Webster's Dictionary 1828

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DROUGHTY

DROUGHTY, adjective Drouthy.

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DROUMY

DROUMY, adjective Troubled; dirty. Chaucer has drovy.

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DROUTH

DROUTH, noun [See dry. The word generally used is now, as it was written by Bacon, drouth or drowth; its regular termination is th.]1. Dryness; want of rain or of water; particu...

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DROUTHINESS

DROUTHINESS, noun A state of dryness of the weather; want of rain.

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DROUTHY

DROUTHY, adjective1. Dry, as the weather; arid; wanting rain.2. Thirsty; dry; wanting drink.

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DROVE

DROVE, preterit tense of drive.DROVE, noun1. A collection of cattle driven; a number of animals, as oxen, sheep or swine, driven in a body. We speak of a herd of cattle, and a f...

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DROVER

DROVER, noun1. One who drives cattle or sheep to market. Usually in New England, a man who makes it his business to purchase fat cattle and drive them to market.2. A boat driven...

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DROWN

DROWN, verb transitive1. Literally, to overwhelm in water; an appropriately, to extinguish life by immersion in water or other fluid; applied to animals; also, to suspend animat...

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DROWNED

DROWNED, participle passive Deprived of life by immersion in a fluid; overflowed; inundated; overwhelmed.

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DROWNER

DROWNER, noun He or that which drowns.

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DROWNING

DROWNING, participle present tense Destroying life by submersion in a liquid; overflowing; overwhelming.

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DROWSE

DROWSE, verb intransitive drowz.1. To sleep imperfectly or unsoundly; to slumber; to be heavy with sleepiness.2. To look heavy; to be heavy or dull.DROWSE, verb transitive To ma...

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DROWSIHED

DROWSIHED, noun Sleepiness.

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DROWSILY

DROWSILY, adverb1. Sleepily; heavily; in a dull sleepy manner.2. Sluggishly; idly; slothfully; lazily.

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DROWSINESS

DROWSINESS, noun1. Sleepiness; heaviness with sleep; disposition to sleep.2. Sluggishness; sloth; idleness; inactivity.

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DROWSY

DROWSY, adjective1. Inclined to sleep; sleepy; heavy with sleepiness; lethargic; comatose.2. Dull; sluggish; stupid.3. Disposing to sleep; lulling; as a drowsy couch.

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DROWSY-HEADED

DROWSY-HEADED, adjective Heavy; having a sluggish disposition.

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DRUB

DRUB, verb transitive [G., Latin Drubbing is a particular form of driving.] To beat with a stick; to thrash; to cudgel.The little thief had been soundly drubbed with a cudgel.DR...

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DRUBBED

DRUBBED, participle passive Beat with a cudgel; beat soundly.

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DRUBBING

DRUBBING, participle present tense Beating with a cudgel; beating soundly.DRUBBING, noun A cudgeling; a sound beating.

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DRUDGE

DRUDGE, verb intransitive druj. To work hard; to labor in mean offices; to labor with toil and fatigue.In merriment did drudge and labor.DRUDGE, noun One who works hard, or labo...

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DRUDGER

DRUDGER, noun1. A drudge.2. A drudging-box. [See Dredging-box.]

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DRUDGERY

DRUDGERY, noun Hard labor; toilsome work; ignoble toil; hard work in servile occupations.Paradise was a place of bliss-without drudgery or sorrow.

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DRUDGING

DRUDGING, participle present tense Laboring hard; toiling.

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DRUDGING-BOX

DRUDGING-BOX. [See Dredging-box.]

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DRUDGINGLY

DRUDGINGLY, adverb With labor and fatigue; laboriously.

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DRUG

DRUG, noun [See the verb, to dry.]1. The general name of substances used in medicine, sold by the druggist, and compounded by apothecaries and physicians; any substance, vegetab...