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.

A flat stone so thrown along the surface of water as to skip from point to point before it sinks; also, the sport of so throwing stones; -- sometimes called ducks and drakes.

To drink drams; to ply with drams.

A composition, in prose or poetry, accommodated to action, and intended to exhibit a picture of human life, or to depict a series of grave or humorous actions of more than ordinary interest, tending toward some striking result. It is commonly designed to be spoken and represented by actors on the stage.

Of or pertaining to the drama; as, dramatic arts.

In a dramatic manner; theatrically; vividly.

same as dramatization.

The author of a dramatic composition; a writer of plays.

Capable of being dramatized.

Act of dramatizing; a dramatic representation.

To compose in the form of the drama; to represent in a drama; to adapt to dramatic representation; as, to dramatize a novel, or an historical episode.

Relating to dramaturgy.

One versed in dramaturgy.

The art of dramatic composition and representation.

The practice of drinking drams.

One who sells distilled liquors by the dram or glass.

A shop or barroom where spirits are sold by the dram.

Wild oats, or darnel grass. See Drake a plant.

To make cloth.

covered with or as if with clothes or a wrap or cloak; as, a beam draped with cobwebs. Contrasted with uncovered.

One who sells cloths; a dealer in cloths; as, a draper and tailor.

Covered or supplied with drapery.

The occupation of a draper; cloth-making, or dealing in cloth.

Cloth.

Acting rapidly and violently; efficacious; powerful; -- opposed to bland; as, drastic purgatives. A violent purgative. See Cathartic.

Filthy; worthless.

To draw out; to call forth. See Draft.

A checkered board on which draughts are played. See Checkerboard.

A house for the reception of waste matter; a privy.

A game, now more commonly called checkers. See Checkers.

One who draws pleadings or other writings.

The office, art, or work of a draughtsman.

Pertaining to a draught, or current of air; as, a draughtly, comfortless room.

old imp. of Drive.

A race of Hindustan, believed to be the original people who occupied the land before the Hindu or Aryan invasion.

Of or pertaining to the Dravida.

one of the languages native to southern India; a Dravidian language.

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.

The act of drawing; draught.

A single cut with a knife.

Capable of being drawn.

A loss of advantage, or deduction from profit, value, success, etc.; a discouragement or hindrance; objectionable feature.

An openmouthed bar at the end of a car, which receives a coupling link and pin by which the car is drawn. It is usually provided with a spring to give elasticity to the connection between the cars of a train. A bar of iron with an eye at each end, or a heavy link, for coupling a locomotive to a tender or car.

A machine in which strips of metal are drawn through a drawplate; especially, one in which wire is thus made; -- also called drawing bench.

A coupling pin. See under Coupling.

To make a drawbore in; as, to drawbore a tenon.

A boy who operates the harness cords of a hand loom; also, a part of power loom that performs the same office.

A bridge of which either the whole or a part is made to be raised up, let down, or drawn or turned aside, to admit or hinder communication at pleasure, as before the gate of a town or castle, or over a navigable river or canal.

A blustering, bullying fellow; a pot-valiant braggart; a bully.

The person on whom an order or bill of exchange is drawn; -- the correlative of drawer.

One who, or that which, draws One who draws liquor for guests; a waiter in a taproom. One who delineates or depicts; a draughtsman; as, a good drawer. One who draws a bill of exchange or order for payment; -- the correlative of drawee.

The process of smooth filing by working the file sidewise instead of lengthwise.

A harness for draught horses.

An old game, played by holding up the fingers.

The flanged outer end of a drawbar; also, a name applied to the drawgear.

The act of pulling, or attracting.

A room appropriated for the reception of company; a room to which company withdraws from the dining room.

see drawing knife.

A woodworker`s and joiner's tool having a blade with a handle at each end, used to shave off surfaces, by drawing it toward one; a shave; -- called also drawshave, and drawing shave.

A lengthened, slow monotonous utterance.

A housebreaker or thief.

The act of speaking with a drawl; a drawl.

Same as Drawbar (b).

A kind of loom used in weaving figured patterns; -- called also drawboy.

See Draw, v. t. i.

A net for catching the larger sorts of birds; also, a dragnet.

ornamental needlework done by drawing threads to form lacelike patterns.

A hardened steel plate having a hole, or a gradation of conical holes, through which wires are drawn to be reduced and elongated.

A rod which unites the drawgear at opposite ends of the car, and bears the pull required to draw the train.

See Drawing knife.

The spring to which a drawbar is attached.

A strong low cart or carriage used for heavy burdens.

Use of a dray.

A man who attends a dray.

A slut; a vagabond wench. Same as Drossel.

Exciting great fear or apprehension; causing terror; frightful; dreadful.

Armed with dreaded bolts.

Worthy of being dreaded.

One who fears, or lives in fear.

Full of dread or terror; fearful.

In a dreadful manner; terribly.

The quality of being dreadful.

With dread.

Without doubt.

Freedom from dread.

Dreadful. With dread.