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.

A hill of compact, unstratified, glacial drift or till, usually elongate or oval, with the larger axis parallel to the former local glacial motion.

Turbid; muddy.

One whose office is to best the drum, as in military exercises and marching.

The act of beating upon, or as if upon, a drum; also, the noise which the male of the ruffed grouse makes in spring, by beating his wings upon his sides.

A stick with which a drum is beaten.

A drunken condition; a spree.

One who habitually drinks strong liquors immoderately; one whose habit it is to get drunk; a toper; a sot.

Overcome by strong drink; intoxicated by, or as by, spirituous liquor; inebriated.

Drunkenness.

In a drunken manner.

The state of being drunken with, or as with, alcoholic liquor; intoxication; inebriety; -- used of the casual state or the habit.

The state of being drunk; drunkenness.

Producing, or pertaining to, drupes; having the form of drupes; as, drupaceous trees or fruits.

Drupaceous.

A fruit consisting of pulpy, coriaceous, or fibrous exocarp, without valves, containing a nut or stone with a kernel. The exocarp is succulent in the plum, cherry, apricot, peach, etc.; dry and subcoriaceous in the almond; and fibrous in the cocoanut.

A small drupe, as one of the pulpy grains of the blackberry.

One of a people and religious sect dwelling chiefly in the Lebanon mountains of Syria.

Covered with a large number of minute crystals.

Having decayed spots or streaks of a whitish color; -- said of timber.

To grow dry; to become free from wetness, moisture, or juice; as, the road dries rapidly.

To beat severely.

Having dry bones, or bones without flesh.

to clean without the use of water; -- usually by immersing in an organic solvent to remove grease.

Not having tears in the eyes. Opposite of tearful.

Niggardly.

To feed, attend, and bring up without breastfeeding it.

To rub and cleanse without wetting.

Without wetting the feet; having or keeping the feet or shoes dry; as, a land bridge over which man and beasts could have crossed dry-shod.

Constructed of uncemented stone.

A wood nymph; a nymph whose life was bound up with that of her tree.

a genus of plants comprising tropical American species usually placed in the genus Masdevallia; they are very dwarf plants having short tufted and usually unifoliate stems with usually solitary flowers.

A genus of shrubs growing in Australia, having beautiful, hard, dry, evergreen leaves.

A dryad.

See Drier.

An ancient yearly payment made by some tenants to the king, or to their landlords, for the privilege of driving their cattle through a manor to fairs or markets.

The scent of the game, as far as it can be traced.

Adapted or tending to exhaust moisture; as, a drying wind or day; a drying room.

In a dry manner; not succulently; without interest; without sympathy; coldly.

a genus of epiphytic ferns of Madagascar to tropical Asia and New Guinea.

a genus of large robust epiphytic ferns of tropical forest and scrub; Africa and Asia and Australia.

The state of being dry. See Dry.

The genus to which belongs the single species Dryobalanops Camphora, a lofty resinous tree of Borneo and Sumatra, yielding Borneo camphor and camphor oil.

a spiny-leaved perennial herb of southern Europe having terminal clusters of small flowers.

A dealer in salted or dried meats, pickles, sauces, etc., and in the materials used in pickling, salting, and preserving various kinds of food Hence drysalters usually sell a number of saline substances and miscellaneous drugs.

The articles kept by a drysalter; also, the business of a drysalter.

A union of two; duality.

Expressing, or consisting of, the number two; belonging to two; as, the dual number of nouns, etc. , in Greek.

An explosive substance consisting essentially of sawdust or wood pulp, saturated with nitroglycerin and other similar nitro compounds. It is inferior to dynamite, and is more liable to explosion.

State of being dual or twofold; a twofold division; any system which is founded on a double principle, or a twofold distinction A view of man as constituted of two original and independent elements, as matter and spirit. A system which accepts two gods, or two original principles, one good and the other evil. The doctrine that all mankind are divided by the arbitrary decree of God, and in his eternal foreknowledge, into two classes, the elect and the reprobate. The theory that each cerebral hemisphere acts independently of the other.

One who believes in dualism; a ditheist.

Consisting of two; pertaining to dualism or duality.

The quality or condition of being two or twofold; dual character or usage.

A division of a poem corresponding to a canto; a poem or song.

Government by two persons.

A pool or puddle.

The Syrian bear. See under Bear.

A globular vessel or bottle of leather, used in India to hold ghee, oil, etc.

The act of dubbing, as a knight, etc.

Doubtfulness; uncertainty; doubt.

The state of being doubtful; a doubtful statement or thing.

Doubtful or not settled in opinion; being in doubt; wavering or fluctuating; undetermined.

In a dubious manner.

State of being dubious.

Liable to be doubted; uncertain.

Doubt; uncertainty.

To doubt.

Act of doubting; doubt.

Tending to doubt; doubtful.

The capital city of Ireland. Population (2000) = nk.

Same as Duboisine.

An alkaloid obtained from the leaves of an Australian tree (Duboisia myoporoides), and regarded as identical with hyoscyamine. It produces dilation of the pupil of the eye.

Of or pertaining to a duke.

In the manner of a duke, or in a manner becoming the rank of a duke.

A coin, either of gold or silver, of several countries in Europe; originally, one struck in the dominions of a duke.

A silver coin of several countries of Europe, and of different values.

The wife or widow of a duke; also, a lady who has the sovereignty of a duchy in her own right.

The territory or dominions of a duke; a dukedom.

Any bird of the subfamily Anatin/, family Anatid/.

having a beak resembling that of a duck.

Having a bill like that of a duck; as, a duck-billed dinosaur.

same as Duck Mole, under Duck.

Having short legs, like a waddling duck; short-legged.

Having the form of a duck's bill.