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A brownish black native hydrocarbon occurring in elastic or jellylike masses.

Two dice, each of which, when thrown, has the same number of spots on the face lying uppermost; as, to throw doublets.

woman brings to a husband in marriage; dowry. [Obs.] His wife brought in dower Cilicia's crown. Dryden.

The red-breasted or gray snipe (Macrorhamphus griseus); -- called also brownback, and grayback.

A bank or rounded hillock of sand thrown up by the wind along or near the shore; a flattish-topped hill; -- usually in the plural. Hills afford prospects, as they must needs acknowledge who have been on the downs of Sussex. Ray. She went by dale, and she went by down. Tennyson.

A kind of thick woolen cloth of a dun, or dull brownish yellow, or dull gray, color; -- called also drabcloth.

or an apparatus, to be drawn along the bottom under water, as in fishing, searching for drowned persons, etc.

A flat stone so thrown along the 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.…

l, Slavery, . . . still thou art a bitter draught. Sterne. Low lies that house where nut-brown draughts inspired. Goldsmith.

p. p. of Drench to drown. [Obs.] Chaucer.

To drown. [Obs.] In the sea he drenched. Chaucer.

Drenched; drowned. [Obs.] "Condemned to be drent." Spenser.

p. p., of Drench to drown. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A mass of matter which has been driven or forced onward together in a body, or thrown together in a heap, etc., esp. by wind or water; as, a drift of snow, of ice, of sand, and the like. Drifts of rising dust involve the sky. Pope. We got the brig a good bed in the rushing drift [of ice]. Kane.

The scum or refuse matter which is thrown off, or falls from, metals in smelting the ore, or in the process of melting; recrement.

A slight or imperfect sleep; a doze. But smiled on in a drowse of ecstasy. Mrs. Browning.

lsities for truths, dubiosities for certainties, possibilities for feasibilities. Sir T. Browne.

Of or pertaining to a duke. His ducal cap was to be exchanged for a kingly crown. Motley.

One who leads. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

A seaweed of a reddish brown color, which is sometimes eaten, as in Scotland. The true dulse is Sarcophyllis edulis; the common is Rhodymenia. [Written also dillisk.] The crimson leaf of the dulse is seen To blush like a banner bathed in slaughter. Percival.