Dictionary
An American Dictionary of the English Language
Revised and enlarged (Goodrich & Porter)
Springfield, Mass. · G. & C. Merriam · 1865
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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…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…Dry'ad, n. p. 417(Myth.) A female deity or nymph of the woods; a nymph supposed to preside over woods.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.Drý'as, n. p. 417(Myth.) A dryad. [Obs.] Ainsworth. 2. (Bot.) A genus of rosaceous plants.Dry'-bèat, v. t. p. 417To beat severely, or so as to be dry and light.Dry'-bēat'en, a. p. 417Beaten severely, or so as to be dry and light.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.Dry'-bōned, a. p. 417Having dry bones, or without flesh.Dry'-ās'tor, n. p. 417(Zoöl.) A kind of beaver;—called also parchment-beaver.Dry'-dŏck, n. p. 417(Naut.) A dock from which the water is withdrawn after a vessel is floated into it; a graving-dock.Dry'er, n. p. 417One who, or that which, dries. See DRIER.Dry'-eyed, a. p. 417Not having tears in the eyes.Dry'-fāt, n. p. 417A vat, basket, or box, to contain articles of a dry kind. Sylvester.Dry'-fist, n. p. 417An elderly woman;—so called contemptuously. Ford.Dry'-foot, n. p. 417A dog that pursues game by the scent of the foot. Shak.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.Dry'ing-oil, n. p. 417See DRIER.Dry'ite, n. p. 417(Palæon.) Fossil or petrified wood, so well preserved as to show the structure of the wood.Dry'ly, adv. p. 417In a dry manner.Dry'ness, n. p. 417The state of being dry. See DRY.Dry'-nurse, n. p. 417A nurse who attends and feeds a child by hand;—in distinction from a wet-nurse, who suckles it.Dry'-nurse, v. t. p. 417To feed, attend, and bring up without the breast. Hudibras.Dry'o-băl'a-nops, n. p. 417(Bot.) A genus of guttiferous plants, one species of which affords the Borneo camphor. Ogilvie.Dry'os, n. p. 417(Bot.) A kind of mistletoe.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…Dry'-pipe, n. p. 417(Steam Engin.) A pipe so situated in a boiler as to conduct dry steam from it. [See Illust. of Boiler.]Dry'-point, n. p. 417A sharp needle used in copper-plate engraving to draw fine lines, and to make fine dots in stippling and shading.Dry'-rĕnt, n. p. 417(Eng. Law.) A rent reserved by deed, without a clause of distress. Bouvier.Dry'-rŏt, n. p. 417A rapid decay of timber, by which its substance is converted into a dry powder, which issues from minute tubular cavities, resembling the borings of worms;—called also sap-rot, and, in the U. S.…Dry'-rub, v. t. p. 417To rub and cleanse without wetting. Dodsley.Dry'-salt'er, n. p. 417A dealer in salted or dry meats, pickles, sauces, &c. Fordyce. 2. A dealer in gums, drugs, dye-stuffs, tanning substances, and chemicals generally.Dry'-salt'er-y, n. p. 417The articles kept by a dry-salter; the business of a dry-salter.Dry'-shod, a. p. 417Without wetting the feet. Isa. xi. 15.Dry'-stōne, n. p. 417Stone not cemented by mortar. “Dry-stone walls.” W. Scott.Dry'-stōve, n. p. 417A glazed structure for containing and preserving the plants of arid climates.Dry'-văt, n. p. 417A basket or other vessel for containing dry articles.Dū'ad, n. p. 417Union of two; duality. Harris.Dū'al, a. p. 417Expressing, or consisting of, the number two; belonging to two; as, the dual number in Greek.Dū'al-ism, n. p. 417The dividing into two; any thing divided into two; a twofold division; a system which assumes, or is founded on, a double principle; as, a view of man as constituted of two original and independent…Dū'al-ist, n. p. 417One who believes in dualism.Dū'al-íst'ic, a. p. 417Consisting of two; pertaining to dualism or duality.