A blustering, bullying fellow; a pot-valiant braggart; a bully.
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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.
A fearless person.
A British battleship, completed in 1906 -- 1907, having an armament consisting of ten 12-inch guns mounted in turrets, and of twenty-four 12-pound quick-fire guns for protection against torpedo boats. This was the first battleship of the type characterized by a main armament of big guns all of the same caliber. She had a displacement of 17,900 tons at load draft, and a speed of 21 knots per hour.
To have a dream of; to see, or have a vision of, in sleep, or in idle fancy; -- often followed by an objective clause.
One who dreams.
Full of dreams.
As if in a dream; softly; slowly; languidly.
The state of being dreamy.
In a dreamy manner.
An unreal, delightful country such as in sometimes pictured in dreams; region of fancies; fairyland.
Free from, or without, dreams.
resembling a dream; vague or fantastic; as, night invested the lake with a dreamlike quality.
A pleasing country existing only in dreams or imagination; a fantasy land.
Abounding in dreams or given to dreaming; appropriate to, or like, dreams; visionary.
Sadness; dismalness.
Affliction; dreariness.
Gloomily; dismally.
Dreariness.
Sorrow; wretchedness.
Sorrow.
Very dreary.
Sorrowful; distressful.
To delay.
To sift or sprinkle flour, etc., on, as on roasting meat.
A box with holes in its lid; -- used for sprinkling flour, as on meat or a breadboard; -- called also dredging box, drudger, and drudging box.
Wearisome; tedious.
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.
Fullness of dregs or lees; foulness; feculence.
Foul with lees; feculent.
Containing dregs or lees; muddy; foul; feculent.
A triple alliance; specif., the alliance of Germany, Austria, and Italy, formed in 1882.
a toy shaped somewhat like a top, but having four flat sides, each marked with one of the Hebrew letters nun, gimel, he, or shin. It is spun like a top, and the letter showing when it stops spinning determines the outcome of a game of chance.
To drain.
p. p. of Drench to drown.
A genus of bivalve shells of which one species (Dreissena polymorpha) is often so abundant as to be very troublesome in the fresh waters of Europe.
A military vassal mentioned in Domesday Book.
To drown.
One who, or that which, west or steeps.
The tenure by which a drench held land.
Drenched; drowned.
That which is used as the covering or ornament of the body; clothes; garments; habit; apparel.
maneuvers of a horse in response to body signals by the rider.
same as attired.
attired in strikingly attractive clothing; -- usually of women.
attired in fancy or formal clothing.
One who dresses; one who put in order or makes ready for use; one who on clothes or ornaments.
A piece of chamber furniture consisting of a chest of drawers, or bureau, with a mirror.
The state of being dressy.
Dress; raiment; especially, ornamental habiliment or attire.
a table, usually having a vertical back piece containing a mirror, at which a person may sit while dressing or applying makeup, and on which articles for the toilet stand. It often has drawers for toiletries, clothing, or accessories. It is also called a vanity or vanity table.
A maker of gowns, or similar garments; a mantuamaker.
The art, process, or occupation, of making dresses.
Showy in dress; attentive to dress.
of Dress.
See Drecche.
To drool.
A fool; a drudge. See Drivel.
of Draw.
A squirrel's nest. See Dray.
Dry.
p. p., of Drench to drown.
A drop.
One who dribs; one who shoots weakly or badly.
A drizzling shower; a falling or leaking in drops.
One who dribbles.
A small piece or part; a small sum; a small quantity of money in making up a sum; as, the money was paid in dribblets.
To endure.
imp. p. p. of Dry. Also adj.; as, dried apples.
thoroughly dried; having no moisture remaining.
wrinkled or cracked from drying.
One who, or that which, dries; that which may expel or absorb moisture; a desiccative; as, the sun and a northwesterly wind are great driers of the earth.
of Dry, a.
That causes drifting or that is drifted; movable by wind or currents; as, drift currents; drift ice; drift mud.
Deviation from a ship's course due to leeway.
A bolt for driving out other bolts.
Having no drift or direction; without aim; purposeless.
An upright or curved piece of timber connecting the plank sheer with the gunwale; also, a scroll terminating a rail.
A smooth drift. See Drift, n., 9.
A common way, road, or path, for driving cattle.
Seaweed drifted to the shore by the wind.
A driving wind; a wind that drives snow, sand, etc., into heaps.
Wood drifted or floated by water.
Full of drifts; tending to form drifts, as snow, and the like.
Same as Drilling.
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