Hanging down like gyves or fetters.
Loading earlier words…
A rope to haul down, or to assist in hauling down, a sail; as, a staysail downhaul; a trysail downhaul.
Dejected; low-spirited.
Declivity; descent; slope.
The quality or state of being downy.
Having a downcast countenance; dejected; gloomy; sullen.
The time of retiring to rest; time of repose.
A pouring or streaming downwards; esp., a heavy or continuous shower.
Plain; direct; forthright; unceremonious; blunt; positive; as, he spoke in his downright way.
The act of sitting down; repose; a resting.
the reduction of expeditures and personnel in order to become financial stable; -- of businesses.
a downward slope.
at the front half of the stage; as, the dialog is clearer when conducted downstage. Opposite of upstage.
Down the stairs; to a lower floor; as, she headed downstairs as soon as she heard the horn.
on or of the lower floors of a building, especially the ground floor; as, the downstairs (or downstair phone; the house has no downstairs bathroom. Opposite of upstairs.
Very steep.
Down the stream; as, floating downstream.
A stroke made with a downward motion of the pen or pencil.
The sudden drop or depression of the strata of rocks on one side of a fault. See Throw, n.
Trodden down; trampled down; abused by superior power.
Moving or extending from a higher to a lower place; tending toward the earth or its center, or toward a lower level; declivous.
From a higher place to a lower; in a descending course; as, to tend, move, roll, look, or take root, downward or downwards.
Cudweed, a species of Gnaphalium.
To weigh or press down.
on the side or in the direction away from the direction from which the wind is blowing; in the direction toward which the wind is blowing; as, good hunters stay downwind of their prey. Opposite of upwind, and windward.
Covered with down, or with pubescence or soft hairs.
A small black and white ladder-backed woodpecker (Picoides pubescens) of Central and Eastern U. S. and Canada. It strongly resembles the hairy woodpecker, but is smaller (6 1/2"), compared with about 9-1/2" for the hairy. It is common in suburban backyards.
Of or relating to a dower.
A woman entitled to dower.
A gift; endowment.
A blow on the face.
A divining rod used in searching for water, ore, etc., a dowsing rod.
A custard.
A dowse.
A dove.
Pertaining to doxology; giving praise to God.
To give glory to God, as in a doxology; to praise God with doxologies.
In Christian worship: A hymn expressing praise and honor to God; a form of praise to God designed to be sung or chanted by the choir or the congregation.
A loose wench; a disreputable sweetheart.
Lit., a dean; the senior member of a body or group; as, the doyen of French physicians.
a female doyen.
a small round piece of linen place under a dish or bowl; same as doily.
See Doily.
A light sleep; a drowse.
A collection of twelve objects; a tale or set of twelve; with or without of before the substantive which follows.
Twelfth.
One who dozes or drowses.
The state of being dozy; drowsiness; inclination to sleep.
Drowsy; inclined to doze; sleepy; sluggish; as, a dozy head.
Stupid; heavy.
Doctor of Philosophy, a British doctorate.
abbreviation for doctor, a title accorded to a person who holds a doctorate degree from an academic institution, such as a Ph.D. degree or M.D. degree.
Of a color between gray and brown. A drab color.
One who associates with drabs; a wencher.
A coarse linen fabric, or duck.
Having the character of a drab or low wench.
To fish with a long line and rod; as, to drabble for barbels.
A draggle-tail; a slattern.
A piece of canvas fastened by lacing to the bonnet of a sail, to give it a greater depth, or more drop.
A genus of liliaceous plants with woody stems and funnel-shaped flowers.
A kind of gum; -- called also gum tragacanth, or tragacanth. See Tragacanth.
A drachma.
A silver coin among the ancient Greeks, having a different value in different States and at different periods. The average value of the Attic drachma is computed to have been about 19 cents (U. S. currency, ca. 1913).
See Drachma.
See Draconin.
The Dragon, a northern constellation within which is the north pole of the ecliptic.
A genus of American herbs and dwarf shrubs of the mind family; the dragonheads.
Pertaining to Draco, a famous lawgiver of Athens, 621 b. c. Used especially in the phrase Draconian punishment.
Relating to Draco, the Athenian lawgiver; or to the constellation Draco; or to dragon's blood.
A red resin forming the essential basis of dragon's blood; -- called also dracin.
Belonging to that space of time in which the moon performs one revolution, from ascending node to ascending node. See Dragon's head, under Dragon.
Belonging to a dragon.
A fish; the dragonet. The Guinea worm (Filaria medinensis).
Dreaded.
of Dread.
Inferior ore, separated from the better by cobbing.
Refuse; lees; dregs; the wash given to swine or cows; hogwash; waste matter.
Worthless; draffy.
Dreggy; waste; worthless.
To draw the outline of; to delineate.
writing a first version to be filled out and polished later.
See Draughtsman.
the creation of artistic drawings.
a skilled worker who draws plans of buildings or machines.
not airtight; allowing in currents of air, especially uncomfortably cold air; -- of buildings.
The act of dragging; anything which is dragged.
A mucilage obtained from, or containing, gum tragacanth.
Same as Drawbar (b). Called also draglink, and drawlink.
A coupling pin. See under Coupling.
sugar-coated medication.
Sugar-coated medicines.
painfully or tediously slow and boring; as, the dragging minutes.
To be dragged on the ground; to become wet or dirty by being dragged or trailed in the mud or wet grass.
A slattern who suffers her gown to trail in the mire; a drabble-tail.
Untidy; sluttish; slatternly.
limp and soiled as if dragged in the mud.
A link connecting the cranks of two shafts. A drawbar.
A fisherman who uses a dragnet.
A net to be drawn along the bottom of a body of water, as in fishing.
An interpreter; -- so called in the Levant and other parts of the East.
A fabulous animal, generally represented as a monstrous winged serpent or lizard, with a crested head and enormous claws, and regarded as very powerful and ferocious.
A little dragon.
resembling a dragon.
Like a dragon.
The severe persecution of French Protestants under Louis XIV., by an armed force, usually of dragoons; hence, a rapid and devastating incursion; dragoonade.
To harass or reduce to subjection by dragoons; to persecute by abandoning a place to the rage of soldiers.
See Dragonnade.
A dragoon.
To trail; to draggle.
The act of draining, or of drawing off; gradual and continuous outflow or withdrawal; as, the drain of specie from a country; the project is a drain on resources.
Capable of being drained.
A draining; a gradual flowing off of any liquid; also, that which flows out of a drain.
a board beside a kitchen sink having a surface inclined so as to drain into the sink.
The missel thrush.
having lost much energy or emotion from vigorous activity; -- of people; as, the day's events left her completely drained of strength.
One who, or that which, drains.
The art of carrying off surplus water, as from land.
A pipe used for carrying off surplus water.
A hollow tile used in making drains; -- called also draining tile.
See 4th Trap, 5.
Wild oats, brome grass, or darnel grass; -- called also drawk, dravick, and drank.
Loading more words…