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.

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.

One who, or that which, drills.

A heavy, twilled fabric of linen or cotton.

One who teaches drill, especially in the way of gymnastics.

A contrivance for holding and turning a drill.

See Dryly.

A genus of magnoliaceous trees. Drimys aromatica furnishes Winter's bark.

Liquid to be swallowed; any fluid to be taken into the stomach for quenching thirst or for other purposes, as water, coffee, or decoctions.

Capable of being drunk; suitable for drink; potable. Macaulay. Also used substantively, esp. in the plural.

State of being drinkable.

One who drinks; as, the effects of tea on the drinker; also, one who drinks spirituous liquors to excess; a drunkard.

The act of one who drinks; the act of imbibing.

Destitute of drink.

A falling or letting fall in drops; a dripping; that which drips, or falls in drops.

treated so as to be easily or quickly washed and dried and requiring little or no ironing; -- of clothing.

A falling in drops, or the sound so made.

Weak or rare.