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h the subject race, seldom indeed fraudulent, . . . but imperious, insolent, and cruel. Macaulay. Dominant estate or tenement (Law), the estate to which a servitude or easement is due from another estate, the estate over which the servitude extends being called the servient estate or tenement. Bouvier. Wharton's Law Di…

t, as by decree or by fate. A man of genius . . . doomed to struggle with difficulties. Macaulay.

tage. Capable of distinguishing between the infancy and the dotage of Greek literature. Macaulay.

ght. Milton. The strife between the two principles had been long, fierce, and doubtful. Macaulay.

. Lewis the Fourteenth is justly censured for trying to dragoon his subjects to heaven. Macaulay.

tuffs in general. People who ought to be weighing out grocery or measuring out drapery. Macaulay.

ation. A draught of a Toleration Act was offered to the Parliament by a private member. Macaulay. No picture or draught of these things from the report of the eye. South.

nson] would amaze a drawing-room by suddenly ejaculating a clause of the Lord's Prayer. Macaulay. Drawing-room car. See Palace car, under Car.

eaded through so many years came close, the dark cloud passed away from Johnson's mind. Macaulay.

in the most dreary part of that dreary interval which separated two ages of prosperity. Macaulay.

o discipline. He [Frederic the Great] drilled his people, as he drilled his grenadiers. Macaulay.

One who teaches drill, especially in the way of gymnastics. Macaulay.

Capable of being drunk; suitable for drink; potable. Macaulay. Also used substantively, esp. in the plural. Steele.

oll stories; comical gestures or manners. The rich drollery of "She Stoops to Conquer." Macaulay.

nd fatigue. He gradually rose in the estimation of the booksellers for whom he drudged. Macaulay.

able and wearisome labor; ignoble or slavish toil. The drudgery of penning definitions. Macaulay. Paradise was a place of bliss . . . without drudgery and with out sorrow. Locke.

. Be not drunk with wine, where in is excess. Eph. v. 18. Drunk with recent prosperity. Macaulay.

him even into the deep dungeon. Tyndale. Year after year he lay patiently in a dungeon. Macaulay.

ich anything exists. It was proposed that the duration of Parliament should be limited. Macaulay. Soon shall have passed our own human duration. D. Webster.

A hole in the ground, where an animal hides himself; as, the earth of a fox. Macaulay. They [ferrets] course the poor conies out of their earths. Holland.