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A vane in the shape of a cock; a weathercock. Drenched our steeples, drowned the cocks! Shak.

Relating to, or resembling, coma; drowsy; lethargic; as, comatose sleep; comatose fever.

To secure by bonds; to chain; to bond or con He binds in hains The droway prophet, and his limbs constrains. Dryden. When winter frosts constrain the fields with old. Dryden.

To variegate with spots; to spot. The gentle day, . . . Dapples the drowsy east with spots of gray. Shak. The dappled pink and blushing rose. Prior.

ecies. The long tubular leaves are hooded at the top, and frequently contain many insects drowned in the secretion of the leaves.

The act of plunging into a fluid; a drowning.

umber; to sleep lightly; to be in a dull or stupefied condition, as if half asleep; to be drowsy. If he happened to doze a little, the jolly cobbler waked him. L'Estrange.

One who dozes or drowses.

The state of being dozy; drowsiness; inclination to sleep.

Drowsy; inclined to doze; sleepy; sluggish; as, a dozy head. Dryden.

, or an apparatus, to be drawn along the bottom under water, as in fishing, searching for drowned persons, etc.

p. p. of Drench to drown. [Obs.] Chaucer.

To drown. [Obs.] In the sea he drenched. Chaucer.

Drenched; drowned. [Obs.] "Condemned to be drent." Spenser.

p. p., of Drench to drown. [Obs.] Chaucer.

The state of being dull; slowness; stupidity; heaviness; drowsiness; bluntness; obtuseness; dimness; want of luster; want of vividness, or of brightness. [Written also dulness.] And gentle dullness ever loves a joke. Pope.

shelter, as in a bay. If that the Turkish fleet Be not ensheltered and embayed, they are drowned. Shak.

n, grief, joy, anger, etc. Exclamations against abuses in the church. Hooker. Thus will I drown your exclamations. Shak. A festive exclamation not unsuited to the occasion. Trench.

ric person; a fop. Milton. Our fantastics, who, having a fine watch, take all ocasions to drow it out to be seen. Fuller.

Taking flight; flying; -- used in composition. "Drowsy-flighted steeds." Milton.