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To drain by emptying; to suck dry. Sucking and drawing the breast dischargeth the milk as fast as it can generated. Wiseman.

To drain. [Obs.] Congreve.

To cause to flow in drills or rills or by trickling; to drain by trickling; as, waters drilled through a sandy stratum. [R.] Thomson.

A narrow drain or channel used in the irrigation of land. Simmonds.

or noxious exhalation; as, the effluvium from diseased or putrefying bodies, or from ill drainage.

To milk out; to drain. [Obs.] Bailey.

To draw or let out wholly; to drain off completely; as, to exhaust the water of a well; the moisture of the earth is exhausted by evaporation.

Capable of being exhausted, drained off, or expended. Johnson.

The act of draining out or draining off; the act of emptying completely of the contents.

Exhaustion; drain. [Obs.]

under Deck, n., 1. -- Flush tank, a water tank which can be emptied rapidly for flushing drainpipes, etc.

A small hand pump for sinking pits, draining cellars, etc.

lack obscurity: it is the frost smoke of arctic winters. Kane. -- Frost valve, a valve to drain the portion of a pipe, hydrant, pump, etc., where water would be liable to freeze. -- Jack Frost, a popular personification of frost.

at any drop thou borrow'dst from thy mother, My sacred aunt, should by my mortal sword Be drained. Shak.

A small drain.

To trench; to drain.

a water-closet, without a movable pan, in which the receptacle is a funnel standing on a draintrap. -- Hopper cock, a faucet or valve for flushing the hopper of a water-closet.

Valuable additions or betterments, as buildings, clearings, drains, fences, etc., on premises.

Not sanitary; unhealthy; as, insanitary conditions of drainage.

A passage for water; a ditch or drain. [Prov. Eng.]