One who dribbles.
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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.
Given to drink; drunken.
The dodo.
Like a drone; sluggish; lazy.
To drivel, or drop saliva; as, the child drools.
A drooping; as, a droop of the eye.
One who, or that which, droops.
In a drooping manner.
bending downward due to lack of tautness; -- of lines.
To fall in drops.
a sheet of material used to cover objects or surfaces while painting a ceiling or wall of a house, so as to protect objects from being marred by drops of paint splashed inadvertantly in the painting process. Originally such drop cloths were made of cloth, but more recently paper or plastic have also commonly been used.
a device for making large forgings, in which a heavy hammer drops onto the metalwork to be forged, pressing it into a form or anvil underneath, or between dies.
a noticeable decline in performance; as, a drop-off in attendance.
to forge with a drop forge; -- of metals.
an act of kicking a football (as for a field goal) in which the football is dropped and kicked as it touches the ground.
a football kicker who drops the ball and kicks it just as it reaches the ground.
A little drop; a tear.
An electric or gas light suspended from the ceiling by a flexible cord or tube, allowing artificial light to be brought down from a chandelier nearer to a table or desk; a pendant; also, an electric light bulb in a small holder, which can be held in the hand or hung from a hook, and attached to a long electric cord, allowing light to be brought close to work in dark areas of a room.
By drops or small portions.
born; -- used of an animal. Opposite of unborn.
One who, or that which, drops. A fly that drops from the leader above the bob or end fly.
The action of causing to drop or of letting drop; falling.
In drops.
fecal matter of animals; plural of dropping{2}.
Diseased with dropsy; hydropical; tending to dropsy; as, a dropsical patient.
State of being dropsical.
Diseased with drops.
An unnatural collection of serous fluid in any serous cavity of the body, or in the subcutaneous cellular tissue.
imp. p. p. of Drop, v.
After the manner of a drop; in the form of drops.
The larva of any geometrid moth, which drops from trees by means of a thread of silk, as the cankerworm or inchworm. See inchworm and geometrid.
An Old World species of Spir/a (Spir/a filipendula), with finely cut leaves.
A genus of low perennial or biennial plants, the leaves of which are beset with gland-tipped bristles. See Sundew.
a natural family of carnivorous herbs and shrubs.
same as drosky.
A low, four-wheeled, open carriage, formerly used in Poland and Russia, consisting of a kind of long, narrow bench, on which the passengers ride as on a saddle, with their feet reaching nearly to the ground. Other kinds of vehicles have been so called, esp. a kind of victoria drawn by one or two horses, and used as a public carriage in German cities.
An instrument for measuring the quantity of dew on the surface of a body in the open air. It consists of a balance, having a plate at one end to receive the dew, and at the other a weight protected from the deposit of dew.
a natural family of insects including some of those called fruit flies.
a genus of dicotyledonous plants having only one species.
The scum or refuse matter which is thrown off, or falls from, metals in smelting the ore, or in the process of melting; recrement.
A slut; a hussy; a drazel.
Free from dross.
Of, pertaining to, resembling, dross; full of dross; impure; worthless.
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