Spangled with eyes, more numerous than those 2. To look heavy, not cheerful. They rather drows'd, and hung their eyelids Slept in his face, and render'd such aspect The royal virgin shook off drowsibed; Fairy Queen. DROWSILY. adv. [from drowsy.] to sleep. The air swarms thick with wand'ring deities, DROWSINESS, n. s. [from drowsy.] What a strange drowsiness possesses them! In deep of night, when drowsiness He He that from his cildhood has made rising betimes familiar to him, will not waste the best part of his life in drowsiness and lying a-bed. Locke. 2. Heavy; lulling; causing sleep. A sensation of drowsiness, oppression, and lassitude, are signs of a plentiful meal in young Arbuthnot. people. 2. Idleness; indolence; inactivity. It falleth out well to shake off your drowsiness; for it seemed to be the trumpet of a war. Bacon. Fairy Queen. In drowsy murmurs lull'd the gentle maid. Addison.3. Stupid; dull. Those inadvertencies, a body would think, even our author, with all his drowsy reasoning, could never have been capable of. Atterbury. To DRUB. v. a. [druber, to kill, Dan.] To thrash; to beat; to bang; to thump; to thwack; to cudgel. A word of contempt. He that is valiant, and dares fight, Though drubb'd, can lose no honour by 't. Hudibras. The little thief had been soundly drubbed with a good honest cudgel. L'Estrange. Though the bread be not mine, yet, if it had been less than weight, I should have been drubbed. Locke. DRUB. n. s. [from the verb.] A thump; a knock; a blow. Drowsy. adj. [from drowse.] The blows and drubs I have receiv'd Hudibras. By setting an unfortunate mark on their followers, they have exposed them to innumerable drubs and contusions. Addison. To DRUDGE. v.n. [oɲeccan, to vex, And to crack'd fiddle, and hoarse tabour, Rise to our toils, and drudge away the day. Soon he came to court, What is an age, in dull renown drudg'd o'er! employed in mean labour; a slave; one doomed to servile occupation. To conclude, this drudge of the devil, this diviner, laid claim to me. He sits above and laughs the while Art thou our slave, Shaksp Milton. Our captive, at the publick mill our drudge, He is content to be their drudge, nought, who rewards his drudges and slaves with nothing but shame, and sorrow, and misery. Tillotson. DRUDGER. N. s. [from drudge.]. 1. A mean labourer. 2. The drudgingbox; the box out of which flower is thrown on roast meat. Dict. DRUDGERY. n. s. [from drudge.] Mean labour; ignoble toil; dishonourable work; servile occupation. My old dame will be undone for one to do her husbandry and her drudgery. Shaksp. Were there not instruments for drudgery as well as offices of drudgery? Were there not people to receive orders, as well as others to give and authorize them? L'Estrange. You do not know the heavy grievances, Paradise was a place of bliss, as well as im- Even Drudgery himself, As at the car he sweats, or dusty hews The palace stone, looks gay. Thomson. Swift. It is now handled by every dirty wench, and condemned to do her drudgery. DRUDGING BOX. n. s. [drudging and box.] The box out of which flower is sprinkled upon roast meat. But if it lies too long, the crackling 's pall'd, Not by the drudgingbox to be recall'd. King's Coookery. DRUDGINGLY. adv. [from drudging.] Laboriously; toilsomely. He does now all the meanest and triflingest things himself drudgingly, without making use of any interior or subordinate minister. Ray. DRUG. n. s. [drogue, French.] 1. An ingredient used in physick; a medicinal simple. A fleet descried Hangs in the clouds, by equinoctial winds Smith. Bright Helen mix'd a mirth-inspiring bowl, Temper'd with drugs of sov'reign use, t'assuage The boiling bosom of tumultuous rage. Pope. In the names of drugs and plants, the mistake in a word may endanger life. Baker on Learning. 2. It is used sometimes for poison. Mortal drugs I have; but Mantua's law Is death to any he that utters them. And yet no doubts the poor man's draught Shaksp. control; He dreads no poison in his homely bowl: Then fear the deadly drug, when gems divine Enchase the cup, and sparkle in the wine. Dryd. 3. Any thing without worth or value; any thing of which no purchaser can be found. Each noble vice Shall bear a price, And virtue shall a drug become: An empty name, Was all her fame, But now she shall be dumb. Dryden. 4. A drudge. This seems the meaning here. He from his first swath proceeded Thro' sweet degrees that this brief world affords, To such as may the passive drugs of it Freely command. Shakspeare To DRUG. v.a. [from the noun.] 1. To season with ingredients, commonly medicinal. The surfeited grooms Do mock their charge with snores.—Iv'e ←- _' ` That death and nature do contend about t 2. To tincture with something offens v Oft they assay'd, Hunger and thirst constraining; drugge.. $ With hateful disrelish, writh'd their jaw With soot and cinders fill'd. DRUGGET.n.s. A slight kind of words stuff. In druggets drest, of thirteen pence a DRUGGIST. n. s. See Philip's son amidst his Persian guard. [from drug.] who sells physical drugs. Common nitre we bought at the drug DRUGSTER. n. s. [from drug.] On: sells physical simples. Common oil of turpentine I bought ***** drugster's. They set the clergy below their apothecar the physician of the soul below the drug the body. Atter DRU'ID. n. s. [derio, oaks, and bad, i cantation.] A priest and philosoph^. of the ancient Britons. DRUM. n. s. [tromme, Danish; drumme Erse.] 1. An instrument of military musick consisting of vellum strained over a broad hoop on each side, and beaten with sticks. Let's march without the noise of threatening drums. Shakspeare. In drums, the closeness round about, that preserveth the sound from dispersing, maketh the ncise come forth at the drum-hole far more loud and strong than if you should strike upon the like skin extended in the open air. Bacon. And the drummajor's oaths, of bulk unruly, Mortimer. The drummaker uses it, and the cabinet- 1. Intoxicated with strong liquor; in- This was the morn when issuing on the guard, We generally conclude that man drunk, who Dryden. takes pains to be thought sober. Spectator. 2. Drenched or saturated with moisture. DRUNKARD. n. s. [from drunk.] One drunkards Do more than this in sport. Shakspeare. that My bowels cannot hide her woes, But, like a drunkard, I must vomit them. Shaksp. God will not take the drunkard's excuse, he has so long accustomed himself to intemperate drinking, that now he cannot leave it off. South. DRUNKEN. adj. [from drink.] 1. Intoxicated with liquor; inebriated. O monstrous beast! how like a swine he lies! Sirs, I will practise on this drunken man. Shaksp. Drunken men imagine every thing turneth round; they imagine that things come upon them; they see not well things afar off; those things that they see near hand, they see out of their place, and sometimes they see things double. 2. Given to habitual ebriety. Bacon. 1. Arid; not wet; not moist. 3. Saturated with moisture. 4. Done in a state of inebriation. When your carters, or your waiting vassals, Shakspeare. If the pipe be a little wet on the inside, it will make a differing sound from the same pipe dry, When God said, Bacon. Be gather'd now, ye waters under heav'n, From clear to cloudy tost, from hot to cold, 3. We should for honour take a drunken manner. 4. My blood already, like the pelican, A dry March and a dry May portend a wholesome summer, if there be a showering April between. Bavon. The weather, we agreed, was too dry for the season. Not succulent; not juicy. I will drain him dry as hay; Sleep shall neither night nor day Being without tears. Addison. Shakspeare. Dry mourning will decays more deadly bring, As a north wind burns a too forward spring: Give sorrow vent, and let the sluices go. Dryd. 5. Thirsty; athirst. So dry he was for sway. Shakspeare. Void of a bulky charge near their lips, With which, in often interrupted sleep, Their frying blood compels to irrigate Their dry furr'd tongues. Philips. 6. Jejune; barren; plain; unembellished; without pathos; without flowers. As we should take care that our stile in writing be neither dry nor empty, we should look again it be not winding or wanton with farfetched descriptions: either is a vice. Ben Jon. It remaineth to treat concerning ornaments within or without the fabrick; a piece not so dry as the mere contemplation of proportions: and therefore I hope therein somewhat to refresh both the reader and myself. Wotton's Architect. That the fire burns by heat, is an empty dry return to the question, and leaves us still ignorant. Glanville. It is a dry fable, with little or nothing in it. L'Estrange. Authority and friendship work upon some,dry and sober reason works upon others. L'Estr. To clear up this theory, I was willing to lay aside dry subtilties with which the schools are filled. Burnet's Theory. These epistles will become less dry, and more susceptible of ornament. 7. Hard; severe. [drien anciently to enPope. dure; dree, Scottish.] Of two nobleman, the one was given to scoff, but kept ever royal cheer in his house; the other would ask of those that had been at his table, was there never a flout or dry blow given? Baco.. Heat drieth bodies that do easily expire, as parchment, leaves, roots, and clay; and so doth time arefy. Bacon. Herbs and flowers, if they be dried in the shade, or dried in the hot sun a small time, keep best. Bacon. The running streams are deep: See, they have caught the father of the flock, Who dries his fleece upon the neighbouring rock. Dryden. 2. To exhale moisture. 'Twas grief no more, or grief and rage were one Philips. 6. To DRY up. To deprive totally of moisture; to take all moisture away. The water of the sea, which formerly covered it, was in time exhaled and dried up by the sun. Woodward. To DRY. v. n. To grow dry; to lose moisture to be drained of its moise; ture. DRYER. n. s. [from dry.] That which has the quality of absorbing moisture. The ill effects of drinking are relieved by this plant, which is a great dryer and opener, especially by perspiration. Temple. DRY EYED. adj. [dry and eye.] Without tears; without weeping. Sight so deform what heart of rock could long Deyeyed behold? Adam could not, but wept. DRY LY. adv. [from dry.] 1. Without moisture. 2. Milton. Coldly; frigidly; without affection. The archduke, conscious to himself how dryly the king had been used by his council, did strive to recover the king's affection. Bacon. Wouldst thou to honour and perferments climb, Be bold in mischief, dare some mighty crime, Which dungeons, death, or banishment deserves; For virtue is but dryly prais'd, and starves. "Dryden's Juvenal. 3. Jejunely; barrenly; without ornament or embellishment. The Africans are conceived to be peculiarly scorched and torrified by the sun, by dryness of the soil, from want and defect of water. Brown's Vulgar Errours. Such was the discord which did first disperse Form, order, beauty, through the universe; While dryness moisture, coldness heat resists, All that we have, and that we are, subsists. 4 Denbam. The marrow supplies an oil for the inunction of the bones and ligaments in the articulations, and particularly of the ligaments, preserving them from dryness and rigidity, and keeping them supple and flexible. Ray on the Creation. Is the sea ever likely to be evaporated by the sun, or to be emptied with buckets? Why then must we fancy this impossible dryness, and then, upon that fictitious account, calumniate nature? Bentley. 2. Want of succulence. If he fill'd Shakspeare. The difference of muscular flesh depends upon the hardness, tenderness, moisture, or dryness of the fibres. Arbuthnot. 3. Want of embellishment; want of pathos; jejuneness; barrenness. Their new flowers and sweetness do as much corrupt as others dryness and squalor, if they chuse not carefully. Ben Jonson Be faithful where the author excels, and paraphrase where penury of fancy or dryness of expression ask it. Garth. 4. Want of sensibility in devotion; want of ardour; aridity. per It may be, that by this dryness of spirit, God intends to make us the more fervent and resigned in our direct and solemn devotions, by the ceiving of our weakness. Taylor. DRY NURSE. n. s. [dry and nurse.] 1. A woman who brings up and feeds a child without the breast. Mrs. Quickly is his nurse, or his drynurse, or his cook, or his laundry, his washer, and his wringer. Shakspeare. DRY NURSE. v. a. [from the noun.] To feed without the breast. Hudibras. As Romulus a wolf did rear, DRY SHOD, adj. [dry and shod.] WithSo he was drynurs'd by a bear. out wet feet, without treading above the shoes in the water. He had embarked us in such disadvantage, as we could not return dryshod. Sidney. Dryshod to pass, she parts the floods in tway; And eke huge mountains from their native seat She would command themselves to bear away. Fairy Queen. Has honour's fountain then suck'd back the stream? He has; and hooting boys may dryshod pass, And gather pebbles from the naked ford. Du ́AL. adj. [dualis, Latin.] Expressing Dryden. the number two. Modern languages have only one variation, and to the Latin; but the Greek and Hebrew have one to signify two, and another to signify more than two: under one variation the noun is said to be of the dual number, and under the other of the plural. Clarke's Latin Grammar. To DUB. v. a. [Subban zo ridere, Sax. addubba till riddara, Islandick, to dub 3 knight. Addubba, in its primary sense, signifies to strike, knights being made by a blow with the sword.] 1. To make a man a knight. Knight, knight, good mother! Basilisco like. What! I am dubl'd; I have it on my shoulder. Shakspeare. The robes which the kings then allowed to each knight, when he was dubbed, of green, or burnet, as they spake in that age, appeareth Canden's Remains. under his cloth of state, upon record. The king stood "lord protector, and dub took the sword from bed the lord mayor of London knight. Hayward on Edward VI. 2. To confer any kind of dignity, or new character. The jealous o'erworn widow and herself, He Shaksp. Gave thee no instance why thou shouldst do treason, Unless to dub thee with the name of traitor. Shakspeare. Cleaveland. Women commence by Cupid's dart, As a king banting dubs a hart. A plain gentleman, of an ancient family, is of better quality than a new knight, though the reason of his dubbing was meritorious. O poet! thou hadst been discreeter, Hanging the monarch's hat so high, Collier. If thou hadst dube'd thy star a meteor, That did but blaze, and rove, and die. These demoniacks let me dub Prior. With the name of legion club. Swift. A man of wealth is dubb'd a man of worth; Venus shall give him form, and Anstis birth. DUB. N. 5. knock. Pope. Authors write often dubiously, even in matters wherein is expected a strict definitive truth. Brown's Pulgar Errours. Almanack makers wander in generals, and talk dubiously, and leave to the reader the business of interpreting. Swift DUBIOUSNESS. n. s. [from dubious.] Uncertainty; doubtfulness. [from the verb.] A blow; a As skilful coopers hoop their tubs She speaks with dubiousness, not with the certainty of a goddess. Broom. DUBITABLE. adj. [dubito, Latin.] Doubtful; uncertain; what may be doubted. Men often swallow falsities for truths, dubiosifies for certainties, feasibilities for possibilities, and things impossible for possible. Brown. DUBIOUS. adj. [dubius, Latin.] 1. Doubting; 2. not settled in an opinion. Uncertain; that of which the truth is not fully known. No quick reply to dubious questions make. DUBITATION. n. s. [dubitatio, Latin.] Denbam. Grew. Many of the ancients denied the antipodes; but the experience of our enlarged navigation Can nov assert them beyond all dabitation. Brown's Vulgar Errours. Dubitation may be called a negative perception; that is, when I perceive that what I see is not what I would see. Du caL. al. [from duke.] Pertaining to a duke: ́as, a ducal coronet. DƯ ́cat. n.s. [from duke.] A coin struck by dukes: in silver, valued at about four shillings and sixpence; in gold, at nine shillings and sixpence. I cannot instantly raise up the gross Of full three thousand ducats. We also call it a dubious or doubtful proposition, when there are no arguments on either Watts' Logi.k. side. 3. Not plain; not clear. Satan with less toil, and now with ease, Wafts on the calmer wave, by dubious light. Milton. 4. Having the event uncertain. In dubious battle, on the plains of heav'n, Milton. DUBIOUSLY, adv. [from dubious.] Un- The ducks, that heard the proclamation cried, And fear'd a prosecution might betide, Full twenty mile from town their voyage take, Obscure in rushes of the liquid lake. Dryden Grubs, if you find your land subject to, turn Mortimer's Husbandry. 2. A word of endearment, or fondness. Will you buy any tape or lace for your cap, My dainty duck, my dear-a? Shakspeare. 3. A declination of the head; so called from the frequent action of a duck in the water. Back, shepherds, back; enough your play Till next sunshine holyday: Here be without duck or nod, Other trippings to be trod, Of lighter toes, and such court guise Milton. 4. A stone thrown obliquely on the wa ter, so as to strike it and rebound. Neither cross and pile, nor ducks and drakes, 1. To dive under water as a duck. The varlet saw, when to the flood he came, Shakspeare's Othello. |