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To appropriate unlawfully; to filch; to defalcate. He who drives their bargain dribs a part. Dryden.

attle coming over the bridge (with their great drift doing much damage to the high ways). Fuller.

Full of drifts; tending to form drifts, as snow, and the like.

s, a large, fast-sailing galley, or cutter; a large, swift war vessel. [Hist. or Archaic] Fuller. The great dromond swinging from the quay. W. Morris.

Of, pertaining to, resembling, dross; full of dross; impure; worthless. " Drossy gold." Dryden. "Drossy rhymes." Donne. -- Dross"i*ness, n.

Scarcity; lack. A drought of Christian writers caused a dearth of all history. Fuller.

To tincture with something offensive or injurious. Drugged as oft, With hatefullest disrelish writhed their jaws. Milton.

One who administers two offices. Fuller.

Like a dunce; duncish. The most dull and duncical commissioner. Fuller.

Full of dung; filthy; vile; low. Shak.

Beaten; hence, blunted. [Obs.] Fencer's swords . . . having the edge dunted. Fuller.

r life. . . . The Abbot down with his dust, and glad he escaped so, returned to Reading." Fuller. -- Dust brand (Bot.), a fungous plant (Ustilago Carbo); -- called also smut. -- Gold dust, fine particles of gold, such as are obtained in placer mining; -- often used as money, being transferred by weight. -- In dust a…

are loss of appetite, nausea, heartburn, acrid or fetid eructations, a sense of weight or fullness in the stomach, etc. Dunglison.

Everywhere. [Obs.] The sky eachwhere did show full bright and fair. Spenser.

Indian corn, etc.), containing the kernels. First the blade, then the ear, after that the full corn in the ear. Mark iv. 28.

aving (such or so many) ears; -- used in composition; as, long- eared-eared; sharp-eared; full-eared; ten-eared.

Full of anxiety or yearning. [Obs.] P. Fletcher.

A witness by means of his ears; one who is within hearing and does hear; a hearer. Fuller.

Full of ease; suitable for affording ease or rest; quiet; comfortable; restful. Shak. -- Ease"ful*ly, adv. -- Ease"ful*ness, n.

Smoothly; quietly; gently; gracefully; without