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, how plentiful, how rich a dower! Sir J. Davies. Man in his primeval dower arrayed. Wordsworth.

A gold and silver coin of modern Greece worth 19.3 cents.

Worthless; draffy. Bale.

Dreggy; waste; worthless. The dregs and draffy part. Beau. & Fl.

Filthy; worthless. [Obs.] "Drasty ryming." Chaucer.

Worthy of being dreaded.

l storm. " Dreadful gloom." Milton. For all things are less dreadful than they seem. Wordsworth.

cipitated from it; refuse; feculence; lees; grounds; sediment; hence, the vilest and most worthless part of anything; as, the dregs of society. We, the dregs and rubbish of mankind. Dryden.

others; a lazy, idle fellow; a sluggard. By living as a drone,to be an unprofitable and unworthy member of so noble and learned a society. Burton.

Waste matter; any worthless matter separated from the better part; leavings; dregs; refuse. All world's glory is but dross unclean. Spenser. At the devil's booth are all things sold, Each ounce of dross coats its ounce of gold. Lowell.

Of, pertaining to, resembling, dross; full of dross; impure; worthless. " Drossy gold." Dryden. "Drossy rhymes." Donne. -- Dross"i*ness, n.

ith any dignity or new character; to entitle; to call. A man of wealth is dubbed a man of worth. Pope.

ing a thick nap or frieze. [Written also duffle.] Good duffel gray and flannel fine. Wordsworth.

Figuratively, a worthless thing. And by the merit of vile gold, dross, dust. Shak.

I 'll rather dwell in my necessity. Shak. Thy soul was like a star and dwelt apart. Wordsworth.

A boiling up or over; effervescence. Cudworth.

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

Worthy to be chosen or selected; suitable; desirable; as, an eligible situation for a house. The more eligible of the two evils. Burke.

The quality worthy or qualified to be chosen; suitableness; desirableness.

To furnish with battlements. "Embattled house." Wordsworth.