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   Darier's disease
         n 1: a rare hereditary condition marked by dark crusted patches
               (sometimes containing pus) [syn: {keratosis follicularis},
               {Darier's disease}]

English Dictionary: dray horse by the DICT Development Group
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
drawers
n
  1. underpants worn by men [syn: drawers, underdrawers, shorts, boxers, boxershorts]
  2. underpants worn by women; "she was afraid that her bloomers might have been showing"
    Synonym(s): bloomers, pants, drawers, knickers
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
dray horse
n
  1. horse adapted for drawing heavy loads [syn: draft horse, draught horse, dray horse]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
drayhorse
n
  1. draft horse kept for pulling carts [syn: carthorse, {cart horse}, drayhorse]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Dray \Dray\, n. [AS. dr[91]ge a dragnet, fr. dragan.
      [?][?][?][?]. See {Draw}, and cf. 2d {Drag}, 1st {Dredge}.]
      1. A strong low cart or carriage used for heavy burdens.
            --Addison.
  
      2. A kind of sledge or sled. --Halliwell.
  
      {Dray cart}, a dray.
  
      {Dray horse}, a heavy, strong horse used in drawing a dray.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Dreary \Drear"y\, a. [Compar. {Drearier}; superl. {Dreariest}.]
      [OE. dreori, dreri, AS. dre[a2]rig, sad; akin to G. traurig,
      and prob. to AS. dre[a2]san to fall, Goth. driusan. Cf.
      {Dross}, {Drear}, {Drizzle}, {Drowse}.]
      1. Sorrowful; distressful. [Obs.] [bd] Dreary shrieks.[b8]
            --Spenser.
  
      2. Exciting cheerless sensations, feelings, or associations;
            comfortless; dismal; gloomy. [bd] Dreary shades.[b8]
            --Dryden. [bd]The dreary ground.[b8] --Prior.
  
                     Full many a dreary anxious hour.         --Keble.
  
                     Johnson entered on his vocation in the most dreary
                     part of that dreary interval which separated two
                     ages of prosperity.                           --Macaulay.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Drearisome \Drear"i*some\, a.
      Very dreary. --Halliwell.
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