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To let fall or send down in drops. Or o'er the glebe distill the kindly rain. Pope. The dew which on the tender grass The evening had distilled. Drayton.

To press heavily upon; to bear down upon with violence; hence, to constrain or compel; to bind; to distress, torment, or afflict. [Obs.] "Distrained with chains." Chaucer.

A wandering about or going astray; digression. Let us be set down at Queen's Crawley without further divagation. Thackeray.

To foretell; to predict; to presage. Darest thou . . . divine his downfall Shak.

-- Long division (Math.), the process of division when the operations are mostly written down. -- Short division (Math.), the process of division when the operations are mentally performed and only the results written down; -- used principally when the divisor is not greater than ten or twelve.

gown." Goldsmith. My brightest hopes giving dark fears a being. As the light does the shadow. Longfellow. In unemphatic affirmative sentences do is, for the most part, archaic or poetical; as, "This just reproach their virtue does excite." Dryden. To do one's best, To do one's diligence (and the like), to exert one's…

arves, for the reception of ships; -- sometimes including the piers themselves; as, to be down on the dock.

The corner of a leaf, in a book, turned down like the ear of a dog. Gray. -- Dog's"-eared`, a. Cowper.

Having the corners of the leaves turned down and soiled by careless or long-continued usage; -- said of a book. Statute books before unopened, not dog-eared. Ld. Mansfield.

r, beer bestowed as alms. [Obs.] -- Dole bread, bread bestowed as alms. [Obs.] -- Dole meadow, a meadow in which several persons have a common right or share.

d subject to a share in losses; -- called also sleeping or silent partner. -- Dormant window (Arch.), a dormer window. See Dormer. -- Table dormant, a stationary table. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Irving. I dare undertake that as fulsome a dose as you give him, he shall readily take it down. South.

A marriage portion; dowry. [Louisiana]

Pertaining to dower, or a woman's marriage portion; constituting dower, or comprised in it. Garth.

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

Natural endowments. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

t Douai, A. D. 1609-10. Various revised editions have since been published. [Written also Doway Bible. Called also the Rheims and Douay version.]

et together; coupled. [Let] The swan, on still St. Mary's lake, Float double, swan and shadow. Wordsworth.

Having both sashes hung with weights and cords; -- said of a window.

To plunge suddenly into water; to duck; to immerse; to dowse. Bp. Stillingfleet.