DRACUNCULUS-DRAGGLE.

Dracena draco, or Dragon's-blood-tree.) A genus of plants: Order, Epacridaces. DRACUNCULUS, dra-kungk'u-lus, s. (Latin, a little dragon, Gr. from the stem being spotted like the belly of a serpent.) A genus of plants: Order, Araces. In Zoology, a small worm bred in the muscular parts of the arms and legs; sometimes called Guinea-worm, from its being common among the natives of Guinea.

DRAD, drad, a. Past of Dread.

lete.

Terrible.-Obso

She weakly started, yet she nothing drad.—

Spenser. DRAFF, draf, 8. (draf, droef, Dut.) Refuse; lees; dregs; the wash given to swine, or grains to cows; waste matter.

DRAFFISH, draf'fish, a. Worthless.

DRAFFY, draf'fe, a. Dreggy; waste; worthless. DRAFT, draft, s. (corrupted from draught.) A drawing,-in this sense draught is perhaps most common; a drawing of men from a military band; a selecting or detaching of soldiers from an army, or any part of it, or from a military post; an order from one man to another directing the payment of money; a bill of exchange; a drawing of lines for a plan; a figure described on paper; delineation; sketch; plan delineated; depth of water necessary to float a ship; a writing composed;-(see Draught;)-v. a. to draw the outline; to delineate; to compose and write; to draw men from a military band or post; to select; to detach; to draw men from any company, collection, or society. DRAFTHORSE.-See Draughthorse. DRAFTOX.-See Draughtox. DRAFTS-See Draughts.

DRAG, drag, v. a. (dragan, Sax.) To pull; to haul; to draw along the ground by main force, applied particularly to drawing heavy things with labour along the ground or other surface; to break land by drawing a drag or harrow over it; to draw along slowly or heavily; to draw anything burdensome; to draw along in contempt, as unworthy to be carried; to pull or haul about roughly and forcibly. Among Seamen, to drag an anchor is to draw or trail it along the bottom when loosened, or when the anchor will not hold the ship;-v. n. to hang so low as to trail on the ground; to fish with a drag; to be drawn along; to be moved slowly; to proceed heavily; to hang or grate on the floor, as a door;-s. something to be drawn along the ground, as a net or a hook; a particular kind of harrow; a car; a low cart; whatever is drawn: a boat in tow; whatever serves to retard a ship's way. Among Seamen, a machine consisting of a sharp square frame of iron, encircled with a net, used to take the wheel off from the platform or bottom of the decks;-(dragium, Lat.) a name given in some of the old statutes for a coarser sort of bread, corn, or kind of malt made of oats mixed with barley. The term drags is also used for floating pieces of timber, so joined together that, by swimming on the water, they may bear a burden or load of other things down a river. DRAGANTIN, dra-gan'tin, 8. A mucilage obtained from Gum Traganth.

DRAGGLE, drag'gl, v. a. To wet and dirty by drawing on the ground or mud, or on wet grass; to drabble;-v. n. to be drawn on the ground; to become wet or dirty by being drawn on the mud or wet grass.

DRAGGLETAIL-DRAIN.

DRAGGLETAIL, drag'gl-tale, s. A sluttish woman. DRAGMAN, drag'man, s. A fisherman that uses a dragnet.

DRAGNET, drag'net, s. A net to be drawn on the bottom of a river or pond for taking fish. DRAGOMAN, drag'o-man, s. (dragomanno, Ital.) An interpreter attached to European embassies and consulates in the Turkish empire. DRAGON, dra'gun, s. (Greek.) The name given by the ancient Greeks and Romans to a fabulous monster having the body and head of a serpent furnished with wings and feet. It is mentioned in the allegories of the Jews, the Chinese, and Japanese, as well as in the legends of chivalric Christendom.

And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, the devil.-Rev. xx. 2.

In Zoology, a genus of small Suarian reptiles, characterized by two wing-like productions of the skin supported upon the first pair of ribs. Dragonbeam, in Architecture, a horizontal piece of timber on which the hip or angle rafters of a roof pitch. DRAGONETS, drag'o-nets, s. The English name of fishes of the genus Callionymus.-Which see. DRAGON-FISH.-See Dragonets. DRAGON-FLY, drag'un-fli, s. The common name of the Neuropterous insects belonging to the genus Agrion or Libellula.-See Libellula. DRAGONISH, dragʻun-ish, a. In the form of a dragon; dragonlike. DRAGONLIKE, drag'un-like, a. Like a dragon; fiery; furious. DRAGONNADES, drag-un-naydz', s. A term applied to certain severe persecutions in France, under Louis XIV. against the Protestants.

DRAGONNE, drag-un-ne', s. In Heraldry, the term for a lion or other beast when the upper part resembles a lion, and the under part half the wings and tail of a dragon. DRAGON-PLANT.-See Dracontium. DRAGON'S-BLOOD, drag'unz-blud, s. The indurated drops from the cut wood of the tree Pterocarpus draca, or from the fruit of Calamus draca

verus.

DRAGON'S-HEAD, drag'unz-hed, s.-See Dracocephalum. Dragon's-head and tail, in Astronomy, are the nodes of the planets, or the two points in which the orbits of the planets intersect the ecliptic.

DRAGOON, dra-goon', s. (dragon, Fr. from the Latin draconarius, the bearer of a standard on which was the figure of a dragon.) A cavalry soldier trained and armed to act on foot or horseback as emergencies may require. In Britain there are two species of troops denominated dragoons,—viz., dragoons simply, and dragoon-guards; the difference between which is, that the accoutrements of the latter are rather heavier than the former;v. a. to persecute by abandoning a place to the rage of soldiers; to enslave or reduce to subjection by soldiers; to harass; to persecute; to compel to submit by violent measures; to force. DRAGOONADE, drag-v-nade', s. The abandoning of a place to the rage of soldiers. DRAIL.-See Trail and Draggle. DRAIN, drane, v. a. (drehnigean, Sax.) To filter; to cause to pass through some porous substance; to empty or clear of liquor, by causing the liquor to drop or run off slowly; to make dry; to exhaust of water or other liquor by causing it to flow

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off in channels or through porous substances; to empty; to exhaust; to draw off gradually;—r. n. to flow off gradually, to be emptied of liquor by flowing or dropping, as, let the vessel stand and drain, let the cloth hang and drain;'—s. a channel through which water or other liquid flows off, particularly a trench or ditch to convey water from wet land; a water-course; a sewer; a sink. Drain-traps, contrivances to prevent the escape of foul air from drains, but to allow the passage of water into them. DRAINABLE, dra'na-bl, a. DRAINAGE, dra'nij, s.

Capable of being drained. A draining; a gradual

flowing off of any liquid. DRAINING, dra'ning, s. The process or act of making drains in land, for the purpose of carrying off the water.

DRAKE, drake, s. (enterich, Gr. andrik, Dan.) The male of the duck kind; a small piece of artillery; the drake-fly.

DRAM, dram, s. A small quantity; as much spirituous liquor as is drunk at once; spirit; distilled liquor;-. n. to drink drams; to indulge in the use of ardent spirits.-A vulgar term. DRAMA, drama, or dram'ma, s. (Greek.) A poem or composition representing a picture of human life, and accommodated to action; the principal species of the drama are tragedy and comedy; inferior species are tragi-comedy, opera, &c. DRAMATIC, dra-matik, ra. Relating to the DRAMATICAL, dra-mat'e-kal, drama; represented by action; theatrical; not narrative. DRAMATICALLY, dra-mat'e-kal-le, ad. By representation; in the manner of the drama. DRAMATIST, dram'ma-tist, s. The author of a dramatic composition; a writer of plays. DRAMATIZE, dram'ma-tize, v. a. To compose in the form of the drama, or to give to a composition the form of a play.

DRAMATURGY, dra-ma- tur'je, s. (drama, and ergon, work, Gr.) The science or art of dramatic poetry and representation.

DRAUGITT DRAW.

DRAUGHT, draft. s. The act of drawing; the quality of being drawn; the drawing of liquor into the mouth and throat; the act of drinking; the quantity of liquor drunk at once; the act of delineating, or that which is delineated; a representation by lines, as the figure of a house, a machine, a fort, &c., described on paper; representation by picture; figure painted, or drawn by the pencil; the act of drawing a net; a sweeping for fish; that which is taken by sweeping with a net: the drawing or bending of a bow; the act of shooting with a bow and arrow; the act of drawing men from a military band, army, or post, also, the forces drawn; a detachment;-(draft is more generally used for the last three senses :) -a sink or drain; 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; a small allowance on weighable goods, made by the crown to the importer, or by the seller to the buyer, to insure full weight: a sudden attack or drawing on an enemy; a writing composed; an order for the payment of money; a bill of exchange;-(for the last sense, see Draft;) -v. a. to draw out; to call forth.-See Draft. In Medicine, a liquid form, differing only in quantity from a mixture. It is generally taken at once, and should not exceed 3jss. DRAUGHTHOOKS, draft hooks, s. Large hooks of iron fixed on the cheeks of a cannon carriage, two on each side, one near the trunnion hole, and the other at the train, used in drawing the gun backward and forward by means of draughtropes. DRAUGHTHORSE, draft'hawrs, 8. A horse used in

drawing a plough, cart, or other carriage, as distinguished from a saddle-horse. DRAUGHTHOUSE, draft'hows, 8. A honso for the reception of filth or waste matter.

DRAUGHTOX, draft'oks, s. An ox employed in drawing.

DRAUGHTS, drafts, s. A kind of game resembling

chess.

the habit of drinking distilled spirits. DRANK. Past and past part. of Drink. DRAPARNALDIA, dra-pàr-nal'de-a, s. (in honour of M. Draparnaud, a French botanist.) A genus of Alga: Order, Confervacex.

DRAPE, drape, v. a. (draper, Fr.) To make cloth; to barter. Obsolete.

DRAPER, dra'pur, s. (drapier, Fr.) One who sells cloth; a dealer in cloths.

DRAPERY, dra'pur-e, s. (draperie, Fr.) Clothwork; the trade of making cloth; cloth; stufl's of wool. In Sculpture and Painting, the representation of the clothing or dress of human figures; also, tapestry, hangings, curtains, &c. DRAPET, dra'pet, s.

Cloth; coverlet.-Obsolete.

Thence she them brought into a stately hall,
Wherein were many tables fair dispred,
And ready dight with drapets feastival,

Against the viand should be ministered-Spenser. DRAPETIS, dra-pe'tis, s. (Greek, a fugitive.) A genus of Dipterous insects: Family, Tanysoma. DRASSUS, dras'sus, s. (drasso, I catch or cling to, Gr.) A genus of Spiders: Family, Pulmonariæ. DRASTIC, drastik, a. (drastikos, effective, Gr.) Powerful. In Materia Medica, a term applied to medicines which are rapid and powerful in their operations.

writings or designs, or one who is skilled in such drawings.

DRAVE. Past of Drive.- Drore is now used. DRAW, draw, v. a. (dragan, Sax.) Past Drew, past part. Drawn. To pull along; to haul; to cause to move forward by force applied in advance of the thing moved, or at the forend, as by a rope or chain; to pull out, as to draw a sword or dagger from its sheath; to unsheath-bence, to draw the sword, is to wage war; to bring by compulsion; to cause to come; to pull up or out; to raise from any depth, as to draw water from a well; to suck; to attract; to cause to move or tend toward itself, as a magnet or other attracting body is said to draw; to cause to turn toward itself; to engage, as a beauty or a popular speaker draws the eyes of an assembly, or draws their attention; to inhale; to take air into the lungs; to pull or take from a spit, as a piece of meat; to take from a cask or vat; to cause or to suffer a liquid to run out; to take a liquid from the body; to let out; to take from an oven; to cause to slide, as a curtain, either in closing or unclosing; to open or unclose and discover, or to close and conceal; to extract, as to draw spirit from grain or juice; to produce; to bring, as an agent or efficient cause; to move

DRAW.

gradually or slowly; to extend; to lengthen; to extend in length; to utter in a lingering manner, as to draw a groan; to run or extend, by marking or forming; to represent by lines drawn on a plain surface; to form a picture or image; to describe; to represent by words; to represent in fancy; to image in the mind; to derive; to have or receive from some source, cause, or donor; to deduce; to allure; to entice; to lead by persuasion or moral influence; to excite to motion; to lead, as a motive; to induce to move; to induce; to persuade; to attract toward; to win; to gain; to receive or take, as from a fund; to bear; to produce; to extort; to force out; to wrest; to distort, as to draw the Scriptures to one's fancy; to compose; to write in due form; to form in writing, as to draw a bill of exchange; to take out of a box or wheel, as tickets in a lottery; to receive or gain by drawing; to extend; to stretch, as to draw wire; to sink into the water, or to require a certain depth of water for floating; to bend, as to draw the bow; to eviscerate or pull out the bowels; to withdraw;-(obsolete in the last sense ;)

Go, wash thy face, and draw thy action: come, thou must not be in this humour with me.-Shaks.

to draw back, to receive back, as duties on goods for exportation; to draw in, to collect; to apply to any purpose by violence; to contract; to pull to a smaller compass; to pull back; to entice, allure, or inveigle, as to draw in others to support a measure; to draw off, to draw from or away, also, to withdraw; to abstract, as to draw of the mind from vain amusements; to draw or take from; to cause to flow from, as to draw off wine or cider from a vessel; to extract by distillation; to draw on, to allure; to entice; to persuade or cause to follow; to occasion; to invite; to bring on; to cause; to draw over, to raise, or cause to come over, as in a still; to persuade or induce to revolt from an opposing party, and to join one's own party; to draw out, to lengthen; to stretch by force; to extend; to beat or hammer out; to extend or spread by beating, as a metal; to lengthen in time; to protract; to cause to continue; to cause to issue forth; to draw off, as liquor from a cask; to extract, as the spirit of a substance; to bring forth; to pump out, by questioning or address; to cause to be declared, or brought to light, as to draw out facts from a witness; to induce by motive; to call forth; to detach; to separate from the main body; to range in battle; to array in a line; to draw together, to collect or be collected; to draw up, to raise; to lift; to elevate; to form in order of battle; to array; to compose in due form, as a writing; to form in writing, as to draw up a deed-to draw up a paper;-v. n. to pull; to exert strength in drawing; to act as a weight; to shrink; to contract into a smaller compass; to move; to advance; to be filled or inflated with wind, so as to press on and advance a ship in her course, as 'the sails draw;' to unsheathe a sword; to use or practise the art of delineating figures; to collect the matter of an ulcer or abscess; to cause to suppurate; to excite to inflammation, maturation, and discharge, as an epispastic draws well;' to draw back, to retire; to move back; to withdraw; to renounce the faith; to apostatize; to draw near or nigh, to approach; to come near; to draw off, to retire;

DRAWABLE-DRAWL.

to retreat, as the company drew off by degrees;' to draw on, to advance; to approach, as 'the day draws on;' to gain on; to approach in pursuit; to demand payment by an order or bill, called a draft; to draw up, to form in regular order;-8. the act of drawing; the lot or chance drawn. Draw-geer, any harness belonging to cart-horses, for drawing a waggon or other carriage. Drawlutches, an old term for thieves and robbers. DRAWABLE, draw'a-bl, a. That may be drawn. DRAWBACK, draw'bak, s. Money, or an amount paid back or remitted. In Commerce, a term used in reference to those duties of customs or excise which are repaid by the British Government on the exportation of the commodities on which they were levied. This repayment is made to enable the exporter to sell his goods in the foreign market unburdened with duties. DRAWBRIDGE, draw'brij, s. A bridge so constructed as to be drawn up or let down to admit or hinder communication; the drawbridges of docks, &c., are usually drawn aside horizontally, rather than up and down. DRAWER, draw'ur, s. One who draws or pulls; one who takes water from a well; one who draws liquors from a cask; that which draws or attracts, or has the power of attraction; a sliding-box in a case or table, which is drawn at pleasure. Drawers, in the plural, a close under-garment worn on the lower limbs. Drawer and Drawee, in the law of bills of exchange, the former is the person from whom the direction to pay emanates: the latter is the person whom he directs to pay, or on whom he draws. The expression drawee is correctly applicable only between drawing and acceptance. The drawer's name must appear upon the bill, either in the body of it or at the end; and his liability as a party to the bill is completed by delivery to a payee. A drawer, like an acceptor, is responsible for what sums may be filled into blanks in stamps to which he puts his name. drawer against whom recourse is to be preserved, ought to have notice of non-acceptance or nonpayment. In accommodation bills, notice is not requisite, and a drawer may, by his own act, dispense with notice, as where he has said he will call on the acceptor, and see if a bill has been paid. (Chipsen v. Kneller, 4 Camp. 285.) The drawer is liable to a person paying supra protest.—Cyc. of Commerce.

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DRAWING, drawing, s. The act of pulling, hauling, or attracting; the art of justly representing the appearances of objects, upon paper or any plain surface, by means of lines and shadows formed with certain colouring materials adapted for that purpose, as black-lead pencils, crayons, and chalks. Among Sportsmen, beating the bushes, &c., after a fox. Drawing amiss is when the hounds hit the scent of their chase contrary, that is, up the wind instead of down. Drawing on the slot is when the hounds, having touched the scent, draw till they hit on it again. DRAWINGMASTER, draw ́ing-mas'tur, s. One who teaches the art of drawing. DRAWING ROOM, draw'ing-room, 8. A room ap

propriated for the reception of company; a room in which distinguished personages hold levees, or private persons receive parties; the company assembled in a drawingroom.

DRAWL, drawl, v. a. (draalen, I linger, Dut.) To

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DRAWN. Past part. of the verb To draw. DRAWN-BATTLE, drawn-bat'tl, s. A battle from which the combatants withdraw, without either party gaining the victory.

DRAWNET, draw'net, s. A net for catching the larger sorts of fowls, made of packthread, with wide meshes.

DRAWPLATE, draw'plate, s. A steel plate, having a gradation of conical holes, through which wires are drawn to be reduced and elongated. DRAWWELL, draw'wel, s. A deep well, from which water is drawn by a long cord or pole. DRAY, dray, 8. (drag, Sax.) A low cart DRAYCART, dra'kart, or carriage on wheels, drawn by a horse; a sled. A term among Sportsmen to denote squirrels' nests on the tops of trees. Drayhorse, a horse used for drawing a dray. Drayman, a man who attends a dray. Drayplough, a particular kind of plough.

DRAZEL, draz zl, 8. A dirty woman; a slut. DREAD, dred, s. (dræd, Sax.) Great fear, or apprehension of evil or danger; awe; fear united with respect; terror; the cause of fear; the person or the thing dreaded;-a. exciting great fear or apprehension; terrible; frightful; awful; venerable in the highest degree;-v. a. to fear in an excessive degree;-v. n. to be in great fear. DREADABLE, dred'a-bl, a. That is to be dreaded. DREADER, dred'ur, s. One that fears or lives in fear.

DREADFUL, dred'ful, a. Impressing great fear; terrible; formidable; awful; venerable; full of fear. Obsolete in the last sense.

Dreadful of danger that might him betide.-Spenser. DREADFULLY, dred'ful-le, ad. Terribly; in a manner to be dreaded.

DREADFULNESS, dred'ful-nes, s. Terribleness; the quality of being dreadful; frightfulness. DREADLESS, dred'les, a. Fearless; bold; not intimidated; undaunted; free from fear or terror; intrepid.

DREADLESSNESS, dred'les-nes, s. Fearlessness; undauntedness; freedom from fear or terror; boldness.

DREAM, dreme, s. (droom, Dut.) The thought or series of thoughts of a person in sleep; a phantasm of sleep; an idle fancy; a wild conceit; a groundless suspicion;—v. n. (droomen, Dut.) to have ideas or images in the mind in the state of sleep; to think; to imagine; to think idly; to be sluggish; to waste time in vain thoughts;-v. a. to see in a dream.

DREAMER, dre'mur, s. One who dreams; a fanciful person; a visionary; one who forms or entertains vain schemes; one lost in wild imagination; a sluggard; an idler.

DREAMFUL, dreme'ful a. Full of dreams.

She grew to hideous shape of drearihead,

Pined with grief of folly late repented.-Spencer. DREARILY, dre're-le, ad. Gloomily; dismally. DREARIMENT, dre're-ment, s. Dismalness; melancholy; horror.-Obsolete.

I teach the woods and waters to lament Your doleful dreariment.-Spenser. DREARINESS, dre're-nes, s. Dismalness; gloomy Dismal ;

solitude.

DREARY, dre're, a. (dreorig, Sax.) gloomy; sorrowful; distressing. DREDGE, dredj, s. (drege, Fr.) A dragnet for taking oysters, &c.; a mixture of oats and barley sown together; v. a. to take, catch, or gather with a dredge; to sprinkle flour on roast-meat. DREDGER, dred'jur, s. One who fishes with a dredge; also, a utensil for scattering flour on meat while roasting. DREDGING, dred'jing, s. The act of collecting shells, &c., whether for food or as natural curiosities, from the bottom of the sea, a lake, or river, by means of a dredging-net; the act of raising the mud from the bottoin of a river, for the purpose of deepening it, by means of a machine called a dredging-machine.

DREDGING-BOX, dred'jing-boks, 8. A box used for dredging meat.

DREDGING-MACHINE, dred'jing-ma-sheen', s. An engine used to take up mud or gravel from the bottom of rivers, docks, &c.

DREE, dre, v. a. (dreuh, Sax.) To suffer.-Obsolete. Fulness of dregs or

DREGGINESS, dregʻge-nes, s. lees; foulness; feculence. DREGGISHI, dreg'gish, a. Full of dregs; foul with lees; feculent.

DREGGY, dreg'ge, a. Containing dregs or lees; consisting of dregs; foul; muddy; feculent. DREGS, dregz, s. pl. (dragg, Swed.) The sediment of liquors; lees; grounds; feculence; any foreign matter of liquors that subsides to the bottom of a vessel; waste or worthless matter; dross; sweepings; refuse.

DREIT, dre'it, 8. An old law term, signifying a DRIET, double right, that is, jus possessionis et jus domini, the right of possession and right of lordship.

To wet

DRENCII, drensh, v. a. (drencean, Sax.) thoroughly; to soak; to fill or cover with water or other liquid; to saturate with drink; to purge violently; s. a draught; a swill; also, a portion of medicine to purge a beast, particularly a horse. DRENCHER, dren'shur, s. One who wets or steeps; one who gives a drench to a beast. DRENCHES, drensh ́es, 8. DRENGES, dren'jes, such tenants as were put out of their estates at the Conquest, and afterwards restored by William the Conqueror.

Spenser.

An old law term for

The name of the tenure by which the Drenches held their lands. DREPANE, dre'pa-ne, s. (drepanon, a sickle, Gr.) A genus of fishes, the pectoral wings of which are excessively long and falcate; in other respects the species resemble Scatophagus, but the dorsal fins have more scales; the tail is truncate: Family, Chatodonidæ.

DREPANOCARPUS, dre-pa-no-kăr'pus, s. (drepanon, a sickle, and karpos, a fruit, Gr. in reference to

DREPANOPHYLLUM-DRIBBLE.

the form of the pods, which are falcate.) A genus of Leguminous shrubs, with terminal panicles of flowers: Suborder, Papilionaceæ. DREPANOPHYLLUM, dre-pa-no-fil'lum, s. (drepamos, a sickle, and phyllon, a leaf, Gr. in reference to the shape of the leaves.) A genus of Urn-moss plants: Order, Bryacea.

DRESS, dres, v. a. (dresser, Fr.) Past and past part. Dressed or Drest. To clothe; to invest with clothes; to adorn; to deck; to embellish; to furnish; to put in good order, as a wounded limb; to cleanse a wound, and to apply medicaments; to adjust; to put in good order, as, 'to dress the beds of a garden; to prepare, in a general sense; to put in the condition desired; to make suitable or fit; to curry, rub, and comb; to put the body in order, or in a suitable condition; to dress up, to clothe pompously or elegantly;-v. n. to arrange in a line; to pay particular regard to dress or raiment;-s. that which is used as the covering or ornament of the body; clothes; garments; habit; a suit of clothes; splendid clothes; habit of ceremony; skill in adjusting dress, or the practice of wearing elegant clothing, as, 'men of

dress.

DRESSER, dres'sur, s. One who dresses; one emplayed in putting on the clothes and adorning the person of another; one employed in regulating, trimming, or adjusting anything; a person employed in a weaving factory to dress warps;(dressoir, Fr.) a sideboard; a table or bench on which meat and other things are dressed or prepared for use. Dressers, in Military language, are those men who take up direct or relative points, by which a corps is enabled to form a regular continuity of front.

DRESSING, dres'sing, 8. Raiment; attire; that which is used as an application to a wound or sore; that which is used in preparing land for a crop; manure spread over land; gum, starch, or flourpaste, used in stiffening or preparing linen or cotton fabrics, or in preparing the warp of webs, so as to strengthen and render it fit for weaving; in valgar language, correction; a flogging or beating. Among Typefounders, a process by which they fit the letters that have been cast for the use of the compositor, by scraping, bearding, &c. DRESSING ROOM, dres'sing-room, s. An apartment appropriated for dressing the person. DRESSINGS, dres'sings, s. pl. In Joinery, a term applied to the architraves or other appendages of apertures; also, all kinds of mouldings beyond the naked walls or ceilings are called by the general name of dressings.

DRESSMAKER, dres'may-kur, s. A maker of gowns or similar garments; a mantuamaker. DRESSY, dres'se, a. Showy in dress; affecting great taste and elegance in dress. DREST. Past part. of Dressed.

DREUL, drúl, v. n. To emit saliva; to suffer saliva to issue and flow down from the mouth. DRIB, drib, v. a. (contracted from dribble.) To crop or cut off; to defalcate;―s. a drop.-Obsolete as a substantive.

Do not, I pray thee, paper stain

With rhymes retail'd in dribbs.—Swift. DRIBBLE, dribbl, v. n. To fall in drops; to fall weakly and slowly; to proceed slowly; to slaver as a child or an idiot;-v. a. to throw down in drops.

DRIBBLET-DRILLING.

DRIBBLET, drib'let, s. (rhib, Welsh.) A small piece or part; a small sum; odd money in a A falling in drops.

sum.

DRIBBLING, drib'bling, s. DRIED. Pust part. of Dry. DRIER, dri'ur, s. That which has the quality of drying; that which may expel or absorb moisture; a desiccative.

DRIFT, drift, s. (Danish.) That which is driven by wind or water; a heap of any matter driven together; a driving; a force impelling or urging forward; impulse; overbearing power or influence; course of anything; tendency; aim; main force; anything driven by force; a shower; a number of things driven at once. In Navigation, the angle which the line of a ship's motion makes with the nearest meridian, when she drives with her side to the wind and waves, and is not governed by the helin; also, the distance which the ship drives on that line in a storm. The drift of a current is its angle and velocity. In Geology, one of the terms given to the Deluvial formation.-See Deluvium. In Architecture, (drifan, Sax.) a term applied to the horizontal force which an arch exerts with a tendency to overset the piers. In Mining, a passage cut out under the earth between shaft and shaft, or turn and turn; or a passage wrought under the earth to the end of a meer of ground, or part of a meer;-v. n. to accumulate in heaps by the force of wind; to be driven into heaps; to float or be driven along by a current of water;-v. a. to drive into heaps; to urge along.

DRIFTSAIL, drift'sale, s. In Navigation, a sail used under water, veered out right a-head by sheets, as other sails are. It serves to keep the ship's head right upon the sea in a storm, and to hinder her driving too fast in a current. DRIFTWAY, drift'way, s. A common road for driving cattle.

DRIFTWIND, drift'wind, s. A driving wind; a wind that drives things into heaps.

DRILL, dril, v. a. (drillen, Dut. thirlian, Sax.) To pierce with a drill; to perforate by turning a sharppointed instrument of a particular form; to bore and make a hole by turning an instrument; to entice; to draw on; to amuse and put off; to draw on from step to step;-(vulgar in the last four senses;)-to draw through; to drain. In a Military sense, to teach and train raw soldiers to their duty by frequent exercise. In Husbandry, to sow grain in rows, drills, or channels;--v. n. to flow gently or slowly; to sow in drills; to muster for exercise ;-s. an ape or baboon; the act of training soldiers to their duty; a small stream, now termed a rill. In Husbandry, a row of grain, sowed by a drill-plough. In Mechanics, a small steel instrument for making holes in metals or other hard substances. Drills are of various sizes, and are chiefly used by smiths and turners. A very rapid action is communicated to the drill by means of a bow and string, called a drillbow. Drillbox, the box in a drill-machine which contains the seed.

DRILL-HARROW, dril-har'ro, s. A small harrow used in drill-husbandry, to be used between the drills or rows for the purpose of extirpating weeds, pulverizing the earth between the plants, &c. DRILL-HUSBANDRY, dril-huz'bun-dre, s. The practice of sowing in drills by a machine. DRILLING, dril'ling, &. A coarse linen or cotton