Motley.
Dra*mat"ic*al*ly, adv. In a dramatic manner; theatrically; vividly.
||Dram"a*tis per*so"næ (?). [L.] The actors in a drama or play.
Dram"a*tist (?), n. [Cf. F. dramatiste.] The author of a dramatic composition; a writer of plays.
Dram"a*ti`za*ble (?), a. Capable of being dramatized.
Dram`a*ti*za"tion (?), n. Act of dramatizing.
Dram"a*tize (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Dramatized (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Dramatizing (?).] [Cf. F. dramatiser.] To compose in the form of the drama; to represent in a drama; to adapt to dramatic representation; as, to dramatize a novel, or an historical episode.
They dramatized tyranny for public execration.
Motley.
Dram`a*tur"gic (?), a. Relating to dramaturgy.
Dram"a*tur`gist (?), n. One versed in dramaturgy. Carlyle.
Dram"a*tur`gy (?), n. [Gr. &?; dramatic composition; &?; drama + a root akin to E. work: cf. F. dramaturgie.] The art of dramatic composition and representation.
Dram"ming (?), n. The practice of drinking drams.
Dram"sell`er (?), n. One who sells distilled liquors by the dram or glass.
Dram"shop` (?), n. A shop or barroom where spirits are sold by the dram.
Drank (?), imp. of Drink.
Drank, n. [Cf. 3d Drake.] Wild oats, or darnel grass. See Drake a plant. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.
||Drap` d'é*té" (?). [F., clot of summer.] A thin woolen fabric, twilled like merino.
Drape (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Draped (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Draping (?).] [F. draper, fr. drap cloth. See 3d Drab.] 1. To cover or adorn with drapery or folds of cloth, or as with drapery; as, to drape a bust, a building, etc.
The whole people were draped professionally.
De Quincey.
These starry blossoms, [of the snow] pure and white,
Soft falling, falling, through the night,
Have draped the woods and mere
. Bungay.
2. To rail at; to banter. [Obs.] Sir W. Temple.
Drape, v. i. 1. To make cloth. [Obs.] Bacon.
2. To design drapery, arrange its folds, etc., as for hangings, costumes, statues, etc.
Dra"per (?), n. [F. drapier.] One who sells cloths; a dealer in cloths; as, a draper and tailor.
Dra"per*ied (?), a. Covered or supplied with drapery. [R.] Byron.
Dra"per*y (?), n.; pl. Draperies (#). [F. draperie.] 1. The occupation of a draper; cloth-making, or dealing in cloth. Bacon.
2. Cloth, or woolen stuffs in general.
People who ought to be weighing out grocery or measuring out drapery.
Macaulay.
3. A textile fabric used for decorative purposes, especially when hung loosely and in folds carefully disturbed; as: (a) Garments or vestments of this character worn upon the body, or shown in the representations of the human figure in art. (b) Hangings of a room or hall, or about a bed.
Like one that wraps the drapery of his couch
About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams.
Bryant.
All the decent drapery of life is to be rudely torn off.
Burke.
Casting of draperies. See under Casting.
The casting of draperies . . . is one of the most important of an artist's studies.
Fairholt.
Dra"pet (?), n. [Dim. of drap.] Cloth. [Obs.] Spenser.
Dras"tic (?), a. [Gr. &?;, fr. &?; to do, act: cf. F. drastique. See Drama.] (Med.) Acting rapidly and violently; efficacious; powerful; -- opposed to bland; as, drastic purgatives. -- n. (Med.) A violent purgative. See Cathartic.
Dras"ty (?), a. [AS. dærstan, dresten, dregs.] Filthy; worthless. [Obs.] "Drasty ryming." Chaucer.
Draugh (?), n. See Draft. [Obs.]
Draught (?), n. [The same as draft, the spelling with gh indicating an older pronunciation. See Draft, n., Draw.] 1. The act of drawing or pulling; as: (a) The act of moving loads by drawing, as by beasts of burden, and the like.
A general custom of using oxen for all sort of draught would be, perhaps, the greatest improvement.
Sir W. Temple.
(b) The drawing of a bowstring. [Obs.]
She sent an arrow forth with mighty draught.
Spenser.
(c) Act of drawing a net; a sweeping the water for fish.
Upon the draught of a pond, not one fish was left.
Sir M. Hale.
(d) The act of drawing liquor into the mouth and throat; the act of drinking.
In his hands he took the goblet, but a while the draught forbore.
Trench.
(e) A sudden attack or drawing upon an enemy. [Obs.]
By drawing sudden draughts upon the enemy when he looketh not for you.
Spenser.
(f) (Mil.) The act of selecting or detaching soldiers; a draft (see Draft, n., 2) (g) The act of drawing up, marking out, or delineating; representation. Dryden.
2. That which is drawn; as: (a) That which is taken by sweeping with a net.
Launch out into the deep, and let down your nets for a draught.
Luke v. 4.
He laid down his pipe, and cast his net, which brought him a very great draught.
L'Estrange.
(b) (Mil.) The force drawn; a detachment; -- in this sense usually written draft. (c) The quantity drawn in at once in drinking; a potion or potation.
Disguise thyself as thou wilt, still, Slavery, . . . still thou art a bitter draught.
Sterne.
Low lies that house where nut-brown draughts inspired.
Goldsmith.
(d) A sketch, outline, or representation, whether written, designed, or drawn; a delineation.
A draught of a Toleration Act was offered to the Parliament by a private member.
Macaulay.
No picture or draught of these things from the report of the eye.
South.
(e) (Com.) An order for the payment of money; -- in this sense almost always written draft. (f) A current of air moving through an inclosed place, as through a room or up a chimney. Thackeray.
He preferred to go and sit upon the stairs, in . . . a strong draught of air, until he was again sent for.
Dickens.
3. That which draws; as: (a) A team of oxen or horses. Blackstone. (b) A sink or drain; a privy. Shak. Matt. xv. 17. (c) pl. (Med.) A mild vesicatory; a sinapism; as, to apply draughts to the feet.
4. Capacity of being drawn; force necessary to draw; traction.
The Hertfordshire wheel plow . . . is of the easiest draught.
Mortimer.
5. (Naut.) 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.
6. (Com.) An allowance on weighable goods. [Eng.] See Draft, 4.
7. A move, as at chess or checkers. [Obs.] Chaucer.
8. The bevel given to the pattern for a casting, in order that it may be drawn from the sand without injury to the mold.
9. (Masonry) See Draft, n., 7.
Angle of draught, the angle made with the plane over which a body is drawn by the line in which the pulling force acts, when the latter has the direction best adapted to overcome the obstacles of friction and the weight of the body. - - Black draught. See under Black, a. -- Blast draught, or Forced draught, the draught produced by a blower, as by blowing in air beneath a fire or drawing out the gases from above it. -- Natural draught, the draught produced by the atmosphere flowing, by its own weight, into a chimney wherein the air is rarefied by heat. -- On draught, so as to be drawn from the wood (as a cask, barrel, etc.) in distinction from being bottled; as, ale on draught. -- Sheer draught. See under Sheer.
Draught, a. 1. Used for drawing vehicles, loads, etc.; as, a draught beast; draught hooks.
2. Relating to, or characterized by, a draft, or current of air.
3. Used in making drawings; as, draught compasses.
4. Drawn directly from the barrel, or other receptacle, in distinction from bottled; on draught; -- said of ale, cider, and the like.
This word, especially in the first and second meanings, is often written draft, a spelling which is approved by many authorities.
Draught box. See Draught tube, below. -- Draught engine (Mining), an engine used for pumping, raising heavy weights, and the like. -- Draught hook (Mil.), one of the hooks on a cannon carriage, used in drawing the gun backward and forward. -- Draught horse, a horse employed in drawing loads, plowing, etc., as distinguished from a saddle horse or carriage horse. -- Draught net, a seine or hauling net. -- Draught ox, an ox employed in hauling loads, plowing, etc. -- Draught tube (Water Wheels), an air- tight pipe extending downward into the tailrace from a turbine wheel located above it, to make the whole fall available; -- called also draught box.
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Draught (drft), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Draughted; p. pr. & vb. n. Draughting.] 1. To draw out; to call forth. See Draft. Addison.
2. To diminish or exhaust by drawing. [R.]
The Parliament so often draughted and drained.
Sir W. Scott.
3. To draw in outline; to make a draught, sketch, or plan of, as in architectural and mechanical drawing.
Draughting room, a room draughtsmen to work in, and where plans are kept.
Draught"board` (-brd`), n. A checkered board on which draughts are played. See Checkerboard.
Draught"house` (-hous`), n. A house for the reception of waste matter; a privy. [Obs.] 2 Kings x. 27.
Draughts (?), n. pl. A mild vesicatory. See Draught, n., 3 (c).
Draughts, n. pl. A game, now more commonly called checkers. See Checkers.
Polish draughts is sometimes played with 40 pieces on a board divided into 100 squares. Am. Cyc.
Draughts"man (?), n.; pl. Draughtsmen (&?;). 1. One who draws pleadings or other writings.
2. One who draws plans and sketches of machinery, structures, and places; also, more generally, one who makes drawings of any kind.
3. A "man" or piece used in the game of draughts.
4. One who drinks drams; a tippler. [Obs.] Tatler.
Draughts"man*ship, n. The office, art, or work of a draughtsman.
Draught"y (?), a. Pertaining to a draught, or current of air; as, a draughtly, comfortless room.
Drave (?), old imp. of Drive. [Obs.]
Dra"vi*da (?), n. pl. [Skr. Drvia, prob. meaning, Tamil.] (Ethnol.) A race of Hindostan, believed to be the original people who occupied the land before the Hindoo or Aryan invasion.
Dra*vid"i*an (?), a. [From Skr. Drvia, the name of the southern portion of the peninsula of India.] (Ethnol.) Of or pertaining to the Dravida.
Dravidian languages, a group of languages of Southern India, which seem to have been the idioms of the natives, before the invasion of tribes speaking Sanskrit. Of these languages, the Tamil is the most important.
Draw (dr), v. t. [imp. Drew (dr); p. p. Drawn (drn); p. pr. & vb. n. Drawing.] [OE. draen, drahen, draien, drawen, AS. dragan; akin to Icel. & Sw. draga, Dan. drage to draw, carry, and prob. to OS. dragan to bear, carry, D. dragen, G. tragen, Goth. dragan; cf. Skr. dhraj to move along, glide; and perh. akin to Skr. dhar to hold, bear. √73. Cf. 2d Drag, Dray a cart, 1st Dredge.] 1. To cause to move continuously by force applied in advance of the thing moved; to pull along; to haul; to drag; to cause to follow.
He cast him down to ground, and all along
Drew him through dirt and mire without remorse.
Spenser.
He hastened to draw the stranger into a private room.
Sir W. Scott.
Do not rich men oppress you, and draw you before the judgment seats?
James ii. 6.
The arrow is now drawn to the head.
Atterbury.
2. To influence to move or tend toward one's self; to exercise an attracting force upon; to call towards itself; to attract; hence, to entice; to allure; to induce.
The poet
Did feign that Orpheus drew trees, stones, and floods.
Shak.
All eyes you draw, and with the eyes the heart.
Dryden.
3. To cause to come out for one's use or benefit; to extract; to educe; to bring forth; as: (a) To bring or take out, or to let out, from some receptacle, as a stick or post from a hole, water from a cask or well, etc.
The drew out the staves of the ark.
2 Chron. v. 9.
Draw thee waters for the siege.
Nahum iii. 14.
I opened the tumor by the point of a lancet without drawing one drop of blood.
Wiseman.
(b) To pull from a sheath, as a sword.
I will draw my sword, my hand shall destroy them.
Ex. xv. 9.
(c) To extract; to force out; to elicit; to derive.
Spirits, by distillations, may be drawn out of vegetable juices, which shall flame and fume of themselves.
Cheyne.
Until you had drawn oaths from him.
Shak.
(d) To obtain from some cause or origin; to infer from evidence or reasons; to deduce from premises; to derive.
We do not draw the moral lessons we might from history.
Burke.
(e) To take or procure from a place of deposit; to call for and receive from a fund, or the like; as, to draw money from a bank. (f) To take from a box or wheel, as a lottery ticket; to receive from a lottery by the drawing out of the numbers for prizes or blanks; hence, to obtain by good fortune; to win; to gain; as, he drew a prize. (g) To select by the drawing of lots.
Provided magistracies were filled by men freely chosen or drawn.
Freeman.
4. To remove the contents of; as: (a) To drain by emptying; to suck dry.
Sucking and drawing the breast dischargeth the milk as fast as it can generated.
Wiseman.
(b) To extract the bowels of; to eviscerate; as, to draw a fowl; to hang, draw, and quarter a criminal.
In private draw your poultry, clean your tripe.
King.
5. To take into the lungs; to inhale; to inspire; hence, also, to utter or produce by an inhalation; to heave. "Where I first drew air." Milton.
Drew, or seemed to draw, a dying groan.
Dryden.
6. To extend in length; to lengthen; to protract; to stretch; to extend, as a mass of metal into wire.
How long her face is drawn!
Shak.
And the huge Offa's dike which he drew from the mouth of Wye to that of Dee.
J. R. Green.
7. To run, extend, or produce, as a line on any surface; hence, also, to form by marking; to make by an instrument of delineation; to produce, as a sketch, figure, or picture.
8. To represent by lines drawn; to form a sketch or a picture of; to represent by a picture; to delineate; hence, to represent by words; to depict; to describe.
A flattering painter who made it his care
To draw men as they ought to be, not as they are.
Goldsmith.
Can I, untouched, the fair one's passions move,
Or thou draw beauty and not feel its power?
Prior.
9. To write in due form; to prepare a draught of; as, to draw a memorial, a deed, or bill of exchange.
Clerk, draw a deed of gift.
Shak.
10. To require (so great a depth, as of water) for floating; -- said of a vessel; to sink so deep in (water); as, a ship draws ten feet of water.
11. To withdraw. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Go wash thy face, and draw the action.
Shak.
12. To trace by scent; to track; -- a hunting term.
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 usually expresses an action as gradual or continuous, and leisurely. We pour liquid quickly, but we draw it in a continued stream. We force compliance by threats, but we draw it by gradual prevalence. We may 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.
To draw a bow, to bend the bow by drawing the string for discharging the arrow. -- To draw a cover, to clear a cover of the game it contains. - - To draw a curtain, to cause a curtain to slide or move, either closing or unclosing. "Night draws the curtain, which the sun withdraws." Herbert. -- To draw a line, to fix a limit or boundary. -- To draw back, to receive back, as duties on goods for exportation. -- To draw breath, to breathe. Shak. -- To draw cuts or lots. See under Cut, n. -- To draw in. (a) To bring or pull in; to collect. (b) To entice; to inveigle. -- To draw interest, to produce or gain interest. -- To draw off, to withdraw; to abstract. Addison. -- To draw on, to bring on; to occasion; to cause. "War which either his negligence drew on, or his practices procured." Hayward. -- To draw (one) out, to elicit cunningly the thoughts and feelings of another. -- To draw out, to stretch or extend; to protract; to spread out. -- "Wilt thou draw out thine anger to all generations?" Ps. lxxxv. 5. "Linked sweetness long drawn out." Milton. -- To draw over, to cause to come over, to induce to leave one part or side for the opposite one. -- To draw the longbow, to exaggerate; to tell preposterous tales. -- To draw (one) to or on to (something), to move, to incite, to induce. "How many actions most ridiculous hast thou been drawn to by thy fantasy?" Shak. -- To draw up. (a) To compose in due form; to draught; to form in writing. (b) To arrange in order, as a body of troops; to array. "Drawn up in battle to receive the charge." Dryden.
Syn. -- To Draw, Drag. Draw differs from drag in this, that drag implies a natural inaptitude for drawing, or positive resistance; it is applied to things pulled or hauled along the ground, or moved with toil or difficulty. Draw is applied to all bodies moved by force in advance, whatever may be the degree of force; it commonly implies that some kind of aptitude or provision exists for drawing. Draw is the more general or generic term, and drag the 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.
Draw (?), v. i. 1. To pull; to exert strength in drawing anything; to have force to move anything by pulling; as, a horse draws well; the sails of a ship draw well.
A sail is said to draw when it is filled with wind.
2. To draw a liquid from some receptacle, as water from a well.
The woman saith unto him, Sir, thou hast nothing to draw with, and the well is deep.
John iv. 11.
3. To exert an attractive force; to act as an inducement or enticement.
Keep a watch upon the particular bias of their minds, that it may not draw too much.
Addison.
4. (Med.) To have efficiency as an epispastic; to act as a sinapism; -- said of a blister, poultice, etc.
5. To have draught, as a chimney, flue, or the like; to furnish transmission to smoke, gases, etc.
6. To unsheathe a weapon, especially a sword.
So soon as ever thou seest him, draw; and as thou drawest, swear horrible.
Shak.
7. To perform the act, or practice the art, of delineation; to sketch; to form figures or pictures. "Skill in drawing." Locke.
8. To become contracted; to shrink. "To draw into less room." Bacon.
9. To move; to come or go; literally, to draw one's self; -- with prepositions and adverbs; as, to draw away, to move off, esp. in racing, to get in front; to obtain the lead or increase it; to draw back, to retreat; to draw level, to move up even (with another); to come up to or overtake another; to draw off, to retire or retreat; to draw on, to advance; to draw up, to form in array; to draw near, nigh, or towards, to approach; to draw together, to come together, to collect.
10. To make a draft or written demand for payment of money deposited or due; -- usually with on or upon.
You may draw on me for the expenses of your journey.
Jay.
11. To admit the action of pulling or dragging; to undergo draught; as, a carriage draws easily.
12. To sink in water; to require a depth for floating. "Greater hulks draw deep." Shak.
To draw to a head. (a) (Med.) To begin to suppurate; to ripen, as a boil. (b) Fig.: To ripen, to approach the time for action; as, the plot draws to a head.
Draw, n. 1. The act of drawing; draught.
2. A lot or chance to be drawn.
3. A drawn game or battle, etc. [Colloq.]
4. That part of a bridge which may be raised, swung round, or drawn aside; the movable part of a drawbridge. See the Note under Drawbridge. [U.S.]
Draw"a*ble (?), a. Capable of being drawn.
Draw"back` (?), n. 1. A loss of advantage, or deduction from profit, value, success, etc.; a discouragement or hindrance; objectionable feature.
The avarice of Henry VII . . . . must be deemed a drawback from the wisdom ascribed to him.
Hallam.
2. (Com.) Money paid back or remitted; especially, a certain amount of duties or customs, sometimes the whole, and sometimes only a part, remitted or paid back by the government, on the exportation of the commodities on which they were levied. M‘Culloch.
Draw"bar` (?), n. (Railroad) (a) An openmouthed bar at the end of a car, which receives a coupling link and pin by which the car is drawn. It is usually provided with a spring to give elasticity to the connection between the cars of a train. (b) A bar of iron with an eye at each end, or a heavy link, for coupling a locomotive to a tender or car.
Draw"bench` (?), n. (Med.) A machine in which strips of metal are drawn through a drawplate; especially, one in which wire is thus made; -- also called drawing bench.
Draw"bolt` (?), n. (Engin.) A coupling pin. See under Coupling.
Draw"bore` (?), n. (Joinery) A hole bored through a tenon nearer to the shoulder than the holes through the cheeks are to the edge or abutment against which the shoulder is to rest, so that a pin or bolt, when driven into it, will draw these parts together. Weale.
Draw"bore`, v. t. 1. To make a drawbore in; as, to drawbore a tenon.
2. To enlarge the bore of a gun barrel by drawing, instead of thrusting, a revolving tool through it.
Draw"boy` (?), n. (Weaving) A boy who operates the harness cords of a hand loom; also, a part of power loom that performs the same office.
Draw"bridge` (?), n. A bridge of which either the whole or a part is made to be raised up, let down, or drawn or turned aside, to admit or hinder communication at pleasure, as before the gate of a town or castle, or over a navigable river or canal.
The movable portion, or draw, is called, specifically, a bascule, balance, or lifting bridge, a turning, swivel, or swing bridge, or a rolling bridge, according as it turns on a hinge vertically, or on a pivot horizontally, or is pushed on rollers.
Draw"can*sir (?), n. [From the name of a bullying braggart character in the play by George Villiers called "The Rehearsal."] A blustering, bullying fellow; a pot-valiant braggart; a bully.
The leader was of an ugly look and gigantic stature; he acted like a drawcansir, sparing neither friend nor foe.
Addison.
Draw"-cut` (?), n. A single cut with a knife.
Draw*ee" (?), n. (Law) The person on whom an order or bill of exchange is drawn; -- the correlative of drawer.
Draw"er (?), n. 1. One who, or that which, draws; as: (a) One who draws liquor for guests; a waiter in a taproom. Shak. (b) One who delineates or depicts; a draughtsman; as, a good drawer. (c) (Law) One who draws a bill of exchange or order for payment; -- the correlative of drawee.
2. That which is drawn; as: (a) A sliding box or receptacle in a case, which is opened by pulling or drawing out, and closed by pushing in. (b) pl. An under-garment worn on the lower limbs.
Chest of drawers. See under Chest.
Draw"fil`ing (?), n. The process of smooth filing by working the file sidewise instead of lengthwise.
Draw"gear` (?), n. 1. A harness for draught horses.
2. (Railroad) The means or parts by which cars are connected to be drawn.
Draw"gloves` (?), n. pl. An old game, played by holding up the fingers. Herrick.
Draw"head` (?), n. (Railroad) The flanged outer end of a drawbar; also, a name applied to the drawgear.
Draw"ing, n. 1. The act of pulling, or attracting.
2. The act or the art of representing any object by means of lines and shades; especially, such a representation when in one color, or in tints used not to represent the colors of natural objects, but for effect only, and produced with hard material such as pencil, chalk, etc.; delineation; also, the figure or representation drawn.
3. The process of stretching or spreading metals as by hammering, or, as in forming wire from rods or tubes and cups from sheet metal, by pulling them through dies.
4. (Textile Manuf.) The process of pulling out and elongating the sliver from the carding machine, by revolving rollers, to prepare it for spinning.
5. The distribution of prizes and blanks in a lottery.
Drawing is used adjectively or as the first part of compounds in the sense of pertaining to drawing, for drawing (in the sense of pulling, and of pictorial representation); as, drawing master or drawing-master, drawing knife or drawing-knife, drawing machine, drawing board, drawing paper, drawing pen, drawing pencil, etc.
A drawing of tea, a small portion of tea for steeping. -- Drawing knife. See in the Vocabulary. -- Drawing paper (Fine Arts), a thick, sized paper for draughtsman and for water- color painting. -- Drawing slate, a soft, slaty substance used in crayon drawing; -- called also black chalk, or drawing chalk. -- Free-hand drawing, a style of drawing made without the use of guiding or measuring instruments, as distinguished from mechanical or geometrical drawing; also, a drawing thus executed.
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{ Draw"ing knife" (?), Draw"knife` (?) }, n. 1. A joiner's tool having a blade with a handle at each end, used to shave off surfaces, by drawing it toward one; a shave; -- called also drawshave, and drawing shave.
2. (Carp.) A tool used for the purpose of making an incision along the path a saw is to follow, to prevent it from tearing the surface of the wood.
Draw"ing-room` (?), n. [Abbrev. fr. withdraw-ing-room.] 1. A room appropriated for the reception of company; a room to which company withdraws from the dining room.
2. The company assembled in such a room; also, a reception of company in it; as, to hold a drawing- room.
He [Johnson] would amaze a drawing-room by suddenly ejaculating a clause of the Lord's Prayer.
Macaulay.
Drawing-room car. See Palace car, under Car.
Drawl (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Drawled (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Drawling.] [Prob. fr. draw: cf. D. dralen to linger, tarry, Icel. dralla to loiter. See Draw, and cf. Draggle.] To utter in a slow, lengthened tone.
Drawl, v. i. To speak with slow and lingering utterance, from laziness, lack of spirit, affectation, etc.
Theologians and moralists . . . talk mostly in a drawling and dreaming way about it.
Landor.
Drawl, n. A lengthened, slow monotonous utterance.
Draw"latch` (?), n. A housebreaker or thief. [Obs.] Old Play (1631).
Drawl"ing (?), n. The act of speaking with a drawl; a drawl. -- Drawl"ing*ly, adv. Bacon.
Draw"link` (?), n. Same as Drawbar (b).
Draw"loom` (?), n. 1. A kind of loom used in weaving figured patterns; -- called also drawboy.
2. A species of damask made on the drawloom.
Drawn (?), p. p. & a. See Draw, v. t. & i.
Drawn butter, butter melter and prepared to be used as a sort of gravy. -- Drawn fowl, an eviscerated fowl. -- Drawn game or battle, one in which neither party wins; one equally contested. -- Drawn fox, one driven from cover. Shak. -- Drawn work, ornamental work made by drawing out threads from fine cloth, and uniting the cross threads, to form a pattern.
Draw"net` (?), n. A net for catching the larger sorts of birds; also, a dragnet. Crabb.
Draw"plate` (?), n. A hardened steel plate having a hole, or a gradation of conical holes, through which wires are drawn to be reduced and elongated.
Draw"rod` (?), n. (Railroad) A rod which unites the drawgear at opposite ends of the car, and bears the pull required to draw the train.
Draw"shave` (?), n. See Drawing knife.
Draw"spring` (?), n. (Railroad) The spring to which a drawbar is attached.
Dray (?), n. A squirrel's nest. Cowper.
Dray, n. [AS. dræge a dragnet, fr. dragan. &?;&?;&?;&?;. See Draw, and cf. 2d Drag, 1st Dredge.] 1. A strong low cart or carriage used for heavy burdens. Addison.
2. A kind of sledge or sled. Halliwell.
Dray cart, a dray. -- Dray horse, a heavy, strong horse used in drawing a dray.
Dray"age (?), n. 1. Use of a dray.
2. The charge, or sum paid, for the use of a dray.
Dray"man (?), n.; pl. Draymen (&?;). A man who attends a dray.
Draz"el (?), n. [Cf. Dross, Drossel.] A slut; a vagabond wench. Same as Drossel. [Obs.] Hudibras.
Dread (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Dreaded; p. pr. & vb. n. Dreading.] [AS. dr&?;dan, in comp.; akin to OS. drdan, OHG. trtan, both only in comp.] To fear in a great degree; to regard, or look forward to, with terrific apprehension.
When at length the moment dreaded through so many years came close, the dark cloud passed away from Johnson's mind.
Macaulay.
Dread, v. i. To be in dread, or great fear.
Dread not, neither be afraid of them.
Deut. i. 29.
Dread, n. 1. Great fear in view of impending evil; fearful apprehension of danger; anticipatory terror.
The secret dread of divine displeasure.
Tillotson.
The dread of something after death.
Shak.
2. Reverential or respectful fear; awe.
The fear of you, and the dread of you, shall be upon every beast of the earth.
Gen. ix. 2.
His scepter shows the force of temporal power,
The attribute to awe and majesty,
Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings.
Shak.
3. An object of terrified apprehension.
4. A person highly revered. [Obs.] "Una, his dear dread." Spenser.
5. Fury; dreadfulness. [Obs.] Spenser.
6. Doubt; as, out of dread. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Syn. -- Awe; fear; affright; terror; horror; dismay; apprehension. See Reverence.
Dread, a. 1. Exciting great fear or apprehension; causing terror; frightful; dreadful.
A dread eternity! how surely mine.
Young.
2. Inspiring with reverential fear; awful' venerable; as, dread sovereign; dread majesty; dread tribunal.
Dread"a*ble (?), a. Worthy of being dreaded.
Dread"-bolt`ed (?), a. Armed with dreaded bolts. "Dread-bolted thunder." [Poetic] Shak.
Dread"er (?), n. One who fears, or lives in fear.
Dread"ful (?), a. 1. Full of dread or terror; fearful. [Obs.] "With dreadful heart." Chaucer.
2. Inspiring dread; impressing great fear; fearful; terrible; as, a dreadful storm. " Dreadful gloom." Milton.
For all things are less dreadful than they seem.
Wordsworth.
3. Inspiring awe or reverence; awful. [Obs.] "God's dreadful law." Shak.
Syn. -- Fearful; frightful; terrific; terrible; horrible; horrid; formidable; tremendous; awful; venerable. See Frightful.
Dread"ful*ly (?), adv. In a dreadful manner; terribly. Dryden.
Dread"ful*ness, n. The quality of being dreadful.
Dread"ing*ly, adv. With dread. Warner.
Dread"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.
Dread"less, adv. Without doubt. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Dread"less*ness, n. Freedom from dread.
Dread"ly, a. Dreadful. [Obs.] "Dreadly spectacle." Spenser. -- adv. With dread. [Obs.] "Dreadly to shake." Sylvester (Du Bartas).
Dread"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.
Dream (drm), n. [Akin to OS. drm, 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. drm joy are, perh., different words; cf. Gr. qry^los noise.] 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.
Dream, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Dreamed (drmd) or Dreamt (drmt); p. pr. & vb. n. Dreaming.] [Cf. AS. drman, drman, 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.
Dream, v. t. 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.
Dream"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.
Dream"ful (?), a. Full of dreams. " Dreamful ease." Tennyson. -- Dream"ful*ly, adv.
Dream"i*ly (?), adv. As if in a dream; softly; slowly; languidly. Longfellow.
Dream"i*ness, n. The state of being dreamy.
Dream"ing*ly, adv. In a dreamy manner.
Dream"land` (?), n. 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.
Dream"less, a. Free from, or without, dreams. Camden. -- Dream"less*ly, adv.
Dream"y (?), a. [Compar. Dreamier (?); superl. Dreamiest (?).] Abounding in dreams or given to dreaming; appropriate to, or like, dreams; visionary. "The dreamy dells." Tennyson.
Drear (drr), a. [See Dreary.] Dismal; gloomy with solitude. "A drear and dying sound." Milton.
Drear, n. Sadness; dismalness. [Obs.] Spenser.
{ Drear"i*head (-*hd), Drear"i*hood (-*hd), } n. Affliction; dreariness. [Obs.] Spenser.
Drear"i*ly, adv. Gloomily; dismally.
Drear"i*ment (?), n. Dreariness. [Obs.] Spenser.
Drear"i*ness, n. 1. Sorrow; wretchedness. [Obs.]
2. Dismalness; gloomy solitude.
Drear"ing, n. Sorrow. [Obs.] Spenser.
Drear"i*some (-sm), a. Very dreary. Halliwell.
Drear"y (drr"), a. [Compar. Drearier (?); superl. Dreariest.] [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.
Drec"che (?), v. t. [AS. dreccan, dreccean.] 1. To vex; to torment; to trouble. [Obs.]
As man that in his dream is drecched sore.
Chaucer.
Drec"che, v. i. To delay. [Obs.] Gower.
Dredge (drj), n. [F. drège, dreige, fish net, from a word akin to E. draw; cf. D. dreg, dregge, small anchor, dregnet dragnet. √73. See 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) Very fine mineral matter held in suspension in water. Raymond.
Dredge (drj), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Dredged (drjd); p. pr. & vb. n. Dredging.] 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, n. [OE. dragge, F. dragée, dredge, also, sugar plum; cf. Prov. dragea, It. treggea; corrupted fr. LL. tragemata, pl., sweetmeats, Gr. &?;, fr. &?; to gnaw.] A mixture of oats and barley. [Obs.] Kersey.
Dredge, v. t. 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.
Dredg"er (?), n. 1. One who fishes with a dredge.
2. A dredging machine.
Dredg"er, n. (Cookery) 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.
Dree (?), v. t. [AS. dreógan to bear, endure, complete.] To endure; to suffer. [Scot.]
Dree, v. i. To be able to do or endure. [Obs.]
Dree, a. Wearisome; tedious. [Prov. Eng.]
Dreg (?), n. [Prob. from Icel. dregg; akin to Sw. drägg, cf. Icel. & Sw. draga to draw. Cf. Draw.] 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.
Used formerly (rarely) in the singular, as by Spenser and Shakespeare, but now chiefly in the plural.
Dreg"gi*ness (?), n. Fullness of dregs or lees; foulness; feculence.
Dreg"gish (?), a. Foul with lees; feculent. Harvey.
Dreg"gy (?), a. Containing dregs or lees; muddy; foul; feculent. Boyle.
Drein (?), v. i. To drain. [Obs.] Congreve.
Drein"te (?), imp., Dreint (&?;), p. p. of Drench to drown. [Obs.] Chaucer.
||Dreis"se*na (?), n. [NL. Named after Dreyssen, a Belgian physician.] (Zoöl.) 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.
Drench (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Drenched (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Drenching.] [AS. drencan to give to drink, to drench, the causal of drincan to 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.
Drench, n. [AS. drenc. See Drench, v. t.] A drink; a draught; specifically, a potion of medicine poured or forced down the throat; also, a potion that causes purging. "A drench of wine." Dryden.
Give my roan horse a drench.
Shak.
Drench, n. [AS. dreng warrior, soldier, akin to Icel. drengr.] (O. Eng. Law) A military vassal mentioned in Domesday Book. [Obs.] Burrill.
Drench"e (?), v. t. & i. To drown. [Obs.]
In the sea he drenched.
Chaucer.
Drench"er (?), n. 1. One who, or that which, west or steeps.
2. One who administers a drench.
Dren"gage (?), n. (O. Eng. Law) The tenure by which a drench held land. [Obs.] Burrill.
Drent (?), p. p. [See Dreinte.] Drenched; drowned. [Obs.] "Condemned to be drent." Spenser.
Dres"den ware` (?). A superior kind of decorated porcelain made near Dresden in Saxony.
Dress (drs), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Dressed (drst) or Drest; p. pr. & vb. n. Dressing.] [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.
Dress is used reflexively in Old English, in sense of "to direct one's step; to address one's self."
To Grisild again will I me dresse.
Chaucer.
2. (Mil.) 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.) 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.
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And the Lord God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress 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 censures in 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.
Dress, v. i. 1. (Mil.) 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.
Dress, 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) 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" coat` (?). 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.
Dress"er (?), n. 1. One who dresses; one who put in order or makes ready for use; one who on clothes or ornaments.
2. (Mining) A kind of pick for shaping large coal.
3. An assistant in a hospital, whose office it is to dress wounds, sores, etc.
4. [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" goods" (?). 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.
Dress"i*ness (?), n. The state of being dressy.
Dress"ing, n. 1. Dress; raiment; especially, ornamental habiliment or attire. B. Jonson.
2. (Surg.) 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.