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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…

The act of drawing up, marking out, or delineating; representation. Dryden.

eus drew trees, stones, and floods. Shak. All eyes you draw, and with the eyes the heart. Dryden.

In a dreadful manner; terribly. Dryden.

py the mind during sleep; a sleeping vision. Dreams are but interludes which fancy makes. Dryden. I had a dream which was not all a dream. Byron.

ess sensations, feelings, or associations; comfortless; dismal; gloomy. " Dreary shades." Dryden. "The dreary ground." Prior. Full many a dreary anxious hour. Keble. Johnson entered on his vocation in the most dreary part of that dreary interval which separated two ages of prosperity. Macaulay.

rthless part of anything; as, the dregs of society. We, the dregs and rubbish of mankind. Dryden.

w dam the ditches and the floods restrain; Their moisture has already drenched the plain. Dryden.

Dry. [Obs.] Chaucer.

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

Drying oil; a substance mingled with the oil used in oil painting to make it dry quickly.

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Anything driven at random. "Some log . . . a useless drift." Dryden.

See Dryly. Thackeray.

ny manner; to suck up; to absorb; to imbibe. And let the purple violets drink the stream. Dryden.

To clear, by forcing away what is contained. To drive the country, force the swains away. Dryden.

To be weak or foolish; to dote; as, a driveling hero; driveling love. Shak. Dryden.

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

Honeybee. All with united force combine to drive The lazy drones from the laborious hive. Dryden.

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