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Downright

DOWNRIGHT, adverb

1. Right down; straight down; perpendicularly.

A giant cleft downright

2. In plain terms; without ceremony or circumlocution.

We shall chide downright

3. Completely; without stopping short; as, she fell downright into a fit.

DOWNRIGHT, adjective

1. Directly to the point; plain; open; artless; undisguised; as downright madness; downright nonsense; downright wisdom; downright falsehood; downright atheism.

2. Plain; artless; unceremonious; blunt; as, he spoke in his downright way.

Downrightly

DOWNRIGHTLY, adverb Plainly; in plain terms; bluntly.

Downtrod

DOWNTROD, DOWNTRODDEN, adjective Trodden down; trampled down.

Downtrodden

DOWNTROD, DOWNTRODDEN adjective Trodden down; trampled down.

Downward

DOWNWARD, DOWNWARDS, adverb [See Ward.]

Downwards

DOWNWARD, DOWNWARDS adverb [See Ward.]

1. From a higher place to a lower; in a descending course, whether directly toward the center of the earth, or not; as, to tend downward; to move or roll downwards; to look downward; to take root DOWNWARDS

2. In a course or direction from a head, spring, origin or source. Water flows downward toward the sea; we sailed downward on the stream.

3. In a course of lineal descent from an ancestor, considered as a head; as, to trace successive generations downward from Adam or Abraham.

4. In the course of falling or descending from elevation or distinction.

DOWNWARD, adjective

1. Moving or extending from a higher to a lower place, as on a slope or declivity, or in the open air; tending towards the earth or its center; as a downward course; he took his way with downward force.

2. Declivous; bending; as the downward heaven.

3. Descending from a head, origin or source.

4. Tending to a lower condition or state; depressed; dejected; as downward thoughts.

Downweed

DOWNWEED, noun Cottonweed, a downy plant.

Downy

DOWNY, adjective [See Down.]

1. Covered with down or nap; as a downy feather; downy wings.

2. Covered with pubescence or soft hairs, as a plant.

3. Made of down or soft feathers; as a downy pillow.

4. Soft, calm, soothing; as downy sleep.

5. Resembling down.

Dowry

DOWRY, noun [See Dower. This word differs not from dower. It is the same word differently written, and the distinction made between them is arbitrary.]

1. The money, goods or estate which a woman brings to her husband in marriage; the portion given with a wife.

2. The reward paid for a wife.

3. A gift; a fortune, given.

Dowse

DOWSE, verb transitive To strike on the face. [Not in use.]

Dowst

DOWST, noun A stroke. [Not in use.]

Doxological

DOXOLOGICAL, adjective Pertaining to doxology; giving praise to God.

Doxology

DOXOLOGY, noun [Gr., praise, glory; to speak.] In Christian worship, a hymn in praise of the Almighty; a particular form of giving glory to God.

Doxy

DOXY, noun A prostitute.

Doze

DOZE, verb intransitive [See Dote.]

1. To slumber; to sleep lightly.

If he happened to doze a little, the jolly cobbler waked him.

2. To live in a state of drowsiness; to be dull or half asleep; as, to doze away the time; to doze over a work.

DOZE, verb transitive To make dull; to stupify. Dryden uses the participle dozed, Dozed with his fumes; but the transitive verb is seldom or never used.

Dozen

DOZEN, adjective Duzn. [G.] Twelve in number, applied to things of the same kind, but rarely or never to that number in the abstract. We say, a dozen men; a dozen pair of gloves. It is a word much used in common discourse and in light compositions; rarely in the grave or elevated style.

DOZEN, noun The number twelve of things of a like kind; as a dozen of eggs; twelve dozen of gloves; a dozen of wine.

Dozer

DOZER, noun One that dozes or slumbers.

Doziness

DOZINESS, noun [from dozy.] Drowsiness; heaviness; inclination to sleep.

Dozing

DOZING, participle present tense Slumbering.

DOZING, noun A slumbering; sluggishness.

Dozy

DOZY, adjective [See Doze.] Drowsy; heavy; inclined to sleep; sleepy; sluggish; as a dozy head.

Drab

DRAB, noun

1. A strumpet; a prostitute.

2. A low, sluttish woman. [This seems to be the sense in which it is generally used in New England.]

3. A kind of wooden box, used in salt works for holding the salt when taken out of the boiling pans. Its bottom is shelving or inclining that the water may drain off.

DRAB, noun [Latin] A kind of thick woolen cloth.

DRAB, adjective Being of a dun color, like the cloth so called.

DRAB, verb intransitive To associate with strumpets.

Drabbing

DRABBING, participle present tense Keeping company with lewd women.

DRABBING, noun An associating with strumpets.

Drabble

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

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

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

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

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

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

Dracunculus

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

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

Draff

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

Draffish

DRAFFISH, adjective Worthless.

Draffy

DRAFFY, adjective Dreggy; waste; worthless

Draft

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.

Draft-Horse

DRAFT-HORSE, noun A horse employed in drawing, particularly in drawing heavy loads or in plowing.

Draft-Ox

DRAFT-OX, noun An ox employed in drawing.

Drafted

DRAFTED, participle passive Drawn; delineated; detached.

Drafting

DRAFTING, participle present tense Drawing; delineating; detaching.

Drafts

DRAFTS, noun A game played on checkers.

Drag

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

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

Dragging

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

Draggle

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.

Draggle-Tail

DRAGGLE-TAIL, noun A slut.

Draggled

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

Draggling

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

Dragman

DRAGMAN, noun A fisherman that uses a dragnet.

Dragnet

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

Dragoman

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

Dragon

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.

Dragon-Fish

DRAGON-FISH, noun A species of Trachinus, called the weaver. This fish is about twelve inches in length; it has two or three longitudinal lines of a dirty yellow on the sides, and the belly of a silvery hue. The wounds of its spines occasion inflammation. It buries itself int he sand, except its nose.

Dragon-Fly

DRAGON-FLY, noun A genus of insects, the Libella or Libellula, having four extended wings; they are furnished with jaws; the antennae are shorter than the thorax; and the tail of the male is terminated by a kind of hooked forceps. There are many species, with a great diversity of colors.

Dragon-Shell

DRAGON-SHELL, noun A species of concamerated patella or limpet. The top is much curved, and of an ash-color on the outside, but internally, of a bright flesh color. It is found adhering to larger shells, or to the back of the tortoise, as common limpets do to the sides of rocks.

Dragon-Tree

DRAGON-TREE, noun A species of palm.

Dragonet

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

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

Dragonlike

DRAGONLIKE, adjective Like a dragon; fiery; furious.

Dragons

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

Dragons-Blood

DRAGONS-BLOOD, noun A resinous substance, or red juice, extracted from the Dracaena draco, and other trees of a similar nature. It comes from the East Indies, in small flat cakes or round balls, or in oval drops, wrapped in leaves, and knotted like a chaplet. It has no sensible smell or taste. It has been considered as an astringent medicine, but is now little used for medicinal purposes. A solution of it in spirit of wine is used for staining marble, to which it gives a red tinge.

Dragons-Head

DRAGONS-HEAD, noun A genus of plants, the Dracocephalum, of many species, most of them herbaceous, annual or perennial plants.

Dragons Head and Tail, in astronomy, are the nodes of the planets, or the two points in which the orbits of the planets intersect the ecliptic.

Dragons-Water

DRAGONS-WATER, noun A plant , the Calla or African Arum.

Dragons-Wort

DRAGONS-WORT, noun A plant, a species of Artemisia.

Dragoon

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

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

Dragooned

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

Dragooning

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

Drail

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

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

Drain

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

DRAINABLE, adjective Capable of being drained.

Drainage

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

Drained

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

Draining

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

Drake

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

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.]

Dram-Drinker

DRAM-DRINKER, noun One who habitually drinks spirits.

Drama

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

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

Dramatical

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

Dramatically

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

Dramatist

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

Dramatize

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

DRANK, preterit tense and participle passive of drink.

DRANK, noun A term for wild oats.

Drape

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

Draper

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

Drapery

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

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

Drastic

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

Draugh

DRAUGH. [See Draff.]

Draught

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.]

Draught-Hooks

DRAUGHT-HOOKS, noun Large hooks of iron fixed on the cheeks of a cannon carriage, two on each side, one near the trunnion hole, and the other at the train; used in drawing the gun backwards and forwards by means of draught ropes.

Draught-Horse

DRAUGHT-HORSE, noun A horse used in drawing a plow, cart or other carriage, as distinguished from a saddle horse.

Draught-House

DRAUGHT-HOUSE, noun A house for the reception of filth or waste matter.

Draughtsman

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

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

Draw

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.

Draw-Bridge

DRAW-BRIDGE, noun A bridge which may be drawn up or let down to admit or hinder communication, as before the gate of a town or castle, or in a bridge over a navigable river. In the latter, the draw-bridge usually consists of two movable platforms, which may be raised to let a vessel pass through.

Draw-Net

DRAW-NET, noun A net for catching the larger sorts of fowls, made of pack-thread, with wide meshes.

Draw-Well

DRAW-WELL, noun A deep well, from which water is drawn by a long cord or pole.

Drawable

DRAWABLE, adjective That may be drawn.

Drawback

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

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

Drawer

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

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.

Drawing-Master

DRAWING-MASTER, noun One who teaches the art of drawing.

Drawing-Room

DRAWING-ROOM, noun

1. A room appropriated for the reception of company; a room in which distinguished personages hold levees, or private persons receive parties. It is written by Coxe, withdrawing-room, a room to which company withdraws from the dining-room.

2. The company assembled in a drawing-room

Drawl

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

DRAWLING, participle present tense Uttering words slowly.

Drawn

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

DRAY, noun [Latin]

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

2. A sled.

Dray-Cart

DRAY-CART, noun A dray.

Dray-Horse

DRAY-HORSE, noun A horse used for drawing a dray.

Dray-Man

DRAY-MAN, noun A man who attends a dray.

Dray-Plow

DRAY-PLOW, noun A particular kind of plow.

Drazel

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

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

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

Dreaded

DREADED, participle passive Feared.

Dreader

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

Dreadful

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

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

Dreadfulness

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

Dreadless

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

Dreadlessness

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

Dream

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

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

DREAMFUL, adjective Full of dreams.

Dreaming

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

Dreamless

DREAMLESS, adjective Free from dreams.

Dreamt

DREAMT, participle passive Dremt. From dream.

Drear

DREAR, noun Dread; dismalness.

DREAR, noun Dread; dismalness.

DREAR, noun Dread; dismalness.

DREAR, adjective Dismal; gloomy with solitude.

A drear and dying sound.

Drearihead

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

Drearily

DREARILY, adverb Gloomily; dismally.

Dreariment

DREARIMENT, noun Dismalness; terror.

Dreariness

DREARINESS, noun Dismalness; gloomy solitude.

Dreary

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

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

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

Dredging-Box

DREDGING-BOX, noun A box used for dredging meat.

Dredging-Machine

DREDGING-MACHINE, noun An engine used to take up mud or gravel from the bottom of rivers, docks, etc.

Dree

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

Dregginess

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

Dreggish

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

Dreggy

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

Dregs

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

DREIN. [See Drain.]

Drench

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

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

Drencher

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

Drenching

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

Drent

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

Dress

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

Dress-Maker

DRESS-MAKER, noun A maker of gowns, or similar garments; a mantuamaker.

Dressed

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

Dresser

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.