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 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.

See Drossel.

of Draw.

Dryness; want of rain or of water; especially, such dryness of the weather as affects the earth, and prevents the growth of plants; aridity.

A state of dryness of the weather; want of rain.

Characterized by drought; wanting rain; arid; adust.

Troubled; muddy.

Same as Drought.

Droughty.

To drive, as cattle or sheep, esp. on long journeys; to follow the occupation of a drover.

of Drive.

One who drives cattle or sheep to market; one who makes it his business to purchase cattle, and drive them to market.

Turbid; muddy; filthy.

of Draw.

To overwhelm in water; to submerge; to inundate.

The act of drowning.

One who, or that which, drowns.

A slight or imperfect sleep; a doze.

Drowsiness.

Drowsihead.

In a drowsy manner.

State of being drowsy.

sleeping lightly.

Inclined to drowse; heavy with sleepiness; lethargic; dozy.

See Drought.

See Droil.

A blow with a cudgel; a thump.

One who drubs.

One who drudges; one who works hard in servile employment; a menial servant.

One who drudges; a drudge.

The act of drudging; disagreeable and wearisome labor; ignoble or slavish toil.

In a drudging manner; laboriously.

Courtship; gallantry; love; an object of love.

To affect or season with drugs or ingredients; esp., to stupefy by a narcotic drug. Also Fig.

under the influence of narcotics or hypnotic drugs.

A druggist.

A coarse woolen cloth dyed of one color or printed on one side; generally used as a covering for carpets. By extension, any material used for the same purpose.

the administration of a sedative agent or drug.

One who deals in drugs; especially, one who buys and sells drugs without compounding them; one who owns or operates a drugstore.

A druggist.

a retail shop where medicine and other articles are sold.

One of an order of priests which in ancient times existed among certain branches of the Celtic race, especially among the Gauls and Britons.

A female Druid; a prophetess.

Pertaining to, or resembling, the Druids.

Druidic.

The system of religion, philosophy, and instruction, received and taught by the Druids; the rites and ceremonies of the Druids.

To execute on a drum, as a tune.

The sound of a beaten drum; drum music.

To be sluggish or lazy; to be confused.

Any fish of the family Sci/nid/, which makes a loud noise by means of its air bladder; -- called also drum.

The parchment or skin stretched over one end of a drum.