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A coat with skirts behind only, as distinct from the frock coat, of which the skirts surround the body. It is worn on occasions of ceremony. The dress coat of officers of the United States army is a full-skirted frock coat.

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

To let fall drops of moisture or liquid; as, a wet garment drips. The dark round of the dripping wheel. Tennyson.

or sink. [R.] M. Arnold. Like to a withered vine That droops his sapless branches to the ground. Shak.

us to the thoughts of our own death, as the prospect of one friend after another dropping round us. Digby.

A dog which suddenly drops upon the ground when it sights game, -- formerly a common, and still an occasional, habit of the setter.

nch, 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 also droitzschka, and droschke.]

enerally for the purpose of driving several pulleys, by means of belts or straps passing around its periphery; also, the barrel of a hoisting machine, on which the rope or chain is wound.

cated by, or as by, spirituous liquor; inebriated. Drunken men imagine everything turneth round. Bacon.

A large, elongated cell, either round or prismatic, usually found associated with woody fiber.

A ground or place for dumping ashes, refuse, etc.

A roundish mass of dough boiled in soup, or as a sort of pudding; often, a cover of paste inclosing an apple or other fruit, and boiled or baked; as, an apple dumpling.

had deposited their slime for ages among the dunes or sand banks heaved up by the ocean around their mouths. Motley.

he tough, fibrous membrane, which lines the cavity of the skull and spinal column, and surrounds the brain and spinal cord; -- frequently abbreviated to dura.

durable riches and righteousness. Prov. viii. 18. An interest which from its object and grounds must be so durable. De Quincey.

A single particle of earth or other matter. [R.] "To touch a dust of England's ground." Shak.

ideas and affections . . . would be stunted and dwarfed, if cut off from a spiritual background. J. C. Shairp.

oney is said to have no earmark. Wharton. Flying, he [a slave] should be described by the rounding of his head, and his earmark. Robynson (More's Utopia). A set of intellectual ideas . . . have earmarks upon them, no tokens of a particular proprietor. Burrow.

sometimes, soil favorable to the growth of plants; the visible surface of the globe; the ground; as, loose earth; rich earth. Give him a little earth for charity. Shak.

A name given to various roots, tubers, or pods grown under or on the ground; as to: