Dropwise (adv.) After the manner of a drop; in the form of drops.
Dropworm (n.) The larva of any geometrid moth, which drops from trees by means of a thread of silk, as the cankerworm.
Dropwort (n.) An Old World species of Spiraea (S. filipendula), with finely cut leaves.
Drosera (n.) A genus of low perennial or biennial plants, the leaves of which are beset with gland-tipped bristles. See Sundew.
Droskies (pl. ) of Drosky
Drosky (n.) A low, four-wheeled, open carriage, used in Russia, consisting of a kind of long, narrow bench, on which the passengers ride as on a saddle, with their feet reaching nearly to the ground. Other kinds of vehicles are now so called, esp. a kind of victoria drawn by one or two horses, and used as a public carriage in German cities.
Drosometer (n.) An instrument for measuring the quantity of dew on the surface of a body in the open air. It consists of a balance, having a plate at one end to receive the dew, and at the other a weight protected from the deposit of dew.
Dross (n.) The scum or refuse matter which is thrown off, or falls from, metals in smelting the ore, or in the process of melting; recrement.
Dross (n.) Rust of metals.
Dross (n.) Waste matter; any worthless matter separated from the better part; leavings; dregs; refuse.
Drossel (n.) A slut; a hussy; a drazel.
Drossless (a.) Free from dross.
Drossy (superl.) Of, pertaining to, resembling, dross; full of dross; impure; worthless.
Drotchel (n.) See Drossel.
Drough (imp.) of Draw.
Drought (n.) Dryness; want of rain or of water; especially, such dryness of the weather as affects the earth, and prevents the growth of plants; aridity.
Drought (n.) Thirst; want of drink.
Drought (n.) Scarcity; lack.
Droughtiness (n.) A state of dryness of the weather; want of rain.
Droughty (a.) Characterized by drought; wanting rain; arid; adust.
Droughty (a.) Dry; thirsty; wanting drink.
Droumy (a.) Troubled; muddy.
Drouth (n.) Same as Drought.
Drouthy (a.) Droughty.
Drove (imp.) of Drive.
Drove (n.) A collection of cattle driven, or cattle collected for driving; a number of animals, as oxen, sheep, or swine, driven in a body.
Drove (n.) Any collection of irrational animals, moving or driving forward; as, a finny drove.
Drove (n.) A crowd of people in motion.
Drove (n.) A road for driving cattle; a driftway.
Drove (n.) A narrow drain or channel used in the irrigation of land.
Drove (n.) A broad chisel used to bring stone to a nearly smooth surface; -- called also drove chisel.
Drove (n.) The grooved surface of stone finished by the drove chisel; -- called also drove work.
Droven (p. p.) of Drive.
Drover (n.) One who drives cattle or sheep to market; one who makes it his business to purchase cattle, and drive them to market.
Drover (n.) A boat driven by the tide.
Drovy (a.) Turbid; muddy; filthy.
Drow (imp.) of Draw.
Drowned (imp. & p. p.) of Drown
Drowning (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Drown
Drown (v. i.) To be suffocated in water or other fluid; to perish in water.
Drown (v. t.) To overwhelm in water; to submerge; to inundate.
Drown (v. t.) To deprive of life by immersion in water or other liquid.
Drown (v. t.) To overpower; to overcome; to extinguish; -- said especially of sound.
Drownage (n.) The act of drowning.
Drowner (n.) One who, or that which, drowns.
Drowsed (imp. & p. p.) of Drowse
Drowsing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Drowse
Drowse (v. i.) To sleep imperfectly or unsoundly; to slumber; to be heavy with sleepiness; to doze.
Drowse (v. t.) To make heavy with sleepiness or imperfect sleep; to make dull or stupid.
Drowse (n.) A slight or imperfect sleep; a doze.
Drowsihead (n.) Drowsiness.
Drowsihed (n.) Drowsihead.
Drowsily (adv.) In a drowsy manner.
Drowsiness (n.) State of being drowsy.
Drowsy (superl.) Inclined to drowse; heavy with sleepiness; lethargic; dozy.
Drowsy (superl.) Disposing to sleep; lulling; soporific.
Drowsy (superl.) Dull; stupid.
Drowth (n.) See Drought.
Droyle (v. i.) See Droil.
Drubbed (imp. & p. p.) of Drub
Drubbing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Drub
Drub (v. t.) To beat with a stick; to thrash; to cudgel.
Drub (n.) A blow with a cudgel; a thump.
Drubber (n.) One who drubs.
Drudged (imp. & p. p.) of Drudge
Drudging (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Drudge
Drudge (v. i.) To perform menial work; to labor in mean or unpleasant offices with toil and fatigue.
Drudge (v. t.) To consume laboriously; -- with away.
Drudge (n.) One who drudges; one who works hard in servile employment; a mental servant.
Drudger (n.) One who drudges; a drudge.
Drudger (n.) A dredging box.
Drudgery (n.) The act of drudging; disagreeable and wearisome labor; ignoble or slavish toil.
Drudging box () See Dredging box.
Drudgingly (adv.) In a drudging manner; laboriously.
Druery (n.) Courtship; gallantry; love; an object of love.
Drug (v. i.) To drudge; to toil laboriously.
Drug (n.) A drudge (?).
Drug (n.) Any animal, vegetable, or mineral substance used in the composition of medicines; any stuff used in dyeing or in chemical operations.
Drug (n.) Any commodity that lies on hand, or is not salable; an article of slow sale, or in no demand.
Drugged (imp. & p. p.) of Drug
Drugging (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Drug
Drug (v. i.) To prescribe or administer drugs or medicines.
Drug (v. t.) To affect or season with drugs or ingredients; esp., to stupefy by a narcotic drug. Also Fig.
Drug (v. t.) To tincture with something offensive or injurious.
Drug (v. t.) To dose to excess with, or as with, drugs.
Drugger (n.) A druggist.
Drugget (n.) A coarse woolen cloth dyed of one color or printed on one side; generally used as a covering for carpets.
Drugget (n.) By extension, any material used for the same purpose.
Druggist (n.) One who deals in drugs; especially, one who buys and sells drugs without compounding them; also, a pharmaceutist or apothecary.
Drugster (n.) A druggist.
Druid (n.) One of an order of priests which in ancient times existed among certain branches of the Celtic race, especially among the Gauls and Britons.
Druid (n.) A member of a social and benevolent order, founded in London in 1781, and professedly based on the traditions of the ancient Druids. Lodges or groves of the society are established in other countries.
Druidess (n.) A female Druid; a prophetess.
Druidic (a.) Alt. of Druidical
Druidical (a.) Pertaining to, or resembling, the Druids.
Druidish (a.) Druidic.
Druidism (n.) The system of religion, philosophy, and instruction, received and taught by the Druids; the rites and ceremonies of the Druids.
Drum (n.) An instrument of percussion, consisting either of a hollow cylinder, over each end of which is stretched a piece of skin or vellum, to be beaten with a stick; or of a metallic hemisphere (kettledrum) with a single piece of skin to be so beaten; the common instrument for marking time in martial music; one of the pair of tympani in an orchestra, or cavalry band.
Drum (n.) Anything resembling a drum in form
Drum (n.) A sheet iron radiator, often in the shape of a drum, for warming an apartment by means of heat received from a stovepipe, or a cylindrical receiver for steam, etc.