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An American Dictionary of the English Language

by Noah Webster

Revised and enlarged (Goodrich & Porter)

Springfield, Mass. · G. & C. Merriam · 1865

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  1. Drŭg'ger, n.p. 416A druggist. [Obs.] Burton.
  2. 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.
  3. 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…
  4. Drŭg'ster, n.p. 416A druggist. [Obs.] Boyle.
  5. 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…
  6. Dru'id-ess, n.p. 416A female Druid; an enchantress.
  7. Dru-ĭd'ic or Dru-ĭd'ic-al or Dru'id-ĭsh, a.p. 416Pertaining to, or resembling, the Druids.
  8. Dru'id-ĭsm, n.p. 416The system of religion, philosophy, and instruction received and taught by the Druids, or their rites and ceremonies.
  9. 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…
  10. 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…
  11. 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…
  12. 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.]
  13. Drüm'-fish, n.p. 416See DRUM.
  14. 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…
  15. Drūm'ly, a.p. 416Turbid; muddy. [Obs.]
  16. Drüm'-mā'jor, n.p. 416The chief or first drummer of a regiment. 2. A riotous assembly; a noisy convivial gathering. [Rare.] See DRUM.
  17. Drüm'mer, n.p. 416One whose office is to beat the drum, in military exercises and marching. 2. One who solicits custom. Bartlett.
  18. 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…
  19. 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.
  20. 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…
  21. 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.
  22. 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…
  23. Drünk'en-hĕad, n.p. 416Drunkenness. [Obs.] Gower.
  24. Drünk'en-ly, adv.p. 416In a drunken manner. [Rare.] Shak.
  25. 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.…
  26. Drŭnk'en-shĭp or Drŭnk'ship, n.p. 416The state of being drunk; drunkenness. [Obs.] Gower.
  27. Dru-pā'ceōŭs, a.p. 416(Bot.) Producing, or pertaining to, drupes; having the form of drupes; as, drupaceous trees or fruits.
  28. 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…
  29. Druse, n.p. 417(Mining.) A cavity in a rock, having its interior surface studded with crystals or filled with water.
  30. 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.
  31. Dru'sy or Drused, a.p. 417(Min.) Covered with a large number of minute crystals.
  32. Drūx'ey or Drūx'y, a.p. 417Having decayed spots or streaks of a whitish color;—said of timber. Weale.
  33. Druze, n.p. 417See DRUSE.
  34. 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…
  35. 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…
  36. Dry, v. i.p. 417To grow dry; to lose moisture; to become free from moisture or juice; as, the road dries rapidly. 2. To evaporate wholly; to be exhaled;—said of moisture, or a liquid;—sometimes with up; as, the…
  37. Dry'ad, n.p. 417(Myth.) A female deity or nymph of the woods; a nymph supposed to preside over woods.
  38. Dry-ăn'dră, n.p. 417(Bot.) A genus of shrubs growing in Australia, having beautiful, hard, dry, evergreen leaves;—so called from J. Dryander.
  39. Drý'as, n.p. 417(Myth.) A dryad. [Obs.] Ainsworth. 2. (Bot.) A genus of rosaceous plants.
  40. Dry'-bèat, v. t.p. 417To beat severely, or so as to be dry and light.
  41. Dry'-bēat'en, a.p. 417Beaten severely, or so as to be dry and light.
  42. Dry'-blōw, n.p. 417(Med.) A blow which inflicts no wound, and causes no effusion of blood. 2. A hard or severe blow. Bacon.
  43. Dry'-bōned, a.p. 417Having dry bones, or without flesh.
  44. Dry'-ās'tor, n.p. 417(Zoöl.) A kind of beaver;—called also parchment-beaver.
  45. Dry'-dŏck, n.p. 417(Naut.) A dock from which the water is withdrawn after a vessel is floated into it; a graving-dock.
  46. Dry'er, n.p. 417One who, or that which, dries. See DRIER.
  47. Dry'-eyed, a.p. 417Not having tears in the eyes.
  48. Dry'-fāt, n.p. 417A vat, basket, or box, to contain articles of a dry kind. Sylvester.
  49. Dry'-fist, n.p. 417An elderly woman;—so called contemptuously. Ford.
  50. Dry'-foot, n.p. 417A dog that pursues game by the scent of the foot. Shak.
  51. Dry'ing, a.p. 417Adapted to exhaust moisture; as, a drying wind or day. 2. Having the quality of rapidly becoming dry and hard; as, drying oil.
  52. Dry'ing-oil, n.p. 417See DRIER.
  53. Dry'ite, n.p. 417(Palæon.) Fossil or petrified wood, so well preserved as to show the structure of the wood.
  54. Dry'ly, adv.p. 417In a dry manner.
  55. Dry'ness, n.p. 417The state of being dry. See DRY.
  56. Dry'-nurse, n.p. 417A nurse who attends and feeds a child by hand;—in distinction from a wet-nurse, who suckles it.
  57. Dry'-nurse, v. t.p. 417To feed, attend, and bring up without the breast. Hudibras.
  58. Dry'o-băl'a-nops, n.p. 417(Bot.) A genus of guttiferous plants, one species of which affords the Borneo camphor. Ogilvie.
  59. Dry'os, n.p. 417(Bot.) A kind of mistletoe.
  60. Dry'-pile, n.p. 417A form of the Voltaic pile, constructed without the use of a fluid, affording a feeble current, and chiefly useful in the construction of electroscopes of great delicacy;—called also Zamboni's or De…