The Gutenberg Webster's Unabridged Dictionary
Chapter 480
Dressing <Xpage=454>
Dress"ing , n.
1. Dress; raiment; especially, ornamental habiliment or attire.
B. Jonson.
2. (Surg.) An application (a remedy, bandage, etc.) to a sore or wound.
Wiseman.
3. Manure or compost over land. When it remains on the surface, it is called a top-dressing .
4. (Cookery) (a) A preparation to fit food for use; a condiment; as, a dressing for salad . (b) The stuffing of fowls, pigs, etc.; forcemeat.
5. Gum, starch, and the like, used in stiffening or finishing silk, linen, and other fabrics.
6. An ornamental finish, as a molding around doors, windows, or on a ceiling, etc.
7. Castigation; scolding; -- often with down . [Colloq.]
Dressing case , a case of toilet utensils. -- Dressing forceps , a variety of forceps, shaped like a pair of scissors, used in dressing wounds. -- Dressing gown , a light gown, such as is used by a person while dressing; a study gown. -- Dressing room , an apartment appropriated for making one's toilet. -- Dressing table , a table at which a person may dress, and on which articles for the toilet stand. -- Top-dressing , manure or compost spread over land and not worked into the soil.
Dressmaker <Xpage=454>
Dress"mak`er (?) , n. A maker of gowns, or similar garments; a mantuamaker.
Dressmaking <Xpage=454>
Dress"mak`ing , n. The art, process, or occupation, of making dresses.
Dressy <Xpage=454>
Dress"y (?) , a. Showy in dress; attentive to dress.
A dressy flaunting maidservant. T. Hook.
A neat, dressy gentleman in black. W. Irving.
Drest <Xpage=454>
Drest (?) , p. p. of Dress .
Dretch <Xpage=454>
Dretch (?) , v. t. & i. See Drecche . [Obs.]
Dreul <Xpage=454>
Dreul (?) , v. i. To drool. [Obs.]
Drevil <Xpage=454>
Drev"il (?) , n. A fool; a drudge. See Drivel .
Drew <Xpage=454>
Drew (?) , imp. of Draw .
Drey <Xpage=454>
Drey (?) , n. A squirrel's nest. See Dray . [Obs.]
Dreye <Xpage=454>
Dreye (?) , a. Dry. [Obs.]
Chaucer.
Dreynte, imp., Dreynt <Xpage=454>
Dreyn"te (?) , imp. , Dreynt (<?/) , p. p. , of Drench to drown. [Obs.]
Chaucer.
Drib <Xpage=454>
Drib (?) , v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Dribbed (?) ; p. pr. & vb. n. Dribbing .] [Cf. Drip .] To do by little and little ; as: (a) To cut off by a little at a time; to crop . (b) To appropriate unlawfully; to filch; to defalcate.
He who drives their bargain dribs a part. Dryden.
(c) To lead along step by step; to entice .
With daily lies she dribs thee into cost. Dryden.
Drib <Xpage=454>
Drib (?) , v. t. & i. (Archery) To shoot (a shaft) so as to pierce on the descent. [Obs.]
Sir P. Sidney.
Drib <Xpage=454>
Drib , n. A drop. [Obs.]
Swift.
Dribber <Xpage=454>
Drib"ber (?) , n. One who dribs; one who shoots weakly or badly. [Obs.]
Ascham.
Dribble <Xpage=454>
Drib"ble (?) , v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Dribbled (?) ; p. pr. & vb. n. Dribbing (?) .] [Freq. of drib , which is a variant of drip .]
1. 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; to drivel.
3. To fall weakly and slowly. [Obs.] "The dribbling dart of love." Shak. (Meas. for Meas. , i. 3, 2) . [Perhaps an error for dribbing .]
Dribble <Xpage=454>
Drib"ble , v. t. To let fall in drops.
Let the cook . . . dribble it all the way upstairs. Swift.
Dribble <Xpage=454>
Drib"ble , n. A drizzling shower; a falling or leaking in drops. [Colloq.]
Dribbler <Xpage=454>
Drib"bler (?) , n. One who dribbles.
Dribblet, Driblet <Xpage=454>
Drib"blet (?) , Drib"let (?) , n. [From Dribble .] A small piece or part; a small sum; a small quantity of money in making up a sum; as, the money was paid in dribblets .
When made up in dribblets , as they could, their best securities were at an interest of twelve per cent. Burke.
Drie <Xpage=454>
Drie (?) , v. t. [See Dree .] To endure. [Obs.]
So causeless such drede for to drie . Chaucer.
Dried <Xpage=454>
Dried (?) , imp. & p. p. of Day . Also adj .; as, dried apples .
Drier <Xpage=454>
Dri"er (?) , n.
1. One who, or that which, dries; that which may expel or absorb moisture; a desiccative; as, the sun and a northwesterly wind are great driers of the earth .
2. (Paint.) Drying oil; a substance mingled with the oil used in oil painting to make it dry quickly.
Drier, compar., Driest <Xpage=454>
Dri"er , compar. , Dri"est , superl. , of Dry , a.
Drift <Xpage=454>
Drift (?) , n. [From drive ; akin to LG. & D. drift a driving, Icel. drift snowdrift, Dan. drift , impulse, drove, herd, pasture, common, G. trift pasturage, drove. See Drive .]
1. A driving; a violent movement.
The dragon drew him [self] away with drift of his wings. King Alisaunder (1332).
2. The act or motion of drifting; the force which impels or drives; an overpowering influence or impulse.
A bad man, being under the drift of any passion, will follow the impulse of it till something interpose. South.
3. Course or direction along which anything is driven; setting. "Our drift was south."
Hakluyt.
4. The tendency of an act, argument, course of conduct, or the like; object aimed at or intended; intention; hence, also, import or meaning of a sentence or discourse; aim.
He has made the drift of the whole poem a compliment on his country in general. Addison.
Now thou knowest my drift . Sir W. Scott.
5. That which is driven, forced, or urged along ; as: (a) Anything driven at random. "Some log . . . a useless drift ." Dryden . (b) A mass of matter which has been driven or forced onward together in a body, or thrown together in a heap, etc., esp. by wind or water; as, a drift of snow, of ice, of sand, and the like .
Drifts of rising dust involve the sky. Pope.
We got the brig a good bed in the rushing drift [of ice]. Kane.
(c) A drove or flock, as of cattle, sheep, birds . [Obs.]
Cattle coming over the bridge (with their great drift doing much damage to the high ways). Fuller.
6. (Arch.) The horizontal thrust or pressure of an arch or vault upon the abutments. [R.]
Knight.
7. (Geol.) A collection of loose earth and rocks, or boulders, which have been distributed over large portions of the earth's surface, especially in latitudes north of forty degrees, by the agency of ice.
8. In South Africa, a ford in a river.
9. (Mech.) A slightly tapered tool of steel for enlarging or shaping a hole in metal, by being forced or driven into or through it; a broach.
10. (Mil.) (a) A tool used in driving down compactly the composition contained in a rocket, or like firework . (b) A deviation from the line of fire, peculiar to oblong projectiles.
11. (Mining) A passage driven or cut between shaft and shaft; a driftway; a small subterranean gallery; an adit or tunnel.
12. (Naut.) (a) The distance through which a current flows in a given time. (b) The angle which the line of a ship's motion makes with the meridian, in drifting. (c) The distance to which a vessel is carried off from her desired course by the wind, currents, or other causes. (d) The place in a deep-waisted vessel where the sheer is raised and the rail is cut off, and usually terminated with a scroll, or driftpiece. (e) The distance between the two blocks of a tackle.
13. The difference between the size of a bolt and the hole into which it is driven, or between the circumference of a hoop and that of the mast on which it is to be driven.
&hand; Drift is used also either adjectively or as the first part of a compound. See Drift , a.
Drift of the forest (O. Eng. Law) , an examination or view of the cattle in a forest, in order to see whose they are, whether they are commonable, and to determine whether or not the forest is surcharged.
Burrill.
Drift <Xpage=454>
Drift , v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Drifted ; p. pr. & vb. n. Drifting .]
1. To float or be driven along by, or as by, a current of water or air; as, the ship drifted astern; a raft drifted ashore; the balloon drifts slowly east.
We drifted o'er the harbor bar. Coleridge.
2. To accumulate in heaps by the force of wind; to be driven into heaps; as, snow or sand drifts .
3. (mining) to make a drift; to examine a vein or ledge for the purpose of ascertaining the presence of metals or ores; to follow a vein; to prospect. [U.S.]
Drift <Xpage=454>
Drift (?) , v. t. 1. To drive or carry, as currents do a floating body.
J. H. Newman.
2. To drive into heaps; as, a current of wind drifts snow or sand .
3. (Mach.) To enlarge or shape, as a hole, with a drift.
Drift <Xpage=454>
Drift , a. That causes drifting or that is drifted; movable by wind or currents; as, drift currents; drift ice; drift mud.
Kane.
Drift anchor . See Sea anchor , and also Drag sail , under Drag , n. -- Drift epoch (Geol.) , the glacial epoch. -- Drift net , a kind of fishing net. -- Drift sail . Same as Drag sail . See under Drag , n.
Driftage <Xpage=454>
Drift"age (?) , n.
1. Deviation from a ship's course due to leeway.
2. Anything that drifts.
Driftbolt <Xpage=454>
Drift"bolt` (?) , n. A bolt for driving out other bolts.
Driftless <Xpage=454>
Drift"less , a. Having no drift or direction; without aim; purposeless.
Driftpiece <Xpage=454>
Drift"piece" (?) , n. (Shipbuilding) An upright or curved piece of timber connecting the plank sheer with the gunwale; also, a scroll terminating a rail.
Driftpin <Xpage=454>
Drift"pin` (?) , n. (Mech.) A smooth drift. See Drift , n. , 9.
Driftway <Xpage=454>
Drift"way` (?) , n.
1. A common way, road, or path, for driving cattle.
Cowell. Burrill.
2. (Mining) Same as Drift , 11 .
Driftweed <Xpage=454>
Drift"weed` (?) , n. Seaweed drifted to the shore by the wind.
Darwin.
Driftwind <Xpage=454>
Drift"wind` (?) , n. A driving wind; a wind that drives snow, sand, etc., into heaps.
Beau. & Fl.
Driftwood <Xpage=454>
Drift"wood` (?) , n.
1. Wood drifted or floated by water.
2. Fig.: Whatever is drifting or floating as on water.
The current of humanity, with its heavy proportion of very useless driftwood . New Your Times.
Drifty <Xpage=454>
Drift"y (?) , a. Full of drifts; tending to form drifts, as snow, and the like.
Drill <Xpage=454>
Drill (?) , v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Drilled (?) ; p. pr. & vb. n. Drilling .] [D. drillen to bore, drill (soldiers); probably akin to AS. pyrlian , pyrelian , to pierce. See Thrill .]
1. To pierce or bore with a drill, or a with a drill; to perforate; as, to drill a hole into a rock; to drill a piece of metal.
2. To train in the military art; to exercise diligently, as soldiers, in military evolutions and exercises; hence, to instruct thoroughly in the rudiments of any art or branch of knowledge; to discipline.
He [Frederic the Great] drilled his people, as he drilled his grenadiers. Macaulay.
Drill <Xpage=454>
Drill , v. i. To practice an exercise or exercises; to train one's self.
Drill <Xpage=454>
Drill , n.
1. An instrument with an edged or pointed end used for making holes in hard substances; strictly, a tool that cuts with its end, by revolving, as in drilling metals, or by a succession of blows, as in drilling stone; also, a drill press.
2. (Mil.) The act or exercise of training soldiers in the military art, as in the manual of arms, in the execution of evolutions, and the like; hence, diligent and strict instruction and exercise in the rudiments and methods of any business; a kind or method of military exercises; as, infantry drill ; battalion drill ; artillery drill .
3. Any exercise, physical or mental, enforced with regularity and by constant repetition; as, a severe drill in Latin grammar .
4. (Zo\'94l.) A marine gastropod, of several species, which kills oysters and other bivalves by drilling holes through the shell. The most destructive kind is Urosalpinx cinerea .
Bow drill , Breast drill . See under Bow , Breast . -- Cotter drill , ∨ Traverse drill , a machine tool for drilling slots. -- Diamond drill . See under Diamond . -- Drill jig . See under Jig . -- Drill pin , the pin in a lock which enters the hollow stem of the key. -- Drill sergeant (Mil.) , a noncommissioned officer whose office it is to instruct soldiers as to their duties, and to train them to military exercises and evolutions. -- Vertical drill , a drill press.
Drill <Xpage=454>
Drill , v. t. [Cf. Trill to trickle, Trickle , Dribble , and W. rhillio to put in a row, drill.]
1. To cause to flow in drills or rills or by trickling; to drain by trickling; as, waters drilled through a sandy stratum . [R.]
Thomson.
2. To sow, as seeds, by dribbling them along a furrow or in a row, like a trickling rill of water.
3. To entice; to allure from step; to decoy; -- with on . [Obs.]
See drilled him on to five-fifty. Addison.
4. To cause to slip or waste away by degrees. [Obs.]
This accident hath drilled away the whole summer. Swift.
Drill <Xpage=454>
Drill , v. i.
1. To trickle. [Obs. or R.]
Sandys.
2. To sow in drills.
Drill <Xpage=454>
Drill , n.
1. A small trickling stream; a rill. [Obs.]
Springs through the pleasant meadows pour their drills . Sandys.
2. (Agr.) (a) An implement for making holes for sowing seed, and sometimes so formed as to contain seeds and drop them into the hole made . (b) A light furrow or channel made to put seed into sowing . (c) A row of seed sown in a furrow.
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&hand; Drill is used adjectively, or as the first part of a compound; as, drill barrow or drill -barrow; drill husbandry; drill plow or drill -plow.
Drill barrow , a wheeled implement for planting seed in drills. -- Drill bow , a small bow used for the purpose of rapidly turning a drill around which the bowstring takes a turn. -- Drill harrow , a harrow used for stirring the ground between rows, or drills. -- Drill plow , ∨ Drill plough , a sort plow for sowing grain in drills.
Drill <Xpage=455>
Drill (?) , n. [Cf. Mandrill .] (Zo\'94l.) A large African baboon ( Cynocephalus leucoph\'91us ).
Drill <Xpage=455>
Drill , n. [Usually in pl .] (Manuf.) Same as Drilling .
Imperial drill , a linen fabric having two threads in the warp and three in the filling.
Driller <Xpage=455>
Drill"er (?) , n. One who, or that which, drills.
Drilling <Xpage=455>
Drill"ing , n.
1. The act of piercing with a drill.
2. A training by repeated exercises.
Drilling <Xpage=455>
Drill"ing , n. The act of using a drill in sowing seeds.
Drilling <Xpage=455>
Drill"ing , n. [G. drillich , fr. L. trilix having three threads, fr. the of tres three + licium a thread of the warm. See Three , and cf. Twill .] (Manuf.) A heavy, twilled fabric of linen or cotton.
Drillmaster <Xpage=455>
Drill"mas`ter (?) , n. One who teaches drill, especially in the way of gymnastics.
Macaulay.
Drill press <Xpage=455>
Drill" press` . A machine for drilling holes in metal, the drill being pressed to the metal by the action of a screw.
Drillstock <Xpage=455>
Drill"stock` (?) , n. (Mech.) A contrivance for holding and turning a drill.
Knight.
Drily <Xpage=455>
Dri"ly (?) , adv. See Dryly .
Thackeray.
Drimays <Xpage=455>
Dri"mays (?) , n. [NL., fr. Gr. <?/ sharp, acrid.] (Bot.) A genus of magnoliaceous trees. Drimys aromatica furnishes Winter's bark.
Drink <Xpage=455>
Drink (?) , v. i. [ imp. Drank (?) , formerly Drunk (<?/) ; & p. p. Drunk , Drunken (<?/) ; p. pr. & vb. n. Drinking . Drunken is now rarely used, except as a verbal adj. in sense of habitually intoxicated ; the form drank , not infrequently used as a p. p., is not so analogical.] [AS. drincan ; akin to OS. drinkan , D. drinken , G. trinken , Icel. drekka , Sw. dricka , Dan. drikke , Goth. drigkan . Cf. Drench , Drunken , Drown .]
1. To swallow anything liquid, for quenching thirst or other purpose; to imbibe; to receive or partake of, as if in satisfaction of thirst; as, to drink from a spring .
Gird thyself, and serve me, till have eaten and drunken ; and afterward thou shalt eat and drink . Luke xvii. 8.
He shall drink of the wrath the Almighty. Job xxi. 20.
Drink of the cup that can not cloy. Keble.
2. To quaff exhilarating or intoxicating liquors, in merriment or feasting; to carouse; to revel; hence, to lake alcoholic liquors to excess; to be intemperate in the <?/se of intoxicating or spirituous liquors; to tipple.
Pope.
And they drank , and were merry with him. Gem. xliii. 34.
Bolingbroke always spoke freely when he had drunk freely. Thackeray.