DOZE
DOZE, verb intransitive [See Dote.]1. To slumber; to sleep lightly.If he happened to doze a little, the jolly cobbler waked him.2. To live in a state of drowsiness; to be dull o...
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DOZEN
DOZEN, adjective Duzn. [G.] Twelve in number, applied to things of the same kind, but rarely or never to that number in the abstract. We say, a dozen men; a dozen pair of gloves...
DOZER
DOZER, noun One that dozes or slumbers.
DOZINESS
DOZINESS, noun [from dozy.] Drowsiness; heaviness; inclination to sleep.
DOZING
DOZING, participle present tense Slumbering.DOZING, noun A slumbering; sluggishness.
DOZY
DOZY, adjective [See Doze.] Drowsy; heavy; inclined to sleep; sleepy; sluggish; as a dozy head.
DRAB
DRAB, noun1. A strumpet; a prostitute.2. A low, sluttish woman. [This seems to be the sense in which it is generally used in New England.]3. A kind of wooden box, used in salt w...
DRABBING
DRABBING, participle present tense Keeping company with lewd women.DRABBING, noun An associating with strumpets.
DRABBLE
DRABBLE, verb transitive To draggle; to make dirty by drawing in mud and water; to wet and befoul; as, to drabble a gown or cloke. In scottish, this word signifies to dirty by s...
DRABBLING
DRABBLING, adjective Drawing in mud or water; angling for barbels.DRABBLING, noun A method of angling for barbels with a rod and a long line passed through a piece of lead.
DRABLER
DRABLER, noun In seamens language, a small additional sail, sometimes laced to the bottom of a bonnet on a square sail, in sloops and schooners. It is the same to a bonnet, as a...
DRACHMA
DRACHMA, noun [Latin, Gr.]1. A Grecian coin. Of the value of seven pence, three farthings, sterling, or nearly fourteen cents.2. The eighth part of an ounce, or sixty grains, or...
DRACO
DRACO, noun [See Dragon.]1. In astronomy, a constellation of the northern hemisphere, containing according to Flamstead, eighty stars.2. A luminous exhalation from marshy ground...
DRACONTIC
DRACONTIC, adjective [Latin] In astronomy, belonging to that space of time in which the moon performs one entire revolution.
DRACUNCULUS
DRACUNCULUS, noun [Latin]1. In botany, a plant, a species of Arum, with a long stalk, spotted like a serpents belly.2. In medicine, a long slender worm, bred in the muscular par...
DRAD
DRAD, adjective Terrible. [See Dread.] This was also the old preterit tense of dread.
DRAFF
DRAFF, noun Refuse; lees; dregs; the wash given to swine, or grains to cows; waste matter.
DRAFFISH
DRAFFISH, adjective Worthless.
DRAFFY
DRAFFY, adjective Dreggy; waste; worthless
DRAFT
DRAFT, noun [corrupted from draught, from drag, draw, but authorized by respectable use.]1. A drawing; as, this horse is good for draft In this sense, draught is perhaps most co...
DRAFT-HORSE
DRAFT-HORSE, noun A horse employed in drawing, particularly in drawing heavy loads or in plowing.
DRAFT-OX
DRAFT-OX, noun An ox employed in drawing.
DRAFTED
DRAFTED, participle passive Drawn; delineated; detached.
DRAFTING
DRAFTING, participle present tense Drawing; delineating; detaching.
DRAFTS
DRAFTS, noun A game played on checkers.
DRAG
DRAG, verb transitive [G., Latin See Drink and Drench.]1. To pull; to haul; to draw along the ground by main force; applied particularly to drawing heavy things with labor, alon...
DRAGGED
DRAGGED, participle passive Drawn on the ground; drawn with labor or force; drawn along slowly and heavily; raked with a drag or harrow.