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prolonged and covered with weblike skin, forming a sort of wing. These prolongations aid them in making long leaps from tree to tree. Called also flying lizard.

To exhaust of liquid contents by drawing them off; to make gradually dry or empty; to remove surface water, as from streets, by gutters, etc.; to deprive of moisture; hence, to exhaust; to empty of wealth, resources, or the like; as, to drain a country of its specie. Sinking waters, the firm land to drain, Filled the c…

A small piece of artillery. [Obs.] Two or three shots, made at them by a couple of drakes, made them stagger. Clarendon.

To pull from a sheath, as a sword. I will draw my sword, my hand shall destroy them. Ex. xv. 9.

ammering, or, as in forming wire from rods or tubes and cups from sheet metal, by pulling them through dies.

To be in dread, or great fear. Dread not, neither be afraid of them. Deut. i. 29.

ss; as, a dream of bliss; the dream of his youth. There sober thought pursued the amusing theme, Till Fancy colored it and formed a dream. Pope. It is not them a mere dream, but a very real aim which they propose. J. C. Shairp.

p up mud, gravel, or obstructions from the bottom of rivers, docks, etc., so as to deepen them.

rain, by cleansing it; in mining and metallurgy, to dress ores, by sorting and separating them.

issioned officer whose office it is to instruct soldiers as to their duties, and to train them to military exercises and evolutions. -- Vertical drill, a drill press.

rive cattle; to drive a nail; smoke drives persons from a room. A storm came on and drove them into Pylos. Jowett (Thucyd. ). Shield pressed on shield, and man drove man along. Pope. Go drive the deer and drag the finny prey. Pope.

jole. Men that will not be reasoned into their senses, may yet be laughed or drolled into them. L'Estrange.

es cattle or sheep to market; one who makes it his business to purchase cattle, and drive them to market. Why, that's spoken like an honest drover; so they sell bullocks. Shak.

One who deals in drugs; especially, one who buys and sells drugs without compounding them; also, a pharmaceutist or apothecary.

definite compounds are binary in their nature, and consist of two distinct constituents, themselves simple or complex, and possessed of opposite chemical or electrical affinities.

To cure, as codfish, in a particular manner, by laying them, after salting, in a pile in a dark place, covered with salt grass or some like substance.

ists, but partly those of the Quakers; -- called also Tunkers, Dunkards, Dippers, and, by themselves, Brethren, and German Baptists.

To divide into two by natural growth or spontaneous action; as, infusoria duplicate themselves.

ligation. A duty hardly exists to do trivial things; but there may be an obligation to do them. C. J. Smith.

The scholastic name for the theme or subject of a fugue, the answer being called the comes, or companion.