Dictionary
An American Dictionary of the English Language
Revised and enlarged (Goodrich & Porter)
Springfield, Mass. · G. & C. Merriam · 1865
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Drown, v. t. p. 416To overwhelm in water; to submerge; to immerse; to deluge; to inundate. “They drown the land.” Dryden. 2. To deprive of life by immersion in water or other liquid. 3. To overpower; to overcome; to…Drown, v. i. p. 416To be suffocated in water or other fluid; to perish in water. Methought what pain it was to drown. Shak.Drown'age, n. p. 416The act of drowning. [Rare.]Drown'er, n. p. 416One who, or that which, drowns.Drowse, v. i. p. 416To sleep imperfectly or unsoundly; to slumber; to be heavy with sleepiness; to doze. Milton.Drowse, v. t. p. 416To make heavy with sleepiness or imperfect sleep; to make dull or stupid. Milton.Drowse, n. p. 416A slight or imperfect sleep; a doze. But smiled on in a drowse of ecstasy. Browning.Drow'ſi-hēad or Drow'ſi-hēd, n. p. 416Tendency to sleep; drowsiness; sleepiness. Spenser.Drow'si-ly, adv. p. 416In a drowsy manner; heavily; sleepily; slothfully.Drow'si-ness, n. p. 416The state of being drowsy; sleepiness; sluggishness. Milton.Drow'sy, a. p. 416Inclined to drowse; heavy with sleepiness; lethargic; dozy. I sleep when I am drowsy, and tend to no man's business. Shak. 2. Disposing to sleep; lulling; soporific. The drowsy hours, dispensers of…Drowth, n. p. 416The same as DROUGHT. Carew.Drŭb, v. t. p. 416To beat with a stick; to thrash; to cudgel. The little thief had been soundly drubbed with a cudgel. L'Estrange.Drĭb, n. p. 416A blow with a stick or cudgel; a thump; a knock. Addison.Drŭb'ber, n. p. 416One who drubs. “The drubber of the sheepskin.” W. Scott.Drŭdge, v. i. p. 416To work hard; to labor in mean or unpleasant offices with toil and fatigue. He gradually rose in the estimation of the booksellers for whom he drudged. Macaulay.Drŭdge, n. p. 416One who works hard, or labors with toil and fatigue; one who labors hard in servile employments; an unwilling or reluctant laborer. “At the public mill our drudge.” Milton.Drŭd'ge, n. p. 416(Com.) Whisky in its raw state, as used in the manufacture of alcohol. [U. S.]Drŭdg'er, n. p. 416One who drudges; a drudge. 2. A dredging-box.Drŭd'g'er-y, n. p. 416The act of drudging; hard labor; toilsome work; ignoble toil; hard work in servile occupations. “The drudgery of penning definitions.” Macaulay. Paradise was a place of bliss ... without drudgery or…Drĕd'ging-bŏx, n. p. 416The same as DREDGING-BOX.Drŭd'g'ing-ly, adv. p. 416In a drudging manner; laboriously.Drŭg, n. p. 416Any animal, vegetable, or mineral substance used in the composition of medicines; any stuff used in dyeing or in chemical operations. 2. Any commodity that lies on hand, or is not salable; an article…Drŭg, v. i. p. 416To prescribe or administer drugs or medicines. B. Jonson.Drŭg, v. t. p. 416To affect or season with drugs or ingredients. With pleasure drugged, he almost longed for woe. Byron. 2. To tincture with something offensive or injurious. 3. To dose to excess with drugs or…Drŭg'ger, n. p. 416A druggist. [Obs.] Burton.Drŭg'get, n. p. 416A coarse, thick woolen cloth or felt, stamped on one side with figures, and generally used as a covering and protection for carpets.Drŭg'gist, n. p. 416One who deals in drugs; especially, one whose occupation is merely to buy and sell drugs, without compounding or preparation. ☞ In the United States, the same person often carries on the business of…Drŭg'ster, n. p. 416A druggist. [Obs.] Boyle.Dru'id, n. p. 416A priest or minister of religion, among the ancient Celtic nations in Gaul, Britain, and Germany. The Druids possessed some knowledge of geometry, natural philosophy, &c., superintended the affairs…Dru'id-ess, n. p. 416A female Druid; an enchantress.Dru-ĭd'ic or Dru-ĭd'ic-al or Dru'id-ĭsh, a. p. 416Pertaining to, or resembling, the Druids.Dru'id-ĭsm, n. p. 416The system of religion, philosophy, and instruction received and taught by the Druids, or their rites and ceremonies.Drŭm, n. p. 416(Mus.) An instrument of music, consisting of a hollow cylinder or hemisphere, upon which a piece of vellum is stretched, to be beaten with a stick; — the common instrument of marking time in martial…Drŭm, v. i. p. 416To 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. “Drumming with his fingers on the arm of his…Drūm, v. t. p. 416To execute on a drum, as a tune;—with out, to expel with beat of drum; as, to drum out a deserter or rogue from a camp, &c.;—with up, to assemble by beat of drum; to gather; to collect; as, to drum…Drüm'ble, v. i. p. 416To be confused; to go about any thing confusedly or awkwardly; to be sluggish. Shak. 2. To mumble unintelligibly in speaking. [Obs.]Drüm'-fish, n. p. 416See DRUM.Drŭm'-hĕad, n. p. 416The head or upper part of a drum. 2. The top of a capstan which is pierced with holes for levers used in turning it. Totten. Drum-head court-martial (Mil.), a court-martial called suddenly, or on the…Drūm'ly, a. p. 416Turbid; muddy. [Obs.]Drüm'-mā'jor, n. p. 416The chief or first drummer of a regiment. 2. A riotous assembly; a noisy convivial gathering. [Rare.] See DRUM.Drüm'mer, n. p. 416One whose office is to beat the drum, in military exercises and marching. 2. One who solicits custom. Bartlett.Drüm'mond-light, n. p. 416A very intense light, produced by turning two streams of gas, one oxygen and the other hydrogen, in a state of ignition, upon a ball of lime; or a stream of oxygen gas through a flame of alcohol upon…Drŭm’stĭck, n. p. 416A stick with which a drum is beaten, or shaped for the purpose of beating a drum. 2. Any thing resembling a drumstick in form, as the upper joint of the leg of a fowl.Drŭnk, a. p. 416Overcome by drinking; intoxicated; inebriated; the same as DRUNKEN;—never used attributively, but always predicatively; as, the man is drunk, but not a drunk man. Be not drunk with wine, wherein is…Drünk'ard, n. p. 416One who habitually drinks to excess; one who uses intoxicating liquors immoderately. The drunkard and glutton shall come to poverty. Prov. xxiii. 21.Drŭnk’en, a. p. 416Given to excessive drinking; intoxicated; inebriated; as, a drunken man. Drunken men imagine every thing turneth round. Bacon. 2. Saturated with liquor or moisture; drenched. Let the earth be drunken…Drünk'en-hĕad, n. p. 416Drunkenness. [Obs.] Gower.Drünk'en-ly, adv. p. 416In a drunken manner. [Rare.] Shak.Drünk'en-ness, n. p. 416The state of being drunken, or overpowered by alcoholic liquor; intoxication; inebriety. The Lacedemonians trained up their children to hate drunkenness by bringing a drunken man into their company.…Drŭnk'en-shĭp or Drŭnk'ship, n. p. 416The state of being drunk; drunkenness. [Obs.] Gower.Dru-pā'ceōŭs, a. p. 416(Bot.) Producing, or pertaining to, drupes; having the form of drupes; as, drupaceous trees or fruits.Drupe, n. p. 416(Bot.) A pulpy, coriaceous, or fibrous pericarp or fruit, without valves, containing a nut or stone with a kernel. It is succulent in the plum, cherry, apricot, peach, &c.; dry and sub-coriaceous in…Druse, n. p. 417(Mining.) A cavity in a rock, having its interior surface studded with crystals or filled with water.Druse, n. p. 417(Geog.) One of a people dwelling on Mount Lebanon, in Syria, and speaking Arabic. Their religion is peculiar to themselves, and is involved in some mystery. [Written also Druze.] Mosheim.Dru'sy or Drused, a. p. 417(Min.) Covered with a large number of minute crystals.Drūx'ey or Drūx'y, a. p. 417Having decayed spots or streaks of a whitish color;—said of timber. Weale.Druze, n. p. 417See DRUSE.Dry, a. p. 417Free from moisture of any kind; arid; not wet or moist; deficient in the natural or normal supply of moisture, as rain or fluid of any kind;—said especially, (a.) Of the weather, free from rain or…Dry, v. t. p. 417To free from water, or from moisture of any kind, and by any means; to exsiccate; as, to dry the eyes; the wind dries the earth; to dry a wet cloth; to dry hay. To dry up. (a.) To scorch or parch…