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A dragoon. [Obs.]

A room appropriated for the reception of company; a room to which company withdraws from the dining room.

A kind of loom used in weaving figured patterns; -- called also drawboy.

Affliction; dreariness. [Obs.] Spenser.

A term applied to fabrics for the gowns of women and girls; -- most commonly to fabrics of mixed materials, but also applicable to silks, printed linens, and calicoes.

Wood drifted or floated by water.

To drivel, or drop saliva; as, the child drools. His mouth drooling with texts. T. Parker.

physical inability or exhaustion, want of nourishment, or the like. "The purple flowers droop." "Above her drooped a lamp." Tennyson. I saw him ten days before he died, and observed he began very much to droop and languish. Swift.

One who, or that which, droops.

In a drooping manner.

A commercial name for textile fabrics, cottons, woolens, linen, silks, laces, etc., -- in distinction from groceries. [U.S.]

The scent of the game, as far as it can be traced. [Obs.] Shak.

A silver coin of several countries of Europe, and of different values.

The May apple (Podophyllum peltatum).

Any wood from which coloring matter is extracted for dyeing.

A kind of fragrant wood. See Agallochum.

Each one. [Obs.] Chaucer.

See Epizoön.

[Archaic] And, if he fall from his capel [horse] eftsone. Chaucer. The champion stout eftsoons dismounted. Spenser.

Gomuti fiber. See Gomuti.