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The act of endowing, or bestowing a marriage portion on a woman.

Applied to a kind of rowing in which the rowers sit side by side in twos, a pair of oars being worked from each bank or thwart.

Showing a vulgar taste in dress; awkward and slovenly in dress; vulgar-looking. -- Dow"di*ly, adv. -- Dow"di*ness, n.

To become emptied of liquor by flowing or dropping; as, let the vessel stand and drain.

A draining; a gradual flowing off of any liquid; also, that which flows out of a drain.

surface of water as to skip from point to point before it sinks; also, the sport of so throwing stones; -- sometimes called ducks and drakes. Internal earthquakes, that, not content with one throe, run along spasmodically, like boys playing at what is called drakestone. De Quincey.

Black, a. -- Blast draught, or Forced draught, the draught produced by a blower, as by blowing in air beneath a fire or drawing out the gases from above it. -- Natural draught, the draught produced by the atmosphere flowing, by its own weight, into a chimney wherein the air is rarefied by heat. -- On draught, so as…

An implement for making holes for sowing seed, and sometimes so formed as to contain seeds and drop them into the hole made.

The act of using a drill in sowing seeds.

of drip (Law), an easement or servitude by which a man has the right to have the water flowing from his house fall on the land of his neighbor.

Slaver; saliva flowing from the mouth.

The sound of a beaten drum; drum music. Whose morning drumbeat, following the sun, and keeping company with the hours, circles the earth with one continuous and unbroken strain of the martial airs of England. D. Webster.

A genus of shrubs growing in Australia, having beautiful, hard, dry, evergreen leaves.

Owed, as a debt; that ought to be paid or done to or for another; payable; owing and demandable.

Flowing sweetly. [R.]

To deprive of sharpness of edge or point. "This . . . dulled their swords." Bacon. Borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry. Shak.

A blowing machine for separating the flour from the bran.

To hinder from growing to the natural size; to make or keep small; to stunt. Addison. Even the most common moral ideas and affections . . . would be stunted and dwarfed, if cut off from a spiritual background. J. C. Shairp.

Difficulty in swallowing.

of objects, considered separately from the rest. It is used either with or without a following noun; as, each of you or each one of you. "Each of the combatants." Fielding.