| Words | Parts of Speech | Meaning/Definition/Similar Words |
|---|---|---|
| drab | noun | A low, sluttish woman., A lewd wench; a strumpet., A wooden box, used in salt works for holding the salt when taken out of the boiling pans., To associate with strumpets; to wench., A kind of thick woolen cloth of a dun, or dull brownish yellow, or dull gray, color; — called also drabcloth., A dull brownish yellow or dull gray color., Of a color between gray and brown., A drab color. |
| drad | past participle & adjective | Dreaded. |
| drag | noun | A confection; a comfit; a drug., To draw slowly or heavily onward; to pull along the ground by main force; to haul; to trail; — applied to drawing heavy or resisting bodies or those inapt for drawing, with labor, along the ground or other surface; as, to drag stone or timber; to drag a net in fishing., To break, as land, by drawing a drag or harrow over it; to harrow; to draw a drag along the bottom of, as a stream or other water; hence, to search, as by means of a drag., To draw along, as something burdensome; hence, to pass in pain or with difficulty., To be drawn along, as a rope or dress, on the ground; to trail; to be moved onward along the ground, or along the bottom of the sea, as an anchor that does not hold., To move onward heavily, laboriously, or slowly; to advance with weary effort; to go on lingeringly., To serve as a clog or hindrance; to hold back., To fish with a dragnet., The act of dragging; anything which is dragged., A net, or an apparatus, to be drawn along the bottom under water, as in fishing, searching for drowned persons, etc., A kind of sledge for conveying heavy bodies; also, a kind of low car or handcart; as, a stone drag., A heavy coach with seats on top; also, a heavy carriage., A heavy harrow, for breaking up ground., Anything towed in the water to retard a ship’s progress, or to keep her head up to the wind; esp., a canvas bag with a hooped mouth, so used. See Drag sail (below)., Also, a skid or shoe, for retarding the motion of a carriage wheel., Hence, anything that retards; a clog; an obstacle to progress or enjoyment., Motion affected with slowness and difficulty, as if clogged., The bottom part of a flask or mold, the upper part being the cope., A steel instrument for completing the dressing of soft stone., The difference between the speed of a screw steamer under sail and that of the screw when the ship outruns the screw; or between the propulsive effects of the different floats of a paddle wheel. See Citation under Drag, v. i., 3. |
| dram | noun | A weight; in Apothecaries’ weight, one eighth part of an ounce, or sixty grains; in Avoirdupois weight, one sixteenth part of an ounce, or 27.34375 grains., A minute quantity; a mite., As much spirituous liquor as is usually drunk at once; as, a dram of brandy; hence, a potation or potion; as, a dram of poison., A Persian daric., To drink drams; to ply with drams. |
| drew | imp. | of Draw, of Draw. |
| draw | verb t. | 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., 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., 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., To pull from a sheath, as a sword., To extract; to force out; to elicit; to derive., To obtain from some cause or origin; to infer from evidence or reasons; to deduce from premises; to derive., 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., 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., To select by the drawing of lots., To remove the contents of, To drain by emptying; to suck dry., To extract the bowels of; to eviscerate; as, to draw a fowl; to hang, draw, and quarter a criminal., To take into the lungs; to inhale; to inspire; hence, also, to utter or produce by an inhalation; to heave., To extend in length; to lengthen; to protract; to stretch; to extend, as a mass of metal into wire., 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., 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., To write in due form; to prepare a draught of; as, to draw a memorial, a deed, or bill of exchange., 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., To withdraw., To trace by scent; to track; — a hunting term., 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., To draw a liquid from some receptacle, as water from a well., To exert an attractive force; to act as an inducement or enticement., To have efficiency as an epispastic; to act as a sinapism; — said of a blister, poultice, etc., To have draught, as a chimney, flue, or the like; to furnish transmission to smoke, gases, etc., To unsheathe a weapon, especially a sword., To perform the act, or practice the art, of delineation; to sketch; to form figures or pictures., To become contracted; to shrink., 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., To make a draft or written demand for payment of money deposited or due; — usually with on or upon., To admit the action of pulling or dragging; to undergo draught; as, a carriage draws easily., To sink in water; to require a depth for floating., The act of drawing; draught., A lot or chance to be drawn., A drawn game or battle, etc., 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. |
| dray | noun | A squirrel’s nest., A strong low cart or carriage used for heavy burdens., A kind of sledge or sled. |
| dree | verb t. | To endure; to suffer., To be able to do or endure., Wearisome; tedious. |
| dreg | noun | 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. |
| drey | noun | A squirrel’s nest. See Dray. |
| drib | verb t. | To do by little and little, To cut off by a little at a time; to crop., To appropriate unlawfully; to filch; to defalcate., To lead along step by step; to entice., To shoot (a shaft) so as to pierce on the descent., A drop. |
| drie | verb t. | To endure. |
| drip | verb i. | To fall in drops; as, water drips from the eaves., To let fall drops of moisture or liquid; as, a wet garment drips., To let fall in drops., A falling or letting fall in drops; a dripping; that which drips, or falls in drops., 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. |
| droh | imp. | of Draw. |
| drop | noun | The quantity of fluid which falls in one small spherical mass; a liquid globule; a minim; hence, also, the smallest easily measured portion of a fluid; a small quantity; as, a drop of water., That which resembles, or that which hangs like, a liquid drop; as a hanging diamond ornament, an earring, a glass pendant on a chandelier, a sugarplum (sometimes medicated), or a kind of shot or slug., Same as Gutta., Any small pendent ornament., Whatever is arranged to drop, hang, or fall from an elevated position; also, a contrivance for lowering something, A door or platform opening downward; a trap door; that part of the gallows on which a culprit stands when he is to be hanged; hence, the gallows itself., A machine for lowering heavy weights, as packages, coal wagons, etc., to a ship’s deck., A contrivance for temporarily lowering a gas jet., A curtain which drops or falls in front of the stage of a theater, etc., A drop press or drop hammer., The distance of the axis of a shaft below the base of a hanger., Any medicine the dose of which is measured by drops; as, lavender drops., The depth of a square sail; — generally applied to the courses only., Act of dropping; sudden fall or descent., To pour or let fall in drops; to pour in small globules; to distill., To cause to fall in one portion, or by one motion, like a drop; to let fall; as, to drop a line in fishing; to drop a courtesy., To let go; to dismiss; to set aside; to have done with; to discontinue; to forsake; to give up; to omit., To bestow or communicate by a suggestion; to let fall in an indirect, cautious, or gentle manner; as, to drop hint, a word of counsel, etc., To lower, as a curtain, or the muzzle of a gun, etc., To send, as a letter; as, please drop me a line, a letter, word., To give birth to; as, to drop a lamb., To cover with drops; to variegate; to bedrop., To fall in drops., To fall, in general, literally or figuratively; as, ripe fruit drops from a tree; wise words drop from the lips., To let drops fall; to discharge itself in drops., To fall dead, or to fall in death., To come to an end; to cease; to pass out of mind; as, the affair dropped., To come unexpectedly; — with in or into; as, my old friend dropped in a moment., To fall or be depressed; to lower; as, the point of the spear dropped a little., To fall short of a mark., To be deep in extent; to descend perpendicularly; as, her main topsail drops seventeen yards. |
| drow | imp. | of Draw. |
| drub | verb t. | To beat with a stick; to thrash; to cudgel., A blow with a cudgel; a thump. |
| drug | verb i. | To drudge; to toil laboriously., A drudge (?)., Any animal, vegetable, or mineral substance used in the composition of medicines; any stuff used in dyeing or in chemical operations., Any commodity that lies on hand, or is not salable; an article of slow sale, or in no demand., To prescribe or administer drugs or medicines., To affect or season with drugs or ingredients; esp., to stupefy by a narcotic drug. Also Fig., To tincture with something offensive or injurious., To dose to excess with, or as with, drugs. |
| drum | noun | 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., Anything resembling a drum in form, 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., A small cylindrical box in which figs, etc., are packed., The tympanum of the ear; — often, but incorrectly, applied to the tympanic membrane., One of the cylindrical, or nearly cylindrical, blocks, of which the shaft of a column is composed; also, a vertical wall, whether circular or polygonal in plan, carrying a cupola or dome., A cylinder on a revolving shaft, generally for the purpose of driving several pulleys, by means of belts or straps passing around its periphery; also, the barrel of a hoisting machine, on which the rope or chain is wound., See Drumfish., A noisy, tumultuous assembly of fashionable people at a private house; a rout., A tea party; a kettledrum., To beat a drum with sticks; to beat or play a tune on a drum., To beat with the fingers, as with drumsticks; to beat with a rapid succession of strokes; to make a noise like that of a beaten drum; as, the ruffed grouse drums with his wings., To throb, as the heart., To go about, as a drummer does, to gather recruits, to draw or secure partisans, customers, etc,; — with for., To execute on a drum, as a tune., (With out) To expel ignominiously, with beat of drum; as, to drum out a deserter or rogue from a camp, etc., (With up) To assemble by, or as by, beat of drum; to collect; to gather or draw by solicitation; as, to drum up recruits; to drum up customers. |