Dressing – Due

Dressing

DRESSING, participle present tense Adjusting to a line; putting in order; preparing; clothing; embellishing; cultivating.

DRESSING, noun

1. Raiment; attire.

2. That which is used as an application to a wound or sore.

3. That which is used in preparing land for a drop; manure spread over land. When it remains on the surface, it is called a top-dressing.

4. In popular language, correction; a flogging, or beating.

Dressing-Room

DRESSING-ROOM, noun An apartment appropriated for dressing the person.

Dressy

DRESSY, a Showy in dress; wearing rich or showy dresses.

Drest

DREST, participle passive Of dress.

Dreul

DREUL, verb intransitive To emit saliva; to suffer saliva to issue and flow down from the mouth.

Drib

DRIB, verb transitive To crop or cut off; to defalcate.

DRIB, noun A drop. [Not used.]

Dribble

DRIBBLE, verb intransitive

1. To fall in drops or small drops, or in a quick succession of drops; as, water dribbles from the eaves.

2. To slaver as a child or an idiot.

3. To fall weakly and slowly; as the dribbling dart of love.

DRIBBLE, verb transitive To throw down in drops.

Dribblet

DRIBBLET, noun A small piece or part; a small sum; odd money in a sum; as, the money was paid in dribblets.

Dribbling

DRIBBLING, participle present tense Falling in drops or small drops.

DRIBBLING, noun A falling in drops.

Dried

DRIED, participle passive Of dry. Free from moisture or sap.

Drier

DRIER, noun [from dry.] That which has the quality of drying; that which may expel or absorb moisture; a desiccative. The sun and northwesterly wind are great driers of the earth.

Drift

DRIFT, noun

1. That which is driven by wind or water, as drift seems to be primarily a participle. Hence,

2. A heap of any matter driven together; as a drift of snow, called also a snow-drift; a drift of sand.

3. A driving; a force impelling or urging forward; impulse; overbearing power or influence; as the drift of a passion.

4. Course of any thing; tendency; aim; main force; as the drift of reasoning or argument; the drift of a discourse.

5. Any thing driven by force, as a drift of dust; a log or a raft driven by a stream of water, without guidance.

6. A shower; a number of things driven at once; as a drift of bullets.

7. In mining, a passage cut between shaft and shaft; a passage within the earth.

8. In navigation, the angle which the line of a ships motion makes with the nearest meridian, when she drives with her side to the wind and waves, and is not governed by the helm. Also, the distance which the ship drives on that line.

9. The drift of a current, is its angle and velocity.

DRIFT, verb intransitive

1. To accumulate in heaps by the force of wind; to be driven into heaps; as, snow or sand drifts.

2. To float or be driven along by a current of water; as, the ship drifted astern; a raft drifted ashore.

DRIFT, verb transitive To drive into heaps; as, a current of wind drifts snow or sand.

Drift-Sail

DRIFT-SAIL, noun In navigation, a sail used under water, veered out right ahead by sheets.

Drift-Way

DRIFT-WAY, noun A common way for driving cattle in.

Drift-Wind

DRIFT-WIND, noun A driving wind; a wind that drives things into heaps.

Drifted

DRIFTED, participle passive Driven along; driven into heaps.

Drifting

DRIFTING, participle present tense Driving by force; driving into heaps.

Drill

DRILL, verb transitive [G.]

1. To pierce with a drill; to perforate by turning a sharp pointed instrument of a particular form; to bore and make a hole by turning an instrument. We say, to drill a hole through a piece of metal, or to drill a cannon.

2. To draw on; to entice; to amuse and put off.

She drilled him on to five and fifty. [Not elegant.]

3. To draw on from step to step. [Not elegant.]

4. To draw through; to drain; as, waters drilled through a sandy stratum.

5. In a military sense, to teach and train raw soldiers to their duty, by frequent exercise; a common and appropriate use of the word.

6. In husbandry, to sow grain in rows, drills or channels.

DRILL, verb transitive

1. To sow in drills.

2. To flow gently.

3. To muster, for exercise.

DRILL, noun

1. A pointed instrument, used for boring holes, particularly in metals and other hard substances.

2. An ape or baboon.

3. The act of training soldiers to their duty.

4. A small stream; now called a rill. [Drill is formed on the root of rill, G., a channel.]

5. In husbandry, a row of grain, sowed by a drill-plow.

Drill-Plow

DRILL-PLOW, noun A plow for sowing grain in drills.

Drilled

DRILLED, participle passive Bored or perforated with a drill; exercised; sown in rows.

Drilling

DRILLING, participle present tense Boring with a drill; training to military duty; sowing in drills.

Drink

DRINK, verb intransitive preterit tense and participle passive drank. Old preterit tense And participle passive drunk; participle passive Drunken. [G. drink and drench are radically the same word, and probably drown. We observe that n is not radical.]

1. To swallow liquor, for quenching thirst or other purpose; as, to drink of the brook.

Ye shall indeed drink of my cup. Matthew 20:22.

2. To take spirituous liquors to excess; to be intemperate in the use of spirituous liquors; to be a habitual drunkard.

3. To feast; to be entertained with liquors.

To drink to,

1. To salute in drinking; to invite to drink by drinking first; as, I drink to you grace.

2. To wish well to, in the act of taking the cup.

DRINK, verb transitive

1. To swallow, as liquids; to receive, as a fluid, into the stomach; as, to drink water or wine.

2. To suck in; to absorb; to imbibe.

And let the purple violets drink the stream.

3. To take in by any inlet; to hear; to see; as, to drink words or the voice.

I drink delicious poison from thy eye.

4. To take in air; to inhale.

To drink down, is to act on by drinking; to reduce or subdue; as, to drink down unkindness.

To drink off, to drink the whole at a draught; as, to drink off a cup of cordial.

To drink in, to absorb; to take or receive into any inlet.

To drink up, to drink the whole.

To drink health, or to the health, a customary civility in which a person at taking a glass or cup, expresses his respect or kind wishes for another.

DRINK, noun Liquor to be swallowed; any fluid to be taken into the stomach, for quenching thirst, or for medicinal purposes; as water, wine, beer, cider, decoctions, etc.

Drink-Money

DRINK-MONEY, noun Money given to buy liquor for drink.

Drinkable

DRINKABLE, adjective That may be drank; fit or suitable for drink; potable.

Drinker

DRINKER, noun One who drinks, particularly one who practices drinking spirituous liquors to excess; a drunkard; a tipler.

Drinking

DRINKING, participle present tense Swallowing liquor; sucking in; absorbing.

DRINKING, noun

1. The act of swallowing liquors, or of absorbing.

2. The practice of drinking to excess. We say, a man is given to drinking

Drinking-Horn

DRINKING-HORN, noun A horn cup, such as our rude ancestors used.

Drinking-House

DRINKING-HOUSE, noun A house frequented by tiplers; an alehouse.

Drinkless

DRINKLESS, adjective Destitute of drink.

Drip

DRIP, verb intransitive [G.]

1. To fall in drops; as, water drips from eaves.

2 To have any liquid falling from it in drops; as, a wet garment drips.

DRIP, verb transitive To let fall in drops.

The thatch drips fast a shower of rain.

So we say, roasting flesh drips fat.

DRIP, noun

1. A falling in drops, or that which falls in drops.

In building, avoid the drip of your neighbors house.

2. The edge of a roof; the eaves; a large flat member of the cornice.

Dripping

DRIPPING, participle present tense Falling or letting fall in drops.

DRIPPING, noun The fat which falls from meat in roasting; that which falls in drops.

Dripping-Pan

DRIPPING-PAN, noun A pan for receiving the fat which drips from meat in roasting.

Dripple

DRIPPLE, adjective Weak or rare. [Not in use.]

Drive

DRIVE, verb transitive preterit tense Drove, [formerly drave; participle passive Driven, G.]

1. To impel or urge forward by force; to force; to move by physical force. We drive a nail into wood with a hammer; the wind or a current drive a ship on the ocean.

2. To compel or urge forward by other means than absolute physical force, or by means that compel the will; as, to drive cattle to market. A smoke drives company from the room. A man may be drive by the necessities of the times, to abandon his country.

DRIVE thy business; let not thy business drive thee.

3. To chase; to hunt.

To drive the deer with hound and horn.

4. To impel a team of horses or oxen to move forward, and to direct their course; hence, to guide or regulate the course of the carriage drawn by them. We say, to drive a team, or to drive a carriage drawn by a team.

5. To impel to greater speed.

6. To clear any place by forcing away what is in it.

To drive the country, force the swains away.

7. To force; to compel; in a general sense.

8. To hurry on inconsiderately; often with on. In this sense it is more generally intransitive.

9. To distress; to straighten; as desperate men far driven.

10. To impel by influence of passion. Anger and lust often drive men into gross crimes.

11. To urge; to press; as, to drive an argument.

12. To impel by moral influence; to compel; as, the reasoning of his opponent drove him to acknowledge his error.

13. To carry on; to prosecute; to keep in motion; as, to drive a trade; to drive business.

14. To make light by motion or agitation; as, to drive feathers.

His thrice driven bed of down.

The sense is probably to beat; but I do not recollect this application of the word in America.

To drive away, to force to remove to a distance; to expel; to dispel; to scatter.

To drive off, to compel to remove from a place; to expel; to drive to a distance.

To drive out, to expel.

DRIVE, verb intransitive

1. To be forced along; to be impelled; to be moved by any physical force or agent; as, a ship drives before the wind.

2. To rush and press with violence; as, a storm drives against the house.

Fierce Boreas drove against his flying sails.

3. To pass in a carriage; as, he drove to London. This phrase is elliptical. He drove his horses or carriage to London.

4. To aim at or tend to; to urge towards a point; to make an effort to reach or obtain; as, we know the end the author is driving at.

5. To aim a blow; to strike at with force.

Four rogues in buckram let drive at me.

DRIVE, in all its senses, implies forcible or violent action. It is opposed to lead. To drive a body is to move it by applying a force behind; to lead is to cause to move by applying the force before, or forward of the body.

DRIVE, noun Passage in a carriage.

Drivel

DRIVEL, verb intransitive drivl. [from the root of drip.]

1. To slaver; to let spittle drop or flow from the mouth, like a child, idiot or dotard.

2. To be weak or foolish; to dote; as a driveling hero; driveling love.

DRIVEL, noun

1. Slaver; saliva flowing from the mouth.

2. A driveller; a fool; an idiot. [Not used.]

Driveler

DRIVELER, noun A slaverer; a slabberer; an idiot; a fool.

Driveling

DRIVELING, participle present tense Slavering; foolish.

Driven

DRIVEN, participle passive Drivn. [from drive.] Urged forward by force; impelled to move; constrained by necessity.

Driver

DRIVER, noun

1. One who drives; the person or thing that urges or compels any thing else to move.

2. The person who drives beasts.

3. The person who drives a carriage; one who conducts a team.

4. A large sail occasionally set on the mizenyard or gaff, the foot being extended over the stern by a boom.

Driving

DRIVING, participle present tense Urging forward by force; impelling.

DRIVING, noun

1. The act of impelling.

2. Tendency.

Drizzle

DRIZZLE, verb intransitive [G., Latin ] To rain in small drops; to fall as water from the clouds in very fine particles. We say, it drizzles; drizzling drops; drizzling rain; drizzling tears.

DRIZZLE, verb transitive To shed in small drops or particles.

The air doth drizzle dew.

Winters drizzled snow.

Drizzled

DRIZZLED, participle passive Shed or thrown down in small drops or particles.

Drizzling

DRIZZLING, participle present tense Falling in fine drops or particles; shedding in small drops or particles.

DRIZZLING, noun The falling of rain or snow in small drops.

Drizzly

DRIZZLY, adjective Shedding small rain, or small particles of snow.

The winters drizzly reign.

Drogman

DROGMAN. [See Dragoman.]

Droil

DROIL, verb intransitive To work sluggishly or slowly; to plod. [Not much used.]

DROIL, noun A mope; a drone; a sluggard; a drudge. [Little used.]

Droll

DROLL, adjective [G.] Odd; merry; facetious; comical; as a droll fellow.

DROLL, noun

1. One whose occupation or practice is to raise mirth by odd tricks; a jester; a buffoon.

2. A farce; something exhibited to raise mirth or sport.

DROLL, verb intransitive To jest; to play the buffoon.

DROLL, verb transitive To cheat.

Droller

DROLLER, noun A jester; a buffoon.

Drollery

DROLLERY, noun

1. Sportive tricks; buffoonery; comical stories; gestures, manners or tales adapted to raise mirth.

2. A puppet-show.

Drolling

DROLLING, noun Low wit; buffoonery.

Drollingly

DROLLINGLY, adverb In a jesting manner.

Drollish

DROLLISH, adjective Somewhat droll.

Dromedary

DROMEDARY, noun [Gr., perhaps from swiftness, running.] A species of camel, called also the Arabian camel, with one bunch or protuberance on the back, in distinction from the Bactrian camel, which has two bunches. It has four callous protuberances on the fore legs, and two on the hind ones. It is a common beast of burden in Egypt, Syria, and the neighboring countries.

Drone

DRONE, noun [G., to tinkle, to shake, to tingle.]

1. The male of the honey bee. It is smaller than the queen bee, but larger than the working bee. The drones make no honey, but after living a few weeks, they are killed or driven from the hive. Hence,

2. An idler; a sluggard; one who earns nothing by industry.

3. A humming or low sound, or the instrument of humming.

4. The largest tube of the bag-pipe, which emits a continued deep note.

DRONE, verb intransitive

1. To live in idleness; as a droning king.

2. To give a low, heavy, dull sound; as the cymbals droning sound.

Drone-Fly

DRONE-FLY, noun A two-winged insect, resembling the drone-bee.

Droning

DRONING, participle present tense Living in idleness; giving a dull sound.

Dronish

DRONISH, adjective Idle; sluggish; lazy; indolent; inactive; slow.

Droop

DROOP, verb intransitive [Latin , from the root of drop.]

1. To sink or hang down; to lean downwards, as a body that is weak or languishing. Plants droop for want of moisture; the human body droops in old age or infirmity.

2. To languish from grief or other cause.

3. To fail or sink; to decline; as, the courage or the spirits droop

4. To faint; to grow weak; to be dispirited; as, the soldiers droop from fatigue.

Drooping

DROOPING, participle present tense Sinking; hanging or leaning downward; declining; languishing; failing.

Drop

DROP, noun [G.]

1. A small portion of any fluid in a spherical form, which falls at once from any body, or a globule of any fluid which is pendent, as if about to fall; a small portion of water falling in rain; as a drop of water; a drop of blood; a drop of laudanum.

2. A diamond hanging from the ear; an earring; something hanging in the form of a drop

3. A very small quantity of liquor; as, he had not drank a drop

4. The part of a gallows which sustains the criminal before he is executed, and which is suddenly dropped.

Drop-Serene

DROP-SERENE, noun A disease of the eye; amaurosis, or blindness from a diseased retina.

Drop-Stone

DROP-STONE, noun Spar in the shape of drops.

Drop-Wort

DROP-WORT, noun The name of a plant, the Spiraea filipendula. The hemlock drop-wort and the water drop-wort are species of Oenanthe.

Droplet

DROPLET, noun A little drop.

Dropped

DROPPED, participle passive Let fall; distilled; laid aside; dismissed; let go; suffered to subside; sprinkled or variegated.

Dropping

DROPPING, participle present tense Falling in globules; distilling; falling; laying aside; dismissing; quitting; suffering to rest or subside; variegating with ornaments like drops.

DROPPING, noun

1. The act of dropping; a distilling; a falling.

2. That which drops.

Drops

DROPS, verb transitive [G.]

1. To pour or let fall in small portions or globules, as a fluid; to distill.

The heavens shall drop down dew. Deuteronomy 33:1.

2. To let fall as any substance; as, to drop the anchor; to drop a stone.

3. To let go; to dismiss; to lay aside; to quit; to leave; to permit to subside; as, to drop an affair; to drop a controversy; to drop a pursuit.

4. To utter slightly, briefly or casually; as, to drop a word in favor of a friend.

5. To insert indirectly, incidentally, or by way of digression; as, to drop a word of instruction in a letter

6. To lay aside; to dismiss from possession; as, to drop these frail bodies.

7. To leave; as, to drop a letter at the post office.

8. To set down and leave; as, the coach dropped a passenger at the inn.

9. To quit; to suffer to cease; as, to drop an acquaintance.

10. To let go; to dismiss from association; as, to drop a companion.

11. To suffer to end or come to nothing; as, to drop a fashion.

12. To bedrop; to speckle; to variegate, as if by sprinkling with drops; as a coat dropped with gold.

13. To lower; as, to drop the muzzle of a gun.

DROP, verb intransitive

1. To distill; to fall in small portions, globules or drops as a liquid. Water drops from the clouds or from the eaves.

2. To let drops fall; to discharge itself in drops

The heavens dropped at the presence of God. Psalms 68:1.

3. To fall; to descend suddenly or abruptly.

4. To fall spontaneously; as, ripe fruit drops from a tree.

5. To die, or to die suddenly. We see one friend after another dropping round us. They drop into the grave.

6. To come to an end; to cease; to be neglected and come to nothing; as, the affair dropped.

7. To come unexpectedly; with in or into; as, my old friend dropped in, a moment.

8. To fall short of a mark. [Not usual.]

Often it drops or overshoots.

9. To fall lower; as, the point of the spear dropped a little.

10. To be deep in extent.

Her main top-sail drops seventeen yards.

To drop astern, in seamens language, is to pass or move towards the stern; to move back; or to slacken the velocity of a vessel to let another pass beyond her.

To drop down, in seamens language, is to sail, row or move down a river, or toward the sea.

Dropsical

DROPSICAL, adjective [See Dropsy.]

1. Diseased with dropsy; hydropical; inclined to the dropsy; applied to persons.

2. Partaking of the nature of the dropsy; applied to disease.

Dropsied

DROPSIED, adjective Diseased with dropsy.

Dropsy

DROPSY, noun [L, Gr., water; the face. Formerly written hydropisy; whence by contraction, dropsy ] In medicine, an unnatural collection of water, in an part of the body, proceeding from a greater effusion of serum by the exhalant arteries, than the absorbents take up. It occurs most frequently in persons of lax habits, or in bodies debilitated by disease. The dropsy takes different names, according to the part affected; as ascites, or dropsy of the abdomen; hydrocephalus, or water in the head; anasarca, or a watery swelling over the whole body; etc.

Dross

DROSS, noun [G.]

1. The recrement or despumation of metals; the scum or extraneous matter of metals, thrown off in the process of melting.

2. Rust; crust of metals; an incrustation formed on metals by oxydation.

3. Waste matter; refuse; any worthless matter separated from the better part; impure matter.

The worlds glory is but dross unclean.

Drossiness

DROSSINESS, noun Foulness; rust; impurity; a state of being drossy.

Drossy

DROSSY, adjective

1. Like dross; pertaining to dross.

2. Full of dross; abounding with scorious or recrementitious matter; as drossy gold.

3. Worthless; foul; impure.

Drotchel

DROTCHEL, noun An idle wench; a sluggard. [Not in use.]

Drought

DROUGHT. [See Drouth.]

Droughtiness

DROUGHTINESS, noun Drouthiness.

Droughty

DROUGHTY, adjective Drouthy.

Droumy

DROUMY, adjective Troubled; dirty. Chaucer has drovy.

Drouth

DROUTH, noun [See dry. The word generally used is now, as it was written by Bacon, drouth or drowth; its regular termination is th.]

1. Dryness; want of rain or of water; particularly, dryness of the weather, which affects the earth, and prevents the growth of plants; aridness; aridity.

2. Dryness of the throat and mouth; thirst; want of drink.

Drouthiness

DROUTHINESS, noun A state of dryness of the weather; want of rain.

Drouthy

DROUTHY, adjective

1. Dry, as the weather; arid; wanting rain.

2. Thirsty; dry; wanting drink.

Drove

DROVE, preterit tense of drive.

DROVE, noun

1. A collection of cattle driven; a number of animals, as oxen, sheep or swine, driven in a body. We speak of a herd of cattle, and a flock of sheep, when a number is collected; but properly a drove is a herd or flock driven. It is applicable to any species of brutes. Hence,

2. Any collection of irrational animals, moving or driving forward; as a finny drove

3. A crowd of people in motion.

Where droves, as at a city gate, may pass.

4. A road for driving cattle. [English.]

Drover

DROVER, noun

1. One who drives cattle or sheep to market. Usually in New England, a man who makes it his business to purchase fat cattle and drive them to market.

2. A boat driven by the tide.

Drown

DROWN, verb transitive

1. Literally, to overwhelm in water; an appropriately, to extinguish life by immersion in water or other fluid; applied to animals; also, to suspend animation by submersion.

2. To overwhelm in water; as, to drown weeds.

3. To overflow; to deluge; to inundate; as, to drown land.

4. To immerse; to plunge and lose; to overwhelm; as, to drown ones self in sensual pleasure.

5. To overwhelm; to overpower.

My private voice is drowned amid the senate.

DROWN, verb intransitive To be suffocated in water or other fluid; to perish in water.

Methought what pain it was to drown

Drowned

DROWNED, participle passive Deprived of life by immersion in a fluid; overflowed; inundated; overwhelmed.

Drowner

DROWNER, noun He or that which drowns.

Drowning

DROWNING, participle present tense Destroying life by submersion in a liquid; overflowing; overwhelming.

Drowse

DROWSE, verb intransitive drowz.

1. To sleep imperfectly or unsoundly; to slumber; to be heavy with sleepiness.

2. To look heavy; to be heavy or dull.

DROWSE, verb transitive To make heavy with sleep; to make dull or stupid.

Drowsihed

DROWSIHED, noun Sleepiness.

Drowsily

DROWSILY, adverb

1. Sleepily; heavily; in a dull sleepy manner.

2. Sluggishly; idly; slothfully; lazily.

Drowsiness

DROWSINESS, noun

1. Sleepiness; heaviness with sleep; disposition to sleep.

2. Sluggishness; sloth; idleness; inactivity.

Drowsy

DROWSY, adjective

1. Inclined to sleep; sleepy; heavy with sleepiness; lethargic; comatose.

2. Dull; sluggish; stupid.

3. Disposing to sleep; lulling; as a drowsy couch.

Drowsy-Headed

DROWSY-HEADED, adjective Heavy; having a sluggish disposition.

Drub

DRUB, verb transitive [G., Latin Drubbing is a particular form of driving.] To beat with a stick; to thrash; to cudgel.

The little thief had been soundly drubbed with a cudgel.

DRUB, noun A blow with a stick or cudgel; a thump; a knock.

Drubbed

DRUBBED, participle passive Beat with a cudgel; beat soundly.

Drubbing

DRUBBING, participle present tense Beating with a cudgel; beating soundly.

DRUBBING, noun A cudgeling; a sound beating.

Drudge

DRUDGE, verb intransitive druj. To work hard; to labor in mean offices; to labor with toil and fatigue.

In merriment did drudge and labor.

DRUDGE, noun One who works hard, or labors with toil and fatigue; one who labors hard in servile employments; a slave.

Drudger

DRUDGER, noun

1. A drudge.

2. A drudging-box. [See Dredging-box.]

Drudgery

DRUDGERY, noun Hard labor; toilsome work; ignoble toil; hard work in servile occupations.

Paradise was a place of bliss-without drudgery or sorrow.

Drudging

DRUDGING, participle present tense Laboring hard; toiling.

Drudging-Box

DRUDGING-BOX. [See Dredging-box.]

Drudgingly

DRUDGINGLY, adverb With labor and fatigue; laboriously.

Drug

DRUG, noun [See the verb, to dry.]

1. The general name of substances used in medicine, sold by the druggist, and compounded by apothecaries and physicians; any substance, vegetable, animal or mineral, which is used in the composition or preparation of medicines. It is also applied to dyeing materials.

2. Any commodity that lies on hand, or is not salable; an article of slow sale, or in no demand in market.

3. A mortal drug or a deadly drug is poison.

4. A drudge.

DRUG, verb intransitive To prescribe or administer drugs or medicines.

DRUG, verb transitive

1. To season with drugs or ingredients.

2. To tincture with something offensive.

Drugger

DRUGGER, noun A druggist. [Not used.]

Drugget

DRUGGET, noun A cloth or thin stuff of wool, or of wool and thread, corded or plain, usually plain.

Druggist

DRUGGIST, noun One who deals in drugs; properly, one whose occupation is merely to but and sell drugs, without compounding or preparation. In America, the same person often carries on the business of the druggist and the apothecary.

Drugster

DRUGSTER, noun A druggist. [Not used.]

Druid

DRUID, noun A priest or minister of religion, among the ancient Celtic nations in Gaul, Britain and Germany. The Druids possessed some knowledge of geometry, natural philosophy, etc., superintended the affairs of religion and morality, and performed the office of judges.

Druidic

DRUIDIC, DRUIDICAL, adjective Pertaining to the Druids.

Druidical

DRUIDIC, DRUIDICAL adjective Pertaining to the Druids.

Druidism

DRUIDISM, noun The system of religion, philosophy and instruction taught by the druids, or their doctrines, rites and ceremonies.

Drum

DRUM, noun [G., Latin ]

1. A martial instrument of music, in form of a hollow cylinder, and covered at the ends with vellum, which is stretched or slackened at pleasure.

2. In machinery, a short cylinder revolving on an axis, generally for the purpose of turning several small wheels, by means of straps passing round its periphery.

3. The drum of the ear, the tympanum, or barrel of the ear; the hollow part of the ear, behind the membrane of the tympanum. The latter is a tense membrane, which closes the external passage of the ear, and receives the vibrations of the air.

DRUM, verb intransitive

1. To 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; as, to drum on the table.

3. To beat as the heart.

DRUM, verb transitive To expel with beat of drum

Drum-Fish

DRUM-FISH, noun A fish, found on the coast of North America.

Drum-Major

DRUM-MAJOR, noun The chief or first drummer of a regiment.

Drum-Maker

DRUM-MAKER, noun One who makes drums.

Drum-Stick

DRUM-STICK, noun The stick with which a drum is beaten, or shaped for the purpose of beating a drum.

Drumble

DRUMBLE, verb intransitive To drone; to be sluggish. [Not in use.]

Drumly

DRUMLY, adjective Thick; stagnant; muddy. [Not in use.]

Drummer

DRUMMER, noun One whose office is to beat the drum, in military exercises and marching; one who drums.

Drunk

DRUNK, adjective [from drunken. See Drink.]

1. Intoxicated; inebriated; overwhelmed or overpowered by spirituous liquor; stupefied or inflamed by the action of spirit on the stomach and brain. It is brutish to be drunk

Be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess.

2. Drenched or saturated with moisture or liquor.

I will make my arrows drunk with blood. Deuteronomy 32:42.

[Note. drunk was formerly used as the participle of drink; as, he had drunk wine. But in modern usage, drank has taken its place; and drunk is now used chiefly as an adjective.]

Drunkard

DRUNKARD, noun One given to ebriety or an excessive used of strong liquor; a person who habitually or frequently is drunk.

A drunkard and a glutton shall come to poverty. Proverbs 23:21.

Drunken

DRUNKEN, adjective Drunkn. [participle of drink, but now used chiefly as an adjective, and often contracted to drunk.]

1. Intoxicated; inebriated with strong liquor.

2. Given to drunkenness; as a drunken butler.

3. Saturated with liquor or moisture; drenched.

Let the earth be drunken with our blood.

4. Proceeding from intoxication; done in a state of drunkenness; as a drunken quarrel.

A drunken slaughter.

Drunkenly

DRUNKENLY, adverb In a drunken manner. [Little used.]

Drunkenness

DRUNKENNESS, noun

1. Intoxication; inebriation; a state in which a person is overwhelmed or overpowered with spirituous liquors, so that his reason is disordered, and he reels or staggers in walking. drunkenness renders some persons stupid, others gay, others sullen, others furious.

Let us walk honestly as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness

2. Habitually ebriety or intoxication.

3. Disorder of the faculties resembling intoxication by liquors; inflammation; frenzy; rage.

Passion is the drunkenness of the mind.

Drupaceous

DRUPACEOUS, adjective

1. Producing drupes; as drupaceous trees.

2. Pertaining to drupes; or consisting of drupes; as drupaceous fruit; drupaceous follicles.

Drupe

DRUPE, noun [Latin , Gr, olives ready to fall, Gr., a tree; to fall.] In botany, a pulpy pericarp or fruit without valves, containing a nut or stone with a kernel; as the plum, cherry, apricot, peach, almond, olive, etc.

Druse

DRUSE, noun [G., a gland, glanders.] Among miners, a cavity in a rock having its interior surface studded with crystals, or filled with water.

Drusy

DRUSY, adjective S as z. Abounding with very minute crystals; as a drusy surface.

Dry

DRY, adjective [See the Verb.]

1. Destitute of moisture; free from water or wetness; arid; not moist; as dry land; dry clothes.

2. Not rainy; free from rain or mist; as dry weather; a dry March or April.

3. Not juicy; free from juice, sap or aqueous matter; not green; as dry wood; dry stubble; dry hay; dry leaves.

4. Without tears; as dry eyes; dry mourning.

5. Not giving milk; as, the cow is dry

6. Thirsty; craving drink.

7. Barren; jejune; plain; unembellished; destitute of pathos, or of that which amuses and interests; as a dry style; a dry subject; a dry discussion.

8. Severe; sarcastic; wiping; as a dry remark or repartee; a dry run.

9. Severe; wiping; as a dry blow; a dry basting. See the verb, which signifies properly to wipe, rub, scour.

10. dry goods, in commerce, cloths, stuffs, silks, laces, ribbons, etc., in distinction from groceries.

DRY, verb transitive [G., to dry to wipe; Gr., Latin See dry The primary sense is to wipe, rub, scour.]

1. To free from water, or from moisture of any kind, and by any means; originally by wiping, as to dry the eyes; to exsiccate.

2. To deprive of moisture by evaporation or exhalation; as, the sun dries a cloth; wind dries the earth.

3. To deprive of moisture by exposure to the sun or open air. We dry cloth in the sun.

4. To deprive of natural juice, sap or greenness; as, to dry hay or plants.

5. To scorch or parch with thirst; with up.

Their honorable men are famished, and their multitude dried up with thirst. Isaiah 5:1.

6. To deprive of water by draining; to drain; to exhaust; as, to dry a meadow.

To dry up, to deprive wholly of water.

DRY, verb intransitive

1. To grow dry; to lose moisture; to become free from moisture or juice. The road dries fast in a clear windy day. Hay will dry sufficiently in two days.

2. To evaporate wholly; to be exhaled; sometimes with up; as, the stream dries or dries up.

Dryad

DRYAD, noun [Latin , Gr., a tree.] In mythology, a deity or nymph of the woods; a nymph supposed to preside over woods.

Dryed

DRYED, participle passive of dry. [See Dried.]

Dryer

DRYER, noun He or that which dries; that which exhausts of moisture or greenness.

Dryeyed

DRYEYED, adjective Not having tears in the eyes.

Dryfat

DRYFAT, noun A dry vat or basket.

Dryfoot

DRYFOOT, noun A dog that pursues game by the scent of the foot.

Drying

DRYING, participle present tense Expelling or losing moisture, sap or greenness.

DRYING, noun The act or process of depriving of moisture or greenness.

DRYING, noun The act or process of depriving of moisture or greenness.

Dryite

DRYITE, noun [Gr., an oak.] Fragments of petrified or fossil wood in which the structure of the wood is recognized.

Dryly

DRYLY, adverb

1. Without moisture.

2. Coldly; frigidly; without affection.

3. Severely; sarcastically.

4. Barrenly; without embellishment; without any thing to enliven, enrich or entertain.

Dryness

DRYNESS, noun

1. Destitution of moisture; want of water or other fluid; siccity; a aridity; aridness; as the dryness of a soil; dryness of the road.

2. Want of rain; as dryness of weather.

3. Want of juice or succulence; as dryness of the bones or fibers.

4. Want of succulence or greenness; as the dryness of hay or corn.

5. Barrenness; jejuneness; want of ornament or pathos; want of that which enlivens and entertains; as the dryness of style or expression; the dryness of a subject.

6. Want of feeling or sensibility in devotion; want of ardor; as dryness of spirit.

Drynurse

DRYNURSE, noun

1. A nurse who attends and feeds a child without the breast.

2. One who attends another in sickness.

DRYNURSE, verb transitive To feed, attend and bring up without the breast.

Dryrub

DRYRUB, verb transitive To rub and cleanse without wetting.

Drysalter

DRYSALTER, noun A dealer in salted or dry meats, pickles, sauces, etc.

Dryshod

DRYSHOD, adjective Without wetting the feet. Isaiah 11:15.

Dual

DUAL, adjective [Latin , two.] Expressing the number two; as the dual number in Greek.

Dualistic

DUALISTIC, adjective Consisting of two. The dualistic system of Anaxagoras and Plato taught that there are two principles in nature, one active, the other passive.

Duality

DUALITY, noun

1. That which expresses two in number.

2. Division; separation.

3. The state or quality of being two.

Dub

DUB, verb transitive [Gr.] Literally, to strike. Hence,

1. To strike a blow with a sword, and make a knight.

Se cyng, dubbade his sunu Henric to ridere.

The King dubbed his son Henry a knight.

2. To confer any dignity or new character.

A man of wealth is dubbd a man of worth.

DUB, verb intransitive to make a quick noise.

DUB, noun

1. A blow. [Little used.]

2. In Irish, a puddle.

Dubbed

DUBBED, participle passive Struck; made a knight.

Dubbing

DUBBING, participle present tense Striking; making a knight.

Dubiety

DUBIETY, noun [See Doubt.] Doubtfulness. [Little used.]

Dubious

DUBIOUS, adjective [Latin See Doubt. The primary sense is probably to turn or to waver.]

1. Doubtful; wavering or fluctuating in opinion; not settled; not determined; as, the mind is in a dubious state.

2. Uncertain; that of which the truth is not ascertained or known; as a dubious question.

3. Not clear; not plain; as dubious light.

4. Of uncertain event or issue.

In dubious battle.

Dubiously

DUBIOUSLY, adverb Doubtfully; uncertainly; without any determination.

Dubiousness

DUBIOUSNESS, noun

1. Doubtfulness; a state of wavering and indecision of mind; as, he speaks with dubiousness

2. Uncertainty; as the dubiousness of the question.

Dubitable

DUBITABLE, adjective [Latin See Doubt.] Doubtful; uncertain. [Little used.] But the derivative indubitable is often used.

Dubitancy

DUBITANCY, noun Doubt; uncertainty. [Little used.]

Dubitation

DUBITATION, noun [L, to doubt.] The act of doubting; doubt. [Little used.]

Ducal

DUCAL, adjective Pertaining to a duke; as a ducal coronet.

Ducat

DUCAT, noun [from duke.] A coin of several countries in Europe, struck in the dominions of a duke. It is of silver or gold. The silver ducat is generally of the value of four shillings and sixpence sterling, equal to an American dollar, or to a French crown, and the gold ducat of twice the value.

Ducatoon

DUCATOON, noun A silver coin, struck chiefly in Italy, of the value of about four shillings and eight pence sterling, or nearly 104 cents. The gold ducatoon of Holland is worth twenty florins.

Duchess

DUCHESS, noun The consort or widow of a duke. Also, a lady who has the sovereignty of a duchy.

Duchy

DUCHY, noun The territory or dominions of a duke; a dukedom; as the duchy of Lancaster.

Duchy-Court

DUCHY-COURT, noun The court of the duchy of Lancaster in England.

Duck

DUCK, noun [G, Latin , to weave.] A species of coarse cloth or canvas, used for sails, sacking of beds, etc.

DUCK, noun [from the verb, to duck ]

1. A water fowl, so called from its plunging. There are many species or varieties of the duck some wild, others tame.

2. An inclination of the head, resembling the motion of a duck in water.

3. A stone thrown obliquely on the water so as to rebound; as in duck and drake.

DUCK, noun A word of endearment or fondness.

DUCK, verb transitive [G.]

1. To dip or plunge in water and suddenly withdraw; as, to duck a seamen. It differs from dive, which signifies to plunge ones self, without immediately emerging.

2. To plunge the head in water and immediately withdraw it; as, duck the boy.

3. To bow, stoop or nod.

DUCK, verb intransitive

1. To plunge into water and immediately withdraw; to dip; to plunge the head in water or other liquid.

In Tiber ducking thrice by break of day.

2. To drop the head suddenly; to bow; to cringe.

DUCK with French nods.

Duck-Legged

DUCK-LEGGED, adjective Having short legs, like a duck.

Duck-Meat

DUCK-MEAT, DUCKS-MEAT, noun A plant, the Lemna, growing in ditches and shallow water, and serving for food for ducks and geese. The starry ducks-meat is the Callitriche.

Duck-Weed

DUCK-WEED, noun The same as duck-meat.

Ducked

DUCKED, participle passive Plunged; dipped in water.

Ducker

DUCKER, noun A plunger; a diver; a cringer.

Ducking

DUCKING, participle present tense Plunging; thrusting suddenly into water and withdrawing; dipping.

DUCKING, noun The act of plunging or putting in water and withdrawing. ducking is a punishment of offenders in France, and among English seamen, it is a penalty to which sailors are subject on passing, for the first time, the equator or tropic.

Ducking-Stool

DUCKING-STOOL, noun A stool or chair in which common scolds were formerly tied and plunged into water.

Duckling

DUCKLING, noun A young duck.

Duckoy

DUCKOY. [See Decoy.]

Ducks-Foot

DUCKS-FOOT, noun A plant, the Podophyllum; called also May-apple.

Ducks-Meat

DUCK-MEAT, DUCKS-MEAT noun A plant, the Lemna, growing in ditches and shallow water, and serving for food for ducks and geese. The starry DUCKS-MEAT is the Callitriche.

Duct

DUCT, noun [Latin , to lead. See Duke.]

1. Any tube or canal by which fluid or other substance is conducted or conveyed. It is particularly used to denote the vessels of an animal body, by which the blood, chyle, lymph, etc., are carried from one part to another, and the vessels of plants in which the sap is conveyed.

2. Guidance; direction. [Little used.]

Ductile

DUCTILE, adjective [Latin , to lead.]

1. That may be led; easy to be led or drawn; tractable; complying; obsequious; yielding to motives, persuasion or instruction; as the ductile minds of youth; a ductile people.

2. Flexible; pliable.

The ductile rind and leaves of radiant gold.

3. That may be drawn out into wire or threads. Gold is the most ductile of the metals.

4. That may be extended by beating.

Ductileness

DUCTILENESS, noun The quality of suffering extension by drawing or percussion; ductility.

Ductility

DUCTILITY, noun

1. The property of solid bodies, particularly metals, which renders them capable of being extended by drawing without breaking; as the ductility of gold, iron or brass.

2. Flexibility; obsequiousness; a disposition of mind that easily yields to motives or influence; ready compliance.

Ducture

DUCTURE, noun [Latin] Guidance. [Not in use.]

Dudgeon

DUDGEON, noun [G.] A small dagger.

Duds

DUDS, noun Old clothes; tattered garments. [A vulgar word.]

Due

DUE, adjective Du. [Latin , Gr., to bind. It has no connection with owe.]

1. Owed; that ought to be paid or done to another. That is due from me to another which contract, justice or propriety requires me to pay, and which he may justly claim as his right. Reverence is due to the creator; civility is due from one man to another. Money is due at the expiration of the credit given, or at the period promised.

2. Proper; fit; appropriate; suitable; becoming; required by the circumstances; as, the event was celebrated with due solemnities. Men seldom have a due sense of their depravity.

3. Seasonable; as, he will come in due time.

4. Exact; proper; as, the musicians keep due time.

5. Owing to; occasioned by. [Little used.]

6. That ought to have arrived, or to be present, before the time specified; as, two mails are now due

DUE, adverb Directly; exactly; as a due east course.

DUE, noun

1. That which is owed; that which one contracts to pay, do or perform to another; that which law or justice requires to be paid or done. The money that I contract to pay to another is his due; the service which I covenant to perform to another is his due; reverence to the creator is his due

2. That which office, rank, station, social relations, or established rules of right or decorum, require to be given, paid or done. Respect and obedience to parents and magistrates are their due

3. That which law or custom requires; as toll, tribute, fees of office, or other legal perquisites.

4. Right; just title.

The key of this infernal pit by due--I keep.

DUE, verb transitive To pay as due [Not used.]