Search the Dictionary

Used in making drawings; as, draught compasses.

The company assembled in such a room; also, a reception of company in it; as, to hold a drawing-room. He [Johnson] would amaze a drawing-room by suddenly ejaculating a clause of the Lord's Prayer. Macaulay. Drawing-room car. See Palace car, under Car.

sion. When at length the moment dreaded through so many years came close, the dark cloud passed away from Johnson's mind. Macaulay.

A passerine bird of the family Dicruridæ. They are usually black with a deeply forked tail. They are natives of Asia, Africa, and Australia; -- called also drongo shrikes.

open carriage, used in Russia, consisting of a kind of long, narrow bench, on which the passengers ride as on a saddle, with their feet reaching nearly to the ground. Other kinds of vehicles are now so called, esp. a kind of victoria drawn by one or two horses, and used as a public carriage in German cities. [Written…

n with drugs or ingredients; esp., to stupefy by a narcotic drug. Also Fig. The laboring masses . . . [were] drugged into brutish good humor by a vast system of public spectacles. C. Kingsley. Drug thy memories, lest thou learn it. Tennyson.

A noisy, tumultuous assembly of fashionable people at a private house; a rout. [Archaic] Not unaptly styled a drum, from the noise and emptiness of the entertainment. Smollett.

Of the eyes: Not shedding tears. Not a dry eye was to be seen in the assembly. Prescott.

are divided by the arbitrary decree of God, and in his eternal foreknowledge, into two classes, the elect and the reprobate.

A framework on which dishes, food, etc., are passed from one room or story of a house to another; a lift for dishes, etc.; also, a piece of furniture with movable or revolving shelves.

as proposed that the duration of Parliament should be limited. Macaulay. Soon shall have passed our own human duration. D. Webster.

e intensity of the photogenic (light-producing) rays, and computing the power of object glasses.

An ornament consisting of a ring passed through the lobe of the ear, with or without a pendant.

The public legislative assembly of the Athenians.

A division of Annelida which includes the genus Echiurus and allies. They are often classed among the Gephyrea, and called the armed Gephyreans.

To repeat with assent; to respond; to adopt. They would have echoed the praises of the men whom they Macaulay.

) A plane for edging soles. -- Edge play, a kind of swordplay in which backswords or cutlasses are used, and the edge, rather than the point, is employed. -- Edge rail. (Railroad) (a) A rail set on edge; -- applied to a rail of more depth than width. (b) A guard rail by the side of the main rail at a switch. Knight.…

One who is capable of active service. He assembled his army -- 20,000 effectives -- at Corinth. W. P. Johnston.

Am assembly or session of the Welsh bards; an annual congress of bards, minstrels and literati of Wales, -- being a patriotic revival of the old custom.

A mineral resin, of a blackish brown color, occurring in soft, flexible masses; -- called also mineral caoutchouc, and elastic bitumen.