Drink (v. t.) To swallow (a liquid); to receive, as a fluid, into the stomach; to imbibe; as, to drink milk or water.
Drink (v. t.) To take in (a liquid), in any manner; to suck up; to absorb; to imbibe.
Drink (v. t.) To take in; to receive within one, through the senses; to inhale; to hear; to see.
Drink (v. t.) To smoke, as tobacco.
Drink (n.) Liquid to be swallowed; any fluid to be taken into the stomach for quenching thirst or for other purposes, as water, coffee, or decoctions.
Drink (n.) Specifically, intoxicating liquor; as, when drink is on, wit is out.
Drinkable (a.) Capable of being drunk; suitable for drink; potable. Macaulay. Also used substantively, esp. in the plural.
Drinkableness (n.) State of being drinkable.
Drinker (n.) One who drinks; as, the effects of tea on the drinker; also, one who drinks spirituous liquors to excess; a drunkard.
Drinking (n.) The act of one who drinks; the act of imbibing.
Drinking (n.) The practice of partaking to excess of intoxicating liquors.
Drinking (n.) An entertainment with liquors; a carousal.
Drinkless (a.) Destitute of drink.
Dripped (imp. & p. p.) of Drip
Dript () of Drip
Dripping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Drip
Drip (v. i.) To fall in drops; as, water drips from the eaves.
Drip (v. i.) To let fall drops of moisture or liquid; as, a wet garment drips.
Drip (v. t.) To let fall in drops.
Drip (n.) A falling or letting fall in drops; a dripping; that which drips, or falls in drops.
Drip (n.) 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.
Dripping (n.) A falling in drops, or the sound so made.
Dripping (n.) That which falls in drops, as fat from meat in roasting.
Dripple (a.) Weak or rare.
Dripstone (n.) A drip, when made of stone. See Drip, 2.
Drove (imp.) of Drive
Drave () of Drive
Driven (p. p.) of Drive
Driving (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Drive
Drive (v. t.) 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.
Drive (v. t.) 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.
Drive (v. t.) To urge, impel, or hurry forward; to force; to constrain; to urge, press, or bring to a point or state; as, to drive a person by necessity, by persuasion, by force of circumstances, by argument, and the like.
Drive (v. t.) To carry or; to keep in motion; to conduct; to prosecute.
Drive (v. t.) To clear, by forcing away what is contained.
Drive (v. t.) To dig Horizontally; to cut a horizontal gallery or tunnel.
Drive (v. t.) To pass away; -- said of time.
Drive (v. i.) To rush and press with violence; to move furiously.
Drive (v. i.) To be forced along; to be impelled; to be moved by any physical force or agent; to be driven.
Drive (v. i.) 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.
Drive (v. i.) To press forward; to aim, or tend, to a point; to make an effort; to strive; -- usually with at.
Drive (v. i.) To distrain for rent.
Drive (p. p.) Driven.
Drive (n.) The act of driving; a trip or an excursion in a carriage, as for exercise or pleasure; -- distinguished from a ride taken on horseback.
Drive (n.) A place suitable or agreeable for driving; a road prepared for driving.
Drive (n.) Violent or rapid motion; a rushing onward or away; esp., a forced or hurried dispatch of business.
Drive (n.) In type founding and forging, an impression or matrix, formed by a punch drift.
Drive (n.) A collection of objects that are driven; a mass of logs to be floated down a river.
Drivebolt (n.) A drift; a tool for setting bolts home.
Driveled (imp. & p. p.) of Drivel
Drivelled () of Drivel
Driveling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Drivel
Drivelling () of Drivel
Drivel (v. i.) To slaver; to let spittle drop or flow from the mouth, like a child, idiot, or dotard.
Drivel (v. i.) To be weak or foolish; to dote; as, a driveling hero; driveling love.
Drivel (n.) Slaver; saliva flowing from the mouth.
Drivel (n.) Inarticulate or unmeaning utterance; foolish talk; babble.
Drivel (n.) A driveler; a fool; an idiot.
Drivel (n.) A servant; a drudge.
Driveler (n.) A slaverer; a slabberer; an idiot; a fool.
Driven (p. p.) of Drive. Also adj.
Drivepipe (n.) A pipe for forcing into the earth.
Driver (n.) One who, or that which, drives; the person or thing that urges or compels anything else to move onward.
Driver (n.) The person who drives beasts or a carriage; a coachman; a charioteer, etc.; hence, also, one who controls the movements of a locomotive.
Driver (n.) An overseer of a gang of slaves or gang of convicts at their work.
Driver (n.) 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:
Driver (n.) The driving wheel of a locomotive.
Driver (n.) An attachment to a lathe, spindle, or face plate to turn a carrier.
Driver (n.) A crossbar on a grinding mill spindle to drive the upper stone.
Driver (n.) The after sail in a ship or bark, being a fore-and-aft sail attached to a gaff; a spanker.
Driveway (n.) A passage or way along or through which a carriage may be driven.
Driving (a.) Having great force of impulse; as, a driving wind or storm.
Driving (a.) Communicating force; impelling; as, a driving shaft.
Driving (n.) The act of forcing or urging something along; the act of pressing or moving on furiously.
Driving (n.) Tendency; drift.
Drizzled (imp. & p. p.) of Drizzle
Drizzling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Drizzle
Drizzle (v. i.) 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.
Drizzle (v. t.) To shed slowly in minute drops or particles.
Drizzle (n.) Fine rain or mist.
Drizzly (a.) Characterized by small rain, or snow; moist and disagreeable.
Drock (n.) A water course.
Drofland (n.) Alt. of Dryfland
Dryfland (n.) 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.
Drogher (n.) 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.
Drogman (n.) Alt. of Drogoman
Drogoman (n.) See Dragoman.
Drogue (n.) See Drag, n., 6, and Drag sail, under Drag, n.
Droh (imp.) of Draw.
Droil (v. i.) To work sluggishly or slowly; to plod.
Droil (n.) A drudge.
Droil (n.) Mean labor; toil.
Droit (n.) A right; law in its aspect of the foundation of rights; also, in old law, the writ of right.
Droitural (a.) relating to the mere right of property, as distinguished from the right of possession; as, droitural actions.
Droitzschka (n.) See Drosky.
Droll (superl.) Queer, and fitted to provoke laughter; ludicrous from oddity; amusing and strange.
Droll (n.) One whose practice it is to raise mirth by odd tricks; a jester; a buffoon; a merry-andrew.
Droll (n.) Something exhibited to raise mirth or sport, as a puppet, a farce, and the like.
Drolled (imp. & p. p.) of Droll
Drolling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Droll
Droll (v. i.) To jest; to play the buffoon.