DREIGH 100 DRIFT &c. cer. What too curious dreg espies my sweet lady in the from different parts of her masts and rigging, Drey (drá), n. A squirrel's nest. Written fountain of our love? Shak. as on days of rejoicing.–Syn. To attire, ap- also Dray. Dreigh (dréch), a. Tardy; slow; tiresome. parel, clothe, accoutre, array, robe, rig, Drib (drib), v.t. (See DRIBBLE.) To do things [Scotch.) trim, deck, adorn, embellish. little by little or in driblets; hence, (a) to When thou and I were young and skeigh, Dress (dres), v. i. 1. Milit. to arrange one's self cut off little by little; to cheat by small An' stable-meals at fairs were dreigh. Burns. in proper position in a line; as, look to the and reiterated tricks; to purloin; to approDreint, 1 Drent,t pret. & pp. of drenche. right and dress.-- 2. To clothe one's self; to priate. Drenched; drowned. Chaucer. put on one's garments; to pay particular re- He who drives their bargains dribs a part. Dryden. Drench (drensh), v.t. [A. Sax. drencan, gard to dress or raiment; as, to dress rapidly; (6) To entice step by step. [Rare.] drencean, to give to drink, to drench, from to dress handsomely. drincan, to drink. See DRINK.) 1. To wet Dress (dres), n. 1. That which is used as the Drib (drib), v.i. To shoot at a mark at short With daily lies she dribs thee into cost. Dryder. thoroughly; to soak; to fill or cover with covering or ornament of the body; clothes; water or other liquid; as, garments drenched garments; apparel; as, the dress of a lady is paces: a technical term in archery. in rain or in the sea; the food has drenched modest and becoming; a gaudy dress is evi- Dribt (drib), n. A drop. the earth; swords drenched in blood. dence of a false taste. Dribble (dribbl), v.t. pret. & pp. dribbled; As 'to fell' is 'to make to fall,' and 'to lay; . 'to Style is the dress of thought. Chesterfield. ppr. dribbling. í. To throw down or let fali make to lie,' so 'to drench' is 'to make to drink.' in drops.-2. In football, to keep the ball Trench 2. A lady's gown; as, the lady has purchased rolling by a succession of small kicks. 2. To saturate with drink.-3. To force down an elegant dress.-3. Skill in adjusting dress, Dribble (dribbl), v.i. (A dim. from drip, physic mechanically; to purge violently. or the practice of wearing elegant clothing; and properly dripple.] 1. To fall in drops If any of your cattle are infected ... drench them. as, a man of dress; there is nothing but or small particles, or in a quick succession of Mortimer. dress in his head. - Syn. Apparel, raiment, drops; as, water dribbles from the eaves.Syn. To soak, steep, imbrue, saturate, souse, clothing, clothes, vestments, garments, habi- 2. To slaver, as a child or an idiot.-3. To deluge. liments, accoutrements, attire, array, habit. fall weakly and slowly. Drench (drensh), n. (A. Sax. drenc, a drink, Dress-coat (dres'köt), n. A coat with nar The dribbling dart of love. Shak, a draught.] A draught; a swill; a doze of row pointed tails; a swallow-tailed coat, in medicine for a beast, as a horse. contradistinction to a frock-coat, so called 4. To act or think feebly; to want vigour or Drench, Drenge (drench, drenj), n. In old because it is the coat in which gentlemen energy. Dryden.-5. To be small or trifling. English law, a tenant in capite. go to full-dress parties, operas, assemblies, Dribble (dribbl), n. A small quantity of Some dribbling skirmishes.' Holland. Drencher (drensh'er), n. Öne who wets or steeps; one who gives a drench to a beast. Dresse, t u.t. To address; to apply. Chau anything liquid; drizzle; drizzly or wet weather. (Scotch.) Drengaget (dreng'āj), n. The tenure by which a drench held land. Dressed Rocks (drest roks), n. pl. The term Now thou's turn'd out, for a' thy trouble, But house or hald, Drentt (drent), pp. See DREINT. sometimes applied to ice-worn bosses of rock, To thole the winter's sleety dribble Dreret (drer), n. (See DREAR.] Sorrow; sad- now called roches moutonnées, or sheep-back An' cranreuch cauld ! Burns. ness; dreariness. Spenser. rocks. Drerimentt (drēr'i-ment), n. Dreariness; Dresser (dres'ér), n. 1. One who dresses; Dribblet, Driblet (drib'let), n. A small piece or part; a small sum; a small amount of darkness. Spenser. one who is employed in putting on clothes money going to make up a sum; as, the Drerinesse, n. Sorrow. Chaucer. and adorning another.- 2. One who is emDrery, t a. Sorrowful. money was paid in dribblets. Chaucer. ployed in preparing, trimming, or adjusting Dridder, Dreadour (drid'ér, dred'ér), n. Dress (dres), v.t. pret. & pp. dressed or drest; anything: specifically, a hospital assistant, Dread; fear. (Scotch.) ppr. dressing. [Fr. dresser, to make right, whose office is to dress wounds, ulcers, &c. Driddle (drid'dl), v.i. 1. To play unskilfully, prepare; Pr. dressar, dreissar; It. drizzare, Dresser (dres'ér), n. [Fr. dressoir.) A side- as on the violin. (Scotch.] dirizzare, from a fictive L.L. verb directiare, board; a table or bench on which meat and drictiare, to make straight, from L. directus, other things are dressed or prepared for A pigmy scraper wi' his fiddle, Wha usd at trysts and fairs to driddle. Burns. straight, and that from di for dis, and use; also, a cupboard or set of shelves for 2. To wander aimlessly or feebly from place rego, rectum, to lead in a straight line or dishes and cooking utensils. in the right direction, to rule.] 1. To to place. (Scotch. )-3. To work constantly The pewter plates on the dresser make straight or in a straight line; to adjust but without making much progress. (Scotch.) Caught and reflected the flame, as shields of armies Drie (drē), v.t. To suffer. See DREE. (Obsoto a right line; as in the military phrase, the sunshine. Longfellow. dress your ranks. Hence-2. To put to rights; Dressing (dres’ing), n. 1. Raiment; attire. lete and Scotch.) to put in good order; as, to dress the beds Would'st thou thy every future year 2. That which is used as an application to In ceaseless prayer and penance drie, of a garden; to till; to cultivate. a wound or sore.-3. That which is used in Yet wait thy latter end with fear. Scott, And the Lord God took the man and put him into preparing land for a crop; manure spread Drier (dri'ér), . One who or that which the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.. Gen, ii. 15. over land. When it remains on the surface dries or makes dry; that which has the qua3. To treat with remedies or curative ap it is called a top-dressing.-4. Correction; a lity of drying; that which may expelor pliances; as, the surgeon dressed the limb or flogging or beating. [Colloq. 1-5. In cookery, absorb moisture; a desiccative; specifically, the wound. - 4. To prepare, in a general the stuffing of fowls, pigs, &c.; force meat. a substance added to some fixed oil to imsense; to put in the condition desired; to 6. In founding, the act or process of clean- part to it the property of drying quickly; a make suitable or fit for something; as, to ing castings after they are taken from the preparation to increase the hardening and dress meat; to dress leather or cloth; to dress mould; in type-founding, the scraping and drying properties of paint; a drying machine a lamp; to dress hemp or flax. notching of the letters after casting.–7. In or stove. To dress a soul for a funeral is not a work to be arch, mouldings round doors, windows, and Drife, t v.t. To drive. Chaucer. dispatched at one meeting. Jer. Taylor. other openings on an elevation.-8. In ma- Drift (drift), n. (A. Sax. drifan, to drive; 5. To curry, rub, and comb; as, to dress a sonry, the preparing of a stone for building Icel. drift, a snow-drift; Dan. drift, drift, horse.—6. To put on clothes; to put on rich in the wall, whether by the hammer only or impulse, drove, herd. See DRIVE, and comp. garments; to adorn; to deck; as, he dressed by the mallet and chisel, and the rubbing rive, rift; shrive, shrift; thrive, thrift.] 1. That himself for breakfast; the lady dressed her the face smooth.-9. Gum, starch, paste, and which is driven by any kind of force (drift self for a ball.—7. To break or tame and pre the like, used in stiffening or preparing silk, seems to be primarily a participle). Hencepare for service, as a horse. (Rare.]-8. To linen, and other fabrics. - Dressing of ores, 2. A heap of any matter driven together; cut to proper dimensions; to put the finish the breaking and powdering them in the as, a drift of snow, called also a snow-drift; ing touches to.-To dress up or out, to clothe stamping-mill, and afterwards washing them a drift of sand. - 3. A drove or flock, as of elaborately, pompously, or elegantly; as, to in a wooden trough. cattle, sheep, birds, &c. dress up with tinsel. - To dress a ship, to or Dressing-case (dres'ing-kās), n. A box con- Cattle coming over the bridge, with their great Fuller apparatus, hair, tooth, and nail brushes, po 4. A driving; a force impelling or urging matum, &c. forward; impulse; overbearing power or Dressing-gown (dres'ing-goun), n. A light influence. gown or wide and flowing coat worn by a A bad man being under the drift of any passion, person while dressing, in the study, &c. will follow the impulse of it till something interposes. South. Dressing-room (dres'ing-röm), n. An apart 5. Course of anything; tendency; aim; as, ment appropriated for dressing the person. the drift of reasoning or argument; the drift Dressing-table (dres'ing-tā-bl), n. A table of a discourse.-6. Intention; design; purprovided with conveniences for adjusting pose. the dress; a toilet-table. The drit of the Maker is dark, an Isis hid by Dressmaker (dres'māk-ėr), n. A maker of the veil, gowns or similar garments; a mantua- Who knows the ways of the world, how God will maker. bring them about? Tennyson. Dressy (dres’i), a. Showy in dress; very at- 7. Anything driven by force; as, a drift of tentive to dress; wearing rich or showy dust; a drift of trees carried by stream of dresses. (Colloq. ] water without guidance. Dretche, Drecche, t v.t. or i. (A. Sax. drec- Drifts of rising dust involve the sky. Pope. can, to vex or trouble; Sc. dratch, to linger.) 8. A shower; a number of things driven at To vex; to oppress; to trouble; to delay. once; as, a drift of bullets.-9. In mining, a This chaunteclere gan gronen in his throte, passage cut between shaft and shaft; a pasAs man that in his dreme is dretched sore. Chaucer, sage within the earth.–10. Naut, the leeDretching, t n. Delay. Chaucer, way which a vessel makes when lying-to or Dreul (drul), v.i. [A contr. of drivel (which hove-to during a gale. - Drift of a current, see). ] To emit saliva; to suffer saliva to issue the rate at which it flows.-11. In ship-buildH.M. Steam-yacht Dressed. and flow down from the mouth. ing, the difference between the size of a bolt Drevillt (drev'il), n. [See DRIVEL.) A drivel- and the hole into which it is to be driven, or nament her with a variety of flags, ensigns, ler; a fool. Spenser. between the circumference of a hoop and pendants, &c. of various nations, displayed Drew (dro), pret. of draw. See DRAW. the circumference of the mast on which it DRIFT 101 DRINKING-FOUNTAIN is to be driven.-Drifts in the sheer draught, thurh, through. The 0. E, thirl, to bore a commissioned officer who instructs soldiers those pieces where the rails are cut off. hole (seen in 0.E. nosethirl, nosethril, our in their duties, and trains them to military They are ended with scroles or scrolls, and nostril), thrill, trill, are allied words.) 1. To movements. called Drift-pieces. ---12. In arch. the hori. pierce with a drill; to perforate by turning Drill-stock (dril'stok), n. In mech. the zontal force which an arch exerts with a a sharp-pointed instrument of a particular holder (of which there are many kinds) for tendency to overset the piers.--13. In geol. form; to bore and make a hole by turning receiving the fixed end of a drill. a term applied to earth and rocks which an instrument; as, to drill a hole through Drily. See DRYLY. have been conveyed by icebergs or glaciers a piece of metal; to drill a cannon.-2. In Drimys (dri'mis), ??. [Gr. drimys, acrid, and deposited over a country while sub- agri, to sow in rows, drills, or channels; as, from the bitter tonic taste of the bark.) A merged, variously called Diluvium, Dilurial, to drill wheat; to sow with seed in drills; as, genus of plants belonging to the nat, order Glacial, or Northern Drift, Boulder Forma- the field was drilled, not sown broadcast. Magnoliacere. They are aromatic evergreen tion, &c. Geologists now often use instead 3. To draw through; to drain; as, waters trees or shrubs, natives of South America, of Drift the terms stratified or unstratified drilled through a sandy stratum.-4. Milit. Australia, and Borneo. D. aromatica, found Boulder Clay, which were not formerly re- to teach and train raw soldiers to their duty at the Straits of Magellan, furnishes the cognized as distinct formations. It is abun- by frequent exercises; hence, to teach by winter's bark of commerce. It is used as dant in Europe north of the 50th, and in repeated exercise or repetition of acts. an aromatic, and in many respects resembles North America north of the 40th parallel 5. To draw on; to entice; to amuse and Canella bark. See CANELLA. of latitude; absent in most tropical reput off. Drink (dringk), v.i. pret. drank or drunk; gions, but reappears in the lands which By such insinuations they have once got within him, pp. drunk or drunken; ppr. drinking. lie south of the 40th and 50th parallels and are able to drill hun on from one lewdness to (A. Sax. drincan, G. trinken, Goth. drigkan. of south latitude, as in Patagonia, Terra del another; by the same arts corrupting and squeezing to drink. Hence drench (caus.) and drown. ) him as they please. South, Fuego, and New Zealand. It consists of a 1. To swallow liquor, for quenching thirst -4ddison. compact clay, the colour of which depends She drilled him on to five and fifty. or other purpose; as, to drink of the brook. on that of the rocks whence it is derived, 6. + To exhaust or waste slowly; as, this acci- Ye shall drink indeed of my cup. Mat. XX. 23. having boulders diffused throughout its dent hath drilled away the whole summer. 2. To take spirituous liquors to excess; to mass, and with thin beds of gravel and sand Swift. be intemperate in the use of spirituous interspersed. The boulders have not that Drill (dril), v.i. 1. To sow seed in drills; as, liquors; to be an habitual drunkard. --3. To rounded appearance produced by the action the farmer was drilling.-2. To go through take alcoholic liquors at a feast or enterof water in a river course, but have a greater the exercises prescribed to raw soldiers; to tainment; to be entertained with liquors. or less number of rubbed faces produced by engage in training or teaching. They drank and were merry with him. being forced, while held in one position, Drill (dril), n. 1. A pointed instrument used Gen. xliii. 34. over the solid rocks beneath.–14. În mech. for boring holes, particularly in metals and --To drink to, to salute in drinking; to ina longish round and slightly tapering piece other hard substances; a boring tool that vite to drink by drinking first; to wish well of steel used for enlarging a hole in a me- cuts its way as it revolves; a drilling-ma- to, in the act of taking the cup. tallic plate; a drift-bolt; a punch.-15. Milit. chine or drill-press (which see).-2. The act I drink to the general joy of the whole table, (a) a tool used in ramming down the com- of training soldiers to their duty.-3. In And to our dear friend Banquo. Shak. position contained in a rocket or similar agri. a row of seeds deposited in the earth; – To drink deep, to drink a deep draught; firework. (0) A priming iron to clean the also, the trench or channel in which the vent of a piece of ordnance from burning to indulge in intoxicating liquors to excess. grain or seed is deposited. --4. A machine for particles after each discharge.-- Drift of the sowing seeds in regular rows; as, a turnip Drink deef, or taste not the Pierian spring: There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain, forest, in law, a view or examination of the drill. And drinking largely sobers us again. Pope. cattle that are in the forest, in order to Drillt (dril), n. [Akin rill; G. rille, a chanknow whether it be surcharged or not, or Drink (dringk), v.t. 1. To swallow, as liquids: nel.) A small stream; a rill. whether the beasts be commonable, &c. to receive, as a fluid, into the stomach; to Springs through the pleasant meadows pour their imbibe; as, to drink water or wine.-2. To Drift (drift), v. i. 1. To accumulate in heaps drills. Sandys. suck in; to absorb; to imbibe. by the force of wind; to be driven into heaps; Drillt (dril), v.i. To flow gently. as, snow or sand drifts.--2. To float or be And let the purple violets drink the stream, All have cool refreshing rivulets of crystal, drilling Dryden. driven along by a current of water or air; over pebbles of ainber. Sir T. Herbert. 3. To take in through the senses, as the ear to be carried at random by the force of the Drillt (dril), n. (Deriv. doubtful.] An ape; or eye; to hear; to see; as, to drink words wind or tide; as, the ship drifted astern; a a baboon. or the voice. raft drifted ashore. We drifted o'er the harbour bar.' Coleridge. What a devil (quoth the midwife), would you have My ears have not yet drunk a hundred words your son move his ears like a drill i Sir W. Temple. Of that tongue's uttering. Shak. Between that grim cathedral of England and this I drink delicious poison from thy eye. Pope. what an interval! There is a type of it in the very Drill (dril), n. [G. drillich, from drei, three, birds that haunt them; for, instead of the restless a fabric in which the threads are divided in 4. To take in the fumes or smoke of; to inCrowd, hoarse voiced and sable-winged, drilling on a threefold way. Comp. dimity, twill.) A hale, as to drink the air. the bleak upper air, the St. Mark's porches are full kind of coarse linen or cotton cloth; drill Some men live ninety years and past, of doves. Ruskin. Who never drank tobacco first nor last. Taylor. 3. In mining, to make a drift; to search for Drill-barrow (dril'ba-ro), n. In agri. an -- To drink down, to take away thought or metals or ores. implement for forming drills, sowing the consideration of by drinking; to subdue or Drift (drift), v.t. To drive into heaps; as, a seed, and covering it in with earth. extinguish; as, to drink down care; to drink current of wind drifts snow or sand. Drill-bow (drilbo), n. A small bow, gener- doren unkindness. - To drink of, to drink the Drift (drift), a. Drifted; capable of being ally made of a thin slip of steel, the string whole at a draught; as, to drink off a cup of drifted by wind or currents; as, drift sand; of which is used for the purpose of rapidly cordial.-To drink in, to absorb; to take or drift ice. turning a drill. receive into by any inlet. - To drink up, to Driftage (drift'āj), n. Naut. the amount of Drill-box (drilboks), n. In agri. a box con- drink the whole. - To drink the health, or to deviation from a ship's course due to leetaining the seed for sowing in drills. the health of, to drink while expressing good Drill-harrow (dril'ha-ro), n. A small harDrift-bolt (drift'holt), n. wishes for the health or welfare of; to sigA bolt used for row employed in drill-husbandry for extir- nify good-will to by drinking; to pledge. driving out other bolts, commonly made of pating weeds, and pulverizing the earth be- Drink (dringk), n. i. Liquor to be swallowed; steel. tween the rows of plants. any fluid to be taken into the stomach for Drift-land (drift'land), n. A yearly rent Drill-husbandry (dril'huz-band-ri), ?.. A quenching thirst or for medicinal purposes; paid by some tenants for driving cattle mode of cultivation in which the sowing of a draught of liquor; a potion. through a manor. seeds in drills is adopted. We will give you sleepy drinks. Shak. Driftless (drift les), a. Without drift or aim; Drilling (dril'ing), n. 1. In agri, that mode purposeless; aimless. North British Rev. 2. Intoxicating liquors, or the practice of of sowing in which the seed is deposited in Drift-net (drift'net), n. A large kind of net taking such liquors to excess; as, drink was regular equidistant rows at such a depth as with meshes 1 inch wide, used in fishing his ruin.-In drink, drunk; tipsy. each kind requires for its most perfect vegefor pilchard, herring, mackerel, &c. Drinkable (dringk'a-bl), a. That may be tation.—2. The practice or teaching of miliDrift-sail (drift'sal), n. Naut. a sail used drunk; fit or suitable for drink; potable. tary exercises; hence, thorough instruction under water, veered out right ahead by Drinkable (dringk'a-bl), n. in any matter.-3. The act or process of A liquor that sheets, serving to keep the ship's head right may be drunk. boring holes in metal. State upon the sea, and to prevent her driving too Drinkableness (dringk'a-bl-nes), n. Drilling (dril'ing), n. A coarse cloth. fast in a current. of being drinkable. DRILL, a kind of cloth. Drift-way (drift'wă), n. 1. A common way Drilling-machine (dril'ing-ma-shēn'), n. A Drinker (dringk'er), n. One who drinks, for driving cattle in.--2. Naut. and in min particularly one who practises drinking machine for cutting circular holes in metal ing, drift. by means of a revolving drill. spirituous liquors to excess; a drunkard; a See DRILL Drift-weed (drift'wēd), n. Same as Gulf tippler. PRESS. The rceed (which see). Drinker-moth (dringk'er-moth), n. Drill-master (dril'mas-tér), n. One who Drift-wind (drift'wind), n. A driving wind; teaches drill; specifically, one who teaches name of a fine large British moth, the Odoa wind that drives things into heaps. drill, as a branch of gymnastics, in public nestis potatoria of naturalists, and so called Drift-wood (drift'wyd), 1. Wood drifted or institutions and private families. from its long beak - like palpi projecting floated by water. somewhat like a tongue from the front of The business of life, according to him (Frederick Drifty (drift'i), a. Forming or characterized the head. Williain of Prussia), was to drill and be drilled; ... by drifts, especially of snow. 'Drifty nights he was a drill-master rather than a soldier. Drinking (dringk'ing), a. Connected with an' dripping summers.' Hogg. Macaulay. the use of ardent spirits; as, drinking usages. Drigie, Dredgie, Dirgie (driji, drej'i, dir'ji), Drill-plough (dril'plou), n. A plough for My uncle walked on singing, now a verse of a love n. (A form of dirge (which see)) A fu- sowing grain in drills. song, and then a verse of a drinking one. Dickens. neral company; entertainment at a funeral. Drill-press (dril'pres), n. A machine armed Drinking-bout (dringk'ing-bout), n. A con(Scotch.) with one or more drills for boring holes in vivial revel; a set-to at drinking. Drill (drl), v. t. [From D. drillen, to bore, metal, and designed as vertical, horizontal, Drinking-fountain (dringk'ing-fount-an), and to drill soldiers, G. drillen, to bore; al. or universal, in accordance with its mode n. An erection on or near a public thoroughlied to A Sax. thyrel,thyrl, a hole. (In mean- of working. Variously called Drill, Drill- fare for supplying men, sometimes both men ing 2, however, perhaps the same as drill, a machine, or Drilling-machine. and animals, with water, to quench their rill) The root is seen in 0.H.G. durh, A. Sax. Drill-sergeant (dril'sär-jant), n. A non- thirst. way See DRINKING-HORN 102 DROIL Drinking-horn (dringk'ing-horn), n. 1. A carry on. Drift and drove are derivatives, From Marlborough's eyes the streams of dotage flow, horn used as a drinking-vessel by our an- and thrive is perhaps allied.] 1. To im And Swift expires a driveller and a show. Johnson. cestors.--2. A cup or goblet made of horn pel or urge forward by force; to force; to Driven (driv'n), pp. (From drive.) Urged used at the present day. move by physical force; as, we drive a nail forward' by force; impelled to move; conDrinking-house (dringk'ing-hous). n. A into wood with a hammer; the wind or strained by necessity. house frequented by tipplers; an alehouse. steam drives a ship on the ocean.-2. To Driven (driv'n), n. In mach. any part of a Drinking-song (dringk'ing-song), n. A song compel or urge forward by other means than machine moved directly by the driver; also in praise of drinking; a song suitable to be absolute physical force, or by means that called follower. Rankine. sung when drinking; a bacchanalian song. compel the will; to cause to move forward Driver (driv'ér), n. 1. One who drives; the Why should Love, like men in drinking-songs, or onward: to impel to move or act in any person or thing that urges or compels anySpice his fair banquet with the dust of death? way; to force; to constrain; as, to drive thing else to move. -2. The person who Tennyson. cattle to market; smoke drives company drives a carriage; one who conducts a team. Drinkless (dringk'les), a. Destitute of from the room; anger and lust often drive 3. One who sets something before him as an drink. men into gross crimes. aim or object; an aimer. "A dangerous driver Drink-money (dringkʼmun-i), n. Money Drive thy business; let not thy business drive thee. at sedition.' Mountague.-4. Naut.(a) A large given to buy liquor for drink. Franklin. quadrilateral sail, called also the Spanker, Drink-offering (dringk'of-fér-ing), n. А 3. To chase; to hunt. occasionally set on the mizzen-yard or gaff, Jewish offering of wine, &c. To drive the deer with hound and horn, the foot being extended over the stern by Drip (drip), v.i. pret. & pp, dripped; ppr. Earl Percy took his way. Chevy Chase. a boom. It is the principal 'fore-and-aft dripping. [A. Sax. dripan, drypan, to drip, 4. To impel a team of horses or other ani- sail,' and is of great importance in adverse drop;a common Teutonic word; Dan.dryppe, mals to move forward, and to direct their winds. (6) The foremost spur in the bulgeIcel. drjúpa, D. druipen, G. triefen. Hence course; hence, to guide or regulate the ways.-5. In mach. (a) the main wheel by drop.] 1. To fall in drops; as, water drips course of the carriage drawn by them; to which motion is communicated to a train from eaves. — 2. To have any liquid falling guide or regulate a machine; as, to drive a of wheels; (6) the wheel of a locomotive from it in drops; as, a wet garment drips. team, or to drive a carriage drawn by a to which the power is directly communi*The dripping air of the twilight.' Long- team; to drive an engine.-5. To take on a cated.-6. A substance interposed between fellow. drive; to convey a person in a carriage or the driving instrument and the thing driven. Drip (drip), v.t. To let fall in drops; as, other vehicle; as, to drive a person to his A cooper drives hoops by striking upon the roasting flesh drips fat. "The lofty barn door.-6. To overrun and devastate; to driver.—7. In weaving, a piece of wood or which from the thatch drips fast a shower of rain.' Swift. harry; to carry away property or people other material, upon a spindle, and placed from. in a box, which impels the shuttle through Drip (drip), n. 1. A falling or letting fall in To drive the country, force the swains away. the opening in the warp.-8. A subordinate drops; a dripping; the sound of dripping. Dryden. official formerly employed in driving for On the ear Drops the light drip of the suspended oar. 7. To distress; to straiten; as, desperate men rent in Ireland. See DRIVE, v.i. Byron. 2. That which falls in drops; dripping, or far driven.-8. To urge; to press; as, to drive Driver-ant (driv'er-ant), n. Anomma armelted fat from meat while roasting. an argument.-9. To carry on; to prosecute; cens, a singular species of ant, a native of to engage in busily; as, to drive a trade; West Africa, so named from its driving beWater may be procured for necessary occasions to drive business. — 10. In mining, to dig fore it almost every animal that comes in its from the heavens by preserving the drips of the houses. way. The workers or neuters vary greatly Mortimer. horizontally; to cut an horizontal gallery or 3. That from which water drops, as the edge tunnel. - To drive feathers or down, to place in size, some being thrice the size of others. of a roof; the eaves.-4. In arch. a large flat them in a machine which, by a current of Driver-boom (driv'er-böm), n. Naut. the member of the cornice projecting so as to air, drives off the lightest to one end, and boom to which the driver is hauled out. throw off water. See DRIPSTONE. - Right of collects them by themselves. Driving (driv'ing), a. 1. Having great force drip, in law, an easement or servitude, in His thrice driven bed of down. Shak. of impulse; rushing with force; as, a driving virtue of which a person has a right to let -To drive a bargain, to make a bargain. wind or storm.-2. Communicating force or his drip fall on another person's property. power; as, a driving-shaft. Dripping (drip'ing), n. The fat which falls You drive a queer bargain with your friends and | Driving-axle (driv'ing-aks-l), n. The axle are found out, and imagine the world will punish from meat in roasting; that which falls in of a driving.wheel. you. Thackeray. drops. Driving-box (driv'ing-boks), n. The journalDripping-pan (drip'ing-pan), n. A pan for Drive (drīv). v.i. 1. To be forced along: to box of a driving-axle. be impelled; to be moved by any physical Driving - notes (driv'ing-nõts), n. pl. In receiving the fat which drips from meat in roasting force or agent; as, a ship drives before the music, syncopated notes; notes which vary wind. Dripplet (drip'pl), a. Weak or rare. the natural accent in a bar. Dripstone drip'ston), n. 1. In arch. a pro The hull drives on though mast and sail be torn. Driving-shaft (driv'ing-shaft), n. A shaft Byron. jecting moulding or cornice over doorways, from the driving - wheel communicating windows, &c., to throw off the rain. It is 2. To rush and press with violence; as, a motion to the machine. Driving-spring (driv'ing-spring), n. In rail. Dryden. axle of a locomotive engine, to support the 3. To go in a carriage; to travel in a vehicle weight and to deaden shocks. drawn by horses or other animals; as, he Driving-wheel (driv'ing-whēl), n. 1. In drove to London.-4. To aim at or tend to; mach. a wheel that communicates motion to to urge toward a point; to make an effort another or to others. -2. In rail, the large to reach or obtain; as, we know the end the wheel in a locomotive engine which is fixed author is driving at. -5. To aim a blow; to upon the crank-axle or main-shaft. Called strike with force. also simply Driver. At Anxur's shield he drove and at the blow Drizzle (driz' zl), v.i. pret. & pp. drizzled ; Both shield and arm 10 ground together go. ppr. drizzling. (A diminutive form, allied Dryden. to or derived from A. Sax. dreósan, Goth. 6. To take the property of another; to dis- driusan, to fall; Prov. G. drieseln, to drizzle; train for rent; to drive cattle into a pound Dripstone, Westminster Abbey. Dan. drysse, to sprinkle, to fall in small as a security for rent. particles.) To rain in small drops; to fall, also called a weather-moulding, or more His landlord, who, he fears, hath sent as water from the clouds, in very fine par His water-bailiff thus to drive for rent. Cleaveland. properly hood-mould; and label when it is ticles; as, it drizzles; drizzling drops; drizzturned square. It is of various forms, The term 'driving' was applied to a summary ling rain and when a head is not used as a termina process for recovering rent which the law in these Driszling tears did shed for pure affection. Spenser drive to the pound the cattle of any tenant who owed any rent whatever, without previous notice to the Drizzle (driz'zl), v. t. To shed in small drops tenant or any statement of the landlord's demand or particles. having been furnished to him, and the cattle so im. The air doth driezie dew. Shak. pounded might be kept in durance until the rent was Drizzle (driz'zl), n. paid. Trench: Realities of Irish Life. A small rain; mizzle ; mist. Drizzly (driz'li), a. Shedding small rain, or The winter's drizzly reign. Dryden. drop or flow from the mouth, like a child, Drog, Drogue (drog), n. A buoy attached Dripstone Terminations. idiot, or dotard.-2. To be weak or foolish; to the end of a harpoon line. to dote; as, a drivelling hero; drivelling love. Droger, Drogher (dro'gėr), n. 1. A small 1, St. Cross, Winchester. 2. Chaddesley Corbett, Drivel (dri'vel), n. 1. Slaver; saliva flowing Worcestershire. West Indian coasting craft, built for carryfrom the mouth.—2. Silly unmeaning talk; ing goods, having long light masts and lateen tion or support, an ornament or simple inarticulate nonsense; senseless twaddle, sails. moulding is adopted.-2. A filtering-stone, like the talk of an idiot. --- 3.1 A driveller; Droghing (drög'ing), n. A name given to familiarly so called by seamen. a fool; an idiot. * That foul aged drivel.' the West Indian coasting carrying trade. Drive (driv), v.t. pret. drove (formerly drave); Spenser.-4. A servant. 'Drivel or drudge.' Drogman, Drogoman (drog'man, drog'opp. driven; ppr. driving. (A. Sax. drifan, Á uloet. man), n. Same as Dragoman. 0. Sax. driben, Goth. dreiban, D. drijven, Driveller (dri'vel-er), nn. A slaverer; a slab- Droilt (droil), v.i. [D. druilen, to mope.] Dan. drive, G. treiben, to drive, to urge orberer; an idiot; a fool. To work sluggishly or slowly; to plod. DROIL 103 DROP any kind. son. Let such vile vassals Dromedary-battery (drum'e-da-ri-bat-tė- cial in England; a common nursery word Drudge in the world, and for their living droil. ri), n. Artillery carried on the back of in United States.) Spenser. Droilt (droil), n. 1. A mope; a drone; a dromedaries. Droop (drop), v.t. To let sink or hang down; sluggard; a drudge. "Peasants and droils.' Dromia (dro'mi-a), n. A genus of brachy- as, to droop the head. Beau & Fl. -2. Labour; toil; drudgery. urous decapod crustaceans, with great and Droop (drop), v. i. [A form of drip, drop.] Droit (droit), n. (Fr. See DIRECT.] 1. Right; strong claws, found in the seas of warm 1. To sink or hang down; to bend downward, climates. law; justice; equity; title; fee; privilege. as from weakness or exhaustion; as, plants 2. In finance, duty: custom.-3. In old law, Dromiidæ (drom-i'i-dē), n. pl. A family of droop for want of moisture; he allowed a writ of right, which is the highest of all real brachyurous crustaceans, of which Dromia his head to droop on his breast. writs. - Droits of admiralty, perquisites atis the type. See DROMIA. Near the lake where drooped the willow, tached to the office of admiral of England, or Dromondt (drom'ond), n. [Gr. dromón, a Long time ago. G. P. Morris. lord high-admiral of these perquisites, the light vessel, probably from dramein, to run.] 2. To languish from grief or other cause; to most valuable is the right to the property A light, fast-sailing vessel; also a ship of fall into a state of physical weakness. Fuller. of an enemy, as ships seized on the breaking out of hostilities. The droits of admir Drone (dron), n. (A. Sax. dran, draen, Conceiving the dishonour of his mother, He straight declined, droop'd, took it deeply. Shak. alty are now paid into the exchequer for the the drone-bee, L.G. and Dan, drone, Sw. benefit of the public service. A tenth part dron, drönje, Ger. drohne, O.H.G. treno, 3. To fail or sink; to decline; to be dispirited; of the property captured at sea is allowed dreno, Lett. tranni, Rus. truten. Possibly of as, the courage droops; the spirits droop. to the captors. onomatopoetic origin. Comp. humble-bee, But wherefore do you droop! why look you sad? Grimm G. hummel, and the verb hum. Droitural (droit'ūr-al), a. In law, relating Be great in act as you have been in thought. Shak. to a right to property as distinguished from connects it with Gr. anthrēnē, a bee, ten 4. To come towards an end; to proceed topossession. thrine, a wasp or fly, Skr. druna, a bee.) wards a close. "Then day drooped.' Tenny. Droitzschka, Droitschka (droich'ka), n. Drooper (drop'er), n. One who or that See DROSKY. which droops. Droll (drõl), a. [The same word as Fr. drôle, Droopingly (dröp'ing-li), adv. In a lanD. drol, G. droll, a thick, short person, a droll; guishing manner. whence, G. and D. drollig, pleasant. Grimm Drop (drop), n. (A. Sax. dropa, drypa, derives it from drillen, in the sense of turn 0. Sax. dropo, Icel. dropi, G. tropfe, D. drop, ing round. Skeat takes it from Icel, and a drop. See DRIP and DROP, v.t.] 1. A Sw. troll, a kind of imp or hobgoblin well small portion of any fluid in a spherical known in fable. The Fr. dróle, according to form, which falls at once from any body, Brachet, comes from the E. droll.] 1. Odd; or a globule of any fluid which is penmerry; facetious; comical; as, a droll fellow dent, as if about to fall; a small portion of 2. Ludicrous; queer; laughable; ridiculous; Drone-bee. water falling in rain; as, a drop of water; a az, a droll story; a droll scene. -SYN. Comic, drop of blood; a drop of laudanum.—2. That comical, diverting, farcical, laughable, ludi 1. The male of the honey-bee. It is smaller which resembles or hangs in the form of a crous, odd, queer, ridiculous. Droll (drol), n. drop; as, a hanging diamond ornament; an 1. One whose occupation or than the queen-bee, but larger than the working-bee. The drones make no honey, ear-ring; a glass pendant of a chandelier; a practice is to raise mirth by odd tricks; a but after living a few weeks and impregnat- kind of sugar-plum.-3. A very small quanjester; a buffoon. 'Dr. Dale who was a witty ing the queen they are killed or driven from tity of liquor; as, he had not drunk a drop; kind of droll.' Howell. -2. A farce; somethe hive. hence, a small quantity of anything. thing exhibited to raise mirth or sport. All with united force combine to drive But if there be Droli (drol), v.i. To jest; to play the The lazy drones from the laborious hive. Dryden. Yet left in heaven as small a drop of pity buffoon. Being disposed to droll. Swift. Drollt (drol), v.t. To lead or influence by jest Hence-2. An idler; a sluggard; one who As a wren's eye, fear'd gods, a part of it! Shak. or trick; to cajole; to cheat. earns nothing by industry. — 3. A humming 4. The name of several contrivances, aror low sound, or the instrument of hum- ranged so as to drop, fall, or hang from a Men that will not be reasoned into their senses ming. higher position, or lower other objects sudmay yet be laughed or drolled into them. L'Estrange. If men should ever be humming the drone of one denly or gradually. Specifically, (a) that plain song, it would be a dull opiate to the most part of a gallows which sustains the criminal Drollert (drol'er), n. A jester; a buffoon. wakeful attention. Milton. before he is executed, and which is suddenly Drollery (drol’e-ri), n. [Fr. drólerie.] 1. The quality of being droll; something done to 4. The largest tube of the bagpipe, which dropped. (b) A contrivance for lowering emits a continued deep note, the key-note heavy weights, as bale-goods, coal-waggons, raise mirth; sportive tricks; buffoonery; of the scale. In many bagpipes there is a &c., to a ship's deck. (c) The curtain which fun; comicalness; humour. “The rich drollery of "She Stoops to Conquer." Macaulay. Drone (drõn), _v.i. pret. & pp. droned; ppr. lesser drone tuned to the fifth of the scale. conceals the stage of a theatre from the audience.-5. In arch. a small cylinder or 2+ Something inanimate adapted to raise droning. 1. To live in idleness. 'Race of truncated cone used in the mutules of the mirth, as a puppet-show; a puppet; a lively, comical sketch, &c. droning kings.' Dryden.-2. To give forth Doric cornice, and in the member imme a low, heavy, dull sound; to hum; to snore. diately under the triglyph of the same I bought an excellent drollery, which I afterwards * The beetle wheels his droning flight.' order.–6. Naut. the depth of a sail from parted with to my brother George of Wotton, where it now hangs. Evelyn. Gray. Droned her lurdane knights, slum- head to foot amidships. – 7. See DROPIn a jesting bering.' Tennyson.-3. To make use of a Drollingly (dről'ing-li), ado. PRESS.-8. pl. A liquid medicine, the dose dull monotonous tone; as, he drones while of which is regulated by a certain number manner. reading Drollish (dről'ish), a. Somewhat droll. of drops.-9. In mach, the interval between Drone (dron), v.t. To read or speak in a the base of a hanger and the shaft below. Dromedary (drum'e-da-ri), n. [L. dromedull, monotonous, droning manner; as, he - Drop serene. Same as Amaurosis. The darius, a dromedary, formed from Gr. dromas, dromados, running, from drom, drones his sentences. phrase is a literal rendering of the L.L. dram, root of dramein, aor. inf. of trecho, And the reader droned from the pulpit, gutta serena (which see under GUTTA). Like the murmur of many bees, Drop (drop), v.t. pret. & pp. dropped; ppr. The legend of good Saint Guthlac, dropping. [A. Sax. dropian, from the noun, And Saint Basil's homilies. Longfellow. like D. droppen, G. tropfen. See the noun Drone-bee (dron'bē), n. The male bee. and comp. drip. ] 1. To pour or let fall Drone-ily (dron'flī), n. A two-winged insect in small portions or globules, as a fluid; to resembling the drone-bee (Eristalis tenax). distil. Drone-pipe (drõn'pīp), n. 1. A pipe produc- His heavens shall drop down dew. Deut. xxxiii. 28. ing a droning sound;" the droning hum of 2. To let fall, as any substance; as, to drop an insect. You fell at once into a lower key the anchor; to drop a stone.-To drop an chor, the same as to anchor.-3. To let go; That's worse—the drone-pipe of a humble-bee. Cowper. to dismiss; to lay aside; to break off from; 2. The largest tube of a bagpipe which pro to quit; to leave; to permit to subside; to duces the droning sound; the drone. omit; as, to drop an affair; to drop an Drongo, Drongo-shrike (drongʻgo, drong' acquaintance; to drop a friend; to drop go-shrik), n. The name of a genus of fly a fashion; to drop one's h's; to drop a catching birds, with long, forked tails (Edo controversy; to drop a pursuit. - 4. To lius). They are natives of India, the Asiatic utter slightly, briefly, or casually; as, to islands, and South Africa. See DICRURINÆ. drop a word in favour of a friend.-5. To Dronish (dron'ish), a. Idle; sluggish; lazy; insert indirectly, incidentally, or by way of indolent; inactive; slow. *The dronish digression; as, to drop a word of instruction monks, the scorn and shame of manhood.' in a letter.-6. To bedrop; to speckle; to Dromedary (Camelus dromedarius). Rowe. variegate, as if by sprinkling with drops; Dronishly (dron'ish-li), adv. In a dronish as, a coat dropped with gold.—7. To lower; to run.] 1. A species of camel, called also as, to drop the muzzle of a gun.-8. To manner. send in an off-hand informal manner; as, the Arabian camel (Camelus dromedar- Dronishness (drõn'ish-nes), n. State of jus), with one hump or protuberance on the being dronish. drop me a few lines. back, in distinction from the Bactrian Dronkelew, t a. Given to drink; drunken. Drop (drop), v.i. 1. To fall in small portions, camel, which has two bunches. It is more Chaucer. globules, or drops, as a liquid; as, water swift of foot than the camel, being capable Dronken,t pp. from drink. Drunk. Chaucer. drops from the clouds or from the eaves. of travelling upwards of a hundred miles a Drony (drõn'i), a. Sluggish; like a drone; The quality of mercy is not strained; day, and of continuing its journey at that dronish. It droppeth as the gentle dew from heaven Shak. rate for several successive days. The pace of Drook, v.t. See DROUK. the dromedary is a trot, often at the rate of Drooket, a. See DROUK. 2. To let drops fall; to drip; to discharge itself in drops. nine miles an hour, but the jolting to the Drool (dröl), v. i. [ Contr. from drivel, rider is most uncomfortable.-2. Any quick It was a loathsome herd, ... half bestial, half written formerly driuel.) To slaver, as human, dropping with wine, bloated with gluttony, travelling camel. See CAMEL. a child; to drivel; to drop saliva. (Provin- and reeling in obscene dances. Macaulay. DROPAX 104 DROUTHY by the The heavens also dropped at the presence of God. names according to the part affected; as, Drosophila (dro-sof 'i-la), n. [Gr. drosos, Ps. lxviii. 7. 3. To fall; to descend suddenly or abruptly; ascites, or dropsy of the abdomen; hydro-dew, and phile, to love.) A genus of insects, cephalus, or water in the head; anasarca, one of which, Drosophila flava (the yellow as, ripe fruit drops from a tree.-4. To cease; to give over blowing; as, the breeze dropped. or a watery swelling over the whole body, turnip-leaf miner), is very destructive to &c. -- 2. In bot. a disease in succulent plants 5. To collapse suddenly; to collapse and turnips, the maggots eating into the pulp, caused by an excess of water. hang loosely. and producing whitish blisters on the upper Drop-table (drop'tă-bl), n. A machine for side. D. cellaris attacks potatoes. Down dropt the breeze, the sails dropt down. Coleridge. lowering weights, and especially for remov- Dross (dros), n. [A. Sax. dros, drosn, con6. To die, or to die suddenly; to fall, as in ing the wheels of locomotives. nected with or derived from dreosan, to fall; Fine tin. battle; as, we see one friend after another Drop-tin (drop'tin), n. D. droes, Icel. tros, rubbish; Sc. drush, dregs, dropping round us. Dropwise (drop'wiz), adv. After the man- filth; Dan. drysse, to fall, as sand.] 1. The It was your presurmise ner of drops; droppingly; by drops. (Rare.] refuse or impurities of metals; the slag, That in the dole of blows your son might drop: In mine own lady palms 1 culled the spring scales, or cinders thrown off in the process Shak. That gathered trickling dropwise from the cleft. of melting. 7. To come to an end; to be allowed to cease; Tennyson, Some scummid the dross that from the metal came, to be neglected and come to nothing; as, Drop-wort (drop'wert), n. [From the small Some stirr'd the molten ore with ladles great. the affair dropped.-8. To come unexpecttubers on the fibrous roots. ]-Spiræa fili Spenser edly: with in or into; as, my old friend pendula, nat, order Rosaceæ, a British plant 2. Rust; crust of metals; an incrustation dropped in a moment. -9. To fall short of a of the same genus as queen-of-the-meadow, formed on metals by oxidation.-3. Waste mark. (Rare.) found in dry pastures. The hemlock drop- matter; refuse; any worthless matter sepaOften it drops or overshoots. Collier. wort, or water drop-wort, is Enanthe fis- rated from the better part; impure matter. tulosa. 10. To fall lower; to sink; to be depressed; Droschka (drosh'ka), n. The world's glory is but dross unclean. Spenser. See DROSKY. as, the point of the spear dropped a little. 11. To have a certain drop or depth from Drosera (droʻsè-ra), 'n. [Gr. droseros, dewy, Drosselt (dros'sel), n. (See DRAZEL.) A from drosos, dew.) A genus of plants giving top to bottom: said of a sail. Now dwells each drossel in her glass. Warner. name to the orHer main top-sail drops seventeen yards. der Droseraceæ. Drossiness (dros’i-nes), n. The quality or state of being drossy; foulness; rust; im-To drop astern (naut.), to pass or move covered with purity. toward the stern; to move back; to slacken glandular hairs, The penance of affliction being meant but to refine the speed of a vessel so as to let another which exude us from our earthly drossiness, and soften us for the pass ahead of her.-To drop down, to sail, drops of a clear impression of God's own stamp and image Boyle. row, or move down a river or toward the sea. - Dropping fire (milit.), a continuous glutinous fluid Drossy (dros'i), a. 1. Like dross; pertaining irregular discharge of small arms. which glitters in to dross; full of or abounding with refuse the sun, hence matter; as, drossy gold.—2. Worthless; foul; Dropax (dro'paks), n. [Gr., a pitch-plaster.) the names Dro impure. A preparation for removing hair from the sera and in En He, and many more ... the drossy age doats on. skin; a depilatory: Shak. sundew. Drop-drill (drop'dril), n. In agri. an agri glish Drotchelt(droch'el), n. (For dratchel, dretchcultural implement which drops seed and lar hairs retain el. See DRETCHE.) An idle wench; a sluggard. manure into the soil simultaneously. It consmall insects Droud (droud), n. [Scotch.] 1. A cod-fish. sists of a frame mounted on two wheels, two that touch them, 2. A kind of wattled box for catching herboxes containing seed and manure, and a rings.-3. A lazy, lumpish person. and other hairs coulter in front for cutting a channel for around those ac Folk pitied her heavy handful of such a droud. the seed. The delivery of the seed and Galt. manure is regulated by slides moved by ma tually touched Drough,t pret. of draw. Drew. Philoctetes anon the sail up drough. Chaucer. Drop-hammer (drop'ham-mer), n. Same as inclose it. The Drop-press. Drought (drout), n. [See DROUTH.) 1. Dry insect speedily weather; want of rain; such a continuance Droplet (drop let), n. A little drop. Shak. dies and decays, of dry weather as affects the crops; aridness. Drop-letter (drop'let-ér), n. A letter posted for delivery in the same town. [United and according Sundew (Drosera rotundifolia). In a drought the thirsty creatures cry. Dryden. to some naturStates.) 2. Thirst; want of drink. alists is taken in by the leaf as food. Dropmeal,t Dropmelet (drop'mēl), adv. As one, whose drought Drop by drop, or in small portions at a time. Droseraceæ (dro'sér-ā"sē-e), n. pl. A nat. Yet scarce allayed, still eyes the current stream. Milton. Distilling dropmeal, or little by little.' order of albuminous, exogenous plants, con sisting of marsh herbs, whose leaves are usu- 3. Scarcity; lack. Holland ally covered with glands or glandular hairs. A drought of Christian writers caused a dearth of Dropper (drop'ér), n. 1. He who or that It contains six genera, with more than a all history. Fuller. which drops.-2. În mining, a branch vein hundred species of plants, found in tropical Droughtiness (drout'i-nes), n. which leaves or drops from the main lode. Dryness; Dropping (drop'ing), n. 1. The act of drop drouthiness. and temperate countries over the world ing; a distilling; a falling.–2. That which except in the Pacific Islands. They have no Droughty (drout'i), a. 1. Characterized by drops. known qualities except that they are slightly drought; characterized by the absence of bitter. Dropping-bottle (drop'ing-bot-tl), n. The leaves are generally circinnate rain or moisture; arid. 'Droughty and in the bud, as in ferns. The most remarkinstrument for supplying small quantities of parched countries.' Ray. water to test-tubes, &c.; an edulcorator. able plant of the order is the Dionæa mus When the man of God calls to her 'Fetch me a Droppingly (drop'ing-li), adv. In drops. cipula, or Venus's fly-trap, the leaves of little water'... it was no easy suit in so droughtie which close quickly when touched. See Rp. Hall. Dropping-tube (drop'ing-tūb), n. A glass DIONÆA. tube with a hollow bulb near its lower end, Drosky (dros'ki), n. (Rus. drozhki, a dim. 2. Thirsty; requiring drink. “Thy droughty and terminating in a small orifice: when throat.' Philips. the bulb is filled with a liquid, the liquid of drogi, a kind of carriage, properly pl. of Drouk, Drook (drụk), v.t. (A non-nasalized passes through the orifice in drops. It is droga, a carriage-pole or shaft.) A kind of form allied to drink and drench.] To drench; used for the same purpose as the dropping light four-wheeled carriage used in Russia to wet thoroughly. [Scotch.] bottle. and Prussia. The drosky proper is without And aye she took the tither souk To drouk the stowrie tow. Burns. Drop-press (drop' pres), n. A machine worked by the foot, consisting of a weight Droukit, Drooket (druk'it, dryk'et), pp. or raised vertically by a cord and pulley, and a. Drenched. [Scotch. ] allowed to drop suddenly on an anvil: used The last Halloween I was waukin Brons. for embossing, punching, &c. My droukit sark-sleeve, as ye ken. Droumy,ta. Troubled; dirty. Bacon. Drop-scene (drop'sēn), n. In theatres, a Drouth (drouth), n. (Contr. from A. Sax. scenic picture, usually painted with care, drugath, drugothe, from drýg, drig, dry; suspended by pulleys, which descends or like D. droogte, from droog, dry. See DRY.) drops in front of the stage. 1. Drought; want of rain or of water; parDropsical (drop'sik-al), a. (See DROPSY.] 'ticularly, dryness of the weather, which af1. Diseased with dropsy; inclined to the fects the earth, and prevents the growth of dropsy.-2. Resembling or partaking of the plants; aridness; aridity. The dust and nature of the dropsy. drouth of London life.' Tennyson.-2. Dry. Dropsicalness (drop'sik-al-nes), n. The Drosky used in St. Petersburg. ness of the throat and mouth; thirst; want state of being dropsical. of drink. Dropsied (drop'sid),a. Diseased with dropsy; One whose drouth a top, and consists essentially of a kind of Yet scarce allayed, still eyes the current stream, unnaturally increased; exhibiting an un- long narrow bench, on whic passengers Whose liquid murmur heard, new thirst excites. healthy inflation. ride as on a saddle, but the name is now ap Milton. Where great additions swell, and virtue none, plied to various kinds of vehicles, as to the Drouthiness (drouth'i-nes), n. 1. A state It is a dropsicd honour. Shak. of dryness of weather; want of rain. Drop-stone (drop'ston), n. Spar in the man cities, &c. Written also Drozhki, 2. Thirst; specifically, thirst for ardent shape of drops. Droschka, Droschke, Droitzschka. spirits. (Scotch, rather than English.] Dropsy (drop'si), n. [Formerly hydropsy; Drosometer (dro-som'et-ér), n. [Gr. drosos, Drouthydrouth’i),a. 1. Devoid of moisture; Gr. hydör, water, and ops, the face, from dew, and metron, measure. An instrument free from rain or water in general; arid. op, root of obs. Gr. optomai, to see.] 1. In for ascertaining the quantity of dew that 2. Thirsty, as a man; specifically, thirsty for med. an unnatural collection of water in any condenses on a body which has been exposed strong drink. (Scotch, rather than English.] cavity of the body, or in the cellular tissue. to the open air during the night. It consists And at his elbow Souter Johnny, It occurs most frequently in persons of lax of a balance, one end of which is furnished His ancient, trusty, drouihy cronie. Burns. habits, or in those whose bodies are debili- with a plate fitted to receive the dew, and There are capital points in the second (picture), tated by disease. The dropsy takes different the other with a weight protected from it. which depicts the consternation excited in a village a season, |