drive : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

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n 1: a unit of elastance equal to the reciprocal of a farad

English Dictionary: drive	by the DICT Development Group
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DARPA n the central research and development organization for the United States Department of Defense; responsible for developing new surveillance technologies since 9/11 Synonym(s): Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, DARPA
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derby n a felt hat that is round and hard with a narrow brim [syn: bowler hat, bowler, derby hat, derby, plug hat]
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derive v reason by deduction; establish by deduction [syn: deduce, infer, deduct, derive] obtain; "derive pleasure from one's garden" Synonym(s): derive, gain come from; "The present name derives from an older form" develop or evolve from a latent or potential state Synonym(s): derive, educe come from; be connected by a relationship of blood, for example; "She was descended from an old Italian noble family"; "he comes from humble origins" Synonym(s): derive, come, descend
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derv n diesel oil used in cars and lorries with diesel engines; from d(iesel) e(ngine) r(oad) v(ehicle)
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drab adj lacking in liveliness or charm or surprise; "her drab personality"; "life was drab compared with the more exciting life style overseas"; "a series of dreary dinner parties" Synonym(s): drab, dreary lacking brightness or color; dull; "drab faded curtains"; "sober Puritan grey"; "children in somber brown clothes" Synonym(s): drab, sober, somber, sombre of a light brownish green color Synonym(s): olive-drab, drab causing dejection; "a blue day"; "the dark days of the war"; "a week of rainy depressing weather"; "a disconsolate winter landscape"; "the first dismal dispiriting days of November"; "a dark gloomy day"; "grim rainy weather" Synonym(s): blue, dark, dingy, disconsolate, dismal, gloomy, grim, sorry, drab, drear, dreary n a dull greyish to yellowish or light olive brown [syn: olive drab, drab]
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draba n any of numerous low-growing cushion-forming plants of the genus Draba having rosette-forming leaves and terminal racemes of small flowers with scapose or leafy stems; fruit is a dehiscent oblong or linear silique
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drape n hanging cloth used as a blind (especially for a window) Synonym(s): curtain, drape, drapery, mantle, pall the manner in which fabric hangs or falls; "she adjusted the drape of her skirt" a sterile covering arranged over a patient's body during a medical examination or during surgery in order to reduce the possibility of contamination v arrange in a particular way; "drape a cloth" place casually; "The cat draped herself on the sofa" cover as if with clothing; "the mountain was clothed in tropical trees" Synonym(s): clothe, cloak, drape, robe cover or dress loosely with cloth; "drape the statue with a sheet"
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draw off v remove by drawing or pulling; "She placed the tray down and drew off the cloth"; "draw away the cloth that is covering the cheese" Synonym(s): draw off, draw away, pull off remove (a commodity) from (a supply source); "She drew $2,000 from the account"; "The doctors drew medical supplies from the hospital's emergency bank" Synonym(s): withdraw, draw, take out, draw off Antonym(s): bank, deposit
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draw up v form or arrange in order or formation, as of a body of soldiers straighten oneself; "He drew himself up when he talked to his superior" Synonym(s): draw up, pull up, straighten up cause (a vehicle) to stop; "He pulled up the car in front of the hotel" Synonym(s): draw up, pull up make up plans or basic details for; "frame a policy" Synonym(s): frame, compose, draw up come to a halt after driving somewhere; "The Rolls pulled up on pour front lawn"; "The chauffeur hauled up in front of us" Synonym(s): draw up, pull up, haul up
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drib n a small indefinite quantity (especially of a liquid); "he had a drop too much to drink"; "a drop of each sample was analyzed"; "there is not a drop of pity in that man"; "years afterward, they would pay the blood-money, driblet by driblet"--Kipling Synonym(s): drop, drib, driblet
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drip n flowing in drops; the formation and falling of drops of liquid; "there's a drip through the roof" Synonym(s): drip, trickle, dribble the sound of a liquid falling drop by drop; "the constant sound of dripping irritated him" Synonym(s): drip, dripping (architecture) a projection from a cornice or sill designed to protect the area below from rainwater (as over a window or doorway) Synonym(s): drip, drip mold, drip mould v fall in drops; "Water is dripping from the faucet" let or cause to fall in drops; "dribble oil into the mixture" Synonym(s): dribble, drip, drop
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drippy adj wet with light rain; "a sad drizzly day"; "a wet drippy day" Synonym(s): drippy, drizzly leaking in drops; "a drippy faucet" effusively or insincerely emotional; "a bathetic novel"; "maudlin expressions of sympathy"; "mushy effusiveness"; "a schmaltzy song"; "sentimental soap operas"; "slushy poetry" Synonym(s): bathetic, drippy, hokey, maudlin, mawkish, kitschy, mushy, schmaltzy, schmalzy, sentimental, soppy, soupy, slushy
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drive n the act of applying force to propel something; "after reaching the desired velocity the drive is cut off" Synonym(s): drive, thrust, driving force a mechanism by which force or power is transmitted in a machine; "a variable speed drive permitted operation through a range of speeds" a series of actions advancing a principle or tending toward a particular end; "he supported populist campaigns"; "they worked in the cause of world peace"; "the team was ready for a drive toward the pennant"; "the movement to end slavery"; "contributed to the war effort" Synonym(s): campaign, cause, crusade, drive, movement, effort a road leading up to a private house; "they parked in the driveway" Synonym(s): driveway, drive, private road the trait of being highly motivated; "his drive and energy exhausted his co-workers" hitting a golf ball off of a tee with a driver; "he sliced his drive out of bounds" Synonym(s): drive, driving the act of driving a herd of animals overland a journey in a vehicle (usually an automobile); "he took the family for a drive in his new car" Synonym(s): drive, ride a physiological state corresponding to a strong need or desire (computer science) a device that writes data onto or reads data from a storage medium a wide scenic road planted with trees; "the riverside drive offers many exciting scenic views" Synonym(s): drive, parkway (sports) a hard straight return (as in tennis or squash) v operate or control a vehicle; "drive a car or bus"; "Can you drive this four-wheel truck?" travel or be transported in a vehicle; "We drove to the university every morning"; "They motored to London for the theater" Synonym(s): drive, motor cause someone or something to move by driving; "She drove me to school every day"; "We drove the car to the garage" force into or from an action or state, either physically or metaphorically; "She rammed her mind into focus"; "He drives me mad" Synonym(s): force, drive, ram to compel or force or urge relentlessly or exert coercive pressure on, or motivate strongly; "She is driven by her passion" cause to move back by force or influence; "repel the enemy"; "push back the urge to smoke"; "beat back the invaders" Synonym(s): repel, drive, repulse, force back, push back, beat back Antonym(s): attract, draw, draw in, pull, pull in compel somebody to do something, often against his own will or judgment; "She finally drove him to change jobs" push, propel, or press with force; "Drive a nail into the wall" cause to move rapidly by striking or throwing with force; "drive the ball far out into the field" strive and make an effort to reach a goal; "She tugged for years to make a decent living"; "We have to push a little to make the deadline!"; "She is driving away at her doctoral thesis" Synonym(s): tug, labor, labour, push, drive move into a desired direction of discourse; "What are you driving at?" Synonym(s): drive, get, aim have certain properties when driven; "This car rides smoothly"; "My new truck drives well" Synonym(s): drive, ride work as a driver; "He drives a bread truck"; "She drives for the taxi company in Newark" move by being propelled by a force; "The car drove around the corner" urge forward; "drive the cows into the barn" proceed along in a vehicle; "We drive the turnpike to work" Synonym(s): drive, take strike with a driver, as in teeing off; "drive a golf ball" hit very hard, as by swinging a bat horizontally; "drive a ball" excavate horizontally; "drive a tunnel" cause to function by supplying the force or power for or by controlling; "The amplifier drives the tube"; "steam drives the engines"; "this device drives the disks for the computer" hunting: search for game; "drive the forest" hunting: chase from cover into more open ground; "drive the game"
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drive away v force to go away; used both with concrete and metaphoric meanings; "Drive away potential burglars"; "drive away bad thoughts"; "dispel doubts"; "The supermarket had to turn back many disappointed customers" Synonym(s): chase away, drive out, turn back, drive away, dispel, drive off, run off
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driveway n a road leading up to a private house; "they parked in the driveway" Synonym(s): driveway, drive, private road
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droop n a shape that sags; "there was a sag in the chair seat" Synonym(s): sag, droop v droop, sink, or settle from or as if from pressure or loss of tautness Synonym(s): sag, droop, swag, flag hang loosely or laxly; "His tongue lolled" Synonym(s): droop, loll become limp; "The flowers wilted" Synonym(s): wilt, droop
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droopy adj hanging down (as from exhaustion or weakness) [syn: drooping, droopy, sagging]
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drop n a shape that is spherical and small; "he studied the shapes of low-viscosity drops"; "beads of sweat on his forehead" Synonym(s): drop, bead, pearl a small indefinite quantity (especially of a liquid); "he had a drop too much to drink"; "a drop of each sample was analyzed"; "there is not a drop of pity in that man"; "years afterward, they would pay the blood-money, driblet by driblet"--Kipling Synonym(s): drop, drib, driblet a sudden sharp decrease in some quantity; "a drop of 57 points on the Dow Jones index"; "there was a drop in pressure in the pulmonary artery"; "a dip in prices"; "when that became known the price of their stock went into free fall" Synonym(s): drop, dip, fall, free fall a steep high face of rock; "he stood on a high cliff overlooking the town"; "a steep drop" Synonym(s): cliff, drop, drop-off a predetermined hiding place for the deposit and distribution of illicit goods (such as drugs or stolen property) a free and rapid descent by the force of gravity; "it was a miracle that he survived the drop from that height" Synonym(s): drop, fall a curtain that can be lowered and raised onto a stage from the flies; often used as background scenery Synonym(s): drop curtain, drop cloth, drop a central depository where things can be left or picked up the act of dropping something; "they expected the drop would be successful" v let fall to the ground; "Don't drop the dishes" to fall vertically; "the bombs are dropping on enemy targets" go down in value; "Stock prices dropped" fall or descend to a lower place or level; "He sank to his knees" Synonym(s): sink, drop, drop down terminate an association with; "drop him from the Republican ticket" utter with seeming casualness; "drop a hint"; drop names" stop pursuing or acting; "drop a lawsuit"; "knock it off!" Synonym(s): drop, knock off leave or unload; "unload the cargo"; "drop off the passengers at the hotel" Synonym(s): drop, drop off, set down, put down, unload, discharge cause to fall by or as if by delivering a blow; "strike down a tree"; "Lightning struck down the hikers" Synonym(s): fell, drop, strike down, cut down lose (a game); "The Giants dropped 11 of their first 13" pay out; "spend money" Synonym(s): spend, expend, drop lower the pitch of (musical notes) Synonym(s): flatten, drop Antonym(s): sharpen hang freely; "the ornaments dangled from the tree"; "The light dropped from the ceiling" Synonym(s): dangle, swing, drop stop associating with; "They dropped her after she had a child out of wedlock" Synonym(s): dismiss, send packing, send away, drop let or cause to fall in drops; "dribble oil into the mixture" Synonym(s): dribble, drip, drop get rid of; "he shed his image as a pushy boss"; "shed your clothes" Synonym(s): shed, cast, cast off, shake off, throw, throw off, throw away, drop take (a drug, especially LSD), by mouth; "She dropped acid when she was a teenager" omit (a letter or syllable) in speaking or writing; " New Englanders drop their post-vocalic r's" leave undone or leave out; "How could I miss that typo?"; "The workers on the conveyor belt miss one out of ten" Synonym(s): neglect, pretermit, omit, drop, miss, leave out, overlook, overleap Antonym(s): attend to, take to heart change from one level to another; "She dropped into army jargon" fall or sink into a state of exhaustion or death; "shop til you drop" grow worse; "Her condition deteriorated"; "Conditions in the slums degenerated"; "The discussion devolved into a shouting match" Synonym(s): devolve, deteriorate, drop, degenerate Antonym(s): convalesce, recover, recuperate give birth; used for animals; "The cow dropped her calf this morning"
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drop away v get worse; "My grades are slipping" [syn: slip, {drop off}, drop away, fall away]
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drop by v visit informally and spontaneously; "We frequently drop by the neighbors' house for a cup of coffee" Synonym(s): drop by, drop in, come by
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drove n a group of animals (a herd or flock) moving together a moving crowd Synonym(s): drove, horde, swarm a stonemason's chisel with a broad edge for dressing stone Synonym(s): drove, drove chisel
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drub v beat thoroughly and conclusively in a competition or fight; "We licked the other team on Sunday!" Synonym(s): cream, bat, clobber, drub, thrash, lick
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drupe n fleshy indehiscent fruit with a single seed: e.g. almond; peach; plum; cherry; elderberry; olive; jujube Synonym(s): drupe, stone fruit
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dry up v lose water or moisture; "In the desert, you get dehydrated very quickly" Synonym(s): exsiccate, dehydrate, dry up, desiccate Antonym(s): hydrate dry up and shrivel due to complete loss of moisture; "a mummified body was found" Synonym(s): mummify, dry up
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dwarf n a person who is markedly small [syn: dwarf, midget, nanus] a legendary creature resembling a tiny old man; lives in the depths of the earth and guards buried treasure Synonym(s): gnome, dwarf a plant or animal that is atypically small v make appear small by comparison; "This year's debt dwarfs that of last year" Synonym(s): shadow, overshadow, dwarf check the growth of; "the lack of sunlight dwarfed these pines"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
d8Araba \[d8]A*ra"ba\, n. [Written also {aroba} and {arba}.] [Ar. or Turk. 'arabah: cf. Russ. arba.] A wagon or cart, usually heavy and without springs, and often covered. [Oriental] The araba of the Turks has its sides of latticework to admit the air --Balfour (Cyc. of India).
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d8Arroba \[d8]Ar*ro"ba\, n. [Sp. and Pg., from Ar. arrub, ar-rubu, a fourth part.] 1. A Spanish weight used in Mexico and South America = 25.36 lbs. avoir.; also, an old Portuguese weight, used in Brazil = 32.38 lbs. avoir. 2. A Spanish liquid measure for wine = 3.54 imp. gallons, and for oil = 2.78 imp. gallons.
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d8Derbio \[d8]Der"bi*o\, n. (Zo[94]l.) A large European food fish ({Lichia glauca}).
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d8Erf \[d8]Erf\, n.; pl. {Erven}. [D.] A garden plot, usually about half an acre. [Cape Colony]
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d8Ourebi \[d8]Ou"re*bi\, n. (Zo[94]l.) A small, graceful, and swift African antelope, allied to the klipspringer.
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d8Rupia \[d8]Ru"pi*a\, n. [NL., fr. G. [?] filth, dirt.] (Med.) An eruption upon the skin, consisting of vesicles with inflamed base and filled with serous, purulent, or bloody fluid, which dries up, forming a blackish crust.
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d8Trabea \[d8]Tra"be*a\, n.; pl. {Trabe[91]}. [L.] (Rom. Antiq.) A toga of purple, or ornamented with purple horizontal stripes. -- worn by kings, consuls, and augurs. --Dr. W. Smith.
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d8Trophi \[d8]Tro"phi\, n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. [?] a feeder, fr. [?] to feed.] (Zo[94]l.) The mouth parts of an insect, collectively, including the labrum, labium, maxill[91], mandibles, and lingua, with their appendages.
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d8Troppo \[d8]Trop"po\, adv. [It.] (Mus.) Too much; as, allegro ma non troppo, brisk but not too much so.
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d8Troupe \[d8]Troupe\, n. [F., troop. See {Troop}.] A company or troop, especially the company pf performers in a play or an opera.
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d8Yerba \[d8]Yer"ba\, n. [Sp.] (Bot.) An herb; a plant. Note: This word is much used in compound names of plants in Spanish; as, yerba buena [Sp., a good herb], a name applied in Spain to several kinds of mint ({Mentha sativa}, {viridis}, etc.), but in California universally applied to a common, sweet-scented labiate plant ({Micromeria Douglasii}). {Yerba dol osa}. [Sp., herb of the she-bear.] A kind of buckthorn ({Rhamnus Californica}). {Yerba mansa}. [Sp., a mild herb, soft herb.] A plant ({Anemopsis Californica}) with a pungent, aromatic rootstock, used medicinally by the Mexicans and the Indians. {Yerba reuma}. [Cf. Sp. reuma rheum, rheumatism.] A low California undershrub ({Frankenia grandifolia}).
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Darby \Dar"by\, n. A plasterer's float, having two handles; -- used in smoothing ceilings, etc.
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Derby \Der"by\ (?; usually ? in Eng.; 85), n. 1. A race for three-old horses, run annually at Epsom (near London), for the Derby stakes. It was instituted by the 12th Earl of Derby, in 1780. {Derby Day}, the day of the annual race for the Derby stakes, -- Wednesday of the week before Whitsuntide. 2. A stiff felt hat with a dome-shaped crown.
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Derf \Derf\, a. [Icel. djafr.] Strong; powerful; fierce. [Obs.] -- {Derf"ly}, adv. [Obs.]
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Derive \De*rive"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Derived}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Deriving}.] [F. d[82]river, L. derivare; de- + rivus stream, brook. See {Rival}.] 1. To turn the course of, as water; to divert and distribute into subordinate channels; to diffuse; to communicate; to transmit; -- followed by to, into, on, upon. [Obs.] For fear it [water] choke up the pits . . . they [the workman] derive it by other drains. --Holland. Her due loves derived to that vile witch's share. --Spenser. Derived to us by tradition from Adam to Noah. --Jer. Taylor. 2. To receive, as from a source or origin; to obtain by descent or by transmission; to draw; to deduce; -- followed by from.
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Derive \De*rive"\, v. i. To flow; to have origin; to descend; to proceed; to be deduced. --Shak. Power from heaven Derives, and monarchs rule by gods appointed. --Prior.
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Dunlin \Dun"lin\, n. [Prob. of Celtic origin; cf. Gael. dun hill (E. dune), and linne pool, pond, lake, E. lin.] (Zo[94]l.) A species of sandpiper ({Tringa alpina}); -- called also {churr}, {dorbie}, {grass bird}, and {red-backed sandpiper}. It is found both in Europe and America.
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Dorp \Dorp\, n. [LG. & D. dorp. See {Thorpe}.] A hamlet. [bd]A mean fishing dorp.[b8] --Howell.
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Drab \Drab\, n. [AS. drabbe dregs, lees; akin to D. drab, drabbe, dregs, G. treber; for sense 1, cf. also Gael. drabag a slattern, drabach slovenly. Cf. {Draff}.] 1. A low, sluttish woman. --King. 2. A lewd wench; a strumpet. --Shak. 3. A wooden box, used in salt works for holding the salt when taken out of the boiling pans.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Drab \Drab\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Drabbed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Drabbing}.] To associate with strumpets; to wench. --Beau. & Fl.
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Drab \Drab\, n. [F. drap cloth: LL. drappus, trapus, perh. orig., a firm, solid stuff, cf. F. draper to drape, also to full cloth; prob. of German origin; cf. Icel. drepa to beat, strike, AS. drepan, G. treffen; perh. akin to E. drub. Cf. {Drape}, {Trappings}.] 1. A kind of thick woolen cloth of a dun, or dull brownish yellow, or dull gray, color; -- called also {drabcloth}. 2. A dull brownish yellow or dull gray color.
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Drab \Drab\, a. Of a color between gray and brown. -- n. A drab color.
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Draff \Draff\, n. [Cf. D. draf the sediment of ale, Icel. draf draff, husks. Cf. 1st {Drab}.] Refuse; lees; dregs; the wash given to swine or cows; hogwash; waste matter. Prodigals lately come from swine keeping, from eating draff and husks. -- Shak. The draff and offal of a bygone age. -- Buckle. Mere chaff and draff, much better burnt. -- Tennyson.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Draff \Draff\, n. [The same word as draught. OE. draught, draht, fr. AS. dragan to draw. See {Draw}, and cf. {Draught}.] 1. The act of drawing; also, the thing drawn. Same as {Draught}. Everything available for draft burden. -- S. G. Goodrich. 2. (Mil.) A selecting or detaching of soldiers from an army, or from any part of it, or from a military post; also from any district, or any company or collection of persons, or from the people at large; also, the body of men thus drafted. Several of the States had supplied the deficiency by drafts to serve for the year. --Marshall. 3. An order from one person or party to another, directing the payment of money; a bill of exchange. I thought it most prudent to deter the drafts till advice was received of the progress of the loan. -- A. Hamilton. 4. An allowance or deduction made from the gross veight of goods. -- Simmonds. 5. A drawing of lines for a plan; a plan delineated, or drawn in outline; a delineation. See {Draught}. 6. The form of any writing as first drawn up; the first rough sketch of written composition, to be filled in, or completed. See {Draught}. 7. (Masonry) (a) A narrow border left on a finished stone, worked differently from the rest of its face. (b) A narrow border worked to a plane surface along the edge of a stone, or across its face, as a guide to the stone-cutter. 8. (Milling) The slant given to the furrows in the dress of a millstone. 9. (Naut.) Depth of water necessary to float a ship. See {Draught}. 10. A current of air. Same as {Draught}.
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Grain \Grain\, n. [F. grain, L. granum, grain, seed, small kernel, small particle. See {Corn}, and cf. {Garner}, n., {Garnet}, {Gram} the chick-pea, {Granule}, {Kernel.}] 1. A single small hard seed; a kernel, especially of those plants, like wheat, whose seeds are used for food. 2. The fruit of certain grasses which furnish the chief food of man, as corn, wheat, rye, oats, etc., or the plants themselves; -- used collectively. Storehouses crammed with grain. --Shak. 3. Any small, hard particle, as of sand, sugar, salt, etc.; hence, any minute portion or particle; as, a grain of gunpowder, of pollen, of starch, of sense, of wit, etc. I . . . with a grain of manhood well resolved. --Milton. 4. The unit of the English system of weights; -- so called because considered equal to the average of grains taken from the middle of the ears of wheat. 7,000 grains constitute the pound avoirdupois, and 5,760 grains the pound troy. A grain is equal to .0648 gram. See {Gram.} 5. A reddish dye made from the coccus insect, or kermes; hence, a red color of any tint or hue, as crimson, scarlet, etc.; sometimes used by the poets as equivalent to {Tyrian purple}. All in a robe of darkest grain. --Milton. Doing as the dyers do, who, having first dipped their silks in colors of less value, then give' them the last tincture of crimson in grain. --Quoted by Coleridge, preface to Aids to Reflection. 6. The composite particles of any substance; that arrangement of the particles of any body which determines its comparative roughness or hardness; texture; as, marble, sugar, sandstone, etc., of fine grain. Hard box, and linden of a softer grain. --Dryden. 7. The direction, arrangement, or appearance of the fibers in wood, or of the strata in stone, slate, etc. Knots, by the conflux of meeting sap, Infect the sound pine and divert his grain Tortive and errant from his course of growth. --Shak. 8. The fiber which forms the substance of wood or of any fibrous material. 9. The hair side of a piece of leather, or the marking on that side. --Knight. 10. pl. The remains of grain, etc., after brewing or distillation; hence, any residuum. Also called {draff.} 11. (Bot.) A rounded prominence on the back of a sepal, as in the common dock. See {Grained}, a., 4. 12. Temper; natural disposition; inclination. [Obs.] Brothers . . . not united in grain. --Hayward. 13. A sort of spice, the grain of paradise. [Obs.] He cheweth grain and licorice, To smellen sweet. --Chaucer. {Against the grain}, against or across the direction of the fibers; hence, against one's wishes or tastes; unwillingly; unpleasantly; reluctantly; with difficulty. --Swift.--Saintsbury. {A grain of allowance}, a slight indulgence or latitude a small allowance. {Grain binder}, an attachment to a harvester for binding the grain into sheaves. {Grain colors}, dyes made from the coccus or kermes in sect. {Grain leather}. (a) Dressed horse hides. (b) Goat, seal, and other skins blacked on the grain side for women's shoes, etc. {Grain moth} (Zo[94]l.), one of several small moths, of the family {Tineid[91]} (as {Tinea granella} and {Butalis cerealella}), whose larv[91] devour grain in storehouses. {Grain side} (Leather), the side of a skin or hide from which the hair has been removed; -- opposed to {flesh side.} {Grains of paradise}, the seeds of a species of amomum. {grain tin}, crystalline tin ore metallic tin smelted with charcoal. {Grain weevil} (Zo[94]l.), a small red weevil (Sitophilus granarius), which destroys stored wheat and othar grain, by eating out the interior. {Grain worm} (Zo[94]l.), the larva of the grain moth. See {grain moth}, above. {In grain}, of a fast color; deeply seated; fixed; innate; genuine. [bd]Anguish in grain.[b8] --Herbert. {To dye in grain}, to dye of a fast color by means of the coccus or kermes grain [see {Grain}, n., 5]; hence, to dye firmly; also, to dye in the wool, or in the raw material. See under {Dye.} The red roses flush up in her cheeks . . . Likce crimson dyed in grain. --Spenser. {To go against the grain of} (a person), to be repugnant to; to vex, irritate, mortify, or trouble.
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Draff \Draff\, n. [Cf. D. draf the sediment of ale, Icel. draf draff, husks. Cf. 1st {Drab}.] Refuse; lees; dregs; the wash given to swine or cows; hogwash; waste matter. Prodigals lately come from swine keeping, from eating draff and husks. -- Shak. The draff and offal of a bygone age. -- Buckle. Mere chaff and draff, much better burnt. -- Tennyson.
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Draff \Draff\, n. [The same word as draught. OE. draught, draht, fr. AS. dragan to draw. See {Draw}, and cf. {Draught}.] 1. The act of drawing; also, the thing drawn. Same as {Draught}. Everything available for draft burden. -- S. G. Goodrich. 2. (Mil.) A selecting or detaching of soldiers from an army, or from any part of it, or from a military post; also from any district, or any company or collection of persons, or from the people at large; also, the body of men thus drafted. Several of the States had supplied the deficiency by drafts to serve for the year. --Marshall. 3. An order from one person or party to another, directing the payment of money; a bill of exchange. I thought it most prudent to deter the drafts till advice was received of the progress of the loan. -- A. Hamilton. 4. An allowance or deduction made from the gross veight of goods. -- Simmonds. 5. A drawing of lines for a plan; a plan delineated, or drawn in outline; a delineation. See {Draught}. 6. The form of any writing as first drawn up; the first rough sketch of written composition, to be filled in, or completed. See {Draught}. 7. (Masonry) (a) A narrow border left on a finished stone, worked differently from the rest of its face. (b) A narrow border worked to a plane surface along the edge of a stone, or across its face, as a guide to the stone-cutter. 8. (Milling) The slant given to the furrows in the dress of a millstone. 9. (Naut.) Depth of water necessary to float a ship. See {Draught}. 10. A current of air. Same as {Draught}.
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Grain \Grain\, n. [F. grain, L. granum, grain, seed, small kernel, small particle. See {Corn}, and cf. {Garner}, n., {Garnet}, {Gram} the chick-pea, {Granule}, {Kernel.}] 1. A single small hard seed; a kernel, especially of those plants, like wheat, whose seeds are used for food. 2. The fruit of certain grasses which furnish the chief food of man, as corn, wheat, rye, oats, etc., or the plants themselves; -- used collectively. Storehouses crammed with grain. --Shak. 3. Any small, hard particle, as of sand, sugar, salt, etc.; hence, any minute portion or particle; as, a grain of gunpowder, of pollen, of starch, of sense, of wit, etc. I . . . with a grain of manhood well resolved. --Milton. 4. The unit of the English system of weights; -- so called because considered equal to the average of grains taken from the middle of the ears of wheat. 7,000 grains constitute the pound avoirdupois, and 5,760 grains the pound troy. A grain is equal to .0648 gram. See {Gram.} 5. A reddish dye made from the coccus insect, or kermes; hence, a red color of any tint or hue, as crimson, scarlet, etc.; sometimes used by the poets as equivalent to {Tyrian purple}. All in a robe of darkest grain. --Milton. Doing as the dyers do, who, having first dipped their silks in colors of less value, then give' them the last tincture of crimson in grain. --Quoted by Coleridge, preface to Aids to Reflection. 6. The composite particles of any substance; that arrangement of the particles of any body which determines its comparative roughness or hardness; texture; as, marble, sugar, sandstone, etc., of fine grain. Hard box, and linden of a softer grain. --Dryden. 7. The direction, arrangement, or appearance of the fibers in wood, or of the strata in stone, slate, etc. Knots, by the conflux of meeting sap, Infect the sound pine and divert his grain Tortive and errant from his course of growth. --Shak. 8. The fiber which forms the substance of wood or of any fibrous material. 9. The hair side of a piece of leather, or the marking on that side. --Knight. 10. pl. The remains of grain, etc., after brewing or distillation; hence, any residuum. Also called {draff.} 11. (Bot.) A rounded prominence on the back of a sepal, as in the common dock. See {Grained}, a., 4. 12. Temper; natural disposition; inclination. [Obs.] Brothers . . . not united in grain. --Hayward. 13. A sort of spice, the grain of paradise. [Obs.] He cheweth grain and licorice, To smellen sweet. --Chaucer. {Against the grain}, against or across the direction of the fibers; hence, against one's wishes or tastes; unwillingly; unpleasantly; reluctantly; with difficulty. --Swift.--Saintsbury. {A grain of allowance}, a slight indulgence or latitude a small allowance. {Grain binder}, an attachment to a harvester for binding the grain into sheaves. {Grain colors}, dyes made from the coccus or kermes in sect. {Grain leather}. (a) Dressed horse hides. (b) Goat, seal, and other skins blacked on the grain side for women's shoes, etc. {Grain moth} (Zo[94]l.), one of several small moths, of the family {Tineid[91]} (as {Tinea granella} and {Butalis cerealella}), whose larv[91] devour grain in storehouses. {Grain side} (Leather), the side of a skin or hide from which the hair has been removed; -- opposed to {flesh side.} {Grains of paradise}, the seeds of a species of amomum. {grain tin}, crystalline tin ore metallic tin smelted with charcoal. {Grain weevil} (Zo[94]l.), a small red weevil (Sitophilus granarius), which destroys stored wheat and othar grain, by eating out the interior. {Grain worm} (Zo[94]l.), the larva of the grain moth. See {grain moth}, above. {In grain}, of a fast color; deeply seated; fixed; innate; genuine. [bd]Anguish in grain.[b8] --Herbert. {To dye in grain}, to dye of a fast color by means of the coccus or kermes grain [see {Grain}, n., 5]; hence, to dye firmly; also, to dye in the wool, or in the raw material. See under {Dye.} The red roses flush up in her cheeks . . . Likce crimson dyed in grain. --Spenser. {To go against the grain of} (a person), to be repugnant to; to vex, irritate, mortify, or trouble.
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Draffy \Draff"y\, a. Dreggy; waste; worthless. The dregs and draffy part. -- Beau. & Fl.
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Drape \Drape\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Draped}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Draping}.] [F. draper, fr. drap cloth. See 3d {Drab}.] 1. To cover or adorn with drapery or folds of cloth, or as with drapery; as, to drape a bust, a building, etc. The whole people were draped professionally. --De Quincey. These starry blossoms, [of the snow] pure and white, Soft falling, falling, through the night, Have draped the woods and mere. --Bungay. 2. To rail at; to banter. [Obs.] --Sir W. Temple.
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Drape \Drape\, v. i. 1. To make cloth. [Obs.] --Bacon. 2. To design drapery, arrange its folds, etc., as for hangings, costumes, statues, etc.
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Drave \Drave\, old imp. of {Drive}. [Obs.]
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Drive \Drive\ (dr[imac]v), v. t. [imp. {Drove} (dr[omac]v), formerly {Drave} (dr[amac]v); p. p. {Driven} (dr[icr]v'n); p. pr. & vb. n. {Driving}.] [AS. dr[c6]fan; akin to OS. dr[c6]ban, D. drijven, OHG. tr[c6]ban, G. treiben, Icel. dr[c6]fa, Goth. dreiban. Cf. {Drift}, {Drove}.] 1. To impel or urge onward by force in a direction away from one, or along before one; to push forward; to compel to move on; to communicate motion to; as, to drive cattle; to drive a nail; smoke drives persons from a room. A storm came on and drove them into Pylos. --Jowett (Thucyd. ). Shield pressed on shield, and man drove man along. --Pope. Go drive the deer and drag the finny prey. --Pope. 2. To urge on and direct the motions of, as the beasts which draw a vehicle, or the vehicle borne by them; hence, also, to take in a carriage; to convey in a vehicle drawn by beasts; as, to drive a pair of horses or a stage; to drive a person to his own door. How . . . proud he was to drive such a brother! --Thackeray. 3. To urge, impel, or hurry forward; to force; to constrain; to urge, press, or bring to a point or state; as, to drive a person by necessity, by persuasion, by force of circumstances, by argument, and the like. [bd] Enough to drive one mad.[b8] --Tennyson. He, driven to dismount, threatened, if I did not do the like, to do as much for my horse as fortune had done for his. --Sir P. Sidney. 4. To carry or; to keep in motion; to conduct; to prosecute. [Now used only colloquially.] --Bacon. The trade of life can not be driven without partners. --Collier. 5. To clear, by forcing away what is contained. To drive the country, force the swains away. --Dryden. 6. (Mining) To dig Horizontally; to cut a horizontal gallery or tunnel. --Tomlinson. 7. To pass away; -- said of time. [Obs.] --Chaucer. Note: Drive, in all its senses, implies forcible or violent action. It is the reverse of to lead. To drive a body is to move it by applying a force behind; to lead is to cause to move by applying the force before, or in front. It takes a variety of meanings, according to the objects by which it is followed; as, to drive an engine, to direct and regulate its motions; to drive logs, to keep them in the current of a river and direct them in their course; to drive feathers or down, to place them in a machine, which, by a current of air, drives off the lightest to one end, and collects them by themselves. [bd]My thrice-driven bed of down.[b8] --Shak.
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Drawboy \Draw"boy`\, n. (Weaving) A boy who operates the harness cords of a hand loom; also, a part of power loom that performs the same office.
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Drawloom \Draw"loom`\, n. 1. A kind of loom used in weaving figured patterns; -- called also {drawboy}. 2. A species of damask made on the drawloom.
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Drawboy \Draw"boy`\, n. (Weaving) A boy who operates the harness cords of a hand loom; also, a part of power loom that performs the same office.
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Drawloom \Draw"loom`\, n. 1. A kind of loom used in weaving figured patterns; -- called also {drawboy}. 2. A species of damask made on the drawloom.
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Drib \Drib\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Dribbed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Dribbing}.] [Cf. {Drip}.] To do by little and little; as: (a) To cut off by a little at a time; to crop. (b) To appropriate unlawfully; to filch; to defalcate. He who drives their bargain dribs a part. --Dryden. (c) To lead along step by step; to entice. With daily lies she dribs thee into cost. -- Dryden.
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Drib \Drib\, v. t. & i. (Archery) To shoot (a shaft) so as to pierce on the descent. [Obs.] --Sir P. Sidney.
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Drib \Drib\, n. A drop. [Obs.] --Swift.
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Drip \Drip\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Dripped}or {Dript}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Dripping}.] [Akin to LG. drippen, Dan. dryppe, from a noun. See {Drop}.] 1. To fall in drops; as, water drips from the eaves. 2. To let fall drops of moisture or liquid; as, a wet garment drips. The dark round of the dripping wheel. --Tennyson.
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Drip \Drip\, v. t. To let fall in drops. Which from the thatch drips fast a shower of rain. --Swift.
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Drip \Drip\, n. 1. A falling or letting fall in drops; a dripping; that which drips, or falls in drops. The light drip of the suspended oar. --Byron. 2. (Arch.) That part of a cornice, sill course, or other horizontal member, which projects beyond the rest, and is of such section as to throw off the rain water. {Right of drip} (Law), an easement or servitude by which a man has the right to have the water flowing from his house fall on the land of his neighbor.
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Drive \Drive\, v. i. (Golf) To make a drive, or stroke from the tee.
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Drive \Drive\, v. t. Specif., in various games, as tennis, baseball, etc., to propel (the ball) swiftly by a direct stroke or forcible throw.
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Drive \Drive\, n. 1. In various games, as tennis, cricket, etc., the act of player who drives the ball; the stroke or blow; the flight of the ball, etc., so driven. 2. (Golf) A stroke from the tee, generally a full shot made with a driver; also, the distance covered by such a stroke. 6. An implement used for driving; as: (a) A mallet. (b) A tamping iron. (c) A cooper's hammer for driving on barrel hoops. (d) A wooden-headed golf club with a long shaft, for playing the longest strokes. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
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Drive \Drive\ (dr[imac]v), v. t. [imp. {Drove} (dr[omac]v), formerly {Drave} (dr[amac]v); p. p. {Driven} (dr[icr]v'n); p. pr. & vb. n. {Driving}.] [AS. dr[c6]fan; akin to OS. dr[c6]ban, D. drijven, OHG. tr[c6]ban, G. treiben, Icel. dr[c6]fa, Goth. dreiban. Cf. {Drift}, {Drove}.] 1. To impel or urge onward by force in a direction away from one, or along before one; to push forward; to compel to move on; to communicate motion to; as, to drive cattle; to drive a nail; smoke drives persons from a room. A storm came on and drove them into Pylos. --Jowett (Thucyd. ). Shield pressed on shield, and man drove man along. --Pope. Go drive the deer and drag the finny prey. --Pope. 2. To urge on and direct the motions of, as the beasts which draw a vehicle, or the vehicle borne by them; hence, also, to take in a carriage; to convey in a vehicle drawn by beasts; as, to drive a pair of horses or a stage; to drive a person to his own door. How . . . proud he was to drive such a brother! --Thackeray. 3. To urge, impel, or hurry forward; to force; to constrain; to urge, press, or bring to a point or state; as, to drive a person by necessity, by persuasion, by force of circumstances, by argument, and the like. [bd] Enough to drive one mad.[b8] --Tennyson. He, driven to dismount, threatened, if I did not do the like, to do as much for my horse as fortune had done for his. --Sir P. Sidney. 4. To carry or; to keep in motion; to conduct; to prosecute. [Now used only colloquially.] --Bacon. The trade of life can not be driven without partners. --Collier. 5. To clear, by forcing away what is contained. To drive the country, force the swains away. --Dryden. 6. (Mining) To dig Horizontally; to cut a horizontal gallery or tunnel. --Tomlinson. 7. To pass away; -- said of time. [Obs.] --Chaucer. Note: Drive, in all its senses, implies forcible or violent action. It is the reverse of to lead. To drive a body is to move it by applying a force behind; to lead is to cause to move by applying the force before, or in front. It takes a variety of meanings, according to the objects by which it is followed; as, to drive an engine, to direct and regulate its motions; to drive logs, to keep them in the current of a river and direct them in their course; to drive feathers or down, to place them in a machine, which, by a current of air, drives off the lightest to one end, and collects them by themselves. [bd]My thrice-driven bed of down.[b8] --Shak.
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Drive \Drive\ (dr[imac]v), p. p. Driven. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
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Drive \Drive\ (dr[imac]v), n. 1. The act of driving; a trip or an excursion in a carriage, as for exercise or pleasure; -- distinguished from a ride taken on horseback. 2. A place suitable or agreeable for driving; a road prepared for driving. 3. Violent or rapid motion; a rushing onward or away; esp., a forced or hurried dispatch of business. The Murdstonian drive in business. --M. Arnold. 4. In type founding and forging, an impression or matrix, formed by a punch drift. 5. A collection of objects that are driven; a mass of logs to be floated down a river. [Colloq.] Syn: See {Ride}.
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Drive \Drive\, v. i. 1. To rush and press with violence; to move furiously. Fierce Boreas drove against his flying sails. --Dryden. Under cover of the night and a driving tempest. --Prescott. Time driveth onward fast, And in a little while our lips are dumb. --Tennyson. 2. To be forced along; to be impelled; to be moved by any physical force or agent; to be driven. The hull drives on, though mast and sail be torn. --Byron. The chaise drives to Mr. Draper's chambers. --Thackeray. 3. To go by carriage; to pass in a carriage; to proceed by directing or urging on a vehicle or the animals that draw it; as, the coachman drove to my door. 4. To press forward; to aim, or tend, to a point; to make an effort; to strive; -- usually with at. Let them therefore declare what carnal or secular interest he drove at. --South. 5. To distrain for rent. [Obs.] {To let drive}, to aim a blow; to strike with force; to attack. [bd]Four rogues in buckram let drive at me.[b8] --Shak.
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Driveway \Drive"way`\, n. A passage or way along or through which a carriage may be driven.
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Droop \Droop\, v. t. To let droop or sink. [R.] --M. Arnold. Like to a withered vine That droops his sapless branches to the ground. --Shak.
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Droop \Droop\, n. A drooping; as, a droop of the eye.
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Droop \Droop\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Drooped}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Drooping}.] [Icel. dr[?]pa; akin to E. drop. See {Drop}.] 1. To hang bending downward; to sink or hang down, as an animal, plant, etc., from physical inability or exhaustion, want of nourishment, or the like. [bd]The purple flowers droop.[b8] [bd]Above her drooped a lamp.[b8] --Tennyson. I saw him ten days before he died, and observed he began very much to droop and languish. --Swift. 2. To grow weak or faint with disappointment, grief, or like causes; to be dispirited or depressed; to languish; as, her spirits drooped. I'll animate the soldier's drooping courage. --Addison. 3. To proceed downward, or toward a close; to decline. [bd]Then day drooped.[b8] --Tennyson.
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Drop \Drop\, n. [OE. drope, AS. dropa; akin to OS. dropo, D. drop, OHG. tropo, G. tropfen, Icel. dropi, Sw. droppe; and Fr. AS. dre[a2]pan to drip, drop; akin to OS. driopan, D. druipen, OHG. triofan, G. triefen, Icel. drj[?]pa. Cf. {Drip}, {Droop}.] 1. The quantity of fluid which falls in one small spherical mass; a liquid globule; a minim; hence, also, the smallest easily measured portion of a fluid; a small quantity; as, a drop of water. With minute drops from off the eaves. --Milton. As dear to me as are the ruddy drops That visit my sad heart. -- Shak. That drop of peace divine. --Keble. 2. That which resembles, or that which hangs like, a liquid drop; as a hanging diamond ornament, an earring, a glass pendant on a chandelier, a sugarplum (sometimes medicated), or a kind of shot or slug. 3. (Arch.) (a) Same as {Gutta}. (b) Any small pendent ornament. 4. Whatever is arranged to drop, hang, or fall from an elevated position; also, a contrivance for lowering something; as: (a) A door or platform opening downward; a trap door; that part of the gallows on which a culprit stands when he is to be hanged; hence, the gallows itself. (b) A machine for lowering heavy weights, as packages, coal wagons, etc., to a ship's deck. (c) A contrivance for temporarily lowering a gas jet. (d) A curtain which drops or falls in front of the stage of a theater, etc. (e) A drop press or drop hammer. (f) (Mach.) The distance of the axis of a shaft below the base of a hanger. 5. pl. Any medicine the dose of which is measured by drops; as, lavender drops. 6. (Naut.) The depth of a square sail; -- generally applied to the courses only. --Ham. Nav. Encyc. 7. Act of dropping; sudden fall or descent. {Ague drop}, {Black drop}. See under {Ague}, {Black}. {Drop by drop}, in small successive quantities; in repeated portions. [bd]Made to taste drop by drop more than the bitterness of death.[b8] --Burke. {Drop curtain}. See {Drop}, n., 4. (d) . {Drop forging}. (Mech.) (a) A forging made in dies by a drop hammer. (b) The process of making drop forgings. {Drop hammer} (Mech.), a hammer for forging, striking up metal, etc., the weight being raised by a strap or similar device, and then released to drop on the metal resting on an anvil or die. {Drop kick} (Football), a kick given to the ball as it rebounds after having been dropped from the hands. {Drop lake}, a pigment obtained from Brazil wood. --Mollett. {Drop letter}, a letter to be delivered from the same office where posted. {Drop press} (Mech.), a drop hammer; sometimes, a dead-stroke hammer; -- also called drop. {Drop scene}, a drop curtain on which a scene is painted. See {Drop}, n., 4. (d) . {Drop seed}. (Bot.) See the List under {Glass}. {Drop serene}. (Med.) See {Amaurosis}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Drop \Drop\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Dropped}or {Dropt}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Dropping}.] [OE. droppen, AS. dropan, v. i. See {Drop}, n.] 1. To pour or let fall in drops; to pour in small globules; to distill. [bd]The trees drop balsam.[b8] --Creech. The recording angel, as he wrote it down, dropped a tear upon the word and blotted it out forever. --Sterne. 2. To cause to fall in one portion, or by one motion, like a drop; to let fall; as, to drop a line in fishing; to drop a courtesy. 3. To let go; to dismiss; to set aside; to have done with; to discontinue; to forsake; to give up; to omit. They suddenly drop't the pursuit. --S. Sharp. That astonishing ease with which fine ladies drop you and pick you up again. --Thackeray. The connection had been dropped many years. -- Sir W. Scott. Dropping the too rough H in Hell and Heaven. --Tennyson. 4. To bestow or communicate by a suggestion; to let fall in an indirect, cautious, or gentle manner; as, to drop hint, a word of counsel, etc. 5. To lower, as a curtain, or the muzzle of a gun, etc. 6. To send, as a letter; as, please drop me a line, a letter, word. 7. To give birth to; as, to drop a lamb. 8. To cover with drops; to variegate; to bedrop. Show to the sun their waved coats dropped with gold. --Milton. {To drop a vessel} (Naut.), to leave it astern in a race or a chase; to outsail it.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Drop \Drop\, v. i. 1. To fall in drops. The kindly dew drops from the higher tree, And wets the little plants that lowly dwell. --Spenser. 2. To fall, in general, literally or figuratively; as, ripe fruit drops from a tree; wise words drop from the lips. Mutilations of which the meaning has dropped out of memory. --H. Spencer. When the sound of dropping nuts is heard. --Bryant. 3. To let drops fall; to discharge itself in drops. The heavens . . . dropped at the presence of God. --Ps. lxviii. 8. 4. To fall dead, or to fall in death. Nothing, says Seneca, so soon reconciles us to the thoughts of our own death, as the prospect of one friend after another dropping round us. --Digby. 5. To come to an end; to cease; to pass out of mind; as, the affair dropped. --Pope. 6. To come unexpectedly; -- with in or into; as, my old friend dropped in a moment. --Steele. Takes care to drop in when he thinks you are just seated. --Spectator. 7. To fall or be depressed; to lower; as, the point of the spear dropped a little. 8. To fall short of a mark. [R.] Often it drops or overshoots by the disproportion of distance. --Collier. 9. To be deep in extent; to descend perpendicularly; as, her main topsail drops seventeen yards. {To drop astern} (Naut.), to go astern of another vessel; to be left behind; to slacken the speed of a vessel so as to fall behind and to let another pass a head. {To drop down} (Naut.), to sail, row, or move down a river, or toward the sea. {To drop off}, to fall asleep gently; also, to die. [Colloq.]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
d8Gutta \[d8]Gut"ta\, n.; pl. {Gutt[92]}. [L.] 1. A drop. 2. (Arch.) One of a series of ornaments, in the form of a frustum of a cone, attached to the lower part of the triglyphs, and also to the lower faces of the mutules, in the Doric order; -- called also {campana}, and {drop}. {Gutta serena} [L., lit. serene or clear drop] (Med.), amaurosis. {Gutt[91] band}> (Arch.), the listel or band from which the gutt[91] hang.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Drop \Drop\, n. [OE. drope, AS. dropa; akin to OS. dropo, D. drop, OHG. tropo, G. tropfen, Icel. dropi, Sw. droppe; and Fr. AS. dre[a2]pan to drip, drop; akin to OS. driopan, D. druipen, OHG. triofan, G. triefen, Icel. drj[?]pa. Cf. {Drip}, {Droop}.] 1. The quantity of fluid which falls in one small spherical mass; a liquid globule; a minim; hence, also, the smallest easily measured portion of a fluid; a small quantity; as, a drop of water. With minute drops from off the eaves. --Milton. As dear to me as are the ruddy drops That visit my sad heart. -- Shak. That drop of peace divine. --Keble. 2. That which resembles, or that which hangs like, a liquid drop; as a hanging diamond ornament, an earring, a glass pendant on a chandelier, a sugarplum (sometimes medicated), or a kind of shot or slug. 3. (Arch.) (a) Same as {Gutta}. (b) Any small pendent ornament. 4. Whatever is arranged to drop, hang, or fall from an elevated position; also, a contrivance for lowering something; as: (a) A door or platform opening downward; a trap door; that part of the gallows on which a culprit stands when he is to be hanged; hence, the gallows itself. (b) A machine for lowering heavy weights, as packages, coal wagons, etc., to a ship's deck. (c) A contrivance for temporarily lowering a gas jet. (d) A curtain which drops or falls in front of the stage of a theater, etc. (e) A drop press or drop hammer. (f) (Mach.) The distance of the axis of a shaft below the base of a hanger. 5. pl. Any medicine the dose of which is measured by drops; as, lavender drops. 6. (Naut.) The depth of a square sail; -- generally applied to the courses only. --Ham. Nav. Encyc. 7. Act of dropping; sudden fall or descent. {Ague drop}, {Black drop}. See under {Ague}, {Black}. {Drop by drop}, in small successive quantities; in repeated portions. [bd]Made to taste drop by drop more than the bitterness of death.[b8] --Burke. {Drop curtain}. See {Drop}, n., 4. (d) . {Drop forging}. (Mech.) (a) A forging made in dies by a drop hammer. (b) The process of making drop forgings. {Drop hammer} (Mech.), a hammer for forging, striking up metal, etc., the weight being raised by a strap or similar device, and then released to drop on the metal resting on an anvil or die. {Drop kick} (Football), a kick given to the ball as it rebounds after having been dropped from the hands. {Drop lake}, a pigment obtained from Brazil wood. --Mollett. {Drop letter}, a letter to be delivered from the same office where posted. {Drop press} (Mech.), a drop hammer; sometimes, a dead-stroke hammer; -- also called drop. {Drop scene}, a drop curtain on which a scene is painted. See {Drop}, n., 4. (d) . {Drop seed}. (Bot.) See the List under {Glass}. {Drop serene}. (Med.) See {Amaurosis}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Drop \Drop\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Dropped}or {Dropt}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Dropping}.] [OE. droppen, AS. dropan, v. i. See {Drop}, n.] 1. To pour or let fall in drops; to pour in small globules; to distill. [bd]The trees drop balsam.[b8] --Creech. The recording angel, as he wrote it down, dropped a tear upon the word and blotted it out forever. --Sterne. 2. To cause to fall in one portion, or by one motion, like a drop; to let fall; as, to drop a line in fishing; to drop a courtesy. 3. To let go; to dismiss; to set aside; to have done with; to discontinue; to forsake; to give up; to omit. They suddenly drop't the pursuit. --S. Sharp. That astonishing ease with which fine ladies drop you and pick you up again. --Thackeray. The connection had been dropped many years. -- Sir W. Scott. Dropping the too rough H in Hell and Heaven. --Tennyson. 4. To bestow or communicate by a suggestion; to let fall in an indirect, cautious, or gentle manner; as, to drop hint, a word of counsel, etc. 5. To lower, as a curtain, or the muzzle of a gun, etc. 6. To send, as a letter; as, please drop me a line, a letter, word. 7. To give birth to; as, to drop a lamb. 8. To cover with drops; to variegate; to bedrop. Show to the sun their waved coats dropped with gold. --Milton. {To drop a vessel} (Naut.), to leave it astern in a race or a chase; to outsail it.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Drop \Drop\, v. i. 1. To fall in drops. The kindly dew drops from the higher tree, And wets the little plants that lowly dwell. --Spenser. 2. To fall, in general, literally or figuratively; as, ripe fruit drops from a tree; wise words drop from the lips. Mutilations of which the meaning has dropped out of memory. --H. Spencer. When the sound of dropping nuts is heard. --Bryant. 3. To let drops fall; to discharge itself in drops. The heavens . . . dropped at the presence of God. --Ps. lxviii. 8. 4. To fall dead, or to fall in death. Nothing, says Seneca, so soon reconciles us to the thoughts of our own death, as the prospect of one friend after another dropping round us. --Digby. 5. To come to an end; to cease; to pass out of mind; as, the affair dropped. --Pope. 6. To come unexpectedly; -- with in or into; as, my old friend dropped in a moment. --Steele. Takes care to drop in when he thinks you are just seated. --Spectator. 7. To fall or be depressed; to lower; as, the point of the spear dropped a little. 8. To fall short of a mark. [R.] Often it drops or overshoots by the disproportion of distance. --Collier. 9. To be deep in extent; to descend perpendicularly; as, her main topsail drops seventeen yards. {To drop astern} (Naut.), to go astern of another vessel; to be left behind; to slacken the speed of a vessel so as to fall behind and to let another pass a head. {To drop down} (Naut.), to sail, row, or move down a river, or toward the sea. {To drop off}, to fall asleep gently; also, to die. [Colloq.]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
d8Gutta \[d8]Gut"ta\, n.; pl. {Gutt[92]}. [L.] 1. A drop. 2. (Arch.) One of a series of ornaments, in the form of a frustum of a cone, attached to the lower part of the triglyphs, and also to the lower faces of the mutules, in the Doric order; -- called also {campana}, and {drop}. {Gutta serena} [L., lit. serene or clear drop] (Med.), amaurosis. {Gutt[91] band}> (Arch.), the listel or band from which the gutt[91] hang.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Drove \Drove\, v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p. {Droved}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Droving}.] [Cf. {Drove}, n., and {Drover}.] 1. To drive, as cattle or sheep, esp. on long journeys; to follow the occupation of a drover. He's droving now with Conroy's sheep along the Castlereagh. --Paterson. 2. To finish, as stone, with a drove or drove chisel.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Drive \Drive\ (dr[imac]v), v. t. [imp. {Drove} (dr[omac]v), formerly {Drave} (dr[amac]v); p. p. {Driven} (dr[icr]v'n); p. pr. & vb. n. {Driving}.] [AS. dr[c6]fan; akin to OS. dr[c6]ban, D. drijven, OHG. tr[c6]ban, G. treiben, Icel. dr[c6]fa, Goth. dreiban. Cf. {Drift}, {Drove}.] 1. To impel or urge onward by force in a direction away from one, or along before one; to push forward; to compel to move on; to communicate motion to; as, to drive cattle; to drive a nail; smoke drives persons from a room. A storm came on and drove them into Pylos. --Jowett (Thucyd. ). Shield pressed on shield, and man drove man along. --Pope. Go drive the deer and drag the finny prey. --Pope. 2. To urge on and direct the motions of, as the beasts which draw a vehicle, or the vehicle borne by them; hence, also, to take in a carriage; to convey in a vehicle drawn by beasts; as, to drive a pair of horses or a stage; to drive a person to his own door. How . . . proud he was to drive such a brother! --Thackeray. 3. To urge, impel, or hurry forward; to force; to constrain; to urge, press, or bring to a point or state; as, to drive a person by necessity, by persuasion, by force of circumstances, by argument, and the like. [bd] Enough to drive one mad.[b8] --Tennyson. He, driven to dismount, threatened, if I did not do the like, to do as much for my horse as fortune had done for his. --Sir P. Sidney. 4. To carry or; to keep in motion; to conduct; to prosecute. [Now used only colloquially.] --Bacon. The trade of life can not be driven without partners. --Collier. 5. To clear, by forcing away what is contained. To drive the country, force the swains away. --Dryden. 6. (Mining) To dig Horizontally; to cut a horizontal gallery or tunnel. --Tomlinson. 7. To pass away; -- said of time. [Obs.] --Chaucer. Note: Drive, in all its senses, implies forcible or violent action. It is the reverse of to lead. To drive a body is to move it by applying a force behind; to lead is to cause to move by applying the force before, or in front. It takes a variety of meanings, according to the objects by which it is followed; as, to drive an engine, to direct and regulate its motions; to drive logs, to keep them in the current of a river and direct them in their course; to drive feathers or down, to place them in a machine, which, by a current of air, drives off the lightest to one end, and collects them by themselves. [bd]My thrice-driven bed of down.[b8] --Shak.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Drove \Drove\, n. [AS. dr[be]f, fr. dr[c6]fan to drive. See {Drive}.] 1. A collection of cattle driven, or cattle collected for driving; a number of animals, as oxen, sheep, or swine, driven in a body. 2. Any collection of irrational animals, moving or driving forward; as, a finny drove. --Milton. 3. A crowd of people in motion. Where droves, as at a city gate, may pass. --Dryden. 4. A road for driving cattle; a driftway. [Eng.] 5. (Agric.) A narrow drain or channel used in the irrigation of land. --Simmonds. 6. (Masonry) (a) A broad chisel used to bring stone to a nearly smooth surface; -- called also {drove chisel}. (b) The grooved surface of stone finished by the drove chisel; -- called also {drove work}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Drove \Drove\, imp. of {Drive}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Drovy \Dro"vy\, a. [AS. dr[?]f dirty; cf. D. droef, G. tr[81]be, Goth. dr[?]bjan to trouble.] Turbid; muddy; filthy. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Drub \Drub\, n. A blow with a cudgel; a thump. --Addison.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Drub \Drub\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Drubbed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Drubbing}.] [Cf. Prov. E. drab to beat, Icel. & Sw. drabba to hit, beat, Dan. dr[91]be to slay, and perh. OE. drepen to strike, kill, AS. drepan to strike, G. & D. freffen to hit, touch, Icel. drepa to strike, kill.] To beat with a stick; to thrash; to cudgel. Soundly Drubbed with a good honest cudgel. --L'Estrange.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Drupe \Drupe\, n. [F. drupe, L. drupa an overripe, wrinkled olive, fr. Gr. [?].] (Bot.) 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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Dwarf \Dwarf\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Dwarfed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Dwarfing}.] To hinder from growing to the natural size; to make or keep small; to stunt. --Addison. Even the most common moral ideas and affections . . . would be stunted and dwarfed, if cut off from a spiritual background. --J. C. Shairp.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Dwarf \Dwarf\, v. i. To become small; to diminish in size. Strange power of the world that, the moment we enter it, our great conceptions dwarf. --Beaconsfield.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Dwarf \Dwarf\, n.; pl. {Dwarfs}. [OE. dwergh, dwerf, dwarf, AS. dweorg, dweorh; akin to D. dwerg, MHG. twerc, G. zwerg, Icel. dvergr, Sw. & Dan. dverg; of unknown origin.] An animal or plant which is much below the ordinary size of its species or kind; especially, a diminutive human being. Note: During the Middle Ages dwarfs as well as fools shared the favor of courts and the nobility. Note: Dwarf is used adjectively in reference to anything much below the usual or normal size; as, dwarf tree; dwarf honeysuckle. {Dwarf elder} (Bot.), danewort. {Dwarf wall} (Arch.), a low wall, not as high as the story of a building, often used as a garden wall or fence. --Gwilt.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Dwarfy \Dwarf"y\, a. Much undersized. [R.] --Waterhouse.
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
Darby, MT (town, FIPS 19300) Location: 46.02212 N, 114.17837 W Population (1990): 625 (304 housing units) Area: 1.2 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 59829 Darby, PA (borough, FIPS 18152) Location: 39.92045 N, 75.26103 W Population (1990): 11140 (4042 housing units) Area: 2.1 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
Derby, CO (CDP, FIPS 20275) Location: 39.83945 N, 104.91808 W Population (1990): 6043 (2283 housing units) Area: 4.6 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Derby, CT (city, FIPS 19480) Location: 41.32667 N, 73.08279 W Population (1990): 12199 (5269 housing units) Area: 12.9 sq km (land), 1.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 06418 Derby, IA (city, FIPS 20125) Location: 40.92993 N, 93.45674 W Population (1990): 135 (68 housing units) Area: 0.7 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 50068 Derby, IN Zip code(s): 47525 Derby, KS (city, FIPS 17800) Location: 37.54930 N, 97.25887 W Population (1990): 14699 (5002 housing units) Area: 12.0 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 67037 Derby, ME Zip code(s): 04463 Derby, NY Zip code(s): 14047 Derby, VT Zip code(s): 05829
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
Dora Bay, AK (CDP, FIPS 19660) Location: 55.18899 N, 132.29520 W Population (1990): 57 (11 housing units) Area: 64.4 sq km (land), 24.1 sq km (water)
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
Droop, WV Zip code(s): 24946
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]:
derf /derf/ v.,n. [PLATO] The act of exploiting a terminal which someone else has absentmindedly left logged on, to use that person's account, especially to post articles intended to make an ass of the victim you're impersonating. It has been alleged that the term originated as a reversal of the name of the gentleman who most usually left himself vulnerable to it, who also happened to be the head of the department that handled PLATO at the University of Delaware.
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
DARPA {Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency}
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
Derbe a small town on the eastern part of the upland plain of Lycaonia, about 20 miles from Lystra. Paul passed through Derbe on his route from Cilicia to Iconium, on his second missionary journey (Acts 16:1), and probably also on his third journey (18:23; 19:1). On his first journey (14:20, 21) he came to Derbe from the other side; i.e., from Iconium. It was the native place of Gaius, one of Paul's companions (20:4). He did not here suffer persecution (2 Tim. 3:11).
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
Dwarf a lean or emaciated person (Lev. 21:20).
From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]:
Derbe, a sting