DRAINABLE
DRAINABLE, adjective Capable of being drained.
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American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.
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DRAINAGE
DRAINAGE, noun A draining; a gradual flowing off of any liquid.
DRAINED
DRAINED, participle passive Emptied of water or other liquor by a gradual discharge, flowing or dropping; exhausted; drawn off.
DRAINING
DRAINING, participle present tense Emptying of water or other liquor by filtration or flowing in small channels.
DRAKE
DRAKE, noun [G., L, a duck.]1. The male of the duck kind.2. [Latin, dragon.] A small piece of artillery.3. The drake-fly.
DRAM
DRAM, noun [contracted from drachma, which see.]1. Among druggists and physicians, a weight of the eighth part of an ounce, or sixty grains. In avoirdupois weight, the sixteenth...
DRAM-DRINKER
DRAM-DRINKER, noun One who habitually drinks spirits.
DRAMA
DRAMA, noun [Gr., to make.] A poem or composition representing a picture of human life, and accommodated to action. The principal species of the drama are tragedy and comedy; in...
DRAMATIC
DRAMATIC, DRAMATICAL, adjective Pertaining to the drama; represent by action; theatrical; not narrative.
DRAMATICAL
DRAMATIC, DRAMATICAL adjective Pertaining to the drama; represent by action; theatrical; not narrative.
DRAMATICALLY
DRAMATICALLY, adjective By representation; in the manner of the drama.
DRAMATIST
DRAMATIST, noun The author of a dramatic composition; a writer of plays.
DRAMATIZE
DRAMATIZE, verb transitive To compose in the form of the drama; or to give to a composition the form of a play.At Riga in 1204 was acted a prophetic play, that is, a dramatized ...
DRANK
DRANK, preterit tense and participle passive of drink.DRANK, noun A term for wild oats.
DRAPE
DRAPE, verb transitive To make cloth; also, to banter.
DRAPER
DRAPER, noun One who sells cloths; a dealer in cloths; as a linen-draper or woolen-draper.
DRAPERY
DRAPERY, noun1. Clothwork; the trade of making cloth.2. Cloth; stuffs of wool.3. In sculpture and painting, the representation of the clothing or dress of human figures; also, t...
DRAPET
DRAPET, noun Cloth; coverlet. [Not in use.]
DRASTIC
DRASTIC, adjective [Gr., to make.] Powerful; acting with strength or violence; efficacious; as a drastic cathartic.
DRAUGH
DRAUGH. [See Draff.]
DRAUGHT
DRAUGHT, noun Draft. [from draw, drag.]1. The act of drawing; as a horse or ox fit for draught2. The quality of being drawn; as a cart of plow of easy draught3. The drawing of l...
DRAUGHT-HOOKS
DRAUGHT-HOOKS, noun Large hooks of iron fixed on the cheeks of a cannon carriage, two on each side, one near the trunnion hole, and the other at the train; used in drawing the g...
DRAUGHT-HORSE
DRAUGHT-HORSE, noun A horse used in drawing a plow, cart or other carriage, as distinguished from a saddle horse.
DRAUGHT-HOUSE
DRAUGHT-HOUSE, noun A house for the reception of filth or waste matter.
DRAUGHTSMAN
DRAUGHTSMAN, noun1. A man who draws writings or designs or one who is skilled in such drawings.2. One who drinks drams; a tippler.
DRAVE
DRAVE, the old participle of drive. We now use drove.
DRAW
DRAW, verb transitivepreterit tense drew; participle passive drawn. [Latin It is only a dialectical spelling of drag, which see.]1. To pull along; to haul; to cause to move forw...