming; as, to draw a line on paper, or a line of circumvallation. Hence,

20. To represent by lines drawn on a plain surface; to form a picture or image; as, to draw the figure of man; to draw the face. Hence,

21. To describe; to represent by words; as, the orator drew an admirable picture of human misery.

22. To represent in fancy; to image in the mind.

23. To derive; to have or receive from some source, cause or donor; as, to draw the rudiments of science from a civilized nation; to draw consolation from divine promises.

24. To deduce; as, to draw arguments from facts, or inferences from circumstantial evidence.

25. To allure; to entice; to lead by persuasion or moral influence; to excite to motion.

DRAW me; we will run after thee. Song of Solomon 1:4.

Men shall arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away disciples after them. Acts 20:30.

26. To lead, as a motive; to induce to move.

My purposes do draw me much about.

27. To induce; to persuade; to attract towards; in a very general sense.

28. To win; to gain; a metaphor from gaming.

29. To receive or take, as from a fund; as, to draw money from a bank or from stock in trade.

30. To bear; to produce; as, a bond or note draws interest from its date.

31. To extort; to force out; as, his eloquence drew tears from the audience; to draw sighs or groans.

32. To wrest; to distort; as, to draw the scriptures to ones fancy.

33. To compose; to write in due form; to form in writing; as, to draw a bill of exchange; to draw a deed or will.

34. To take out of a box or wheel, as tickets in a lottery. We say, to draw a lottery, or to draw a number in the lottery.

35. To receive or gain by drawing; as, to draw a prize. We say also, a number draws a prize or a blank, when it is drawn at the same time.

36. To extend; to stretch; as, to draw wine; to draw a piece of metal by beating, etc.

37. To sink into the water; or to require a certain depth of water for floating; as, a ship draws fifteen feet of water.

38. To bend; as, to draw the bow. Isaiah 66:19.

39. To eviscerate; to pull out the bowels; as, to draw poultry.

40. To withdraw. [Not used.]

To draw back, to receive back, as duties on goods for exportation.

To draw in,

1. To collect; to apply to any purpose by violence.

A dispute, in which every thing is drawn in, to give color to the argument.

2. To contract; to pull to a smaller compass; to pull back; as, to draw int he reins.

3. To entice, allure or inveigle; as, to draw in others to support a measure.

To draw off,

1. To draw form or away; also, to withdraw; to abstract; as, to draw off the mind from vain amusements.

2. To draw or take from; to cause to flow from; as, to draw off wine or cider from a vessel.

3. To extract by distillation.

To draw on,

1. To allure; to entice; to persuade or cause to follow.

The reluctant may be drawn on by kindness or caresses.

2. To occasion; to invite; to bring on; to cause.

Under color of war, which either his negligence drew on, or his practices procured, he levied a subsidy.

To draw over,

1. To raise, or cause to come over, as in a still.

2. To persuade or induce to revolt from an opposing party, and to join ones own party. Some men may be drawn over by interest; others by fear.

To draw out,

1. To lengthen; to stretch by force; to extend.

2. To beat or hammer out; to extend or spread by beating, as a metal.

3. To lengthen in time; to protract; to cause to continue.

Thy unkindness shall his death draw out to lingering sufferance.

Wilt thou draw out thine anger to all generations? Psalms 84:1.

4. To cause to issue forth; to draw off; as liquor from a cask.

5. To extract, as the spirit of a substance.

6. To bring forth; to pump out, by questioning or address; to cause to be declared, or brought to light; as, to draw out facts from a witness.

7. To induce by motive; to call forth.

This was an artifice to draw out from us an accusation.

8. To detach; to separate from the main body; as, to draw out a file or part of men.

9. To range in battle; to array in a line.

To draw together, to collect or be collected.

To draw up,

1. To raise; to lift; to elevate.

2. To form in order of battle; to array.

3. To compose in due form, as a writing; to form in writing; as, to draw up a deed; to draw up a paper.

In this use, it is often more elegant to omit the modifying word. [See No. 33.]

DRAW, verb intransitive

1. To pull; to exert strength in drawing. We say, a horse or an ox draws well.

2. To act as a weight.

Watch the bias of the mind, that it may not draw too much.

3. To shrink; to contract into a smaller compass.

4. To move; to advance. The day draws towards evening.

5. To be filled or inflated with wind, so as to press on and advance a ship in her course; as, the sails draw

6. To unsheathe a sword. His love drew to defend him. In this phrase, sword is understood.

7. To use or practice the art of delineating figures; as, he draws with exactness.

8. To collect the matter of an ulcer or abscess; to cause to suppurate; to excite to inflammation, maturation and discharge; as, an epispastic draws well.

To draw back,

1. To retire; to move back; to withdraw.

2. To renounce the faith; to apostatize. Hebrews 10:22.

To draw near or nigh, to approach; to come near.

To draw off, to retire; to retreat; as, the company drew off by degrees.

To draw on,

1. To advance; to approach; as, the day draws on.

2. To gain on; to approach in pursuit; as, the ship drew on the chase.

3. To demand payment by an order or bill, called a draught.

He drew on his factor for the amount of the shipment.

You may draw on me for the expenses of your journey.

To draw up, to form in regular order; as, the troops drew up in front of the palace; the fleet drew up in a semicircle.

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 Johnson justly observes, that it expresses an action gradual or continuous, and leisurely. We pour liquor quick, but we draw it in a continued stream. We force compliance by threats, but we draw it by gradual prevalence. We 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.

DRAW, noun

1. The act of drawing.

2. The lot or chance drawn.

DRAWABLE, adjective That may be drawn.

DRAWBACK, noun

1. Money or an amount paid back. Usually, a certain amount of duties or customs, paid or bonded by an importer, paid back or remitted to him on the exportation of the goods; or a certain amount of excise paid back or allowed on the exportation of home manufacturers.

2. In popular sense, any loss of advantage, or deduction from profit.

DRAWEE, noun The person on whom an order or bill of exchange is drawn; the payer of a bill or exchange.

DRAWER, noun

1. One who draws or pulls; one who takes water from a well; one who draws liquors from a cask.

2. That which draws or attracts, or has the power of attraction.

3. He who draws a bill of exchange or an order for the payment of money.

4. A sliding box in a case or table, which is drawn at pleasure.

5. Drawers, in the plural, a close under garment worn on the lower limbs.

DRAWING, participle present tense Pulling; hauling; attracting; delineating.

DRAWING, noun

1. The act of pulling, hauling, or attracting.

2. The act of representing the appearance or figures of objects on a plain surface, by means of lines and shades, as with a pencil, crayon, pen, compasses, etc.; delineation.

DRAWL, verb transitive To utter words in a slow lengthened tone.

DRAWL, verb intransitive To speak with slow utterance.

DRAWL, noun A lengthened utterance of the voice.

DRAWLING, participle present tense Uttering words slowly.

DRAWN, participle passive [See Draw.]

1. Pulled; hauled; allured; attracted; delineated; extended; extracted; derived; deduced; written.

2. Equal, where each party takes his own stake; as a drawn game.

3. Having equal advantage, and neither party a victory; as a drawn battle.

4. With a sword drawn

5. Moved aside, as a curtain; unclosed, or closed.

6. Eviscerated; as a drawn fox.

7. Induced, as by a motive; as, men are drawn together by similar views, or by motives of interest.

DRAWN and quartered, drawn on a sled, and cut into quarters.

DRAY, noun [Latin]

1. A low cart or carriage on wheels, drawn by a horse.

2. A sled.

DRAZEL, noun Drazl. A dirty woman; a slut. [This is a vulgar word; in New England pronounced drozl, and I believe always applied to a female.]

DREAD, noun Dred. [Latin , to dread; fearful; to tremble. The primary sense is probably to tremble, or to shrink.]

1. Great fear, or apprehension of evil or danger. It expresses more than fear, and less than terror or fright. It is an uneasiness or alarm excited by expected pain, loss or other evil. We speak of the dread of evil; the dread of suffering; the dread of the divine displeasure. It differs from terror also in being less sudden or more continued.

2. Awe; fear united with respect.

3. Terror.

Shall not his dread fall on you. Job 13:11.

4. The cause of fear; the person or the thing dreaded.

Let him be your dread Isaiah 8:13.

DREAD, adjective

1. Exciting great fear or apprehension.

2. Terrible; frightful.

3. Awful; venerable in the highest degree; as dread sovereign; dread majesty; dread tribunal.

DREAD, verb transitive To fear in a great degree; as, to dread the approach of a storm.

DREAD, verb intransitive To be in great fear.

DREAD not, neither be afraid of them. Deuteronomy 1:29.

DREADABLE, adjective That is to be dreaded. [Not used.]

DREADED, participle passive Feared.

DREADER, noun One that fears, or lives in fear.

DREADFUL, adjective

1. Impressing great fear; terrible; formidable; as a dreadful storm, or dreadful night.

The great and dreadful day of the Lord. Malachi 4:5.

2. Awful; venerable.

How dreadful is this place. Genesis 48:1.

DREADFULLY, adverb Terribly; in a manner to be dreaded.

DREADFULNESS, noun Terribleness; the quality of being dreadful; frightfulness.

DREADLESS, adjective Fearless; bold; not intimidated; undaunted; free from fear or terror; intrepid.

DREADLESSNESS, noun Fearlessness; undauntedness; freedom from fear or terror; boldness.

DREAM, noun [G.]

1. The thought or series of thoughts of a person in sleep. We apply dream in the singular, to a series of thoughts, which occupy the mind of a sleeping person, in which he imagines he has a view of real things or transactions. A dream is a series of thoughts not under the command of reason, and hence wild and irregular.

2. In scripture, dreams were sometimes impressions on the minds of sleeping persons, made by divine agency. God came to Abimelech in a dream Joseph was warned by God in a dream Genesis 20:3. Matthew 2:12.

3. A vain fancy; a wild conceit; an unfounded suspicion.

DREAM, verb intransitive preterit tense dreamed or dreamt. [G.]

1. To have ideas or images in the mind, in the state of sleep; with of before a noun; as, to dream of a battle; to dream of an absent friend.

2. To think; to imagine; as, he little dreamed of his approaching fate.

3. To think idly.

They dream on in a course of reading, without digesting.

4. To be sluggish; to waste time in vain thoughts; as, to dream away life.

DREAM, verb transitive To see in a dream

And dreamt the future fight.

It is followed by a noun of the like signification; as, to dream a dream

DREAMER, noun

1. One who dreams.

2. A fanciful man; a visionary; one who forms or entertains vain schemes; as a political dreamer

3. A man lost in wild imagination; a mope; a sluggard.

DREAMFUL, adjective Full of dreams.

DREAMING, participle present tense Having thoughts or ideas in sleep.

DREAMLESS, adjective Free from dreams.

DREAMT, participle passive Dremt. From dream.

DREAR, noun Dread; dismalness.

DREAR, noun Dread; dismalness.

DREAR, noun Dread; dismalness.

DREAR, adjective Dismal; gloomy with solitude.

A drear and dying sound.

DREARIHEAD, noun Dismalness; gloominess. [Not in use.]

DREARILY, adverb Gloomily; dismally.

DREARIMENT, noun Dismalness; terror.

DREARINESS, noun Dismalness; gloomy solitude.

DREARY, adjective

1. Dismal; gloomy; as a dreary waste; dreary shades. This word implies both solitude and gloom.

2. Sorrowful; distressing; as dreary shrieks.

DREDGE, noun

1. A dragnet for taking oysters, etc.

2. A mixture of oats and barley sown together.

DREDGE, verb transitive To take, catch or gather with a dredge

DREDGE, verb transitive To sprinkle flour on roast meat.

DREDGER, noun One who fishes with a dredge; also, an utensil for scattering flour on meat while roasting.

DREE, verb transitive To suffer. [Not used.]

DREGGINESS, noun [from dreggy.] Fullness of dregs or lees; foulness; feculence.

DREGGISH, adjective Full of dregs; foul with lees; feculent.

DREGGY, adjective [See Dregs.] Containing dregs or lees; consisting of dregs; foul; muddy; feculent.

DREGS, noun plural [Gr.]

1. The sediment of liquors; lees; grounds; feculence; any foreign matter of liquors that subsides to the bottom of a vessel.

2. Waste or worthless matter; dross; sweepings; refuse. Hence, the most vile and despicable part of men; as the dregs of society.

Dreg, in the singular, is found in Spenser, but is not now used.

DREIN. [See Drain.]

DRENCH, verb transitive [G., to water, to soak. See Drink and Drag.]

1. To wet thoroughly; to soak; to fill or cover with water or other liquid; as garments drenched in rain or in the sea; the flood has drenched the earth; swords drenched in blood.

2. To saturate with drink.

3. To purge violently.

DRENCH, noun A draught; a swill; also, a portion of medicine to purge a beast, particularly a horse. Hence, a violent dose of physic to be forced down the throat.

DRENCHED, participle passive Soaked; thoroughly wet; purged with a dose.

DRENCHER, noun One who wets or steeps; one who gives a drench to a beast.

DRENCHING, participle present tense Wetting thoroughly; soaking; purging.

DRENT, participle passive Drenched. [Not in use.]

DRESS, verb transitive preterit tense and participle passive dressed or drest. [Latin]

1. To make straight or a straight line; to adjust to a right line. We have the primary sense in the military phrase, dress your ranks. Hence the sense, to put in order.

2. To adjust; to put in good order; as, to dress the beds of a garden. Sometimes, to till or cultivate. Genesis 2:15. Deuteronomy 28:39.

3. To put in good order, as a wounded limb; to cleanse a wound, and to apply medicaments. The surgeon dresses the limb or the wound.

4. To prepare, in a general sense; to put in the condition desired; to make suitable or fit; as, to dress meat; to dress leather or cloth; to dress a lamp; but we, in the latter case, generally use trim. To dress hemp or flax, is to break and clean it.

5. To curry, rub and comb; as, to dress a horse; or to break or tame and prepare for service, as used by Dryden; but this is unusual.

6. To put the body in order, or in a suitable condition; to put on clothes; as, he dressed himself for breakfast.

7. To put on rich garments; to adorn; to deck; to embellish; as, the lady dressed herself for a ball.

To dress up, is to clothe pompously or elegantly; as, to dress up with tinsel.

The sense of dress depends on its application. To dress the body, to dress meat, and to dress leather, are very different senses, but all uniting in the sense of preparing or fitting for use.

DRESS, verb intransitive

1. To arrange in a line; as, look to the right and dress

2. To pay particular regard to dress or raiment.

DRESS, noun

1. That which is used as the covering or ornament of the body; clothes; garments; habit; as, the dress of a lady is modest and becoming; a gaudy dress is evidence of a false taste.

2. A suit of clothes; as, the lady has purchased an elegant dress

3. Splendid clothes; habit of ceremony; as a full dress

4. Skill in adjusting dress or the practice of wearing elegant clothing; as men of dress

DRESSED, participle passive Adjusted; made straight; put in order; prepared; trimmed; tilled; clothed; adorned; attired.

DRESSER, noun

1. One who dresses; one who is employed in putting on clothes and adorning another; one who is employed in preparing trimming or adjusting any thing.

2. A side-board; a table or bench on which meat and other things are dressed or prepared for use.

DRESSING, participle present tense Adjusting to a line; putting in order; preparing; clothing; embellishing; cultivating.

DRESSING, noun

1. Raiment; attire.

2. That which is used as an application to a wound or sore.

3. That which is used in preparing land for a drop; manure spread over land. When it remains on the surface, it is called a top-dressing.

4. In popular language, correction; a flogging, or beating.

DRESSY, a Showy in dress; wearing rich or showy dresses.

DREST, participle passive Of dress.

DREUL, verb intransitive To emit saliva; to suffer saliva to issue and flow down from the mouth.

DRIB, verb transitive To crop or cut off; to defalcate.

DRIB, noun A drop. [Not used.]

DRIBBLE, verb intransitive

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.

3. To fall weakly and slowly; as the dribbling dart of love.

DRIBBLE, verb transitive To throw down in drops.

DRIBBLET, noun A small piece or part; a small sum; odd money in a sum; as, the money was paid in dribblets.

DRIBBLING, participle present tense Falling in drops or small drops.

DRIBBLING, noun A falling in drops.

DRIED, participle passive Of dry. Free from moisture or sap.

DRIER, noun [from dry.] That which has the quality of drying; that which may expel or absorb moisture; a desiccative. The sun and northwesterly wind are great driers of the earth.

DRIFT, noun

1. That which is driven by wind or water, as drift seems to be primarily a participle. Hence,

2. A heap of any matter driven together; as a drift of snow, called also a snow-drift; a drift of sand.

3. A driving; a force impelling or urging forward; impulse; overbearing power or influence; as the drift of a passion.

4. Course of any thing; tendency; aim; main force; as the drift of reasoning or argument; the drift of a discourse.

5. Any thing driven by force, as a drift of dust; a log or a raft driven by a stream of water, without guidance.

6. A shower; a number of things driven at once; as a drift of bullets.

7. In mining, a passage cut between shaft and shaft; a passage within the earth.

8. In navigation, the angle which the line of a ships motion makes with the nearest meridian, when she drives with her side to the wind and waves, and is not governed by the helm. Also, the distance which the ship drives on that line.

9. The drift of a current, is its angle and velocity.

DRIFT, verb intransitive

1. To accumulate in heaps by the force of wind; to be driven into heaps; as, snow or sand drifts.

2. To float or be driven along by a current of water; as, the ship drifted astern; a raft drifted ashore.

DRIFT, verb transitive To drive into heaps; as, a current of wind drifts snow or sand.

DRIFTED, participle passive Driven along; driven into heaps.

DRIFTING, participle present tense Driving by force; driving into heaps.

DRILL, verb transitive [G.]

1. To pierce with a drill; to perforate by turning a sharp pointed instrument of a particular form; to bore and make a hole by turning an instrument. We say, to drill a hole through a piece of metal, or to drill a cannon.

2. To draw on; to entice; to amuse and put off.

She drilled him on to five and fifty. [Not elegant.]

3. To draw on from step to step. [Not elegant.]

4. To draw through; to drain; as, waters drilled through a sandy stratum.

5. In a military sense, to teach and train raw soldiers to their duty, by frequent exercise; a common and appropriate use of the word.

6. In husbandry, to sow grain in rows, drills or channels.

DRILL, verb transitive

1. To sow in drills.

2. To flow gently.

3. To muster, for exercise.

DRILL, noun

1. A pointed instrument, used for boring holes, particularly in metals and other hard substances.

2. An ape or baboon.

3. The act of training soldiers to their duty.

4. A small stream; now called a rill. [Drill is formed on the root of rill, G., a channel.]

5. In husbandry, a row of grain, sowed by a drill-plow.

DRILLED, participle passive Bored or perforated with a drill; exercised; sown in rows.

DRILLING, participle present tense Boring with a drill; training to military duty; sowing in drills.

DRINK, verb intransitive preterit tense and participle passive drank. Old preterit tense And participle passive drunk; participle passive Drunken. [G. drink and drench are radically the same word, and probably drown. We observe that n is not radical.]

1. To swallow liquor, for quenching thirst or other purpose; as, to drink of the brook.

Ye shall indeed drink of my cup. Matthew 20:22.

2. To take spirituous liquors to excess; to be intemperate in the use of spirituous liquors; to be a habitual drunkard.

3. To feast; to be entertained with liquors.

To drink to,

1. To salute in drinking; to invite to drink by drinking first; as, I drink to you grace.

2. To wish well to, in the act of taking the cup.

DRINK, verb transitive

1. To swallow, as liquids; to receive, as a fluid, into the stomach; as, to drink water or wine.

2. To suck in; to absorb; to imbibe.

And let the purple violets drink the stream.

3. To take in by any inlet; to hear; to see; as, to drink words or the voice.

I drink delicious poison from thy eye.

4. To take in air; to inhale.

To drink down, is to act on by drinking; to reduce or subdue; as, to drink down unkindness.

To drink off, to drink the whole at a draught; as, to drink off a cup of cordial.

To drink in, to absorb; to take or receive into any inlet.

To drink up, to drink the whole.

To drink health, or to the health, a customary civility in which a person at taking a glass or cup, expresses his respect or kind wishes for another.

DRINK, noun Liquor to be swallowed; any fluid to be taken into the stomach, for quenching thirst, or for medicinal purposes; as water, wine, beer, cider, decoctions, etc.

DRINKABLE, adjective That may be drank; fit or suitable for drink; potable.

DRINKER, noun One who drinks, particularly one who practices drinking spirituous liquors to excess; a drunkard; a tipler.

DRINKING, participle present tense Swallowing liquor; sucking in; absorbing.

DRINKING, noun

1. The act of swallowing liquors, or of absorbing.

2. The practice of drinking to excess. We say, a man is given to drinking

DRINKLESS, adjective Destitute of drink.

DRIP, verb intransitive [G.]

1. To fall in drops; as, water drips from eaves.

2 To have any liquid falling from it in drops; as, a wet garment drips.

DRIP, verb transitive To let fall in drops.

The thatch drips fast a shower of rain.

So we say, roasting flesh drips fat.

DRIP, noun

1. A falling in drops, or that which falls in drops.

In building, avoid the drip of your neighbors house.

2. The edge of a roof; the eaves; a large flat member of the cornice.

DRIPPING, participle present tense Falling or letting fall in drops.

DRIPPING, noun The fat which falls from meat in roasting; that which falls in drops.

DRIPPLE, adjective Weak or rare. [Not in use.]

DRIVE, verb transitive preterit tense Drove, [formerly drave; participle passive Driven, G.]

1. To impel or urge forward by force; to force; to move by physical force. We drive a nail into wood with a hammer; the wind or a current drive a ship on the ocean.

2. To compel or urge forward by other means than absolute physical force, or by means that compel the will; as, to drive cattle to market. A smoke drives company from the room. A man may be drive by the necessities of the times, to abandon his country.

DRIVE thy business; let not thy business drive thee.

3. To chase; to hunt.

To drive the deer with hound and horn.

4. To impel a team of horses or oxen to move forward, and to direct their course; hence, to guide or regulate the course of the carriage drawn by them. We say, to drive a team, or to drive a carriage drawn by a team.

5. To impel to greater speed.

6. To clear any place by forcing away what is in it.

To drive the country, force the swains away.

7. To force; to compel; in a general sense.

8. To hurry on inconsiderately; often with on. In this sense it is more generally intransitive.

9. To distress; to straighten; as desperate men far driven.

10. To impel by influence of passion. Anger and lust often drive men into gross crimes.

11. To urge; to press; as, to drive an argument.

12. To impel by moral influence; to compel; as, the reasoning of his opponent drove him to acknowledge his error.

13. To carry on; to prosecute; to keep in motion; as, to drive a trade; to drive business.

14. To make light by motion or agitation; as, to drive feathers.

His thrice driven bed of down.

The sense is probably to beat; but I do not recollect this application of the word in America.

To drive away, to force to remove to a distance; to expel; to dispel; to scatter.

To drive off, to compel to remove from a place; to expel; to drive to a distance.

To drive out, to expel.

DRIVE, verb intransitive

1. To be forced along; to be impelled; to be moved by any physical force or agent; as, a ship drives before the wind.

2. To rush and press with violence; as, a storm drives against the house.

Fierce Boreas drove against his flying sails.

3. To pass in a carriage; as, he drove to London. This phrase is elliptical. He drove his horses or carriage to London.

4. To aim at or tend to; to urge towards a point; to make an effort to reach or obtain; as, we know the end the author is driving at.

5. To aim a blow; to strike at with force.

Four rogues in buckram let drive at me.

DRIVE, in all its senses, implies forcible or violent action. It is opposed to lead. To drive a body is to move it by applying a force behind; to lead is to cause to move by applying the force before, or forward of the body.

DRIVE, noun Passage in a carriage.

DRIVEL, verb intransitive drivl. [from the root of drip.]

1. To slaver; to let spittle drop or flow from the mouth, like a child, idiot or dotard.

2. To be weak or foolish; to dote; as a driveling hero; driveling love.

DRIVEL, noun

1. Slaver; saliva flowing from the mouth.

2. A driveller; a fool; an idiot. [Not used.]

DRIVELER, noun A slaverer; a slabberer; an idiot; a fool.

DRIVELING, participle present tense Slavering; foolish.

DRIVEN, participle passive Drivn. [from drive.] Urged forward by force; impelled to move; constrained by necessity.

DRIVER, noun

1. One who drives; the person or thing that urges or compels any thing else to move.

2. The person who drives beasts.

3. The person who drives a carriage; one who conducts a team.

4. A large sail occasionally set on the mizenyard or gaff, the foot being extended over the stern by a boom.

DRIVING, participle present tense Urging forward by force; impelling.

DRIVING, noun

1. The act of impelling.

2. Tendency.

DRIZZLE, verb intransitive [G., Latin ] To rain in small drops; to fall as water from the clouds in very fine particles. We say, it drizzles; drizzling drops; drizzling rain; drizzling tears.

DRIZZLE, verb transitive To shed in small drops or particles.

The air doth drizzle dew.

Winters drizzled snow.

DRIZZLED, participle passive Shed or thrown down in small drops or particles.

DRIZZLING, participle present tense Falling in fine drops or particles; shedding in small drops or particles.

DRIZZLING, noun The falling of rain or snow in small drops.

DRIZZLY, adjective Shedding small rain, or small particles of snow.

The winters drizzly reign.

DROGMAN. [See Dragoman.]

DROIL, verb intransitive To work sluggishly or slowly; to plod. [Not much used.]

DROIL, noun A mope; a drone; a sluggard; a drudge. [Little used.]

DROLL, adjective [G.] Odd; merry; facetious; comical; as a droll fellow.

DROLL, noun

1. One whose occupation or practice is to raise mirth by odd tricks; a jester; a buffoon.

2. A farce; something exhibited to raise mirth or sport.

DROLL, verb intransitive To jest; to play the buffoon.

DROLL, verb transitive To cheat.

DROLLER, noun A jester; a buffoon.

DROLLERY, noun

1. Sportive tricks; buffoonery; comical stories; gestures, manners or tales adapted to raise mirth.

2. A puppet-show.

DROLLING, noun Low wit; buffoonery.

DROLLINGLY, adverb In a jesting manner.

DROLLISH, adjective Somewhat droll.

DROMEDARY, noun [Gr., perhaps from swiftness, running.] A species of camel, called also the Arabian camel, with one bunch or protuberance on the back, in distinction from the Bactrian camel, which has two bunches. It has four callous protuberances on the fore legs, and two on the hind ones. It is a common beast of burden in Egypt, Syria, and the neighboring countries.

DRONE, noun [G., to tinkle, to shake, to tingle.]

1. The male of the honey bee. It is smaller than the queen bee, but larger than the working bee. The drones make no honey, but after living a few weeks, they are killed or driven from the hive. Hence,

2. An idler; a sluggard; one who earns nothing by industry.

3. A humming or low sound, or the instrument of humming.

4. The largest tube of the bag-pipe, which emits a continued deep note.

DRONE, verb intransitive

1. To live in idleness; as a droning king.

2. To give a low, heavy, dull sound; as the cymbals droning sound.

DRONING, participle present tense Living in idleness; giving a dull sound.

DRONISH, adjective Idle; sluggish; lazy; indolent; inactive; slow.

DROOP, verb intransitive [Latin , from the root of drop.]

1. To sink or hang down; to lean downwards, as a body that is weak or languishing. Plants droop for want of moisture; the human body droops in old age or infirmity.

2. To languish from grief or other cause.

3. To fail or sink; to decline; as, the courage or the spirits droop

4. To faint; to grow weak; to be dispirited; as, the soldiers droop from fatigue.

DROOPING, participle present tense Sinking; hanging or leaning downward; declining; languishing; failing.

DROP, noun [G.]

1. A small portion of any fluid in a spherical form, which falls at once from any body, or a globule of any fluid which is pendent, as if about to fall; a small portion of water falling in rain; as a drop of water; a drop of blood; a drop of laudanum.

2. A diamond hanging from the ear; an earring; something hanging in the form of a drop

3. A very small quantity of liquor; as, he had not drank a drop

4. The part of a gallows which sustains the criminal before he is executed, and which is suddenly dropped.

DROPLET, noun A little drop.

DROPPED, participle passive Let fall; distilled; laid aside; dismissed; let go; suffered to subside; sprinkled or variegated.

DROPPING, participle present tense Falling in globules; distilling; falling; laying aside; dismissing; quitting; suffering to rest or subside; variegating with ornaments like drops.

DROPPING, noun

1. The act of dropping; a distilling; a falling.

2. That which drops.

DROPS, verb transitive [G.]

1. To pour or let fall in small portions or globules, as a fluid; to distill.

The heavens shall drop down dew. Deuteronomy 33:1.

2. To let fall as any substance; as, to drop the anchor; to drop a stone.

3. To let go; to dismiss; to lay aside; to quit; to leave; to permit to subside; as, to drop an affair; to drop a controversy; to drop a pursuit.

4. To utter slightly, briefly or casually; as, to drop a word in favor of a friend.

5. To insert indirectly, incidentally, or by way of digression; as, to drop a word of instruction in a letter

6. To lay aside; to dismiss from possession; as, to drop these frail bodies.

7. To leave; as, to drop a letter at the post office.

8. To set down and leave; as, the coach dropped a passenger at the inn.

9. To quit; to suffer to cease; as, to drop an acquaintance.

10. To let go; to dismiss from association; as, to drop a companion.

11. To suffer to end or come to nothing; as, to drop a fashion.

12. To bedrop; to speckle; to variegate, as if by sprinkling with drops; as a coat dropped with gold.

13. To lower; as, to drop the muzzle of a gun.

DROP, verb intransitive

1. To distill; to fall in small portions, globules or drops as a liquid. Water drops from the clouds or from the eaves.

2. To let drops fall; to discharge itself in drops

The heavens dropped at the presence of God. Psalms 68:1.

3. To fall; to descend suddenly or abruptly.

4. To fall spontaneously; as, ripe fruit drops from a tree.

5. To die, or to die suddenly. We see one friend after another dropping round us. They drop into the grave.

6. To come to an end; to cease; to be neglected and come to nothing; as, the affair dropped.

7. To come unexpectedly; with in or into; as, my old friend dropped in, a moment.

8. To fall short of a mark. [Not usual.]

Often it drops or overshoots.

9. To fall lower; as, the point of the spear dropped a little.

10. To be deep in extent.

Her main top-sail drops seventeen yards.

To drop astern, in seamens language, is to pass or move towards the stern; to move back; or to slacken the velocity of a vessel to let another pass beyond her.

To drop down, in seamens language, is to sail, row or move down a river, or toward the sea.

DROPSICAL, adjective [See Dropsy.]

1. Diseased with dropsy; hydropical; inclined to the dropsy; applied to persons.

2. Partaking of the nature of the dropsy; applied to disease.

DROPSIED, adjective Diseased with dropsy.

DROPSY, noun [L, Gr., water; the face. Formerly written hydropisy; whence by contraction, dropsy ] In medicine, an unnatural collection of water, in an part of the body, proceeding from a greater effusion of serum by the exhalant arteries, than the absorbents take up. It occurs most frequently in persons of lax habits, or in bodies debilitated by disease. The dropsy takes different names, according to the part affected; as ascites, or dropsy of the abdomen; hydrocephalus, or water in the head; anasarca, or a watery swelling over the whole body; etc.

DROSS, noun [G.]

1. The recrement or despumation of metals; the scum or extraneous matter of metals, thrown off in the process of melting.

2. Rust; crust of metals; an incrustation formed on metals by oxydation.

3. Waste matter; refuse; any worthless matter separated from the better part; impure matter.

The worlds glory is but dross unclean.

DROSSINESS, noun Foulness; rust; impurity; a state of being drossy.

DROSSY, adjective

1. Like dross; pertaining to dross.

2. Full of dross; abounding with scorious or recrementitious matter; as drossy gold.

3. Worthless; foul; impure.

DROTCHEL, noun An idle wench; a sluggard. [Not in use.]

DROUGHT. [See Drouth.]

DROUGHTINESS, noun Drouthiness.

DROUGHTY, adjective Drouthy.

DROUMY, adjective Troubled; dirty. Chaucer has drovy.

DROUTH, noun [See dry. The word generally used is now, as it was written by Bacon, drouth or drowth; its regular termination is th.]

1. Dryness; want of rain or of water; particularly, dryness of the weather, which affects the earth, and prevents the growth of plants; aridness; aridity.

2. Dryness of the throat and mouth; thirst; want of drink.

DROUTHINESS, noun A state of dryness of the weather; want of rain.

DROUTHY, adjective

1. Dry, as the weather; arid; wanting rain.

2. Thirsty; dry; wanting drink.

DROVE, preterit tense of drive.

DROVE, noun

1. A collection of cattle driven; a number of animals, as oxen, sheep or swine, driven in a body. We speak of a herd of cattle, and a flock of sheep, when a number is collected; but properly a drove is a herd or flock driven. It is applicable to any species of brutes. Hence,

2. Any collection of irrational animals, moving or driving forward; as a finny drove

3. A crowd of people in motion.

Where droves, as at a city gate, may pass.

4. A road for driving cattle. [English.]

DROVER, noun

1. One who drives cattle or sheep to market. Usually in New England, a man who makes it his business to purchase fat cattle and drive them to market.

2. A boat driven by the tide.

DROWN, verb transitive

1. Literally, to overwhelm in water; an appropriately, to extinguish life by immersion in water or other fluid; applied to animals; also, to suspend animation by submersion.

2. To overwhelm in water; as, to drown weeds.

3. To overflow; to deluge; to inundate; as, to drown land.

4. To immerse; to plunge and lose; to overwhelm; as, to drown ones self in sensual pleasure.

5. To overwhelm; to overpower.

My private voice is drowned amid the senate.

DROWN, verb intransitive To be suffocated in water or other fluid; to perish in water.

Methought what pain it was to drown

DROWNED, participle passive Deprived of life by immersion in a fluid; overflowed; inundated; overwhelmed.

DROWNER, noun He or that which drowns.

DROWNING, participle present tense Destroying life by submersion in a liquid; overflowing; overwhelming.

DROWSE, verb intransitive drowz.

1. To sleep imperfectly or unsoundly; to slumber; to be heavy with sleepiness.

2. To look heavy; to be heavy or dull.

DROWSE, verb transitive To make heavy with sleep; to make dull or stupid.

DROWSIHED, noun Sleepiness.

DROWSILY, adverb

1. Sleepily; heavily; in a dull sleepy manner.

2. Sluggishly; idly; slothfully; lazily.

DROWSINESS, noun

1. Sleepiness; heaviness with sleep; disposition to sleep.

2. Sluggishness; sloth; idleness; inactivity.

DROWSY, adjective

1. Inclined to sleep; sleepy; heavy with sleepiness; lethargic; comatose.

2. Dull; sluggish; stupid.

3. Disposing to sleep; lulling; as a drowsy couch.

DRUB, verb transitive [G., Latin Drubbing is a particular form of driving.] To beat with a stick; to thrash; to cudgel.

The little thief had been soundly drubbed with a cudgel.

DRUB, noun A blow with a stick or cudgel; a thump; a knock.

DRUBBED, participle passive Beat with a cudgel; beat soundly.

DRUBBING, participle present tense Beating with a cudgel; beating soundly.

DRUBBING, noun A cudgeling; a sound beating.

DRUDGE, verb intransitive druj. To work hard; to labor in mean offices; to labor with toil and fatigue.

In merriment did drudge and labor.

DRUDGE, noun One who works hard, or labors with toil and fatigue; one who labors hard in servile employments; a slave.

DRUDGER, noun

1. A drudge.

2. A drudging-box. [See Dredging-box.]

DRUDGERY, noun Hard labor; toilsome work; ignoble toil; hard work in servile occupations.

Paradise was a place of bliss-without drudgery or sorrow.

DRUDGING, participle present tense Laboring hard; toiling.

DRUDGINGLY, adverb With labor and fatigue; laboriously.

DRUG, noun [See the verb, to dry.]

1. The general name of substances used in medicine, sold by the druggist, and compounded by apothecaries and physicians; any substance, vegetable, animal or mineral, which is used in the composition or preparation of medicines. It is also applied to dyeing materials.

2. Any commodity that lies on hand, or is not salable; an article of slow sale, or in no demand in market.

3. A mortal drug or a deadly drug is poison.

4. A drudge.

DRUG, verb intransitive To prescribe or administer drugs or medicines.

DRUG, verb transitive

1. To season with drugs or ingredients.

2. To tincture with something offensive.

DRUGGER, noun A druggist. [Not used.]

DRUGGET, noun A cloth or thin stuff of wool, or of wool and thread, corded or plain, usually plain.

DRUGGIST, noun One who deals in drugs; properly, one whose occupation is merely to but and sell drugs, without compounding or preparation. In America, the same person often carries on the business of the druggist and the apothecary.

DRUGSTER, noun A druggist. [Not used.]

DRUID, noun A priest or minister of religion, among the ancient Celtic nations in Gaul, Britain and Germany. The Druids possessed some knowledge of geometry, natural philosophy, etc., superintended the affairs of religion and morality, and performed the office of judges.

DRUIDIC, DRUIDICAL, adjective Pertaining to the Druids.

DRUIDIC, DRUIDICAL adjective Pertaining to the Druids.

DRUIDISM, noun The system of religion, philosophy and instruction taught by the druids, or their doctrines, rites and ceremonies.

DRUM, noun [G., Latin ]

1. A martial instrument of music, in form of a hollow cylinder, and covered at the ends with vellum, which is stretched or slackened at pleasure.

2. In machinery, a short cylinder revolving on an axis, generally for the purpose of turning several small wheels, by means of straps passing round its periphery.

3. The drum of the ear, the tympanum, or barrel of the ear; the hollow part of the ear, behind the membrane of the tympanum. The latter is a tense membrane, which closes the external passage of the ear, and receives the vibrations of the air.

DRUM, verb intransitive

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; as, to drum on the table.

3. To beat as the heart.

DRUM, verb transitive To expel with beat of drum

DRUMBLE, verb intransitive To drone; to be sluggish. [Not in use.]

DRUMLY, adjective Thick; stagnant; muddy. [Not in use.]

DRUMMER, noun One whose office is to beat the drum, in military exercises and marching; one who drums.

DRUNK, adjective [from drunken. See Drink.]

1. Intoxicated; inebriated; overwhelmed or overpowered by spirituous liquor; stupefied or inflamed by the action of spirit on the stomach and brain. It is brutish to be drunk

Be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess.

2. Drenched or saturated with moisture or liquor.

I will make my arrows drunk with blood. Deuteronomy 32:42.

[Note. drunk was formerly used as the participle of drink; as, he had drunk wine. But in modern usage, drank has taken its place; and drunk is now used chiefly as an adjective.]

DRUNKARD, noun One given to ebriety or an excessive used of strong liquor; a person who habitually or frequently is drunk.

A drunkard and a glutton shall come to poverty. Proverbs 23:21.

DRUNKEN, adjective Drunkn. [participle of drink, but now used chiefly as an adjective, and often contracted to drunk.]

1. Intoxicated; inebriated with strong liquor.

2. Given to drunkenness; as a drunken butler.

3. Saturated with liquor or moisture; drenched.

Let the earth be drunken with our blood.

4. Proceeding from intoxication; done in a state of drunkenness; as a drunken quarrel.

A drunken slaughter.

DRUNKENLY, adverb In a drunken manner. [Little used.]

DRUNKENNESS, noun

1. Intoxication; inebriation; a state in which a person is overwhelmed or overpowered with spirituous liquors, so that his reason is disordered, and he reels or staggers in walking. drunkenness renders some persons stupid, others gay, others sullen, others furious.

Let us walk honestly as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness

2. Habitually ebriety or intoxication.

3. Disorder of the faculties resembling intoxication by liquors; inflammation; frenzy; rage.

Passion is the drunkenness of the mind.

DRUPACEOUS, adjective

1. Producing drupes; as drupaceous trees.

2. Pertaining to drupes; or consisting of drupes; as drupaceous fruit; drupaceous follicles.

DRUPE, noun [Latin , Gr, olives ready to fall, Gr., a tree; to fall.] In botany, a pulpy pericarp or fruit without valves, containing a nut or stone with a kernel; as the plum, cherry, apricot, peach, almond, olive, etc.

DRUSE, noun [G., a gland, glanders.] Among miners, a cavity in a rock having its interior surface studded with crystals, or filled with water.

DRUSY, adjective S as z. Abounding with very minute crystals; as a drusy surface.

DRY, adjective [See the Verb.]

1. Destitute of moisture; free from water or wetness; arid; not moist; as dry land; dry clothes.

2. Not rainy; free from rain or mist; as dry weather; a dry March or April.

3. Not juicy; free from juice, sap or aqueous matter; not green; as dry wood; dry stubble; dry hay; dry leaves.

4. Without tears; as dry eyes; dry mourning.

5. Not giving milk; as, the cow is dry

6. Thirsty; craving drink.

7. Barren; jejune; plain; unembellished; destitute of pathos, or of that which amuses and interests; as a dry style; a dry subject; a dry discussion.

8. Severe; sarcastic; wiping; as a dry remark or repartee; a dry run.

9. Severe; wiping; as a dry blow; a dry basting. See the verb, which signifies properly to wipe, rub, scour.

10. dry goods, in commerce, cloths, stuffs, silks, laces, ribbons, etc., in distinction from groceries.

DRY, verb transitive [G., to dry to wipe; Gr., Latin See dry The primary sense is to wipe, rub, scour.]

1. To free from water, or from moisture of any kind, and by any means; originally by wiping, as to dry the eyes; to exsiccate.

2. To deprive of moisture by evaporation or exhalation; as, the sun dries a cloth; wind dries the earth.

3. To deprive of moisture by exposure to the sun or open air. We dry cloth in the sun.

4. To deprive of natural juice, sap or greenness; as, to dry hay or plants.

5. To scorch or parch with thirst; with up.

Their honorable men are famished, and their multitude dried up with thirst. Isaiah 5:1.

6. To deprive of water by draining; to drain; to exhaust; as, to dry a meadow.

To dry up, to deprive wholly of water.

DRY, verb intransitive

1. To grow dry; to lose moisture; to become free from moisture or juice. The road dries fast in a clear windy day. Hay will dry sufficiently in two days.

2. To evaporate wholly; to be exhaled; sometimes with up; as, the stream dries or dries up.

DRYAD, noun [Latin , Gr., a tree.] In mythology, a deity or nymph of the woods; a nymph supposed to preside over woods.

DRYED, participle passive of dry. [See Dried.]

DRYER, noun He or that which dries; that which exhausts of moisture or greenness.

DRYEYED, adjective Not having tears in the eyes.

DRYFAT, noun A dry vat or basket.

DRYFOOT, noun A dog that pursues game by the scent of the foot.

DRYING, participle present tense Expelling or losing moisture, sap or greenness.

DRYING, noun The act or process of depriving of moisture or greenness.

DRYING, noun The act or process of depriving of moisture or greenness.

DRYITE, noun [Gr., an oak.] Fragments of petrified or fossil wood in which the structure of the wood is recognized.

DRYLY, adverb

1. Without moisture.

2. Coldly; frigidly; without affection.

3. Severely; sarcastically.

4. Barrenly; without embellishment; without any thing to enliven, enrich or entertain.

DRYNESS, noun

1. Destitution of moisture; want of water or other fluid; siccity; a aridity; aridness; as the dryness of a soil; dryness of the road.

2. Want of rain; as dryness of weather.

3. Want of juice or succulence; as dryness of the bones or fibers.

4. Want of succulence or greenness; as the dryness of hay or corn.

5. Barrenness; jejuneness; want of ornament or pathos; want of that which enlivens and entertains; as the dryness of style or expression; the dryness of a subject.

6. Want of feeling or sensibility in devotion; want of ardor; as dryness of spirit.

DRYNURSE, noun

1. A nurse who attends and feeds a child without the breast.

2. One who attends another in sickness.

DRYNURSE, verb transitive To feed, attend and bring up without the breast.

DRYRUB, verb transitive To rub and cleanse without wetting.

DRYSALTER, noun A dealer in salted or dry meats, pickles, sauces, etc.

DRYSHOD, adjective Without wetting the feet. Isaiah 11:15.