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y of motives or of cares; to confound; to harass. Horror and doubt distract His troubled thoughts. Milton.

Causing perplexity; distracting. "Distractive thoughts." Bp. Hall.

Absent-minded; lost in thought; abstracted.

To have or feel a presage or foreboding. Suggest but truth to my divining thoughts. Shak.

Without distinct thought; unreflecting; thoughtless; heedless. "The dizzy multitude." Milton.

od. Latimer. Then Jason rose and did on him a fair Blue woolen tunic. W. Morris (Jason). Though the former legal pollution be now done off, yet there is a spiritual contagion in idolatry as much to be shunned. Milton. It ["Pilgrim's Progress"] has been done into verse: it has been done into modern English. Macaulay.…

One who performs little though professing much. [Colloq.] Great talkers are commonly dolittles. Bp. Richardson.

other instrument conveying information in the case; any material substance on which the thoughts of men are represented by any species of conventional mark or symbol. Saint Luke . . . collected them from such documents and testimonies as he . . . judged to be authentic. Paley.

A coin of the same general weight and value, though differing slightly in different countries, current in Mexico, Canada, parts of South America, also in Spain, and several other European countries.

ven to noblemen and gentlemen only, but now common to all classes. Don is used in Italy, though not so much as in Spain France talks of Dom Calmet, England of Dom Calmet, England of Dan Lydgate. Oliphant.

Affected by "dope"; esp., sluggish or dull as though under the influence of a narcotic. [Slang]

Tending to a lower condition or state; depressed; dejected; as, downward thoughts. Sir P. Sidney.

om one person or party to another, directing the payment of money; a bill of exchange. I thought it most prudent to deter the drafts till advice was received of the progress of the loan. A. Hamilton.

y, or slowly; to advance with weary effort; to go on lingeringly. The day drags through, though storms keep out the sun. Byron. Long, open panegyric drags at best. Gay.

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.

impelled; to be moved by any physical force or agent; to be driven. The hull drives on, though mast and sail be torn. Byron. The chaise drives to Mr. Draper's chambers. Thackeray.

To fall dead, or to fall in death. Nothing, says Seneca, so soon reconciles us to the thoughts of our own death, as the prospect of one friend after another dropping round us. Digby.

To be suffocated in water or other fluid; to perish in water. Methought, what pain it was to drown. Shak.

Homely; rude; coarse. [Obs.] By my troth, though I am plain and dudgeon, I would not be an ass. Beau. & Fl.

Continuing; not completed; implying duration. Its durative tense, which expresses the thought of it as going on. J. Byrne.