DRENT
DRENT, participle passive Drenched. [Not in use.]
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American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.
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DRESS
DRESS, verb transitivepreterit tense and participle passive dressed or drest. [Latin]1. To make straight or a straight line; to adjust to a right line. We have the primary sense...
DRESS-MAKER
DRESS-MAKER, noun A maker of gowns, or similar garments; a mantuamaker.
DRESSED
DRESSED, participle passive Adjusted; made straight; put in order; prepared; trimmed; tilled; clothed; adorned; attired.
DRESSER
DRESSER, noun1. One who dresses; one who is employed in putting on clothes and adorning another; one who is employed in preparing trimming or adjusting any thing.2. A side-board...
DRESSING
DRESSING, participle present tense Adjusting to a line; putting in order; preparing; clothing; embellishing; cultivating.DRESSING, noun1. Raiment; attire.2. That which is used a...
DRESSING-ROOM
DRESSING-ROOM, noun An apartment appropriated for dressing the person.
DRESSY
DRESSY, a Showy in dress; wearing rich or showy dresses.
DREST
DREST, participle passive Of dress.
DREUL
DREUL, verb intransitive To emit saliva; to suffer saliva to issue and flow down from the mouth.
DRIB
DRIB, verb transitive To crop or cut off; to defalcate.DRIB, noun A drop. [Not used.]
DRIBBLE
DRIBBLE, verb intransitive1. To fall in drops or small drops, or in a quick succession of drops; as, water dribbles from the eaves.2. To slaver as a child or an idiot.3. To fall...
DRIBBLET
DRIBBLET, noun A small piece or part; a small sum; odd money in a sum; as, the money was paid in dribblets.
DRIBBLING
DRIBBLING, participle present tense Falling in drops or small drops.DRIBBLING, noun A falling in drops.
DRIED
DRIED, participle passive Of dry. Free from moisture or sap.
DRIER
DRIER, noun [from dry.] That which has the quality of drying; that which may expel or absorb moisture; a desiccative. The sun and northwesterly wind are great driers of the earth.
DRIFT
DRIFT, noun1. That which is driven by wind or water, as drift seems to be primarily a participle. Hence,2. A heap of any matter driven together; as a drift of snow, called also ...
DRIFT-SAIL
DRIFT-SAIL, noun In navigation, a sail used under water, veered out right ahead by sheets.
DRIFT-WAY
DRIFT-WAY, noun A common way for driving cattle in.
DRIFT-WIND
DRIFT-WIND, noun A driving wind; a wind that drives things into heaps.
DRIFTED
DRIFTED, participle passive Driven along; driven into heaps.
DRIFTING
DRIFTING, participle present tense Driving by force; driving into heaps.
DRILL
DRILL, verb transitive [G.]1. To pierce with a drill; to perforate by turning a sharp pointed instrument of a particular form; to bore and make a hole by turning an instrument. ...
DRILL-PLOW
DRILL-PLOW, noun A plow for sowing grain in drills.
DRILLED
DRILLED, participle passive Bored or perforated with a drill; exercised; sown in rows.
DRILLING
DRILLING, participle present tense Boring with a drill; training to military duty; sowing in drills.
DRINK
DRINK, verb intransitivepreterit tense and participle passive drank. Old preterit tense And participle passive drunk; participle passive Drunken. [G. drink and drench are radica...