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The system of drains and their operation, by which superfluous water is removed from towns, railway beds, mines, and other works.

A move, as at chess or checkers. [Obs.] Chaucer.

To cause to move continuously by force applied in advance of the thing moved; to pull along; to haul; to drag; to cause to follow. He cast him down to ground, and all along Drew him through dirt and mire without remorse. Spenser. He hastened to draw the stranger into a private room. Sir W. Scott. Do not rich men oppres…

A driving; a violent movement. The dragon drew him [self] away with drift of his wings. King Alisaunder (1332).

by force in a direction away from one, or along before one; to push forward; to compel to move on; to communicate motion to; as, to drive cattle; to drive a nail; smoke drives persons from a room. A storm came on and drove them into Pylos. Jowett (Thucyd. ). Shield pressed on shield, and man drove man along. Pope. Go d…

ne who, or that which, drives; the person or thing that urges or compels anything else to move onward.

to fall behind and to let another pass a head. -- To drop down (Naut.), to sail, row, or move down a river, or toward the sea. -- To drop off, to fall asleep gently; also, to die. [Colloq.]

To bow; to bob down; to move quickly with a downward motion. " Will duck his head aside. Swift.

ving a short telescope (hence its name) rigidly fixed to a table capable only of rotatory movement in a horizontal plane. The telescope is usually an inverting one. It is sometimes called the Troughton level, from the name of the inventor, and a variety improved by one Gavatt is known as the Gavatt level.…

To immerse or steep, as calico, in a bath of hot water containing cow dung; -- done to remove the superfluous mordant.

One whose employment is to remove dirt and defuse. Gay.

To release from pressure or restraint; to move gently; to lift slightly; to shift a little; as, to ease a bar or nut in machinery.

Without shaking or jolting; commodiously; as, a carriage moves easily.

To move toward the east; to veer from the north or south toward the east; to orientate.

xertion; affording ease or rest; as, an easy carriage; a ship having an easy motion; easy movements, as in dancing. "Easy ways to die." Shak.

Easy or easily. [Obs.] "Eath to move with plaints." Fairfax.

A manikin, or image, representing an animal, especially man, with the skin removed so that the muscles are exposed for purposes of study.

Serving to dissolve or attenuate viscid matter, and so to remove obstructions; deobstruent. -- n.

To move as an eddy, or as in an eddy; to move in a circle. Eddying round and round they sink. Wordsworth.

To move by little and little or cautiously, as by pressing forward edgewise; as, edging their chairs forwards. Locke.