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Chapter 479
2. Inspiring with reverential fear; awful' venerable; as, dread sovereign; dread majesty; dread tribunal.
Dreadable <Xpage=453>
Dread"a*ble (?) , a. Worthy of being dreaded.
Dread-bolted <Xpage=453>
Dread"-bolt`ed (?) , a. Armed with dreaded bolts. " Dread-bolted thunder." [Poetic]
Shak.
Dreader <Xpage=453>
Dread"er (?) , n. One who fears, or lives in fear.
Dreadful <Xpage=453>
Dread"ful (?) , a.
1. Full of dread or terror; fearful. [Obs.] "With dreadful heart."
Chaucer.
2. Inspiring dread; impressing great fear; fearful; terrible; as, a dreadful storm . " Dreadful gloom."
Milton.
For all things are less dreadful than they seem. Wordsworth.
3. Inspiring awe or reverence; awful. [Obs.] "God's dreadful law."
Shak.
Syn. -- Fearful; frightful; terrific; terrible; horrible; horrid; formidable; tremendous; awful; venerable. See Frightful .
Dreadfully <Xpage=453>
Dread"ful*ly (?) , adv. In a dreadful manner; terribly.
Dryden.
Dreadfulness <Xpage=453>
Dread"ful*ness , n. The quality of being dreadful.
Dreadingly <Xpage=453>
Dread"ing*ly , adv. With dread.
Warner.
Dreadless <Xpage=453>
Dread"less , a. 1. Free from dread; fearless; intrepid; dauntless; as, dreadless heart . "The dreadless angel."
Milton.
2. Exempt from danger which causes dread; secure. " safe in his dreadless den."
Spenser.
Dreadless <Xpage=453>
Dread"less , adv. Without doubt. [Obs.]
Chaucer.
Dreadlessness <Xpage=453>
Dread"less*ness , n. Freedom from dread.
Dreadly <Xpage=453>
Dread"ly , a. Dreadful. [Obs.] " Dreadly spectacle." Spenser . -- adv. With dread. [Obs.] " Dreadly to shake." Sylvester (Du Bartas).
Dreadnaught <Xpage=453>
Dread"naught` (?) , n.
1. A fearless person.
2. Hence: A garment made of very thick cloth, that can defend against storm and cold; also, the cloth itself; fearnaught.
Dream <Xpage=453>
Dream (?) , n. [Akin to OS. dr<?/m , D. droom , G. traum , Icel. draumr , Dan. & Sw. dr\'94m ; cf. G. tr\'81gen to deceive, Skr. druh to harm, hurt, try to hurt. AS. dre\'a0m joy, gladness, and OS. dr<?/m joy are, perh., different words; cf. Gr. <?/ noise.]
1. The thoughts, or series of thoughts, or imaginary transactions, which occupy the mind during sleep; a sleeping vision.
Dreams are but interludes which fancy makes. Dryden.
I had a dream which was not all a dream . Byron.
2. A visionary scheme; a wild conceit; an idle fancy; a vagary; a revery; -- in this sense, applied to an imaginary or anticipated state of happiness; as, a dream of bliss; the dream of his youth.
There sober thought pursued the amusing theme, Till Fancy colored it and formed a dream . Pope.
It is not them a mere dream , but a very real aim which they propose. J. C. Shairp.
Dream <Xpage=453>
Dream , v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Dreamed (?) or Dreamt (<?/); p. pr. & vb. n. Dreaming .] [Cf. AS. dr<?/man , dr<?/man , to rejoice. See Dream , n. ]
1. To have ideas or images in the mind while in the state of sleep; to experience sleeping visions; -- often with of ; as, to dream of a battle, or of an absent friend .
2. To let the mind run on in idle revery or vagary; to anticipate vaguely as a coming and happy reality; to have a visionary notion or idea; to imagine.
Here may we sit and dream Over the heavenly theme. Keble.
They dream on in a constant course of reading, but not digesting. Locke.
Dream <Xpage=453>
Dream , v. t. To have a dream of; to see, or have a vision of, in sleep, or in idle fancy; -- often followed by an objective clause.
Your old men shall dream dreams. Acts ii. 17.
At length in sleep their bodies they compose, And dreamt the future fight. Dryden.
And still they dream that they shall still succeed. Cowper.
To dream away , out , through , etc., to pass in revery or inaction; to spend in idle vagaries; as, to dream away an hour; to dream through life. " Why does Antony dream out his hours?"
Dryden.
Dreamer <Xpage=453>
Dream"er (?) , n. 1. One who dreams.
2. A visionary; one lost in wild imaginations or vain schemes of some anticipated good; as, a political dreamer .
Dreamful <Xpage=453>
Dream"ful (?) , a. Full of dreams. " Dreamful ease." Tennyson . -- Dream"ful*ly , adv.
Dreamily <Xpage=453>
Dream"i*ly (?) , adv. As if in a dream; softly; slowly; languidly.
Longfellow.
Dreaminess <Xpage=453>
Dream"i*ness , n. The state of being dreamy.
Dreamingly <Xpage=453>
Dream"ing*ly , adv. In a dreamy manner.
Dreamland <Xpage=453>
Dream"land` (?) , n. An unreal, delightful country such as in sometimes pictured in dreams; region of fancies; fairyland.
[He] builds a bridge from dreamland for his lay. Lowell.
Dreamless <Xpage=453>
Dream"less , a. Free from, or without, dreams. Camden . -- Dream"less*ly , adv.
Dreamy <Xpage=453>
Dream"y (?) , a. [ Compar. Dreamier (?) ; superl. Dreamiest (?) .] Abounding in dreams or given to dreaming; appropriate to, or like, dreams; visionary. "The dreamy dells."
Tennyson.
Drear <Xpage=453>
Drear (?) , a. [See Dreary .] Dismal; gloomy with solitude. "A drear and dying sound."
Milton.
Drear <Xpage=453>
Drear , n. Sadness; dismalness. [Obs.]
Spenser.
Drearihead, Drearihood <Xpage=453>
Drear"i*head (?) , Drear"i*hood (?) , n. Affliction; dreariness. [Obs.]
Spenser.
Drearily <Xpage=453>
Drear"i*ly , adv. Gloomily; dismally.
Dreariment <Xpage=453>
Drear"i*ment (?) , n. Dreariness. [Obs.]
Spenser.
Dreariness <Xpage=453>
Drear"i*ness , n. 1. Sorrow; wretchedness. [Obs.]
2. Dismalness; gloomy solitude.
Drearing <Xpage=453>
Drear"ing , n. Sorrow. [Obs.]
Spenser.
Drearisome <Xpage=453>
Drear"i*some (?) , a. Very dreary.
Halliwell.
Dreary <Xpage=453>
Drear"y (?) , a. [ Compar. Drearier (?) ; superl. Dreariest .] [OE. dreori , dreri , AS. dre\'a2rig , sad; akin to G. traurig , and prob. to AS. dre\'a2san to fall, Goth. driusan . Cf. Dross , Drear , Drizzle , Drowse .]
1. Sorrowful; distressful. [Obs.] " Dreary shrieks."
Spenser.
2. Exciting cheerless sensations, feelings, or associations; comfortless; dismal; gloomy. " Dreary shades." Dryden . "The dreary ground."
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.
Drecche <Xpage=453>
Drec"che (?) , v. t. [AS. dreccan , dreccean .]
1. To vex; to torment; to trouble. [Obs.]
As man that in his dream is drecched sore. Chaucer.
Drecche <Xpage=453>
Drec"che , v. i. To delay. [Obs.]
Gower.
Dredge <Xpage=453>
Dredge (?) , n. [F. dr\'8age , dreige , fish net, from a word akin to E. draw ; cf. D. dreg , dregge , small anchor, dreg net dragnet. <?/<?/<?/<?/. See Draw .]
1. Any instrument used to gather or take by dragging; as: (a) A dragnet for taking up oysters, etc., from their beds. (b) A dredging machine. (c) An iron frame, with a fine net attached, used in collecting animals living at the bottom of the sea.
2. (Mining) Very fine mineral matter held in suspension in water.
Raymond.
Dredge <Xpage=453>
Dredge (?) , v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Dredged (?) ; p. pr. & vb. n. Dredging .] To catch or gather with a dredge; to deepen with a dredging machine.
R. Carew.
Dredging machine , a machine (commonly on a boat) used to scoop up mud, gravel, or obstructions from the bottom of rivers, docks, etc., so as to deepen them.
Dredge <Xpage=453>
Dredge , n. [OE. dragge , F. drag\'82e , dredge, also, sugar plum; cf. Prov. dragea , It. treggea ; corrupted fr. LL. tragemata , pl., sweetmeats, Gr. <?/, fr. <?/ to gnaw.] A mixture of oats and barley. [Obs.]
Kersey.
Dredge <Xpage=453>
Dredge , v. t. To sift or sprinkle flour, etc., on, as on roasting meat.
Beau. & Fl.
Dredging box . (a) Same as 2d Dredger . (b) (Gun.) A copper box with a perforated lid; -- used for sprinkling meal powder over shell fuses.
Farrow.
Dredger <Xpage=453>
Dredg"er (?) , n.
1. One who fishes with a dredge.
2. A dredging machine.
Dredger <Xpage=453>
Dredg"er , n. (Cookery) A box with holes in its lid; -- used for sprinkling flour, as on meat or a breadboard; -- called also dredging box , drudger , and drudging box .
Dree <Xpage=453>
Dree (?) , v. t. [AS. dre\'a2gan to bear, endure, complete.] To endure; to suffer. [Scot.]
Dree <Xpage=453>
Dree , v. i. To be able to do or endure. [Obs.]
Dree <Xpage=453>
Dree , a. Wearisome; tedious. [Prov. Eng.]
Dreg <Xpage=453>
Dreg (?) , n. [Prob. from Icel. dregg ; akin to Sw. dr\'84gg , cf. Icel. & Sw. draga to draw. Cf. Draw .] Corrupt or defiling matter contained in a liquid, or precipitated from it; refuse; feculence; lees; grounds; sediment; hence, the vilest and most worthless part of anything; as, the dregs of society .
We, the dregs and rubbish of mankind. Dryden.
&hand; Used formerly (rarely) in the singular, as by Spenser and Shakespeare, but now chiefly in the plural.
Dregginess <Xpage=453>
Dreg"gi*ness (?) , n. Fullness of dregs or lees; foulness; feculence.
Dreggish <Xpage=453>
Dreg"gish (?) , a. Foul with lees; feculent.
Harvey.
Dreggy <Xpage=453>
Dreg"gy (?) , a. Containing dregs or lees; muddy; foul; feculent.
Boyle.
Drein <Xpage=453>
Drein (?) , v. i. To drain. [Obs.]
Congreve.
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Drein"te (?) , imp. , Dreint (<?/) , p. p. of Drench to drown. [Obs.]
Chaucer.
Dreissena <Xpage=453>
Dreis"se*na (?) , n. [NL. Named after Dreyssen , a Belgian physician.] (Zo\'94l.) A genus of bivalve shells of which one species ( D. polymorpha ) is often so abundant as to be very troublesome in the fresh waters of Europe.
Drench <Xpage=453>
Drench (?) , v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Drenched (?) ; p. pr. & vb. n. Drenching .] [AS. drencan to give to drink, to drench, the causal of drincan to drink; akin to D. drenken , Sw. dr\'84nka , G. tr\'84nken . See Drink .]
1. To cause to drink; especially, to dose by force; to put a potion down the throat of, as of a horse; hence. to purge violently by physic.
As "to fell," is "to make to fall," and "to lay," to make to lie." so "to drench ," is "to make to drink." Trench.
2. To steep in moisture; to wet thoroughly; to soak; to saturate with water or other liquid; to immerse.
Now dam the ditches and the floods restrain; Their moisture has already drenched the plain. Dryden.
Drench <Xpage=453>
Drench , n. [AS. drenc . See Drench , v. t. ] A drink; a draught; specifically, a potion of medicine poured or forced down the throat; also, a potion that causes purging. "A drench of wine."
Dryden.
Give my roan horse a drench . Shak.
Drench <Xpage=453>
Drench , n. [AS. dreng warrior, soldier, akin to Icel. drengr .] (O. Eng. Law) A military vassal mentioned in Domesday Book. [Obs.]
Burrill.
Drenche <Xpage=453>
Drench"e (?) , v. t. & i. To drown. [Obs.]
In the sea he drenched . Chaucer.
Drencher <Xpage=453>
Drench"er (?) , n. 1. One who, or that which, west or steeps.
2. One who administers a drench.
Drengage <Xpage=453>
Dren"gage (?) , n. (O. Eng. Law) The tenure by which a drench held land. [Obs.]
Burrill.
Drent <Xpage=453>
Drent (?) , p. p. [See Dreinte .] Drenched; drowned. [Obs.] "Condemned to be drent ."
Spenser.
Dresden ware <Xpage=453>
Dres"den ware` (?) . A superior kind of decorated porcelain made near Dresden in Saxony.
Dress <Xpage=453>
Dress (?) , v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Dressed (?) or Drest ; p. pr. & vb. n. Dressing .] [OF. drecier to make straight, raise, set up, prepare, arrange, F. dresser . (assumed) LL. directiare , fr. L. dirigere , directum , to direct; dis- + regere to rule. See Right , and cf. Address , Adroit , Direct , Dirge .]
1. To direct; to put right or straight; to regulate; to order. [Obs.]
At all times thou shalt bless God and pray Him to dress thy ways. Chaucer.
&hand; Dress is used reflexively in Old English, in sense of "to direct one's step; to addresss one's self."
To Grisild again will I me dresse . Chaucer.
2. (Mil.) To arrange in exact continuity of line, as soldiers; commonly to adjust to a straight line and at proper distance; to align; as, to dress the ranks .
3. (Med.) To treat methodically with remedies, bandages, or curative appliances, as a sore, an ulcer, a wound, or a wounded or diseased part.
4. To adjust; to put in good order; to arrange; specifically: (a) To prepare for use; to fit for any use; to render suitable for an intended purpose; to get ready; as, to dress a slain animal; to dress meat; to dress leather or cloth; to dress or trim a lamp; to dress a garden; to dress a horse, by currying and rubbing; to dress grain, by cleansing it; in mining and metallurgy, to dress ores, by sorting and separating them.
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And the Lord God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it. Gen. ii. 15.
When he dresseth the lamps he shall burn incense. Ex. xxx. 7.
Three hundred horses . . . smoothly dressed . Dryden.
Dressing their hair with the white sea flower. Tennyson .
If he felt obliged to expostulate, he might have dressed his censures in a kinder form. Carlyle.
(b) To cut to proper dimensions, or give proper shape to, as to a tool by hammering; also, to smooth or finish .
(c) To put in proper condition by appareling, as the body; to put clothes upon; to apparel; to invest with garments or rich decorations; to clothe; to deck .
Dressed myself in such humility. Shak.
Prove that ever I dress myself handsome till thy return. Shak.
(d) To break and train for use, as a horse or other animal .
To dress up ∨ out , to dress elaborately, artificially, or pompously. "You see very often a king of England or France dressed up like a Julius C\'91sar." Addison . -- To dress a ship (Naut.) , to ornament her by hoisting the national colors at the peak and mastheads, and setting the jack forward; when dressed full , the signal flags and pennants are added. Ham. Nav. Encyc .
Syn. -- To attire; apparel; clothe; accouter; array; robe; rig; trim; deck; adorn; embellish.
Dress <Xpage=454>
Dress , v. i.
1. (Mil.) To arrange one's self in due position in a line of soldiers; -- the word of command to form alignment in ranks; as, Right, dress !
2. To clothe or apparel one's self; to put on one's garments; to pay particular regard to dress; as, to dress quickly . "To dress for a ball."
Latham.
To flaunt, to dress , to dance, to thrum. Tennyson .
To dress to the right , To dress to the left , To dress on the center (Mil.) , to form alignment with reference to the soldier on the extreme right, or in the center, of the rank, who serves as a guide.
Dress <Xpage=454>
Dress , n.
1. That which is used as the covering or ornament of the body; clothes; garments; habit; apparel. "In your soldier's dress ."
Shak.
2. A lady's gown; as, silk or a velvet dress .
3. Attention to apparel, or skill in adjusting it.
Men of pleasure, dress , and gallantry. Pope.
4. (Milling) The system of furrows on the face of a millstone.
Knight.
Dress circle . See under Circle . -- Dress parade (Mil.) , a parade in full uniform for review.
Dress coat <Xpage=454>
Dress" coat` (?) . A coat with skirts behind only, as distinct from the frock coat, of which the skirts surround the body. It is worn on occasions of ceremony. The dress coat of officers of the United States army is a full-skirted frock coat.
Dresser <Xpage=454>
Dress"er (?) , n.
1. One who dresses; one who put in order or makes ready for use; one who on clothes or ornaments.
2. (Mining) A kind of pick for shaping large coal.
3. An assistant in a hospital, whose office it is to dress wounds, sores, etc.
4. [F. dressoir . See Dress , v. t. ] (a) A table or bench on which meat and other things are dressed, or prepared for use. (b) A cupboard or set of shelves to receive dishes and cooking utensils.
The pewter plates on the dresser Caught and reflected the flame, as shields of armies the sunshine. Longfellow.
Dress goods <Xpage=454>
Dress" goods" (?) . A term applied to fabrics for the gowns of women and girls; -- most commonly to fabrics of mixed materials, but also applicable to silks, printed linens, and calicoes.
Dressiness <Xpage=454>
Dress"i*ness (?) , n. The state of being dressy.