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The draff and offal of a bygone age. Buckle. Mere chaff and draff, much better burnt. Tennyson.

t were thrust. Denham. The grossness of his nature will have weight to drag thee down. Tennyson. A needless Alexandrine ends the song That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along. Pope.

Full of dreams. " Dreamful ease." Tennyson. -- Dream"ful*ly, adv.

or given to dreaming; appropriate to, or like, dreams; visionary. "The dreamy dells." Tennyson.

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.

e within one, through the senses; to inhale; to hear; to see. To drink the cooler air, Tennyson. My ears have not yet drunk a hundred words Of that tongue's utterance. Shak. Let me . . . drink delicious poison from thy eye. Pope.

of moisture or liquid; as, a wet garment drips. The dark round of the dripping wheel. Tennyson.

ion, by force of circumstances, by argument, and the like. " Enough to drive one mad." Tennyson. He, driven to dismount, threatened, if I did not do the like, to do as much for my horse as fortune had done for his. Sir P. Sidney.

t of nourishment, or the like. "The purple flowers droop." "Above her drooped a lamp." Tennyson. I saw him ten days before he died, and observed he began very much to droop and languish. Swift.

ad been dropped many years. Sir W. Scott. Dropping the too rough H in Hell and Heaven. Tennyson.

After the manner of a drop; in the form of drops. Trickling dropwise from the cleft. Tennyson.

allayed, still eyes the current stream. Milton. In the dust and drouth of London life. Tennyson.

Disposing to sleep; lulling; soporific. The drowsy hours, dispensers of all good. Tennyson.

vast system of public spectacles. C. Kingsley. Drug thy memories, lest thou learn it. Tennyson.

He will give the devil his due. Shak. Yearly little dues of wheat, and wine, and oil. Tennyson.

A cathedral. See Dome, 2. Of tower or duomo, sunny sweet. Tennyson.

s once alive; the remains of the human body. And you may carve a shrine about my dust. Tennyson.

visit oft the dwellings of just men. Milton. Philip's dwelling fronted on the street. Tennyson. Dwelling house, a house intended to be occupied as a residence, in distinction from a store, office, or other building. -- Dwelling place, place of residence.

r so used upon the seal or standard of any people. Though the Roman eagle shadow thee. Tennyson.

e ear for music; -- in the singular only. Songs . . . not all ungrateful to thine ear. Tennyson.