DREADFULNESSDread"ful*ness, n.
Defn: The quality of being dreadful.
DREADINGLYDread"ing*ly, adv.
Defn: With dread. Warner.
DREADLESSDread"less, a.
1. Free from dread; fearless; intrepid; dauntless; as, dreadless heart. "The dreadless angel." Milton.
2. Exempt from danger which causes dread; secure. " safe in his dreadless den." Spenser.
DREADLESSDread"less, adv.
Defn: Without doubt. [Obs.] Chaucer.
DREADLESSNESSDread"less*ness, n.
Defn: Freedom from dread.
DREADLYDread"ly, a.
Defn: Dreadful. [Obs.] "Dreadly spectacle." Spenser.— adv.
Defn: With dread. [Obs.] "Dreadly to shake." Sylvester (Du Bartas).
DREADNAUGHTDread"naught`, n.
1. A fearless person.
2. Hence: A garment made of very thick cloth, that can defend against storm and cold; also, the cloth itself; fearnaught.
DREADNOUGHTDread"nought`, n.
1. A British battleship, completed in 1906 — 1907, having an armament consisting of ten 12-inch guns, and of twenty-four 12-pound quick-fire guns for protection against torpedo boats. This was the first battleship of the type characterized by a main armament of big guns all of the same caliber. She has a displacement of 17,900 tons at load draft, and a speed of 21 knots per hour.
2. Any battleship having its main armament entirely of big guns all of one caliber. Since the Dreadnought was built, the caliber of the heaviest guns has increased from 12 in. to 13½ in., 14 in., and 15 in., and the displacement of the largest batteships from 18,000 tons to 30,000 tons and upwards. The term superdreadnought is popularly applied to battleships with such increased displacement and gun caliber.
DREAM Dream, n. Etym: [Akin to OS. dr, D. droom, G. traum, Icel. draumr, Dan. & Sw. dröm; cf. G. trügen to deceive, Skr. druh to harm, hurt, try to hurt. AS. dreám joy, gladness, and OS. dr joy are, perh., different words; cf. Gr.
1. The thoughts, or series of thoughts, or imaginary transactions, which occupy the mind during sleep; a sleeping vision. Dreams are but interludes which fancy makes. Dryden. I had a dream which was not all a dream. Byron.
2. A visionary scheme; a wild conceit; an idle fancy; a vagary; a revery; — in this sense, applied to an imaginary or anticipated state of happiness; as, a dream of bliss; the dream of his youth. There sober thought pursued the amusing theme, Till Fancy colored it and formed a dream. Pope. It is not them a mere dream, but a very real aim which they propose. J. C. Shairp.
DREAMDream, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Dreamed or Dreamt (p. pr. & vb. n.Dreaming.] Etym: [Cf. AS. dr, dr, to rejoice. See Dream, n.]
1. To have ideas or images in the mind while in the state of sleep; to experience sleeping visions; — often with of; as, to dream of a battle, or of an absent friend.
2. To let the mind run on in idle revery or vagary; to anticipate vaguely as a coming and happy reality; to have a visionary notion or idea; to imagine. Here may we sit and dream Over the heavenly theme. Keble. They dream on in a constant course of reading, but not digesting. Locke.
DREAMDream, v. t.
Defn: To have a dream of; to see, or have a vision of, in sleep, or in idle fancy; — often followed by an objective clause. Your old men shall dream dreams. Acts ii. 17. At length in sleep their bodies they compose, And dreamt the future fight. Dryden. And still they dream that they shall still succeed. Cowper. To dream away, out, through, etc., to pass in revery or inaction; to spend in idle vagaries; as, to dream away an hour; to dream through life. " Why does Antony dream out his hours" Dryden.
DREAMERDream"er, n.
1. One who dreams.
2. A visionary; one lost in wild imaginations or vain schemes of some anticipated good; as, a political dreamer.
DREAMFULDream"ful, a.
Defn: Full of dreams. " Dreamful ease." Tennyson.— Dream"ful*ly, adv.
DREAMILYDream"i*ly, adv.
Defn: As if in a dream; softly; slowly; languidly. Longfellow.
DREAMINESSDream"i*ness, n.
Defn: The state of being dreamy.
DREAMINGLYDream"ing*ly, adv.
Defn: In a dreamy manner.
DREAMLANDDream"land`, n.
Defn: An unreal, delightful country such as in sometimes pictured in dreams; region of fancies; fairyland. [He] builds a bridge from dreamland for his lay. Lowell.
DREAMLESSDream"less, a.
Defn: Free from, or without, dreams. Camden.— Dream"less*ly, adv.
DREAMYDream"y, a. [Compar. Dreamier; superl. Dreamiest.]
Defn: Abounding in dreams or given to dreaming; appropriate to, or like, dreams; visionary. "The dreamy dells." Tennyson.
DREARDrear, a. Etym: [See Dreary.]
Defn: Dismal; gloomy with solitude. "A drear and dying sound."Milton.
DREARDrear, n.
Defn: Sadness; dismalness. [Obs.] Spenser.
DREARIHEAD; DREARIHOODDrear"i*head, Drear"i*hood, n.
Defn: Affliction; dreariness. [Obs.] Spenser.
DREARILYDrear"i*ly, adv.
Defn: Gloomily; dismally.
DREARIMENTDrear"i*ment, n.
Defn: Dreariness. [Obs.] Spenser.
DREARINESSDrear"i*ness, n.
1. Sorrow; wretchedness. [Obs.]
2. Dismalness; gloomy solitude.
DREARINGDrear"ing, n.
Defn: Sorrow. [Obs.] Spenser.
DREARISOMEDrear"i*some, a.
Defn: Very dreary. Halliwell.
DREARY Drear"y, a. [Compar. Drearier; superl. Dreariest.] Etym: [OE. dreori, dreri, AS. dreórig, sad; akin to G. traurig, and prob. to AS. dreósan to fall, Goth. driusan. Cf. Dross, Drear, Drizzle, Drowse.]
1. Sorrowful; distressful. [Obs.] " Dreary shrieks." Spenser.
2. Exciting cheerless sensations, feelings, or associations; comfortless; dismal; gloomy. " Dreary shades." Dryden. "The dreary ground." Prior. Full many a dreary anxious hour. Keble. Johnson entered on his vocation in the most dreary part of that dreary interval which separated two ages of prosperity. Macaulay.
DRECCHEDrec"che, v. t. Etym: [AS. dreccan, dreccean.]
1. To vex; to torment; to trouble. [Obs.] As man that in his dream is drecched sore. Chaucer.
DRECCHEDrec"che, v. i.
Defn: To delay. [Obs.] Gower.
DREDGE Dredge, n. Etym: [F. drège, dreige, fish net, from a word akin to E. draw; cf. D. dreg, dregge, small anchor, dregnet dragnet. Draw.]
1. Any instrument used to gather or take by dragging; as: (a) A dragnet for taking up oysters, etc., from their beds. (b) A dredging machine. (c) An iron frame, with a fine net attached, used in collecting animals living at the bottom of the sea.
2. (Mining)
Defn: Very fine mineral matter held in suspension in water. Raymond.
DREDGEDredge, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Dredged; p. pr. & vb. n. Dredging.]
Defn: To catch or gather with a dredge; to deepen with a dredging machine. R. Carew. Dredging machine, a machine (commonly on a boat) used to scoop up mud, gravel, or obstructions from the bottom of rivers, docks, etc., so as to deepen them.
DREDGE Dredge, n. Etym: [OE. dragge, F. dragée, dredge, also, sugar plum; cf. Prov. dragea, It. treggea; corrupted fr. LL. tragemata, pl., sweetmeats, Gr.
Defn: A mixture of oats and barley. [Obs.] Kersey.
DREDGEDredge, v. t.
Defn: To sift or sprinkle flour, etc., on, as on roasting meat. Beau. & Fl. Dredging box. (a) Same as 2d Dredger. (b) (Gun.) A copper box with a perforated lid; — used for sprinkling meal powder over shell fuses. Farrow.
DREDGERDredg"er, n.
1. One who fishes with a dredge.
2. A dredging machine.
DREDGERDredg"er, n. (Cookery)
Defn: A box with holes in its lid; — used for sprinkling flour, as on meat or a breadboard; — called also dredging box, drudger, and drudging box.
DREEDree, v. t. Etym: [AS. dreógan to bear, endure, complete.]
Defn: To endure; to suffer. [Scot.]
DREEDree, v. i.
Defn: To be able to do or endure. [Obs.]
DREEDree, a.
Defn: Wearisome; tedious. [Prov. Eng.]
DREG Dreg, n. Etym: [Prob. from Icel. dregg; akin to Sw. drägg, cf. Icel. & Sw. draga to draw. Cf. Draw.]
Defn: Corrupt or defiling matter contained in a liquid, or precipitated from it; refuse; feculence; lees; grounds; sediment; hence, the vilest and most worthless part of anything; as, the dregs of society. We, the dregs and rubbish of mankind. Dryden.
Note: Used formerly (rarely) in the singular, as by Spenser andShakespeare, but now chiefly in the plural.
DREGGINESSDreg"gi*ness, n.
Defn: Fullness of dregs or lees; foulness; feculence.
DREGGISHDreg"gish, a.
Defn: Foul with lees; feculent. Harvey.
DREGGYDreg"gy, a.
Defn: Containing dregs or lees; muddy; foul; feculent. Boyle.
DREIBUNDDrei"bund`, n. [G., fr. drei three + bund league.]
Defn: A triple alliance; specif., the alliance of Germany, Austria, and Italy, formed in 1882.
DREINDrein, v. i.
Defn: To drain. [Obs.] Congreve.
DREINTE; DREINTDrein"te, imp., Dreint (,
Defn: p. p. of Drench to drown. [Obs.] Chaucer.
DREISSENA Dreis"se*na, n. Etym: [NL. Named after Dreyssen, a Belgian physician.] (Zoöl.)
Defn: A genus of bivalve shells of which one species (D. polymorpha) is often so abundant as to be very troublesome in the fresh waters of Europe.
DRENCHDrench, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Drenched; p. pr. & vb. n. Drenching.]Etym: [AS. drencan to give to drink, to drench, the causal of drincanto drink; akin to D. drenken, Sw. dränka, G. tränken. See Drink.]
1. To cause to drink; especially, to dose by force; to put a potion down the throat of, as of a horse; hence. to purge violently by physic. As "to fell," is "to make to fall," and "to lay," to make to lie." so "to drench," is "to make to drink." Trench.
2. To steep in moisture; to wet thoroughly; to soak; to saturate with water or other liquid; to immerse. Now dam the ditches and the floods restrain; Their moisture has already drenched the plain. Dryden.
DRENCHDrench, n. Etym: [AS. drenc. See Drench, v. t.]
Defn: A drink; a draught; specifically, a potion of medicine pouredor forced down the throat; also, a potion that causes purging. "Adrench of wine." Dryden.Give my roan horse a drench. Shak.
DRENCHDrench, n. Etym: [AS. dreng warrior, soldier, akin to Icel. drengr.](O. Eng. Law)
Defn: A military vassal mentioned in Domesday Book. [Obs.] Burrill.
DRENCHEDrench"e, v. t. & i.
Defn: To drown. [Obs.]In the sea he drenched. Chaucer.
DRENCHERDrench"er, n.
1. One who, or that which, west or steeps.
2. One who administers a drench.
DRENGAGEDren"gage, n. (O. Eng. Law)
Defn: The tenure by which a drench held land. [Obs.] Burrill.
DRENTDrent, p. p. Etym: [See Dreinte.]
Defn: Drenched; drowned. [Obs.] "Condemned to be drent." Spenser.
DRESDEN WAREDres"den ware`.
Defn: A superior kind of decorated porcelain made near Dresden inSaxony.
DRESS Dress, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Dressed or Drest; p. pr. & vb. n. Dressing.] Etym: [OF. drecier to make straight, raise, set up, prepare, arrange, F. dresser. (assumed) LL. directiare, fr. L. dirigere, directum, to direct; dis- + regere to rule. See Right, and cf. Address, Adroit, Direct, Dirge.]
1. To direct; to put right or straight; to regulate; to order. [Obs.] At all times thou shalt bless God and pray Him to dress thy ways. Chaucer.
Note: Dress is used reflexively in Old English, in sense of "to direct one's step; to addresss one's self." To Grisild again will I me dresse. Chaucer.
2. (Mil.)
Defn: To arrange in exact continuity of line, as soldiers; commonly to adjust to a straight line and at proper distance; to align; as, to dress the ranks.
3. (Med.)
Defn: To treat methodically with remedies, bandages, or curative appliances, as a sore, an ulcer, a wound, or a wounded or diseased part.
4. To adjust; to put in good order; to arrange; specifically: (a) To prepare for use; to fit for any use; to render suitable for an intended purpose; to get ready; as, to dress a slain animal; to dress meat; to dress leather or cloth; to dress or trim a lamp; to dress a garden; to dress a horse, by currying and rubbing; to dress grain, by cleansing it; in mining and metallurgy, to dress ores, by sorting and separating them.
And the Lord God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden todress it. Gen. ii. 15.When he dresseth the lamps he shall burn incense. Ex. xxx. 7.Three hundred horses . . . smoothly dressed. Dryden.Dressing their hair with the white sea flower. Tennyson.If he felt obliged to expostulate, he might have dressed his censuresin a kinder form. Carlyle.
(b) To cut to proper dimensions, or give proper shape to, as to a tool by hammering; also, to smooth or finish. (c) To put in proper condition by appareling, as the body; to put clothes upon; to apparel; to invest with garments or rich decorations; to clothe; to deck. Dressed myself in such humility. Shak. Prove that ever Idress myself handsome till thy return. Shak.
(d) To break and train for use, as a horse or other animal. To dress up or out, to dress elaborately, artificially, or pompously. "You see very often a king of England or France dressed up like a Julius Cæsar." Addison. — To dress a ship (Naut.), to ornament her by hoisting the national colors at the peak and mastheads, and setting the jack forward; when dressed full, the signal flags and pennants are added. Ham. Nav. Encyc.
Syn. — To attire; apparel; clothe; accouter; array; robe; rig; trim; deck; adorn; embellish.
DRESSDress, v. i.
1. (Mil.)
Defn: To arrange one's self in due position in a line of soldiers; — the word of command to form alignment in ranks; as, Right, dress!
2. To clothe or apparel one's self; to put on one's garments; to pay particular regard to dress; as, to dress quickly. "To dress for a ball." Latham. To flaunt, to dress, to dance, to thrum. Tennyson . To dress to the right, To dress to the left, To dress on the center (Mil.), to form alignment with reference to the soldier on the extreme right, or in the center, of the rank, who serves as a guide.
DRESSDress, n.
1. That which is used as the covering or ornament of the body; clothes; garments; habit; apparel. "In your soldier's dress." Shak.
2. A lady's gown; as, silk or a velvet dress.
3. Attention to apparel, or skill in adjusting it. Men of pleasure, dress, and gallantry. Pope.
4. (Milling)
Defn: The system of furrows on the face of a millstone. Knight. Dress circle. See under Circle. — Dress parade (Mil.), a parade in full uniform for review.
DRESS CIRCLEDress circle.
Defn: A gallery or circle in a theater, generally the first above the floor, in which originally dress clothes were customarily worn.
DRESS COATDress" coat`.
Defn: A coat with skirts behind only, as distinct from the frock coat, of which the skirts surround the body. It is worn on occasions of ceremony. The dress coat of officers of the United States army is a full-skirted frock coat.
DRESSERDress"er, n.
1. One who dresses; one who put in order or makes ready for use; one who on clothes or ornaments.
2. (Mining)
Defn: A kind of pick for shaping large coal.
3. An assistant in a hospital, whose office it is to dress wounds, sores, etc.
4. Etym: [F. dressoir. See Dress, v. t.] (a) A table or bench on which meat and other things are dressed, or prepared for use. (b) A cupboard or set of shelves to receive dishes and cooking utensils. The pewter plates on the dresser Caught and reflected the flame, as shields of armies the sunshine. Longfellow.
DRESS GOODSDress" goods".
Defn: A term applied to fabrics for the gowns of women and girls; — most commonly to fabrics of mixed materials, but also applicable to silks, printed linens, and calicoes.
DRESSINESSDress"i*ness, n.
Defn: The state of being dressy.
DRESSINGDress"ing, n.
1. Dress; raiment; especially, ornamental habiliment or attire. B. Jonson.
2. (Surg.)
Defn: An application (a remedy, bandage, etc.) to a sore or wound.Wiseman.
3. Manure or compost over land. When it remains on the surface, it is called a top-dressing.
4. (Cookery) (a) A preparation to fit food for use; a condiment; as, a dressing for salad. (b) The stuffing of fowls, pigs, etc.; forcemeat.
5. Gum, starch, and the like, used in stiffening or finishing silk, linen, and other fabrics.
6. An ornamental finish, as a molding around doors, windows, or on a ceiling, etc.
7. Castigation; scolding; — often with down. [Colloq.] Dressing case, a case of toilet utensils. — Dressing forceps, a variety of forceps, shaped like a pair of scissors, used in dressing wounds. — Dressing gown, a light gown, such as is used by a person while dressing; a study gown. — Dressing room, an apartment appropriated for making one's toilet. — Dressing table, a table at which a person may dress, and on which articles for the toilet stand. — Top-dressing, manure or compost spread over land and not worked into the soil.
DRESSMAKERDress"mak`er, n.
Defn: A maker of gowns, or similar garments; a mantuamaker.
DRESSMAKINGDress"mak`ing, n.
Defn: The art, process, or occupation, of making dresses.
DRESSYDress"y, a.
Defn: Showy in dress; attentive to dress.A dressy flaunting maidservant. T. Hook.A neat, dressy gentleman in black. W. Irving.
DRESTDrest, p. p.
Defn: of Dress.
DRETCHDretch, v. t. & i.
Defn: See Drecche. [Obs.]
DREULDreul, v. i.
Defn: To drool. [Obs.]
DREVILDrev"il, n.
Defn: A fool; a drudge. See Drivel.
DREWDrew, imp.
Defn: of Draw.
DREYDrey, n.
Defn: A squirrel's nest. See Dray. [Obs.]
DREYEDreye, a.
Defn: Dry. [Obs.] Chaucer.
DREYNTE; DREYNTDreyn"te, imp., Dreynt (,
Defn: p. p., of Drench to drown. [Obs.] Chaucer.
DRIBDrib, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Dribbed; p. pr. & vb. n. Dribbing.] Etym:[Cf. Drip.]
Defn: To do by little and little; as: (a) To cut off by a little at a time; to crop. (b) To appropriate unlawfully; to filch; to defalcate. He who drives their bargain dribs a part. Dryden.
(c) To lead along step by step; to entice. With daily lies she dribs thee into cost. Dryden.
DRIBDrib, v. t. & i. (Archery)
Defn: To shoot (a shaft) so as to pierce on the descent. [Obs.] SirP. Sidney.
DRIBDrib, n.
Defn: A drop. [Obs.] Swift.
DRIBBERDrib"ber, n.
Defn: One who dribs; one who shoots weakly or badly. [Obs.] Ascham.
DRIBBLEDrib"ble, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Dribbled; p. pr. & vb. n. Dribbing.]Etym: [Freq. of drib, which is a variant of drip.]
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; to drivel.
3. To fall weakly and slowly. [Obs.] "The dribbling dart of love." Shak. (Meas. for Meas. , i. 3, 2). [Perhaps an error for dribbing.]
DRIBBLEDrib"ble, v. t.
Defn: To let fall in drops.Let the cook . . . dribble it all the way upstairs. Swift.
DRIBBLEDrib"ble, n.
Defn: A drizzling shower; a falling or leaking in drops. [Colloq.]
DRIBBLERDrib"bler, n.
Defn: One who dribbles.
DRIBBLET; DRIBLETDrib"blet, Drib"let, n. Etym: [From Dribble.]
Defn: A small piece or part; a small sum; a small quantity of money in making up a sum; as, the money was paid in dribblets. When made up in dribblets, as they could, their best securities were at an interest of twelve per cent. Burke.
DRIEDrie, v. t. Etym: [See Dree.]
Defn: To endure. [Obs.]So causeless such drede for to drie. Chaucer.
DRIEDDried, imp. & p. p.
Defn: of Day. Also adj.; as, dried apples.
DRIERDri"er, n.
1. One who, or that which, dries; that which may expel or absorb moisture; a desiccative; as, the sun and a northwesterly wind are great driers of the earth.
2. (Paint.)
Defn: Drying oil; a substance mingled with the oil used in oil painting to make it dry quickly.
DRIER; DRIESTDri"er, compar., Dri"est, superl.,
Defn: of Dry, a.
DRIFTDrift, n. Etym: [From drive; akin to LG. & D. drift a driving, Icel.drift snowdrift, Dan. drift, impulse, drove, herd, pasture, common,G. trift pasturage, drove. See Drive.]
1. A driving; a violent movement. The dragon drew him [self] away with drift of his wings. King Alisaunder (1332).
2. The act or motion of drifting; the force which impels or drives; an overpowering influence or impulse. A bad man, being under the drift of any passion, will follow the impulse of it till something interpose. South.
3. Course or direction along which anything is driven; setting. "Our drift was south." Hakluyt.
4. The tendency of an act, argument, course of conduct, or the like; object aimed at or intended; intention; hence, also, import or meaning of a sentence or discourse; aim. He has made the drift of the whole poem a compliment on his country in general. Addison. Now thou knowest my drift. Sir W. Scott.
5. That which is driven, forced, or urged along; as: (a) Anything driven at random. "Some log . . . a useless drift." Dryden. (b) A mass of matter which has been driven or forced onward together in a body, or thrown together in a heap, etc., esp. by wind or water; as, a drift of snow, of ice, of sand, and the like. Drifts of rising dust involve the sky. Pope. We got the brig a good bed in the rushing drift [of ice]. Kane.
(c) A drove or flock, as of cattle, sheep, birds. [Obs.] Cattle coming over the bridge (with their great drift doing much damage to the high ways). Fuller.
6. (Arch.)
Defn: The horizontal thrust or pressure of an arch or vault upon the abutments. [R.] Knight.
7. (Geol.)
Defn: A collection of loose earth and rocks, or boulders, which have been distributed over large portions of the earth's surface, especially in latitudes north of forty degrees, by the agency of ice.
8. In South Africa, a ford in a river.
9. (Mech.)
Defn: A slightly tapered tool of steel for enlarging or shaping a hole in metal, by being forced or driven into or through it; a broach.
10. (Mil.) (a) A tool used in driving down compactly the composition contained in a rocket, or like firework. (b) A deviation from the line of fire, peculiar to oblong projectiles.
11. (Mining)
Defn: A passage driven or cut between shaft and shaft; a driftway; a small subterranean gallery; an adit or tunnel.
12. (Naut.) (a) The distance through which a current flows in a given time. (b) The angle which the line of a ship's motion makes with the meridian, in drifting. (c) The distance to which a vessel is carried off from her desired course by the wind, currents, or other causes. (d) The place in a deep-waisted vessel where the sheer is raised and the rail is cut off, and usually terminated with a scroll, or driftpiece. (e) The distance between the two blocks of a tackle.
13. The difference between the size of a bolt and the hole into which it is driven, or between the circumference of a hoop and that of the mast on which it is to be driven.
Note: Drift is used also either adjectively or as the first part of a compound. See Drift, a. Drift of the forest (O. Eng. Law), an examination or view of the cattle in a forest, in order to see whose they are, whether they are commonable, and to determine whether or not the forest is surcharged. Burrill.
DRIFTDrift, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Drifted; p. pr. & vb. n. Drifting.]
1. To float or be driven along by, or as by, a current of water or air; as, the ship drifted astern; a raft drifted ashore; the balloon drifts slowly east. We drifted o'er the harbor bar. Coleridge.
2. To accumulate in heaps by the force of wind; to be driven into heaps; as, snow or sand drifts.
3. (mining)
Defn: to make a drift; to examine a vein or ledge for the purpose of ascertaining the presence of metals or ores; to follow a vein; to prospect. [U.S.]
DRIFTDrift, v. t.
1. To drive or carry, as currents do a floating body. J. H. Newman.
2. To drive into heaps; as, a current of wind drifts snow or sand.
3. (Mach.)
Defn: To enlarge or shape, as a hole, with a drift.
DRIFTDrift, a.
Defn: That causes drifting or that is drifted; movable by wind orcurrents; as, drift currents; drift ice; drift mud. Kane. Driftanchor. See Sea anchor, and also Drag sail, under Drag, n.— Drift epoch (Geol.), the glacial epoch.— Drift net, a kind of fishing net.— Drift sail. Same as Drag sail. See under Drag, n.
DRIFTAGEDrift"age, n.
1. Deviation from a ship's course due to leeway.
2. Anything that drifts.
DRIFTBOLTDrift"bolt`, n.
Defn: A bolt for driving out other bolts.
DRIFTLESSDrift"less, a.
Defn: Having no drift or direction; without aim; purposeless.
DRIFTPIECEDrift"piece", n. (Shipbuilding)
Defn: An upright or curved piece of timber connecting the plank sheer with the gunwale; also, a scroll terminating a rail.
DRIFTPINDrift"pin`, n. (Mech.)
Defn: A smooth drift. See Drift, n., 9.
DRIFTWAYDrift"way`, n.
1. A common way, road, or path, for driving cattle. Cowell. Burrill.
2. (Mining)
Defn: Same as Drift, 11.
DRIFTWEEDDrift"weed`, n.
Defn: Seaweed drifted to the shore by the wind. Darwin.
DRIFTWINDDrift"wind`, n.
Defn: A driving wind; a wind that drives snow, sand, etc., into heaps. Beau. & Fl.
DRIFTWOODDrift"wood`, n.
1. Wood drifted or floated by water.
2. Fig.: Whatever is drifting or floating as on water. The current of humanity, with its heavy proportion of very useless driftwood. New Your Times.
DRIFTYDrift"y, a.
Defn: Full of drifts; tending to form drifts, as snow, and the like.
DRILLDrill, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Drilled; p. pr. & vb. n. Drilling.] Etym:[D. drillen to bore, drill (soldiers); probably akin to AS. pyrlian,pyrelian, to pierce. See Thrill.]
1. To pierce or bore with a drill, or a with a drill; to perforate; as, to drill a hole into a rock; to drill a piece of metal.
2. To train in the military art; to exercise diligently, as soldiers, in military evolutions and exercises; hence, to instruct thoroughly in the rudiments of any art or branch of knowledge; to discipline. He [Frederic the Great] drilled his people, as he drilled his grenadiers. Macaulay.
DRILLDrill, v. i.
Defn: To practice an exercise or exercises; to train one's self.
DRILLDrill, n.
1. An instrument with an edged or pointed end used for making holes in hard substances; strictly, a tool that cuts with its end, by revolving, as in drilling metals, or by a succession of blows, as in drilling stone; also, a drill press.
2. (Mil.)
Defn: The act or exercise of training soldiers in the military art, as in the manual of arms, in the execution of evolutions, and the like; hence, diligent and strict instruction and exercise in the rudiments and methods of any business; a kind or method of military exercises; as, infantry drill; battalion drill; artillery drill.
3. Any exercise, physical or mental, enforced with regularity and by constant repetition; as, a severe drill in Latin grammar.
4. (Zoöl.)
Defn: A marine gastropod, of several species, which kills oysters and other bivalves by drilling holes through the shell. The most destructive kind is Urosalpinx cinerea. Bow drill, Breast drill. See under Bow, Breast. — Cotter drill, or Traverse drill, a machine tool for drilling slots. — Diamond drill. See under Diamond. — Drill jig. See under Jig. — Drill pin, the pin in a lock which enters the hollow stem of the key. — Drill sergeant (Mil.), a noncommissioned officer whose office it is to instruct soldiers as to their duties, and to train them to military exercises and evolutions. — Vertical drill, a drill press.
DRILL Drill, v. t. Etym: [Cf. Trill to trickle, Trickle, Dribble, and W. rhillio to put in a row, drill.]
1. To cause to flow in drills or rills or by trickling; to drain by trickling; as, waters drilled through a sandy stratum. [R.] Thomson.
2. To sow, as seeds, by dribbling them along a furrow or in a row, like a trickling rill of water.
3. To entice; to allure from step; to decoy; — with on. [Obs.] See drilled him on to five-fifty. Addison.
4. To cause to slip or waste away by degrees. [Obs.] This accident hath drilled away the whole summer. Swift.
DRILLDrill, v. i.
1. To trickle. [Obs. or R.] Sandys.
2. To sow in drills.
DRILLDrill, n.
1. A small trickling stream; a rill. [Obs.] Springs through the pleasant meadows pour their drills. Sandys.
2. (Agr.) (a) An implement for making holes for sowing seed, and sometimes so formed as to contain seeds and drop them into the hole made. (b) A light furrow or channel made to put seed into sowing. (c) A row of seed sown in a furrow.
Note: Drill is used adjectively, or as the first part of a compound; as, drill barrow or drill-barrow; drill husbandry; drill plow or drill-plow. Drill barrow, a wheeled implement for planting seed in drills. — Drill bow, a small bow used for the purpose of rapidly turning a drill around which the bowstring takes a turn. — Drill harrow, a harrow used for stirring the ground between rows, or drills. — Drill plow, or Drill plough, a sort plow for sowing grain in drills.
DRILLDrill, n. Etym: [Cf. Mandrill.] (Zoöl.)
Defn: A large African baboon (Cynocephalus leucophæus).
DRILLDrill, n. Etym: [Usually in pl.] (Manuf.)
Defn: Same as Drilling. Imperial drill, a linen fabric having two threads in the warp and three in the filling.
DRILLERDrill"er, n.
Defn: One who, or that which, drills.
DRILLINGDrill"ing, n.
1. The act of piercing with a drill.
2. A training by repeated exercises.
DRILLINGDrill"ing, n.
Defn: The act of using a drill in sowing seeds.
DRILLING Drill"ing, n. Etym: [G. drillich, fr. L. trilix having three threads, fr. the of tres three + licium a thread of the warm. See Three, and cf. Twill.] (Manuf.)
Defn: A heavy, twilled fabric of linen or cotton.
DRILLMASTERDrill"mas`ter, n.
Defn: One who teaches drill, especially in the way of gymnastics.Macaulay.
DRILL PRESSDrill" press` .
Defn: A machine for drilling holes in metal, the drill being pressed to the metal by the action of a screw.
DRILLSTOCKDrill"stock`, n. (Mech.)
Defn: A contrivance for holding and turning a drill. Knight.
DRILYDri"ly, adv.
Defn: See Dryly. Thackeray.
DRIMYSDri"mys, n. Etym: [NL., fr. Gr. (Bot.)
Defn: A genus of magnoliaceous trees. Drimys aromatica furnishesWinter's bark.
DRINK Drink, v. i. [imp. Drank, formerly Drunk (; & p. p. Drunk, Drunken (; p. pr. & vb. n. Drinking. Drunken is now rarely used, except as a verbal adj. in sense of habitually intoxicated; the form drank, not infrequently used as a p. p., is not so analogical.] Etym: [AS. drincan; akin to OS. drinkan, D. drinken, G. trinken, Icel. drekka, Sw. dricka, Dan. drikke, Goth. drigkan. Cf. Drench, Drunken, Drown.]
1. To swallow anything liquid, for quenching thirst or other purpose; to imbibe; to receive or partake of, as if in satisfaction of thirst; as, to drink from a spring. Gird thyself, and serve me, till have eaten and drunken; and afterward thou shalt eat and drink. Luke xvii. 8. He shall drink of the wrath the Almighty. Job xxi. 20. Drink of the cup that can not cloy. Keble.
2. To quaff exhilarating or intoxicating liquors, in merriment or feasting; to carouse; to revel; hence, to lake alcoholic liquors to excess; to be intemperate in the Pope. And they drank, and were merry with him. Gem. xliii. 34. Bolingbroke always spoke freely when he had drunk freely. Thackeray. To drink to, to salute in drinking; to wish well to, in the act of taking the cup; to pledge in drinking. I drink to the general joy of the whole table, And to our dear friend Banquo. Shak.
DRINKDrink, v. t.
1. To swallow (a liquid); to receive, as a fluid, into the stomach; to imbibe; as, to drink milk or water. There lies she with the blessed gods in bliss, There drinks the nectar with ambrosia mixed. Spenser. The bowl of punch which was brewed and drunk in Mrs. Betty's room. Thackeray.
2. To take in (a liquid), in any manner; to suck up; to absorb; to imbibe. And let the purple violets drink the stream. Dryden.
3. To take in; to receive within one, through the senses; to inhale;to hear; to see.To drink the cooler air, Tennyson.My ears have not yet drunk a hundred words Of that tongue'sutterance. Shak.Let me . . . drink delicious poison from thy eye. Pope.
4. To smoke, as tobacco. [Obs.] And some men now live ninety years and past, Who never drank to tobacco first nor last. Taylor (1630. ) To drink down, to act on by drinking; to reduce or subdue; as, to drink down unkindness. Shak. — To drink in, to take into one's self by drinking, or as by drinking; to receive and appropriate as in satisfaction of thirst. "Song was the form of literature which he [Burns] had drunk in from his cradle." J. C. Shairp. — To drink off or up, to drink the whole at a draught; as, to drink off a cup of cordial. — To drink the health of, or To drink to the health of, to drink while expressing good wishes for the health or welfare of.
DRINKDrink, n.
1. Liquid to be swallowed; any fluid to be taken into the stomach for quenching thirst or for other purposes, as water, coffee, or decoctions. Give me some drink, Titinius. Shak.
2. Specifically, intoxicating liquor; as, when drink is on, wit is out. Drink money, or Drink penny, an allowance, or perquisite, given to buy drink; a gratuity. — Drink offering (Script.), an offering of wine, etc., in the Jewish religious service. — In drink, drunk. "The poor monster's in drink." Shak. — Strong drink, intoxicating liquor; esp., liquor containing a large proportion of alcohol. " Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging." Prov. xx. 1.
DRINKABLEDrink"a*ble, a.
Defn: Capable of being drunk; suitable for drink; potable. Macaulay.Also used substantively, esp. in the plural. Steele.
DRINKABLENESSDrink"a*ble*ness, n.
Defn: State of being drinkable.
DRINKERDrink"er, n.
Defn: One who drinks; as, the effects of tea on the drinker; also, one who drinks spirituous liquors to excess; a drunkard. Drinker moth (Zoöl.), a large British moth (Odonestis potatoria).
DRINKINGDrink"ing, n.
1. The act of one who drinks; the act of imbibing.
2. The practice of partaking to excess of intoxicating liquors.
3. An entertainment with liquors; a carousal.
Note: Drinking is used adjectively, or as the first part of a compound; as, a drinking song, drinking cup, drinking glass, drinking house, etc. Drinking horn, a drinking vessel made of a horn.
DRINKLESSDrink"less, a.
Defn: Destitute of drink. Chaucer.
DRIPDrip, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Dripped or Dript; p. pr. & vb. n.Dripping.] Etym: [Akin to LG. drippen, Dan. dryppe, from a noun. SeeDrop.]
1. To fall in drops; as, water drips from the eaves.
2. To let fall drops of moisture or liquid; as, a wet garment drips. The dark round of the dripping wheel. Tennyson.
DRIPDrip, v. t.
Defn: To let fall in drops.Which from the thatch drips fast a shower of rain. Swift.
DRIPDrip, n.
1. A falling or letting fall in drops; a dripping; that which drips, or falls in drops. The light drip of the suspended oar. Byron.
2. (Arch.)
Defn: That part of a cornice, sill course, or other horizontal member, which projects beyond the rest, and is of such section as to throw off the rain water. Right of drip (Law), an easement or servitude by which a man has the right to have the water flowing from his house fall on the land of his neighbor.
DRIPPINGDrip"ping, n.
1. A falling in drops, or the sound so made.
2. That which falls in drops, as fat from meat in roasting. Dripping pan, a pan for receiving the fat which drips from meat in roasting.
DRIPPLEDrip"ple, a. Etym: [From Drip, cf. Dribble.]
Defn: Weak or rare. [Obs.]
DRIPSTONEDrip"stone`, n. (Arch.)
Defn: A drip, when made of stone. See Drip, 2.
DRIVE Drive, v. t. [imp. Drove, formerly Drave (p. p. Driven; p. pr. & vb. n. Driving.] Etym: [AS. drifan; akin to OS. driban, D. drijven, OHG. triban, G. treiben, Icel. drifa, Goth. dreiban. Cf. Drift, Drove.]
1. To impel or urge onward by force in a direction away from one, or along before one; to push forward; to compel to move on; to communicate motion to; as, to drive cattle; to drive a nail; smoke drives persons from a room. A storm came on and drove them into Pylos. Jowett (Thucyd. ). Shield pressed on shield, and man drove man along. Pope. Go drive the deer and drag the finny prey. Pope.
2. To urge on and direct the motions of, as the beasts which draw a vehicle, or the vehicle borne by them; hence, also, to take in a carriage; to convey in a vehicle drawn by beasts; as, to drive a pair of horses or a stage; to drive a person to his own door. How . . . proud he was to drive such a brother! Thackeray.
3. To urge, impel, or hurry forward; to force; to constrain; to urge, press, or bring to a point or state; as, to drive person by necessity, by persuasion, by force of circumstances, by argument, and the like. " Enough to drive one mad." Tennyson. He, driven to dismount, threatened, if I did not do the like, to do as much for my horse as fortune had done for his. Sir P. Sidney.
4. To carry or; to keep in motion; to conduct; to prosecute. [Now used only colloquially.] Bacon. The trade of life can not be driven without partners. Collier.
5. To clear, by forcing away what is contained. To drive the country, force the swains away. Dryden.
6. (Mining)
Defn: To dig Horizontally; to cut a horizontal gallery or tunnel.Tomlinson.
7. To pass away; — said of time. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Note: Drive, in all its senses, implies forcible or violent action. It is the reverse of 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 in front. It takes a variety of meanings, according to the objects by which it is followed; as, to drive an engine, to direct and regulate its motions; to drive logs, to keep them in the current of a river and direct them in their course; to drive feathers or down, to place them in a machine, which, by a current of air, drives off the lightest to one end, and collects them by themselves. "My thrice-driven bed of down." Shak.
DRIVEDrive, v. i.
1. To rush and press with violence; to move furiously.Fierce Boreas drove against his flying sails. Dryden.Under cover of the night and a driving tempest. Prescott.Time driveth onward fast, And in a little while our lips are dumb.Tennyson.
2. To be forced along; to be impelled; to be moved by any physical force or agent; to be driven. The hull drives on, though mast and sail be torn. Byron. The chaise drives to Mr. Draper's chambers. Thackeray.
3. To go by carriage; to pass in a carriage; to proceed by directing or urging on a vehicle or the animals that draw it; as, the coachman drove to my door.
4. To press forward; to aim, or tend, to a point; to make an effort; to strive; — usually with at. Let them therefore declare what carnal or secular interest he drove at. South.
5. To distrain for rent. [Obs.] To let drive, to aim a blow; to strike with force; to attack. "Four rogues in buckram let drive at me." Shak.
DRIVEDrive, p. p.
Defn: Driven. [Obs.] Chaucer.
DRIVEDrive, n.
1. The act of driving; a trip or an excursion in a carriage, as for exercise or pleasure; — distinguished from a ride taken on horseback.
2. A place suitable or agreeable for driving; a road prepared for driving.
3. Violent or rapid motion; a rushing onward or away; esp., a forced or hurried dispatch of business. The Murdstonian drive in business. M. Arnold.
4. In type founding and forging, an impression or matrix, formed by a punch drift.
5. A collection of objects that are driven; a mass of logs to be floated down a river. [Colloq.]
Syn.— See Ride.
DRIVEBOLTDrive"bolt`, n.
Defn: A drift; a tool for setting bolts home.
DRIVELDriv"el, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Driveled or Drivelled; p. pr. & vb. n.Driveling or Drivelling.] Etym: [Cf. OE. dravelen, drabelen,drevelen, drivelen, to slaver, and E. drabble. Cf. Drool.]
1. To slaver; to let spittle drop or flow from the mouth, like a child, idiot, or dotard.
2. Etym: [Perh. a different word: cf. Icel. drafa to talk thick.]
Defn: To be weak or foolish; to dote; as, a driveling hero; driveling love. Shak. Dryden.
DRIVELDriv"el, n.
1. Slaver; saliva flowing from the mouth.
2. Inarticulate or unmeaning utterance; foolish talk; babble.
3. A driveler; a fool; an idiot. [Obs.] Sir P. Sidney.
4. A servant; a drudge. [Obs.] Huloet.
DRIVELERDriv"el*er, n.
Defn: A slaverer; a slabberer; an idiot; a fool. [Written also driveller.]
DRIVENDriv"en, p. p.
Defn: of Drive. Also adj. Driven well, a well made by driving a tube into the earth to an aqueous stratum; — called also drive well.
DRIVEPIPEDrive"pipe`, n.
Defn: A pipe for forcing into the earth.
DRIVERDriv"er, n. Etym: [From Drive.]
1. One who, or that which, drives; the person or thing that urges or compels anything else to move onward.
2. The person who drives beasts or a carriage; a coachman; a charioteer, etc.; hence, also, one who controls the movements of a locomotive.
3. An overseer of a gang of slaves or gang of convicts at their work.
4. (Mach.)
Defn: A part that transmits motion to another part by contact with it, or through an intermediate relatively movable part, as a gear which drives another, or a lever which moves another through a link, etc. Specifically: (a) The driving wheel of a locomotive. (b) An attachment to a lathe, spindle, or face plate to turn a carrier. (c) A crossbar on a grinding mill spindle to drive the upper stone.
5. (Naut.)
Defn: The after sail in a ship or bark, being a fore-and-aft sail attached to a gaff; a spanker. Totten. Driver ant (Zoöl.), a species of African stinging ant; one of the visiting ants (Anomma arcens); — so called because they move about in vast armies, and drive away or devour all insects and other small animals.
DRIVEWAYDrive"way` (, n.
Defn: A passage or way along or through which a carriage may be driven.
DRIVINGDriv"ing, a.
1. Having great force of impulse; as, a driving wind or storm.
2. Communicating force; impelling; as, a driving shaft. Driving axle, the axle of a driving wheel, as in a locomotive. — Driving box (Locomotive), the journal box of a driving axle. See Illust. of Locomotive. — Driving note (Mus.), a syncopated note; a tone begun on a weak part of a measure and held through the next accented part, thus anticipating the accent and driving it through. — Driving spring, a spring fixed upon the box of the driving axle of a locomotive engine to support the weight and deaden shocks. [Eng.] Weale. — Driving wheel (Mach.), a wheel that communicates motion; one of the large wheels of a locomotive to which the connecting rods of the engine are attached; — called also, simply, driver. See Illust. of Locomotive.
DRIVINGDriv"ing, n.
1. The act of forcing or urging something along; the act of pressing or moving on furiously.
2. Tendency; drift. [R.]
DRIZZLEDriz"zle, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Drizzled; p. pr. & vb. n. Drizzling.]Etym: [Prop. freq. of AS. dreósan to fall. See Dreary.]
Defn: To rain slightly in very small drops; to fall, as water from the clouds, slowly and in fine particles; as, it drizzles; drizzling drops or rain. "Drizzling tears." Spenser.
DRIZZLEDriz"zle, v. t.
Defn: To shed slowly in minute drops or particles. "The air doth drizzle dew." Shak.
DRIZZLEDriz"zle, n.
Defn: Fine rain or mist. Halliwell.
DRIZZLYDriz"zly, a.
Defn: Characterized by small rain, or snow; moist and disagreeable."Winter's drizzly reign." Dryden.
DROCKDrock, n.
Defn: A water course. [Prov. Eng.]
DROFLAND; DRYFLANDDrof"land, Dryf"land, n. Etym: [See Drove.] (Law)
Defn: An ancient yearly payment made by some tenants to the king, or to their landlords, for the privilege of driving their cattle through a manor to fairs or markets. Cowell.
DROGHERDro"gher, n. Etym: [Cf. Drag.]
Defn: A small craft used in the West India Islands to take off sugars, rum, etc., to the merchantmen; also, a vessel for transporting lumber, cotton, etc., coastwise; as, a lumber drogher. [Written also droger.] Ham. Nar. Encyc.
DROGMAN; DROGOMANDrog"man, Drog"o*man, n.
Defn: See Dragoman.
DROGUEDrogue, n. (Naut.)
Defn: See Drag, n.,
6, and Drag sail, under Drag, n.
DROHDroh, imp.
Defn: of Draw. [Obs.] Chaucer.
DROILDroil, v. i. Etym: [D. druilen to mope.]
Defn: To work sluggishly or slowly; to plod. [Obs.]
DROILDroil, n. Etym: [D. druil sluggard. Cf. Droll.]
1. A drudge. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl.
2. Mean labor; toil.[Obs.]
DROITDroit, n. Etym: [F. See Direct.]
Defn: A right; law in its aspect of the foundation of rights; also, in old law, the writ of right. Abbott. Droit d'aubaine. See under Aubaine. — Droits of the Admiralty (Eng. Law), rights or perquisites of the Admiralty, arising from seizure of an enemy's ships in port on the breaking out of war, or those coming into port in ignorance of hostilities existing, or from such ships as are taken by noncommissioned captors; also, the proceeds of wrecks, and derelict property at sea. The droits of admiralty are now paid into the Exchequer for the public benefit.
DROITURALDroi"tu*ral, a. (O. Eng. Law)
Defn: relating to the mere right of property, as distinguished from the right of possession; as, droitural actions. [Obs.] Burrill.
DROITZSCHKADroitzsch"ka, n.
Defn: See Drosky.
DROLL Droll, a. [Compar. Droller; superl. Drollest.] Etym: [F. drôle; cf. G. & D. drollig, LG. drullig, D. drol a thick and short person, a droll, Sw. troll a magical appearance, demon, trolla to use magic arts, enchant, Dan. trold elf, imp, Icel. tröll giant, magician, evil spirit, monster. If this is the origin, cf. Trull.]
Defn: Queer, and fitted to provoke laughter; ludicrous from oddity; amusing and strange.
Syn. — Comic; comical; farcical; diverting; humorous; ridiculous; queer; odd; waggish; facetious; merry; laughable; ludicrous. — Droll, Laughable, Comical. Laughable is the generic term, denoting anything exciting laughter or worthy of laughter; comical denotes something of the kind exhibited in comedies, something humorous of the kind exhibited in comedies, something, as it were, dramatically humorous; droll stands lower on the scale, having reference to persons or things which excite laughter by their buffoonery or oddity. A laughable incident; a comical adventure; a droll story.
DROLLDroll, n.
1. One whose practice it is to raise mirth by odd tricks; a jester; a buffoon; a merry-andrew. Prior.
2. Something exhibited to raise mirth or sport, as a puppet, a farce, and the like.
DROLLDroll, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Drolled; p. pr. & vb. n. Drolling.]
Defn: To jest; to play the buffoon. [R.]
DROLLDroll, v. t.
1. To lead or influence by jest or trick; to banter or jest; to cajole. Men that will not be reasoned into their senses, may yet be laughed or drolled into them. L'Estrange.
2. To make a jest of; to set in a comical light. [R.] This drolling everything is rather fatiguing. W. D. Howells.
DROLLERDroll"er, n.
Defn: A jester; a droll. [Obs.] Glanvill.
DROLLERYDroll"er*y, n.; pl. Drolleries. Etym: [F. drôlerie. See Droll.]
1. The quality of being droll; sportive tricks; buffoonery; droll stories; comical gestures or manners. The rich drollery of "She Stoops to Conquer." Macaulay.
2. Something which serves to raise mirth; as: (a) A puppet show; also, a puppet. [Obs.] Shak. (b) A lively or comic picture. [Obs.] I bought an excellent drollery, which I afterward parted with to my brother George of Wotton. Evelyn.
DROLLINGLYDroll"ing*ly, adv.
Defn: In a jesting manner.
DROLLISHDroll"ish, a.
Defn: Somewhat droll. Sterne.
DROLLISTDroll"ist, n.
Defn: A droll. [R.] Glanvill.
DROMAEOGNATHOUSDro`mæ*og"na*thous, a. Etym: [NL. dromaius emu + Gr. (Zoöl.)
Defn: Having the structure of the palate like that of the ostrich and emu.
DROMATHERIUMDrom`a*the"ri*um, n. Etym: [NL., fr. Gr. Dromedary.] (Paleon.)
Defn: A small extinct triassic mammal from North Carolina, the earliest yet found in America.
DROMEDrome, n. Etym: [F., fr. Gr. Dromedary.] (Zoöl.)
Defn: The crab plover (Dromas ardeola), a peculiar North African bird, allied to the oyster catcher.
DROMEDARYDrom"e*da*ry, n.; pl. Dromedaries. Etym: [F. dromadaire, LL.dromedarius, fr. L. dromas (sc. camelus), fr. Gr. dram to run.](Zoöl.)
Defn: The Arabian camel (Camelus dromedarius), having one hump or protuberance on the back, in distinction from the Bactrian camel, which has two humps.
Note: In Arabia and Egypt the name is restricted to the better breeds of this species of camel. See Deloul.
DROMOND; DROMONDrom"ond, or Drom"on. Etym: [OF. dromont, L. dromo, fr.Gr.Dromedary.]
Defn: In the Middle Ages, a large, fast-sailing galley, or cutter; a large, swift war vessel. [Hist. or Archaic] Fuller. The great dromond swinging from the quay. W. Morris.
DRONEDrone, n. Etym: [OE. drane a dronebee, AS. dran; akin to OS. dran,OHG. treno, G. drohne, Dan. drone, cf. Gr. Drone, v. i.]
1. (Zoöl.)
Defn: The male of bees, esp. of the honeybee. It gathers no honey.See Honeybee.All with united force combine to drive The lazy drones from thelaborious hive. Dryden.
2. One who lives on the labors of others; a lazy, idle fellow; a sluggard. By living as a drone,to be an unprofitable and unworthy member of so noble and learned a society. Burton.
3. That which gives out a grave or monotonous tone or dull sound; as: (a) A drum. [Obs.] Halliwell. (b) The part of the bagpipe containing the two lowest tubes, which always sound the key note and the fifth.
4. A humming or deep murmuring sound. The monotonous drone of the wheel. Longfellow.
5. (Mus.)
Defn: A monotonous bass, as in a pastoral composition.
DRONE Drone, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Droned; p. pr. & vb. n. Droning.] Etym: [Cf. (for sense 1) D. dreunen, G. dröhnen, Icel. drynja to roar, drynr a roaring, Sw. dröna to bellow, drone, Dan. dröne, Goth. drunjus sound, Gr. dhran to sound. Cf. Drone, n.]
1. To utter or make a low, dull, monotonous, humming or murmuring sound. Where the beetle wheels his droning flight. T. Gray.
2. To love in idleness; to do nothing. "Race of droning kings." Dryden.
DRONE BEEDrone" bee`. (Zoöl.)
Defn: The male of the honeybee; a drone.
DRONE FLYDrone" fly`. (Zoöl.)
Defn: A dipterous insect (Eristalis tenax), resembling the drone bee.See Eristalis.
DRONEPIPEDrone"pipe`, n.
Defn: One of the low-toned tubes of a bagpipe.
DRONGODron"go, n.; pl. Drongos (. (Zoöl.)
Defn: A passerine bird of the family Dicruridæ. They are usually black with a deeply forked tail. They are natives of Asia, Africa, and Australia; — called also drongo shrikes.
DRONISHDron"ish, a.