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A fabulous animal, generally represented as a monstrous winged serpent or lizard, with a crested head and enormous claws, and regarded as very powerful and ferocious. The dragons which appear in early paintings and sculptures are invariably representations of a winged crocodile. Fairholt.

ters for the siege. Nahum iii. 14. I opened the tumor by the point of a lancet without drawing one drop of blood. Wiseman.

-- Drawn fowl, an eviscerated fowl. -- Drawn game or battle, one in which neither party wins; one equally contested. -- Drawn fox, one driven from cover. Shak. -- Drawn work, ornamental work made by drawing out threads from fine cloth, and uniting the cross threads, to form a pattern.

dicine poured or forced down the throat; also, a potion that causes purging. "A drench of wine." Dryden. Give my roan horse a drench. Shak.

An ornamental finish, as a molding around doors, windows, or on a ceiling, etc.

; that which may expel or absorb moisture; a desiccative; as, the sun and a northwesterly wind are great driers of the earth.

A driving; a violent movement. The dragon drew him [self] away with drift of his wings. King Alisaunder (1332).

Seaweed drifted to the shore by the wind. Darwin.

A driving wind; a wind that drives snow, sand, etc., into heaps. Beau. & Fl.

A genus of magnoliaceous trees. Drimys aromatica furnishes Winter's bark.

perquisite, given to buy drink; a gratuity. -- Drink offering (Script.), an offering of wine, etc., in the Jewish religious service. -- In drink, drunk. "The poor monster's in drink." Shak. -- Strong drink, intoxicating liquor; esp., liquor containing a large proportion of alcohol. " Wine is a mocker, strong drink…

Having great force of impulse; as, a driving wind or storm.

Characterized by small rain, or snow; moist and disagreeable. "Winter's drizzly reign." Dryden.

strokes; to make a noise like that of a beaten drum; as, the ruffed grouse drums with his wings. Drumming with his fingers on the arm of his chair. W. Irving.

drum; also, the noise which the male of the ruffed grouse makes in spring, by beating his wings upon his sides.

A method of armature winding in which the wire is wound upon the outer surface of a cylinder or drum from end to end of the cylinder; -- distinguished from ring winding, etc.

ely, but always predicatively; as, the man is drunk (not, a drunk man). Be not drunk with wine, where in is excess. Eph. v. 18. Drunk with recent prosperity. Macaulay.

es. Brande & C. -- Dry vat, a vat, basket, or other receptacle for dry articles. -- Dry wine, that in which the saccharine matter and fermentation were so exactly balanced, that they have wholly neutralized each other, and no sweetness is perceptible; -- opposed to sweet wine, in which the saccharine matter is in exc…

Adapted or tending to exhaust moisture; as, a drying wind or day; a drying room.

Owed, as a debt; that ought to be paid or done to or for another; payable; owing and demandable.