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The genus to which belongs the single species D. Camphora, a lofty resinous tree of Borneo and Sumatra, yielding Borneo camphor and camphor oil.

nd in the materials used in pickling, salting, and preserving various kinds of food Hence drysalters usually sell a number of saline substances and miscellaneous drugs. Brande & C.

The articles kept by a drysalter; also, the business of a drysalter.

Drought. [Obs.] Tyndale.

In a dry or thirsty condition. "A man that is adry." Burton.

Ballad poems; the subject or style of ballads. "Base balladry is so beloved." Drayton.

Obscenity; filthy, unchaste language. "The pert style of the pit bawdry." Steele.

Of the nature of cedar. [R.]

Chandlery. [Obs.] "Torches from the chandry." B. Jonson.

See Commandery.

The state of being a cuckold; the practice of making cuckolds.

An ancient yearly payment made by some tenants to the king, or to their landlords, for the privilege of driving their cattle through a manor to fairs or markets. Cowell.

Embassy. [Obs.] Leland.

Entirely dry; withered. [Obs.] "A tree fordry." Chaucer.

The buildings and works for casting metals. Foundry ladle, a vessel for holding molten metal and conveying it from cupola to the molds.

A tree nymph whose life ended with that of the particular tree, usually an oak, which had been her abode.

The sacred baboon of Egypt (Cynocephalus Hamadryas).

Playing at hazard; gaming; gambling. [R.] Chaucer.

The art or office of a herald; the art, practice, or science of recording genealogies, and blazoning arms or ensigns armorial; also, of marshaling cavalcades, processions, and public ceremonies.

Highlanders, collectively.