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Rigorous; stringent; harsh. [Obs.] Punishing with the rod of district severity. Foxe.

Serving or tending to divert; also, distinguishing. [Obs.]

The act of divulging or publishing. [R.] Secrecy hath no use than divulgation. Bp. Hall.

A float to a fishing line. [Local, U. S.]

A two-masted fishing vessel, used by the Dutch.

h violet (Bot.), a small, bulbous herb of the Lily family (genus Erythronium). It has two shining flat leaves and commonly one large flower. [Written also dog's-tooth violet.]

A canelike grass of southern Europe (Arundo Donax), used for fishing rods, etc.

vy weights, and like purposes. -- Donkey pump, a steam pump for feeding boilers, extinguishing fire, etc.; -- usually an auxiliary. -- Donkey's eye (Bot.), the large round seed of the Mucuna pruriens, a tropical leguminous plant.

A hamlet. "A mean fishing dorp." Howell.

ishness of old age; senility; as, a venerable man, now in his dotage. Capable of distinguishing between the infancy and the dotage of Greek literature. Macaulay.

labor, along the ground or other surface; as, to drag stone or timber; to drag a net in fishing. Dragged by the cords which through his feet were thrust. Denham. The grossness of his nature will have weight to drag thee down. Tennyson. A needless Alexandrine ends the song That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow leng…

A net to be drawn along the bottom of a body of water, as in fishing.

The grain from the mashing tub; as, brewers' drains. [Eng.] Halliwell. Box drain, Counter drain. See under Box, Counter. -- Right of drain (Law), an easement or servitude by which one man has a right to convey water in pipes through or over the estate of another. Kent.

g box or receptacle in a case, which is opened by pulling or drawing out, and closed by pushing in. (b) pl.

pewter plates on the dresser Caught and reflected the flame, as shields of armies the sunshine. Longfellow.

Gum, starch, and the like, used in stiffening or finishing silk, linen, and other fabrics.

he like. Drifts of rising dust involve the sky. Pope. We got the brig a good bed in the rushing drift [of ice]. Kane.

Violent or rapid motion; a rushing onward or away; esp., a forced or hurried dispatch of business. The Murdstonian drive in business. M. Arnold.

fall in one portion, or by one motion, like a drop; to let fall; as, to drop a line in fishing; to drop a courtesy.

One who, or that which, drops. Specif.: (Fishing) A fly that drops from the leaden above the bob or end fly.