To delay.
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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.
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.
persistently dripping even when shut; as, a drippy faucet.
A drip, when made of stone. See Drip, 2.
Drought.
The act of driving; a trip or an excursion in a carriage, as for exercise or pleasure; -- distinguished from a ride taken on horseback.
accomplished while driving past in a vehicle; as, a drive-by shooting.
arranged to allow business to be transacted while patrons remain in their vehicles; as, a drive-in window at a bank.
a window at a business establishment, such as a bank or restaurant, where patrons may transact business or order goods while staying in their automobiles; as, to cash a check at the drive-in window of the bank.
arranged to allow business to be transacted or sights to be seen while patrons remain in their vehicles; as, a drive-through car wash; a drive-through safari park.
A drift; a tool for setting bolts home.
Slaver; saliva flowing from the mouth.
A slaverer; a slabberer; an idiot; a fool.
of Drive. Also adj.
A pipe for forcing into the earth.
One who, or that which, drives; the person or thing that urges or compels anything else to move onward.
a rotating shaft that transmits power from the engine to the point of application.
A passage or way along or through which a carriage may be driven.
The act of forcing or urging something along; the act of pressing or moving on furiously.
A fine rain or mist.
raining lightly in a fine mist.
Characterized by small rain, or snow; moist and disagreeable.
A water course.
A small craft used in the West India Islands to take off sugars, rum, etc., to the merchantmen; also, a vessel for transporting lumber, cotton, etc., coastwise; as, a lumber drogher.
See Dragoman.
See Drag, n., 6, and Drag sail, under Drag, n.
of Draw.
A drudge.
A right; law in its aspect of the foundation of rights; also, in old law, the writ of right.
relating to the mere right of property, as distinguished from the right of possession; as, droitural actions.
See Drosky.
To lead or influence by jest or trick; to banter or jest; to cajole.
A jester; a droll.
The quality of being droll; sportive tricks; buffoonery; droll stories; comical gestures or manners.
In a jesting manner.
Somewhat droll.
A droll.
Having the structure of the palate like that of the ostrich and emu.
A small extinct triassic mammal from North Carolina, the earliest yet found in America.
Short for A/rodrome.
The Arabian camel (Camelus dromedarius), having one hump or protuberance on the back, in distinction from the Bactrian camel, which has two humps.
To utter or make a low, dull, monotonous, humming or murmuring sound.
One of the low-toned tubes of a bagpipe.
A passerine bird of the family Dicrurid/. They are usually black with a deeply forked tail. They are natives of Asia, Africa, and Australia; -- called also drongo shrikes.
Like a drone; indolent; slow.
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