The author of a dramatic composition; a writer of plays.
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Capable of being dramatized.
Act of dramatizing; a dramatic representation.
To compose in the form of the drama; to represent in a drama; to adapt to dramatic representation; as, to dramatize a novel, or an historical episode.
Relating to dramaturgy.
One versed in dramaturgy.
The art of dramatic composition and representation.
The practice of drinking drams.
One who sells distilled liquors by the dram or glass.
A shop or barroom where spirits are sold by the dram.
Wild oats, or darnel grass. See Drake a plant.
To make cloth.
covered with or as if with clothes or a wrap or cloak; as, a beam draped with cobwebs. Contrasted with uncovered.
One who sells cloths; a dealer in cloths; as, a draper and tailor.
Covered or supplied with drapery.
The occupation of a draper; cloth-making, or dealing in cloth.
Cloth.
Acting rapidly and violently; efficacious; powerful; -- opposed to bland; as, drastic purgatives. A violent purgative. See Cathartic.
Filthy; worthless.
See Draft.
To draw out; to call forth. See Draft.
A checkered board on which draughts are played. See Checkerboard.
A house for the reception of waste matter; a privy.
A game, now more commonly called checkers. See Checkers.
One who draws pleadings or other writings.
The office, art, or work of a draughtsman.
Pertaining to a draught, or current of air; as, a draughtly, comfortless room.
old imp. of Drive.
A race of Hindustan, believed to be the original people who occupied the land before the Hindu or Aryan invasion.
Of or pertaining to the Dravida.
one of the languages native to southern India; a Dravidian language.
To cause to move continuously by force applied in advance of the thing moved; to pull along; to haul; to drag; to cause to follow.
The act of drawing; draught.
A single cut with a knife.
Capable of being drawn.
A loss of advantage, or deduction from profit, value, success, etc.; a discouragement or hindrance; objectionable feature.
An openmouthed bar at the end of a car, which receives a coupling link and pin by which the car is drawn. It is usually provided with a spring to give elasticity to the connection between the cars of a train. A bar of iron with an eye at each end, or a heavy link, for coupling a locomotive to a tender or car.
A machine in which strips of metal are drawn through a drawplate; especially, one in which wire is thus made; -- also called drawing bench.
A coupling pin. See under Coupling.
To make a drawbore in; as, to drawbore a tenon.
A boy who operates the harness cords of a hand loom; also, a part of power loom that performs the same office.
A bridge of which either the whole or a part is made to be raised up, let down, or drawn or turned aside, to admit or hinder communication at pleasure, as before the gate of a town or castle, or over a navigable river or canal.
A blustering, bullying fellow; a pot-valiant braggart; a bully.
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.
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