Search the Dictionary

A crowd of people in motion. Where droves, as at a city gate, may pass. Dryden.

A noisy, tumultuous assembly of fashionable people at a private house; a rout. [Archaic] Not unaptly styled a drum, from the noise and emptiness of the entertainment. Smollett.

One of a people and religious sect dwelling chiefly in the Lebanon mountains of Syria. The Druses separated from the Mohammedan Arabs in the 9th century. Their characteristic dogma is the unity of God. Am. Cyc.

led; tractable; complying; yielding to motives, persuasion, or instruction; as, a ductile people. Addison. Forms their ductile minds To human virtues. Philips.

hage. Sir T. Elyot. All were dukes once, who were "duces" -- captains or leaders of their people. Trench.

Slow in action; sluggish; unready; awkward. This people's heart is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing. Matt. xiii. 15. O, help my weak wit and sharpen my dull tongue. Spenser.

The people of Holland; Dutchmen.

A native, or one of the people, of Holland. Dutchman's breeches (Bot.), a perennial American herb (Dicentra cucullaria), with peculiar double-spurred flowers. See Illust. of Dicentra. -- Dutchman's laudanum (Bot.), a West Indian passion flower (Passiflora Murucuja); also, its fruit. -- Dutchman's pipe (Bot.), an Amer…

emblem on the standard of the ancient Romans, or so used upon the seal or standard of any people. Though the Roman eagle shadow thee. Tennyson.

ained by work or services; money earned; -- used commonly in the plural. As to the common people, their stock is in their persons and in their earnings. Burke.

The people on the globe. The whole earth was of one language. Gen. xi. 1.

In the manner of the earth or its people; worldly. Took counsel from his guiding eyes To make this wisdom earthly wise. Emerson.

A picture which represents the Savior as given up to the people by Pilate, and wearing a crown of thorns.

alfrey. Economic questions, such as money, usury, taxes, lands, and the employment of the people. H. C. Baird.

personal estate; -- sometimes used to embrace real as well as personal property; as, the people escaped from the town with their effects. For effect, for an exaggerated impression or excitement. -- In effect, in fact; in substance. See 8, above. -- Of no effect, Of none effect, To no effect, or Without effect, desti…

effusion of water, of blood, of grace, of words, and the like. To save the effusion of my people's blood. Dryden.

A native, or one of the people, of Egypt; also, the Egyptian language.

Somewhat old; advanced beyond middle age; bordering on old age; as, elderly people.

One of the persons chosen, by vote of the people in the United States, to elect the President and Vice President.

C. Ch.), that part of the Mass in which the priest raises the host above his head for the people to adore.