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d880ariama \[d8][80]a`ri*a"ma\ (s[aum]`r[esl]*[adot]"m[adot]), n. [Native name.] (Zo[94]l.) A large, long-legged South American bird ({Dicholophus cristatus}) which preys upon snakes, etc. See {Seriema}. | |
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d8Arna \[d8]Ar"na\, d8Arnee \[d8]Ar"nee\, n. (Zo[94]l.) The wild buffalo of India ({Bos, or Bubalus, arni}), larger than the domestic buffalo and having enormous horns. | |
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d8Arna \[d8]Ar"na\, d8Arnee \[d8]Ar"nee\, n. (Zo[94]l.) The wild buffalo of India ({Bos, or Bubalus, arni}), larger than the domestic buffalo and having enormous horns. | |
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d8Arum \[d8]A"rum\, n. [L. arum, aros, Gr. [?].] A genus of plants found in central Europe and about the Mediterranean, having flowers on a spadix inclosed in a spathe. The cuckoopint of the English is an example. Our common arums -- the lords and ladies of village children. --Lubbock. Note: The American [bd]Jack in the pulpit[b8] is now separated from the genus Arum. | |
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d8Aurum \[d8]Au"rum\, n. [L.] Gold. {Aurum fulminans} ([?]). See {Fulminate}. {Aurum mosaicum} ([?]). See {Mosaic}. | |
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d8Derma \[d8]Der"ma\, n. [NL. See {Derm}.] (Anat.) See {Dermis}. | |
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d8Diurna \[d8]Di*ur"na\, n. pl. [NL., fr. L. diurnus belonging to the day.] (Zo[94]l.) A division of Lepidoptera, including the butterflies; -- so called because they fly only in the daytime. | |
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d8Draine \[d8]Draine\, n. [F.] (Zo[94]l.) The missel thrush. | |
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d8Herma \[d8]Her"ma\, n.; pl. {Herm[91]}. [L.] See {Hermes}, 2. | |
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d8Hieron \[d8]Hi"er*on\, n. [Gr. "iero`n.] A consecrated place; esp., a temple. | |
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d8Ihram \[d8]Ih*ram"\, n. The peculiar dress worn by pilgrims to Mecca. | |
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d8Rana \[d8]Ra"na\, n. [L., a frog.] (Zo[94]l.) A genus of anurous batrachians, including the common frogs. | |
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d8Ranee \[d8]Ra"nee\, n. Same as {Rani}. | |
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d8Rani \[d8]Ra"ni\, n. [Hind. r[be]n[c6], Skr. r[be]jn[c6]. See {Rajah}.] A queen or princess; the wife of a rajah. [Written also {ranee}.] [India] | |
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d8Rheum \[d8]Rhe"um\ (r[emac]"[ucr]m), n. [NL., from L. Rha the river Volga, on the banks of which it grows. See {Rhubarb}.] (Bot.) A genus of plants. See {Rhubarb}. | |
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d8Rima \[d8]Ri"ma\, n.; pl. {Rim[91]}. [L.] (Anat.) A narrow and elongated aperture; a cleft; a fissure. | |
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d8Terma \[d8]Ter"ma\, n. [NL. See {Term}, n.] (Anat.) The terminal lamina, or thin ventral part, of the anterior wall of the third ventricle of the brain. --B. G. Wilder. | |
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d8Therm91 \[d8]Ther"m[91]\, n. pl. [L. See {Thermal}.] Springs or baths of warm or hot water. | |
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Toran \To"ran\, d8Torana \[d8]To"ra*na\, n. [Skr. t[d3]ra[nsdot]a an arch, a gate.] (Indian Arch.) A gateway, commonly of wood, but sometimes of stone, consisting of two upright pillars carrying one to three transverse lintels. It is often minutely carved with symbolic sculpture, and serves as a monumental approach to a Buddhist temple. | |
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d8Trama \[d8]Tra"ma\, n. [L., woof.] (Bot.) The loosely woven substance which lines the chambers within the gleba in certain {Gasteromycetes}. | |
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d8Ur91mia \[d8]U*r[91]"mi*a\, n. [NL., fr. Gr. [?] urine + [?] blood.] (Med.) Accumulation in the blood of the principles of the urine, producing dangerous disease. | |
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d8Ur91um \[d8]U*r[91]"um\, n. [NL., from Gr. [?] [?], fr. [?] of the tail; cf. L. uraeus, adj.] (Zo[94]l.) The posterior half of an animal. | |
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d8Urim \[d8]U"rim\, n. [Heb. [?]r[c6]m, pl. of [?]r, fire [?]r light.] A part or decoration of the breastplate of the high priest among the ancient Jews, by which Jehovah revealed his will on certain occasions. Its nature has been the subject of conflicting conjectures. Thou shall put in the breastplate of judgment the Urim and the Thummim. --Ex. xxviii. 30. And when Saul inquired of the Lord, the Lord answered him not, neither by dreams, nor by Urim, nor by prophets. --1 Sam. xxviii. 6. Note: Professor Plumptre supposes the Urim to have been a clear and colorless stone set in the breastplate of the high priest as a symbol of light, answering to the mystic scarab in the pectoral plate of the ancient Egyptian priests, and that the Thummim was an image corresponding to that worn by the priestly judges of Egypt as a symbol of truth and purity of motive. By gazing steadfastly on these, he may have been thrown into a mysterious, half ecstatic state, akin to hypnotism, in which he lost all personal consciousness, and received a spiritual illumination and insight. | |
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Darn \Darn\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Darned}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Darning}.] [OE. derne, prob. of Celtic origin; cf. W. darnio to piece, break in pieces, W. & Arm. to E. tear. Cf. {Tear}, v. t.] To mend as a rent or hole, with interlacing stitches of yarn or thread by means of a needle; to sew together with yarn or thread. He spent every day ten hours in his closet, in darning his stockins. --Swift. {Darning last}. See under {Last}. {Darning needle}. (a) A long, strong needle for mending holes or rents, especially in stockings. (b) (Zo[94]l.) Any species of dragon fly, having a long, cylindrical body, resembling a needle. These flies are harmless and without stings. Note: [In this sense, usually written with a hyphen.] Called also {devil's darning-needle}. | |
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Darn \Darn\, n. A place mended by darning. | |
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Darn \Darn\, v. t. A colloquial euphemism for {Damn}. | |
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Darraign \Dar"raign\, Darrain \Dar"rain\,, v. t. [OF. deraisnier to explain, defend, to maintain in legal action by proof and reasonings, LL. derationare; de- + rationare to discourse, contend in law, fr. L. ratio reason, in LL., legal cause. Cf. {Arraign}, and see {Reason}.] 1. To make ready to fight; to array. [Obs.] Darrain your battle, for they are at hand. --Shak. 2. To fight out; to contest; to decide by combat. [Obs.] [bd]To darrain the battle.[b8] --Chaucer . | |
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Darrein \Dar"rein\, a. [OF. darrein, darrain, fr. an assumed LL. deretranus; L. de + retro back, backward.] (Law) Last; as, darrein continuance, the last continuance. | |
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Dearn \Dearn\, a. [AS. derne, dyrne, dierne, hidden, secret. Cf. {Derne}.] Secret; lonely; solitary; dreadful. [Obs.] --Shak. -- {Dearn"ly}, adv. [Obs.] --Chaucer. | |
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Dearn \Dearn\, v. t. Same as {Darn}. [Obs.] | |
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Dehorn \De*horn"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Dehorned}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Dehorning}.] To deprive of horns; to prevent the growth of the horns of (cattle) by burning their ends soon after they start. See {Dishorn}. [bd]Dehorning cattle.[b8] --Farm Journal (1886). | |
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Deraign \De*raign"\, Derain \De*rain"\, v. t. [See {Darraign}.] (Old Law) To prove or to refute by proof; to clear (one's self). [Obs.] | |
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Dereine \De*reine\, Dereyne \De*reyne"\, v. t. Same as {Darraign}. [Obs.] --Chaucer. | |
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Dereine \De*reine\, Dereyne \De*reyne"\, v. t. Same as {Darraign}. [Obs.] --Chaucer. | |
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-derm \-derm\ [See {Derm}, n.] A suffix or terminal formative, much used in anatomical terms, and signifying skin, integument, covering; as, blastoderm, ectoderm, etc. | |
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Derm \Derm\, n. [Gr. de`rma, -atos, skin, fr. [?] to skin, flay: cf. F. derme. See {Tear}, v. t.] 1. The integument of animal; the skin. 2. (Anat.) See {Dermis}. | |
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d8Dermis \[d8]Der"mis\, n. [NL. See {Derm}.] (Anat.) The deep sensitive layer of the skin beneath the scarfskin or epidermis; -- called also {true skin}, {derm}, {derma}, {corium}, {cutis}, and {enderon}. See {Skin}, and Illust. in Appendix. | |
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-derm \-derm\ [See {Derm}, n.] A suffix or terminal formative, much used in anatomical terms, and signifying skin, integument, covering; as, blastoderm, ectoderm, etc. | |
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Derm \Derm\, n. [Gr. de`rma, -atos, skin, fr. [?] to skin, flay: cf. F. derme. See {Tear}, v. t.] 1. The integument of animal; the skin. 2. (Anat.) See {Dermis}. | |
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d8Dermis \[d8]Der"mis\, n. [NL. See {Derm}.] (Anat.) The deep sensitive layer of the skin beneath the scarfskin or epidermis; -- called also {true skin}, {derm}, {derma}, {corium}, {cutis}, and {enderon}. See {Skin}, and Illust. in Appendix. | |
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-derm \-derm\ [See {Derm}, n.] A suffix or terminal formative, much used in anatomical terms, and signifying skin, integument, covering; as, blastoderm, ectoderm, etc. | |
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Derm \Derm\, n. [Gr. de`rma, -atos, skin, fr. [?] to skin, flay: cf. F. derme. See {Tear}, v. t.] 1. The integument of animal; the skin. 2. (Anat.) See {Dermis}. | |
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d8Dermis \[d8]Der"mis\, n. [NL. See {Derm}.] (Anat.) The deep sensitive layer of the skin beneath the scarfskin or epidermis; -- called also {true skin}, {derm}, {derma}, {corium}, {cutis}, and {enderon}. See {Skin}, and Illust. in Appendix. | |
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d8Dermis \[d8]Der"mis\, n. [NL. See {Derm}.] (Anat.) The deep sensitive layer of the skin beneath the scarfskin or epidermis; -- called also {true skin}, {derm}, {derma}, {corium}, {cutis}, and {enderon}. See {Skin}, and Illust. in Appendix. | |
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Dern \Dern\, a. [See {Dearn}, a.] 1. Hidden; concealed; secret. [Obs.] [bd]Ye must be full dern.[b8] --Chaucer. 2. Solitary; sad. [Obs.] --Dr. H. More. | |
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Dern \Dern\, n. [Etymol. uncertain.] A gatepost or doorpost. [Local Eng.] --C. Kingsley. | |
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Derne \Derne\, v. t. & i. [AS. dyrnan to hide. See {Dern}, a., {Dearn}, a.] To hide; to skulk. [Scot.] He at length escaped them by derning himself in a foxearth. --H. Miller. | |
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Dewworm \Dew"worm`\, n. (Zo[94]l.) See {Earthworm}. | |
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Earthworm \Earth"worm`\, n. 1. (Zo[94]l.) Any worm of the genus {Lumbricus} and allied genera, found in damp soil. One of the largest and most abundant species in Europe and America is {L. terrestris}; many others are known; -- called also {angleworm} and {dewworm}. 2. A mean, sordid person; a niggard. --Norris. | |
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Dewworm \Dew"worm`\, n. (Zo[94]l.) See {Earthworm}. | |
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Earthworm \Earth"worm`\, n. 1. (Zo[94]l.) Any worm of the genus {Lumbricus} and allied genera, found in damp soil. One of the largest and most abundant species in Europe and America is {L. terrestris}; many others are known; -- called also {angleworm} and {dewworm}. 2. A mean, sordid person; a niggard. --Norris. | |
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Diarial \Di*a"ri*al\, Diarian \Di*a"ri*an\, a. [See {Diary}.] Pertaining to a diary; daily. | |
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Diorama \Di`o*ra"ma\, n. [Gr. [?] to see through; [?] = dia` through + [?] to see; cf. [?] that which is seen, a sight: cf. F. diorama. Cf. {Panorama}.] 1. A mode of scenic representation, invented by Daguerre and Bouton, in which a painting is seen from a distance through a large opening. By a combination of transparent and opaque painting, and of transmitted and reflected light, and by contrivances such as screens and shutters, much diversity of scenic effect is produced. 2. A building used for such an exhibition. | |
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Dorian \Do"ri*an\, n. A native or inhabitant of Doris in Greece. | |
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Dorian \Do"ri*an\, a. 1. Of or pertaining to the ancient Greeks of Doris; Doric; as, a Dorian fashion. 2. (Mus.) Same as {Doric}, 3. [bd]Dorian mood.[b8] --Milton. {Dorian mode} (Mus.), the first of the authentic church modes or tones, from D to D, resembling our D minor scale, but with the B natural. --Grove. | |
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Dormy \Dor"my\, a. [Origin uncertain.] (Golf) Up, or ahead, as many holes as remain to be played; -- said of a player or side. Note: A player who is dormy can not be beaten, and at the worst must halve the match. --Encyc. of Sport. | |
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Dorn \Dorn\, n. [Cf. G. dorn thorn, D. doorn, and G. dornfisch stickleback.] (Zo[94]l.) A British ray; the thornback. | |
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Drain \Drain\, v. i. 1. To flow gradually; as, the water of low ground drains off. 2. To become emptied of liquor by flowing or dropping; as, let the vessel stand and drain. | |
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Drain \Drain\, n. 1. The act of draining, or of drawing off; gradual and continuous outflow or withdrawal; as, the drain of specie from a country. 2. That means of which anything is drained; a channel; a trench; a water course; a sewer; a sink. 3. pl. The grain from the mashing tub; as, brewers' drains. [Eng.] --Halliwell. {Box drain}, {Counter drain}. See under {Box}, {Counter}. {Right of drain} (Law), an easement or servitude by which one man has a right to convey water in pipes through or over the estate of another. --Kent. | |
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Drain \Drain\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Drained}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Draining}.] [AS. drehnigean to drain, strain; perh. akin to E. draw.] 1. To draw off by degrees; to cause to flow gradually out or off; hence, to cause the exhaustion of. Fountains drain the water from the ground adjacent. --Bacon. But it was not alone that the he drained their treasure and hampered their industry. --Motley. 2. To exhaust of liquid contents by drawing them off; to make gradually dry or empty; to remove surface water, as from streets, by gutters, etc.; to deprive of moisture; hence, to exhaust; to empty of wealth, resources, or the like; as, to drain a country of its specie. Sinking waters, the firm land to drain, Filled the capacious deep and formed the main. --Roscommon. 3. To filter. Salt water, drained through twenty vessels of earth, hath become fresh. --Bacon. | |
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Dram \Dram\, n. [OF. drame, F. drachme, L. drachma, drachm, drachma, fr. Gr. [?], prop., a handful, fr. [?] to grasp. Cf. {Drachm}, {Drachma}.] 1. A weight; in Apothecaries' weight, one eighth part of an ounce, or sixty grains; in Avoirdupois weight, one sixteenth part of an ounce, or 27.34375 grains. 2. A minute quantity; a mite. Were I the chooser, a dram of well-doing should be preferred before many times as mush the forcible hindrance of evildoing. --Milton. 3. As much spirituous liquor as is usually drunk at once; as, a dram of brandy; hence, a potation or potion; as, a dram of poison. --Shak. 4. (Numis.) A Persian daric. --Ezra ii. 69. {Fluid dram}, [or] {Fluid drachm}. See under {Fluid}. | |
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Dram \Dram\, v. i. & t. To drink drams; to ply with drams. [Low] --Johnson. --Thackeray. | |
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Drama \Dra"ma\ (?; 277), n. [L. drama, Gr. [?], fr. [?] to do, act; cf. Lith. daryti.] 1. A composition, in prose or poetry, accommodated to action, and intended to exhibit a picture of human life, or to depict a series of grave or humorous actions of more than ordinary interest, tending toward some striking result. It is commonly designed to be spoken and represented by actors on the stage. A divine pastoral drama in the Song of Solomon. --Milton. 2. A series of real events invested with a dramatic unity and interest. [bd]The drama of war.[b8] --Thackeray. Westward the course of empire takes its way; The four first acts already past, A fifth shall close the drama with the day; Time's noblest offspring is the last. --Berkeley. The drama and contrivances of God's providence. --Sharp. 3. Dramatic composition and the literature pertaining to or illustrating it; dramatic literature. Note: The principal species of the drama are {tragedy} and {comedy}; inferior species are {tragi-comedy}, {melodrama}, {operas}, {burlettas}, and {farces}. {The romantic drama}, the kind of drama whose aim is to present a tale or history in scenes, and whose plays (like those of Shakespeare, Marlowe, and others) are stories told in dialogue by actors on the stage. --J. A. Symonds. | |
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Drawn \Drawn\, p. p. & a. See {Draw}, v. t. & i. {Drawn butter}, butter melter and prepared to be used as a sort of gravy. {Drawn fowl}, an eviscerated fowl. {Drawn game} [or] {battle}, one in which neither party wins; one equally contested. {Drawn fox}, one driven from cover. --Shak. {Drawn work}, ornamental work made by drawing out threads from fine cloth, and uniting the cross threads, to form a pattern. | |
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Draw \Draw\ (dr[add]), v. t. [imp. {Drew} (dr[udd]); p. p. {Drawn} (dr[add]n); p. pr. & vb. n. {Drawing}.] [OE. dra[yogh]en, drahen, draien, drawen, AS. dragan; akin to Icel. & Sw. draga, Dan. drage to draw, carry, and prob. to OS. dragan to bear, carry, D. dragen, G. tragen, Goth. dragan; cf. Skr. dhraj to move along, glide; and perh. akin to Skr. dhar to hold, bear. [root]73. Cf. 2d {Drag}, {Dray} a cart, 1st {Dredge}.] 1. 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. He cast him down to ground, and all along Drew him through dirt and mire without remorse. --Spenser. He hastened to draw the stranger into a private room. --Sir W. Scott. Do not rich men oppress you, and draw you before the judgment seats? --James ii. 6. The arrow is now drawn to the head. --Atterbury. 2. To influence to move or tend toward one's self; to exercise an attracting force upon; to call towards itself; to attract; hence, to entice; to allure; to induce. The poet Did feign that Orpheus drew trees, stones, and floods. --Shak. All eyes you draw, and with the eyes the heart. --Dryden. 3. To cause to come out for one's use or benefit; to extract; to educe; to bring forth; as: (a) To bring or take out, or to let out, from some receptacle, as a stick or post from a hole, water from a cask or well, etc. The drew out the staves of the ark. --2 Chron. v. 9. Draw thee waters for the siege. --Nahum iii. 14. I opened the tumor by the point of a lancet without drawing one drop of blood. --Wiseman. (b) To pull from a sheath, as a sword. I will draw my sword, my hand shall destroy them. --Ex. xv. 9. (c) To extract; to force out; to elicit; to derive. Spirits, by distillations, may be drawn out of vegetable juices, which shall flame and fume of themselves. --Cheyne. Until you had drawn oaths from him. --Shak. (d) To obtain from some cause or origin; to infer from evidence or reasons; to deduce from premises; to derive. We do not draw the moral lessons we might from history. --Burke. (e) To take or procure from a place of deposit; to call for and receive from a fund, or the like; as, to draw money from a bank. (f) To take from a box or wheel, as a lottery ticket; to receive from a lottery by the drawing out of the numbers for prizes or blanks; hence, to obtain by good fortune; to win; to gain; as, he drew a prize. (g) To select by the drawing of lots. Provided magistracies were filled by men freely chosen or drawn. --Freeman. 4. To remove the contents of; as: (a) To drain by emptying; to suck dry. Sucking and drawing the breast dischargeth the milk as fast as it can generated. --Wiseman. (b) To extract the bowels of; to eviscerate; as, to draw a fowl; to hang, draw, and quarter a criminal. In private draw your poultry, clean your tripe. --King. 5. To take into the lungs; to inhale; to inspire; hence, also, to utter or produce by an inhalation; to heave. [bd]Where I first drew air.[b8] --Milton. Drew, or seemed to draw, a dying groan. --Dryden. 6. To extend in length; to lengthen; to protract; to stretch; to extend, as a mass of metal into wire. How long her face is drawn! --Shak. And the huge Offa's dike which he drew from the mouth of Wye to that of Dee. --J. R. Green. 7. To run, extend, or produce, as a line on any surface; hence, also, to form by marking; to make by an instrument of delineation; to produce, as a sketch, figure, or picture. 8. To represent by lines drawn; to form a sketch or a picture of; to represent by a picture; to delineate; hence, to represent by words; to depict; to describe. A flattering painter who made it his care To draw men as they ought to be, not as they are. --Goldsmith. Can I, untouched, the fair one's passions move, Or thou draw beauty and not feel its power? --Prior. 9. To write in due form; to prepare a draught of; as, to draw a memorial, a deed, or bill of exchange. Clerk, draw a deed of gift. --Shak. 10. To require (so great a depth, as of water) for floating; -- said of a vessel; to sink so deep in (water); as, a ship draws ten feet of water. 11. To withdraw. [Obs.] --Chaucer. Go wash thy face, and draw the action. --Shak. 12. To trace by scent; to track; -- a hunting term. Note: Draw, in most of its uses, retains some shade of its original sense, to pull, to move forward by the application of force in advance, or to extend in length, and usually expresses an action as gradual or continuous, and leisurely. We pour liquid quickly, but we draw it in a continued stream. We force compliance by threats, but we draw it by gradual prevalence. We may write a letter with haste, but we draw a bill with slow caution and regard to a precise form. We draw a bar of metal by continued beating. {To draw a bow}, to bend the bow by drawing the string for discharging the arrow. {To draw a cover}, to clear a cover of the game it contains. {To draw a curtain}, to cause a curtain to slide or move, either closing or unclosing. [bd]Night draws the curtain, which the sun withdraws.[b8] --Herbert. {To draw a line}, to fix a limit or boundary. {To draw back}, to receive back, as duties on goods for exportation. {To draw breath}, to breathe. --Shak. {To draw cuts} [or] {lots}. See under {Cut}, n. {To draw in}. (a) To bring or pull in; to collect. (b) To entice; to inveigle. {To draw interest}, to produce or gain interest. {To draw off}, to withdraw; to abstract. --Addison. {To draw on}, to bring on; to occasion; to cause. [bd]War which either his negligence drew on, or his practices procured.[b8] --Hayward. {To draw (one) out}, to elicit cunningly the thoughts and feelings of another. {To draw out}, to stretch or extend; to protract; to spread out. -- [bd]Wilt thou draw out thine anger to all generations?[b8] --Ps. lxxxv. 5. [bd]Linked sweetness long drawn out.[b8] --Milton. {To draw over}, to cause to come over, to induce to leave one part or side for the opposite one. {To draw the longbow}, to exaggerate; to tell preposterous tales. {To draw (one)} {to [or] on to} (something), to move, to incite, to induce. [bd]How many actions most ridiculous hast thou been drawn to by thy fantasy?[b8] --Shak. {To draw up}. (a) To compose in due form; to draught; to form in writing. (b) To arrange in order, as a body of troops; to array. [bd]Drawn up in battle to receive the charge.[b8] --Dryden. Syn: To {Draw}, {Drag}. Usage: Draw differs from drag in this, that drag implies a natural inaptitude for drawing, or positive resistance; it is applied to things pulled or hauled along the ground, or moved with toil or difficulty. Draw is applied to all bodies moved by force in advance, whatever may be the degree of force; it commonly implies that some kind of aptitude or provision exists for drawing. Draw is the more general or generic term, and drag the more specific. We say, the horses draw a coach or wagon, but they drag it through mire; yet draw is properly used in both cases. | |
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Dream \Dream\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Dreamed}or {Dreamt} ([?]); p. pr. & vb. n. {Dreaming}.] [Cf. AS. dr[?]man, dr[?]man, to rejoice. See {Dream}, n.] 1. To have ideas or images in the mind while in the state of sleep; to experience sleeping visions; -- often with of; as, to dream of a battle, or of an absent friend. 2. To let the mind run on in idle revery or vagary; to anticipate vaguely as a coming and happy reality; to have a visionary notion or idea; to imagine. Here may we sit and dream Over the heavenly theme. --Keble. They dream on in a constant course of reading, but not digesting. --Locke. | |
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Dream \Dream\ (dr[emac]m), n. [Akin to OS. dr[omac]m, D. droom, G. traum, Icel. draumr, Dan. & Sw. dr[94]m; cf. G. tr[81]gen to deceive, Skr. druh to harm, hurt, try to hurt. AS. dre[a0]m joy, gladness, and OS. dr[omac]m joy are, perh., different words; cf. Gr. qry^los noise.] 1. The thoughts, or series of thoughts, or imaginary transactions, which occupy the mind during sleep; a sleeping vision. Dreams are but interludes which fancy makes. --Dryden. I had a dream which was not all a dream. --Byron. 2. A visionary scheme; a wild conceit; an idle fancy; a vagary; a revery; -- in this sense, applied to an imaginary or anticipated state of happiness; as, a dream of bliss; the dream of his youth. There sober thought pursued the amusing theme, Till Fancy colored it and formed a dream. --Pope. It is not them a mere dream, but a very real aim which they propose. --J. C. Shairp. | |
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Dream \Dream\, v. t. To have a dream of; to see, or have a vision of, in sleep, or in idle fancy; -- often followed by an objective clause. Your old men shall dream dreams. --Acts ii. 17. At length in sleep their bodies they compose, And dreamt the future fight. --Dryden. And still they dream that they shall still succeed. --Cowper. {To dream} {away, out, through}, etc., to pass in revery or inaction; to spend in idle vagaries; as, to dream away an hour; to dream through life. [bd] Why does Antony dream out his hours?[b8] --Dryden. | |
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Dreamy \Dream"y\, a. [Compar. {Dreamier}; superl. {Dreamiest}.] Abounding in dreams or given to dreaming; appropriate to, or like, dreams; visionary. [bd]The dreamy dells.[b8] --Tennyson. | |
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Drein \Drein\, v. i. To drain. [Obs.] --Congreve. | |
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Drome \Drome\ (dr[omac]m), n. Short for {A[eum]rodrome}. [Slang] | |
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Drome \Drome\ (dr[omac]m), n. [F., fr. Gr. droma`s running. See {Dromedary}.] (Zo[94]l.) The crab plover ({Dromas ardeola}), a peculiar North African bird, allied to the oyster catcher. | |
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Drone \Drone\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Droned}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Droning}.] [Cf. (for sense 1) D. dreunen, G. dr[94]hnen, Icel. drynja to roar, drynr a roaring, Sw. dr[94]na to bellow, drone, Dan. dr[94]ne, Goth. drunjus sound, Gr. [?] dirge, [?] to cry aloud, Skr. dhran to sound. Cf. {Drone}, n.] 1. To utter or make a low, dull, monotonous, humming or murmuring sound. Where the beetle wheels his droning flight. --T. Gray. 2. To love in idleness; to do nothing. [bd]Race of droning kings.[b8] --Dryden. | |
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Drone \Drone\, n. [OE. drane a dronebee, AS. dr[be]n; akin to OS. dr[be]n, OHG. treno, G. drohne, Dan. drone, cf. Gr. [?] a kind of wasp, dial. Gr. [?] drone. Prob. named fr. the droning sound. See {Drone}, v. i.] 1. (Zo[94]l.) The male of bees, esp. of the honeybee. It gathers no honey. See {Honeybee}. All with united force combine to drive The lazy drones from the laborious hive. --Dryden. 2. One who lives on the labors of others; a lazy, idle fellow; a sluggard. By living as a drone,to be an unprofitable and unworthy member of so noble and learned a society. -- Burton. 3. That which gives out a grave or monotonous tone or dull sound; as: (a) A drum. [Obs.] Halliwell. (b) The part of the bagpipe containing the two lowest tubes, which always sound the key note and the fifth. 4. A humming or deep murmuring sound. The monotonous drone of the wheel. --Longfellow. 5. (Mus.) A monotonous bass, as in a pastoral composition. | |
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Drony \Dron"y\, a. Like a drone; sluggish; lazy. | |
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Droumy \Drou"my\, a. [Cf. Scot. drum, dram, melancholy, Icel prumr a moper, W. trwm heavy, sad.] Troubled; muddy. [Obs.] --Bacon. | |
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Drown \Drown\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Drowned}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Drowning}.] [OE. drunen, drounen, earlier drunknen, druncnien, AS. druncnian to be drowned, sink, become drunk, fr. druncen drunken. See {Drunken}, {Drink}.] To be suffocated in water or other fluid; to perish in water. Methought, what pain it was to drown. --Shak. | |
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Drown \Drown\, v. t. 1. To overwhelm in water; to submerge; to inundate. [bd]They drown the land.[b8] --Dryden. 2. To deprive of life by immersion in water or other liquid. 3. To overpower; to overcome; to extinguish; -- said especially of sound. Most men being in sensual pleasures drowned. --Sir J. Davies. My private voice is drowned amid the senate. --Addison. {To drown up}, to swallow up. [Obs.] --Holland. | |
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Vase \Vase\ (v[amac]s or v[aum]z; 277), n. [F. vase; cf. Sp. & It. vaso; fr. L. vas, vasum. Cf. {Vascular}, {Vessel}.] 1. A vessel adapted for various domestic purposes, and anciently for sacrificial uses; especially, a vessel of antique or elegant pattern used for ornament; as, a porcelain vase; a gold vase; a Grecian vase. See Illust. of {Portland vase}, under {Portland}. No chargers then were wrought in burnished gold, Nor silver vases took the forming mold. --Pope. 2. (Arch.) (a) A vessel similar to that described in the first definition above, or the representation of one in a solid block of stone, or the like, used for an ornament, as on a terrace or in a garden. See Illust. of {Niche}. (b) The body, or naked ground, of the Corinthian and Composite capital; -- called also {tambour}, and {drum}. Note: Until the time of Walker (1791), vase was made to rhyme with base,, case, etc., and it is still commonly so pronounced in the United States. Walker made it to rhyme with phrase, maze, etc. Of modern English practice, Mr. A. J. Ellis (1874) says: [bd]Vase has four pronunciations in English: v[add]z, which I most commonly say, is going out of use, v[84]z I hear most frequently, v[be]z very rarely, and v[be]s I only know from Cull's marking. On the analogy of case, however, it should be the regular sound.[b8] | |
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Swag \Swag\, n. [Australia] (a) A tramping bushman's luggage, rolled up either in canvas or in a blanket so as to form a long bundle, and carried on the back or over the shoulder; -- called also a {bluey}, or a {drum}. (b) Any bundle of luggage similarly rolled up; hence, luggage in general. He tramped for years till the swag he bore seemed part of himself. --Lawson. | |
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Drum \Drum\, v. t. 1. To execute on a drum, as a tune. 2. (With out) To expel ignominiously, with beat of drum; as, to drum out a deserter or rogue from a camp, etc. 3. (With up) To assemble by, or as by, beat of drum; to collect; to gather or draw by solicitation; as, to drum up recruits; to drum up customers. | |
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Drum \Drum\, n. [Cf. D. trom, trommel, LG. trumme, G. trommel, Dan. tromme, Sw. trumma, OHG. trumba a trumpet, Icel. pruma a clap of thunder, and as a verb, to thunder, Dan. drum a booming sound, drumme to boom; prob. partly at least of imitative origin; perh. akin to E. trum, or trumpet.] 1. (Mus.) An instrument of percussion, consisting either of a hollow cylinder, over each end of which is stretched a piece of skin or vellum, to be beaten with a stick; or of a metallic hemisphere (kettledrum) with a single piece of skin to be so beaten; the common instrument for marking time in martial music; one of the pair of tympani in an orchestra, or cavalry band. The drums cry bud-a-dub. --Gascoigne. 2. Anything resembling a drum in form; as: (a) A sheet iron radiator, often in the shape of a drum, for warming an apartment by means of heat received from a stovepipe, or a cylindrical receiver for steam, etc. (b) A small cylindrical box in which figs, etc., are packed. (c) (Anat.) The tympanum of the ear; -- often, but incorrectly, applied to the tympanic membrane. (d) (Arch.) One of the cylindrical, or nearly cylindrical, blocks, of which the shaft of a column is composed; also, a vertical wall, whether circular or polygonal in plan, carrying a cupola or dome. (e) (Mach.) A cylinder on a revolving shaft, generally for the purpose of driving several pulleys, by means of belts or straps passing around its periphery; also, the barrel of a hoisting machine, on which the rope or chain is wound. 3. (Zo[94]l.) See {Drumfish}. 4. A noisy, tumultuous assembly of fashionable people at a private house; a rout. [Archaic] Not unaptly styled a drum, from the noise and emptiness of the entertainment. --Smollett. Note: There were also drum major, rout, tempest, and hurricane, differing only in degrees of multitude and uproar, as the significant name of each declares. 5. A tea party; a kettledrum. --G. Eliot. {Bass drum}. See in the Vocabulary. {Double drum}. See under {Double}. | |
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Drum \Drum\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Drummed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Drumming}.] 1. To beat a drum with sticks; to beat or play a tune on a drum. 2. To beat with the fingers, as with drumsticks; to beat with a rapid succession of strokes; to make a noise like that of a beaten drum; as, the ruffed grouse drums with his wings. Drumming with his fingers on the arm of his chair. --W. Irving. 3. To throb, as the heart. [R.] --Dryden. 4. To go about, as a drummer does, to gather recruits, to draw or secure partisans, customers, etc,; -- with for. | |
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Drumfish \Drum"fish`\, n. (Zo[94]l.) Any fish of the family {Sci[91]nid[91]}, which makes a loud noise by means of its air bladder; -- called also {drum}. | |
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Croaker \Croak"er\ (-?r), n. 1. One who croaks, murmurs, grumbles, or complains unreasonably; one who habitually forebodes evil. 2. (Zo[94]l.) (a) A small American fish ({Micropogon undulatus}), of the Atlantic coast. (a) An American fresh-water fish ({Aplodinotus grunniens}); -- called also {drum}. (c) The surf fish of California. Note: When caught these fishes make a croaking sound; whence the name, which is often corrupted into crocus. | |
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Vase \Vase\ (v[amac]s or v[aum]z; 277), n. [F. vase; cf. Sp. & It. vaso; fr. L. vas, vasum. Cf. {Vascular}, {Vessel}.] 1. A vessel adapted for various domestic purposes, and anciently for sacrificial uses; especially, a vessel of antique or elegant pattern used for ornament; as, a porcelain vase; a gold vase; a Grecian vase. See Illust. of {Portland vase}, under {Portland}. No chargers then were wrought in burnished gold, Nor silver vases took the forming mold. --Pope. 2. (Arch.) (a) A vessel similar to that described in the first definition above, or the representation of one in a solid block of stone, or the like, used for an ornament, as on a terrace or in a garden. See Illust. of {Niche}. (b) The body, or naked ground, of the Corinthian and Composite capital; -- called also {tambour}, and {drum}. Note: Until the time of Walker (1791), vase was made to rhyme with base,, case, etc., and it is still commonly so pronounced in the United States. Walker made it to rhyme with phrase, maze, etc. Of modern English practice, Mr. A. J. Ellis (1874) says: [bd]Vase has four pronunciations in English: v[add]z, which I most commonly say, is going out of use, v[84]z I hear most frequently, v[be]z very rarely, and v[be]s I only know from Cull's marking. On the analogy of case, however, it should be the regular sound.[b8] | |
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Swag \Swag\, n. [Australia] (a) A tramping bushman's luggage, rolled up either in canvas or in a blanket so as to form a long bundle, and carried on the back or over the shoulder; -- called also a {bluey}, or a {drum}. (b) Any bundle of luggage similarly rolled up; hence, luggage in general. He tramped for years till the swag he bore seemed part of himself. --Lawson. | |
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Drum \Drum\, v. t. 1. To execute on a drum, as a tune. 2. (With out) To expel ignominiously, with beat of drum; as, to drum out a deserter or rogue from a camp, etc. 3. (With up) To assemble by, or as by, beat of drum; to collect; to gather or draw by solicitation; as, to drum up recruits; to drum up customers. | |
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Drum \Drum\, n. [Cf. D. trom, trommel, LG. trumme, G. trommel, Dan. tromme, Sw. trumma, OHG. trumba a trumpet, Icel. pruma a clap of thunder, and as a verb, to thunder, Dan. drum a booming sound, drumme to boom; prob. partly at least of imitative origin; perh. akin to E. trum, or trumpet.] 1. (Mus.) An instrument of percussion, consisting either of a hollow cylinder, over each end of which is stretched a piece of skin or vellum, to be beaten with a stick; or of a metallic hemisphere (kettledrum) with a single piece of skin to be so beaten; the common instrument for marking time in martial music; one of the pair of tympani in an orchestra, or cavalry band. The drums cry bud-a-dub. --Gascoigne. 2. Anything resembling a drum in form; as: (a) A sheet iron radiator, often in the shape of a drum, for warming an apartment by means of heat received from a stovepipe, or a cylindrical receiver for steam, etc. (b) A small cylindrical box in which figs, etc., are packed. (c) (Anat.) The tympanum of the ear; -- often, but incorrectly, applied to the tympanic membrane. (d) (Arch.) One of the cylindrical, or nearly cylindrical, blocks, of which the shaft of a column is composed; also, a vertical wall, whether circular or polygonal in plan, carrying a cupola or dome. (e) (Mach.) A cylinder on a revolving shaft, generally for the purpose of driving several pulleys, by means of belts or straps passing around its periphery; also, the barrel of a hoisting machine, on which the rope or chain is wound. 3. (Zo[94]l.) See {Drumfish}. 4. A noisy, tumultuous assembly of fashionable people at a private house; a rout. [Archaic] Not unaptly styled a drum, from the noise and emptiness of the entertainment. --Smollett. Note: There were also drum major, rout, tempest, and hurricane, differing only in degrees of multitude and uproar, as the significant name of each declares. 5. A tea party; a kettledrum. --G. Eliot. {Bass drum}. See in the Vocabulary. {Double drum}. See under {Double}. | |
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Drum \Drum\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Drummed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Drumming}.] 1. To beat a drum with sticks; to beat or play a tune on a drum. 2. To beat with the fingers, as with drumsticks; to beat with a rapid succession of strokes; to make a noise like that of a beaten drum; as, the ruffed grouse drums with his wings. Drumming with his fingers on the arm of his chair. --W. Irving. 3. To throb, as the heart. [R.] --Dryden. 4. To go about, as a drummer does, to gather recruits, to draw or secure partisans, customers, etc,; -- with for. | |
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Drumfish \Drum"fish`\, n. (Zo[94]l.) Any fish of the family {Sci[91]nid[91]}, which makes a loud noise by means of its air bladder; -- called also {drum}. | |
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Croaker \Croak"er\ (-?r), n. 1. One who croaks, murmurs, grumbles, or complains unreasonably; one who habitually forebodes evil. 2. (Zo[94]l.) (a) A small American fish ({Micropogon undulatus}), of the Atlantic coast. (a) An American fresh-water fish ({Aplodinotus grunniens}); -- called also {drum}. (c) The surf fish of California. Note: When caught these fishes make a croaking sound; whence the name, which is often corrupted into crocus. | |
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Vase \Vase\ (v[amac]s or v[aum]z; 277), n. [F. vase; cf. Sp. & It. vaso; fr. L. vas, vasum. Cf. {Vascular}, {Vessel}.] 1. A vessel adapted for various domestic purposes, and anciently for sacrificial uses; especially, a vessel of antique or elegant pattern used for ornament; as, a porcelain vase; a gold vase; a Grecian vase. See Illust. of {Portland vase}, under {Portland}. No chargers then were wrought in burnished gold, Nor silver vases took the forming mold. --Pope. 2. (Arch.) (a) A vessel similar to that described in the first definition above, or the representation of one in a solid block of stone, or the like, used for an ornament, as on a terrace or in a garden. See Illust. of {Niche}. (b) The body, or naked ground, of the Corinthian and Composite capital; -- called also {tambour}, and {drum}. Note: Until the time of Walker (1791), vase was made to rhyme with base,, case, etc., and it is still commonly so pronounced in the United States. Walker made it to rhyme with phrase, maze, etc. Of modern English practice, Mr. A. J. Ellis (1874) says: [bd]Vase has four pronunciations in English: v[add]z, which I most commonly say, is going out of use, v[84]z I hear most frequently, v[be]z very rarely, and v[be]s I only know from Cull's marking. On the analogy of case, however, it should be the regular sound.[b8] | |
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Swag \Swag\, n. [Australia] (a) A tramping bushman's luggage, rolled up either in canvas or in a blanket so as to form a long bundle, and carried on the back or over the shoulder; -- called also a {bluey}, or a {drum}. (b) Any bundle of luggage similarly rolled up; hence, luggage in general. He tramped for years till the swag he bore seemed part of himself. --Lawson. | |
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Drum \Drum\, v. t. 1. To execute on a drum, as a tune. 2. (With out) To expel ignominiously, with beat of drum; as, to drum out a deserter or rogue from a camp, etc. 3. (With up) To assemble by, or as by, beat of drum; to collect; to gather or draw by solicitation; as, to drum up recruits; to drum up customers. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Drum \Drum\, n. [Cf. D. trom, trommel, LG. trumme, G. trommel, Dan. tromme, Sw. trumma, OHG. trumba a trumpet, Icel. pruma a clap of thunder, and as a verb, to thunder, Dan. drum a booming sound, drumme to boom; prob. partly at least of imitative origin; perh. akin to E. trum, or trumpet.] 1. (Mus.) An instrument of percussion, consisting either of a hollow cylinder, over each end of which is stretched a piece of skin or vellum, to be beaten with a stick; or of a metallic hemisphere (kettledrum) with a single piece of skin to be so beaten; the common instrument for marking time in martial music; one of the pair of tympani in an orchestra, or cavalry band. The drums cry bud-a-dub. --Gascoigne. 2. Anything resembling a drum in form; as: (a) A sheet iron radiator, often in the shape of a drum, for warming an apartment by means of heat received from a stovepipe, or a cylindrical receiver for steam, etc. (b) A small cylindrical box in which figs, etc., are packed. (c) (Anat.) The tympanum of the ear; -- often, but incorrectly, applied to the tympanic membrane. (d) (Arch.) One of the cylindrical, or nearly cylindrical, blocks, of which the shaft of a column is composed; also, a vertical wall, whether circular or polygonal in plan, carrying a cupola or dome. (e) (Mach.) A cylinder on a revolving shaft, generally for the purpose of driving several pulleys, by means of belts or straps passing around its periphery; also, the barrel of a hoisting machine, on which the rope or chain is wound. 3. (Zo[94]l.) See {Drumfish}. 4. A noisy, tumultuous assembly of fashionable people at a private house; a rout. [Archaic] Not unaptly styled a drum, from the noise and emptiness of the entertainment. --Smollett. Note: There were also drum major, rout, tempest, and hurricane, differing only in degrees of multitude and uproar, as the significant name of each declares. 5. A tea party; a kettledrum. --G. Eliot. {Bass drum}. See in the Vocabulary. {Double drum}. See under {Double}. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Drum \Drum\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Drummed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Drumming}.] 1. To beat a drum with sticks; to beat or play a tune on a drum. 2. To beat with the fingers, as with drumsticks; to beat with a rapid succession of strokes; to make a noise like that of a beaten drum; as, the ruffed grouse drums with his wings. Drumming with his fingers on the arm of his chair. --W. Irving. 3. To throb, as the heart. [R.] --Dryden. 4. To go about, as a drummer does, to gather recruits, to draw or secure partisans, customers, etc,; -- with for. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Drumfish \Drum"fish`\, n. (Zo[94]l.) Any fish of the family {Sci[91]nid[91]}, which makes a loud noise by means of its air bladder; -- called also {drum}. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Croaker \Croak"er\ (-?r), n. 1. One who croaks, murmurs, grumbles, or complains unreasonably; one who habitually forebodes evil. 2. (Zo[94]l.) (a) A small American fish ({Micropogon undulatus}), of the Atlantic coast. (a) An American fresh-water fish ({Aplodinotus grunniens}); -- called also {drum}. (c) The surf fish of California. Note: When caught these fishes make a croaking sound; whence the name, which is often corrupted into crocus. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Dry \Dry\, a. [Compar. {Drier}; superl. {Driest}.] [OE. dru[?]e, druye, drie, AS. dryge; akin to LG. dr[94]ge, D. droog, OHG. trucchan, G. trocken, Icel. draugr a dry log. Cf. {Drought}, {Drouth}, 3d {Drug}.] 1. Free from moisture; having little humidity or none; arid; not wet or moist; deficient in the natural or normal supply of moisture, as rain or fluid of any kind; -- said especially: (a) Of the weather: Free from rain or mist. The weather, we agreed, was too dry for the season. --Addison. (b) Of vegetable matter: Free from juices or sap; not succulent; not green; as, dry wood or hay. (c) Of animals: Not giving milk; as, the cow is dry. (d) Of persons: Thirsty; needing drink. Give the dry fool drink. -- Shak (e) Of the eyes: Not shedding tears. Not a dry eye was to be seen in the assembly. -- Prescott. (f) (Med.) Of certain morbid conditions, in which there is entire or comparative absence of moisture; as, dry gangrene; dry catarrh. 2. Destitute of that which interests or amuses; barren; unembellished; jejune; plain. These epistles will become less dry, more susceptible of ornament. --Pope. 3. Characterized by a quality somewhat severe, grave, or hard; hence, sharp; keen; shrewd; quaint; as, a dry tone or manner; dry wit. He was rather a dry, shrewd kind of body. --W. Irving. 4. (Fine Arts) Exhibiting a sharp, frigid preciseness of execution, or the want of a delicate contour in form, and of easy transition in coloring. {Dry area} (Arch.), a small open space reserved outside the foundation of a building to guard it from damp. {Dry blow}. (a) (Med.) A blow which inflicts no wound, and causes no effusion of blood. (b) A quick, sharp blow. {Dry bone} (Min.), Smithsonite, or carbonate of zinc; -- a miner's term. {Dry castor} (Zo[94]l.) a kind of beaver; -- called also {parchment beaver}. {Dry cupping}. (Med.) See under {Cupping}. {Dry dock}. See under {Dock}. {Dry fat}. See {Dry vat} (below). {Dry light}, pure unobstructed light; hence, a clear, impartial view. --Bacon. The scientific man must keep his feelings under stern control, lest they obtrude into his researches, and color the dry light in which alone science desires to see its objects. -- J. C. Shairp. {Dry masonry}. See {Masonry}. {Dry measure}, a system of measures of volume for dry or coarse articles, by the bushel, peck, etc. {Dry pile} (Physics), a form of the Voltaic pile, constructed without the use of a liquid, affording a feeble current, and chiefly useful in the construction of electroscopes of great delicacy; -- called also {Zamboni's , from the names of the two earliest constructors of it. {Dry pipe} (Steam Engine), a pipe which conducts dry steam from a boiler. {Dry plate} (Photog.), a glass plate having a dry coating sensitive to light, upon which photographic negatives or pictures can be made, without moistening. {Dry-plate process}, the process of photographing with dry plates. {Dry point}. (Fine Arts) (a) An engraving made with the needle instead of the burin, in which the work is done nearly as in etching, but is finished without the use acid. (b) A print from such an engraving, usually upon paper. (c) Hence: The needle with which such an engraving is made. {Dry rent} (Eng. Law), a rent reserved by deed, without a clause of distress. --Bouvier. {Dry rot}, a decay of timber, reducing its fibers to the condition of a dry powdery dust, often accompanied by the presence of a peculiar fungus ({Merulius lacrymans}), which is sometimes considered the cause of the decay; but it is more probable that the real cause is the decomposition of the wood itself. --D. C. Eaton. Called also {sap rot}, and, in the United States, {powder post}. --Hebert. {Dry stove}, a hothouse adapted to preserving the plants of arid climates. --Brande & C. {Dry vat}, a vat, basket, or other receptacle for dry articles. {Dry wine}, that in which the saccharine matter and fermentation were so exactly balanced, that they have wholly neutralized each other, and no sweetness is perceptible; -- opposed to {sweet wine}, in which the saccharine matter is in excess. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Durene \Du"rene\, n. [L. durus hard; -- so called because solid at ordinary temperatures.] (Chem.) A colorless, crystalline, aromatic hydrocarbon, {C6H2(CH3)4}, off artificial production, with an odor like camphor. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Durham \Dur"ham\, n. One or a breed of short-horned cattle, originating in the county of Durham, England. The Durham cattle are noted for their beef-producing quality. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Durian \Du"ri*an\, [or] Durion \Du"ri*on\, n. (Bot.) The fruit of the durio. It is oval or globular, and eight or ten inches long. It has a hard prickly rind, containing a soft, cream-colored pulp, of a most delicious flavor and a very offensive odor. The seeds are roasted and eaten like chestnuts. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Durian \Du"ri*an\, [or] Durion \Du"ri*on\, n. (Bot.) The fruit of the durio. It is oval or globular, and eight or ten inches long. It has a hard prickly rind, containing a soft, cream-colored pulp, of a most delicious flavor and a very offensive odor. The seeds are roasted and eaten like chestnuts. | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Darien, CT (CDP, FIPS 18920) Location: 41.05114 N, 73.47972 W Population (1990): 18130 (6627 housing units) Area: 33.3 sq km (land), 27.4 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 06820 Darien, GA (city, FIPS 21716) Location: 31.37156 N, 81.42986 W Population (1990): 1783 (765 housing units) Area: 5.1 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 31305 Darien, IL (city, FIPS 18628) Location: 41.74933 N, 87.97625 W Population (1990): 18341 (6787 housing units) Area: 12.0 sq km (land), 0.1 sq km (water) Darien, WI (village, FIPS 18825) Location: 42.60092 N, 88.71015 W Population (1990): 1158 (411 housing units) Area: 2.0 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 53114 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Darwin, MN (city, FIPS 14842) Location: 45.09701 N, 94.40406 W Population (1990): 252 (124 housing units) Area: 1.9 sq km (land), 0.2 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 55324 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Derma, MS (town, FIPS 18940) Location: 33.85454 N, 89.28628 W Population (1990): 959 (365 housing units) Area: 2.6 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Doe Run, MO Zip code(s): 63637 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Doerun, GA (city, FIPS 23284) Location: 31.31915 N, 83.91803 W Population (1990): 899 (365 housing units) Area: 2.6 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 31744 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Doran, MN (city, FIPS 16156) Location: 46.18524 N, 96.48563 W Population (1990): 78 (32 housing units) Area: 0.5 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 56522 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Dorena, OR Zip code(s): 97434 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Drain, OR (city, FIPS 20500) Location: 43.66211 N, 123.31407 W Population (1990): 1011 (391 housing units) Area: 1.4 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 97435 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Durham, CA (CDP, FIPS 20270) Location: 39.59953 N, 121.82768 W Population (1990): 4784 (1766 housing units) Area: 357.8 sq km (land), 1.7 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 95938 Durham, CT (CDP, FIPS 20740) Location: 41.47391 N, 72.68192 W Population (1990): 2650 (954 housing units) Area: 16.2 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 06422 Durham, KS (city, FIPS 19050) Location: 38.48508 N, 97.22697 W Population (1990): 119 (64 housing units) Area: 0.5 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 67438 Durham, MO Zip code(s): 63438 Durham, NC (city, FIPS 19000) Location: 35.98043 N, 78.91497 W Population (1990): 136611 (60607 housing units) Area: 179.4 sq km (land), 0.2 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 27701, 27703, 27704, 27705, 27706, 27707, 27712 Durham, NH (CDP, FIPS 19620) Location: 43.13945 N, 70.92323 W Population (1990): 9236 (1569 housing units) Area: 6.9 sq km (land), 0.1 sq km (water) Durham, NY Zip code(s): 12422 Durham, OK Zip code(s): 73642 Durham, OR (city, FIPS 21250) Location: 45.39467 N, 122.75748 W Population (1990): 748 (268 housing units) Area: 1.1 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) | |
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]: | |
drain v. [IBM] Syn. for {flush} (sense 2). Has a connotation of finality about it; one speaks of draining a device before taking it offline. | |
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]: | |
drone n. Ignorant sales or customer service personnel in computer or electronics superstores. Characterized by a lack of even superficial knowledge about the products they sell, yet possessed of the conviction that they are more competent than their hacker customers. Usage: "That video board probably sucks, it was recommended by a drone at Fry's" In the year 2000, their natural habitats include Fry's Electronics, Best Buy, and CompUSA. | |
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]: | |
drum adj, n. Ancient techspeak term referring to slow, cylindrical magnetic media that were once state-of-the-art storage devices. Under BSD Unix the disk partition used for swapping is still called `/dev/drum'; this has led to considerable humor and not a few straight-faced but utterly bogus `explanations' getting foisted on {newbie}s. See also "{The Story of Mel}" in Appendix A. | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
Darwin 1. {FreeBSD} version of {Unix}, running on top of a {microkernel} ({Mach} 3.0 with darwin 1.02) that offers advanced networking, services such as the {Apache} {web server}, and support for both {Macintosh} and Unix {file systems}. Darwin was originally released in March 1999. It currently runs on {PowerPC} based Macintosh computers, and, in October 2000, was being ported to {Intel} processor-based computers and compatible systems by the Darwin community. 2. use in building complex {distributed systems} from diverse components and diverse component interaction mechanisms. Darwin is being developed by the Distributed Software Engineering Section of the Department of Computing at {Imperial College}. It is in essence a {declarative} binding language which can be used to define hierarchic compositions of interconnected components. Distribution is dealt with orthogonally to system structuring. The language allows the specification of both static structures and dynamic structures which evolve during execution. The central abstractions managed by Darwin are components and services. Bindings are formed by manipulating references to services. The {operational semantics} of Darwin is described in terms of the {Pi-calculus}, {Milner}'s calculus of mobile processes. The correspondence between the treatment of names in the Pi-calculus and the management of service references in Darwin leads to an elegant and concise Pi-calculus model of Darwin's {operational semantics}. The model has proved useful in arguing the correctness of Darwin implementations and in designing extensions to Darwin and reasoning about their behaviour. {Distributed Software Engineering Section (http://www-dse.doc.ic.ac.uk/)}. {Darwin publications (http://scorch.doc.ic.ac.uk/dse-papers/darwin/)}. E-mail: Jeff Magee 3. {Core War}. (2003-08-08) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
DDR-RAM {Double Data Rate Random Access Memory} | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
DORUM {Draft Once ReUse Many} | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
drain [IBM] Synonym for {flush}. Has a connotation of finality about it; one speaks of draining a device before taking it off-line. [{Jargon File}] | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
DRAM {dynamic random access memory} | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
DREAM 6800 The DREAM 6800 could be programmed in {CHIP-8}. (2002-04-09) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
DRM {Digital Radio Mondiale} | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
drum Ancient slow, cylindrical magnetic media that were once state-of-the-art storage devices. Under {BSD} {Unix} the disk partition used for swapping is still called "/dev/drum"; this has led to considerable humour and not a few straight-faced but utterly bogus "explanations" getting foisted on {newbie}s. See also "{The Story of Mel}". (1994-12-22) | |
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: | |
Dram The Authorized Version understood the word 'adarkonim (1 Chr. 29:7; Ezra 8:27), and the similar word darkomnim (Ezra 2:69; Neh. 7:70), as equivalent to the Greek silver coin the drachma. But the Revised Version rightly regards it as the Greek dareikos, a Persian gold coin (the daric) of the value of about 1 pound, 2s., which was first struck by Darius, the son of Hystaspes, and was current in Western Asia long after the fall of the Persian empire. (See {DARIC}.) | |
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: | |
Dream God has frequently made use of dreams in communicating his will to men. The most remarkable instances of this are recorded in the history of Jacob (Gen. 28:12; 31:10), Laban (31:24), Joseph (37:9-11), Gideon (Judg. 7), and Solomon (1 Kings 3:5). Other significant dreams are also recorded, such as those of Abimelech (Gen. 20:3-7), Pharaoh's chief butler and baker (40:5), Pharaoh (41:1-8), the Midianites (Judg. 7:13), Nebuchadnezzar (Dan. 2:1; 4:10, 18), the wise men from the east (Matt. 2:12), and Pilate's wife (27:19). To Joseph "the Lord appeared in a dream," and gave him instructions regarding the infant Jesus (Matt. 1:20; 2:12, 13, 19). In a vision of the night a "man of Macedonia" stood before Paul and said, "Come over into Macedonia and help us" (Acts 16:9; see also 18:9; 27:23). | |
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: | |
Drown (Ex. 15:4; Amos 8:8; Heb. 11:29). Drowning was a mode of capital punishment in use among the Syrians, and was known to the Jews in the time of our Lord. To this he alludes in Matt. 18:6. |