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An instrument for augmenting a very small quantity of electricity, so as to render it manifest by sparks or the electroscope.

To doubt not but. I do not doubt but I have been to blame. Dryden. We doubt not now But every rub is smoothed on our way. Shak.

The quality of being doughty; valor; bravery.

iece of joinery so crossly indented and whimsically dovetailed . . . that it was indeed a very curious show. Burke.

Very steep. [Obs.] Florio.

The act of drawing; also, the thing drawn. Same as Draught. Everything available for draft burden. S. G. Goodrich.

nstrous 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.

ts for a draught. Luke v. 4. He laid down his pipe, and cast his net, which brought him a very great draught. L'Estrange.

everential or respectful fear; awe. The fear of you, and the dread of you, shall be upon every beast of the earth. Gen. ix. 2. His scepter shows the force of temporal power, The attribute to awe and majesty, Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings. Shak.

Hence: A garment made of very thick cloth, that can defend against storm and cold; also, the cloth itself; fearnaught.

A visionary scheme; a wild conceit; an idle fancy; a vagary; a revery; -- in this sense, applied to an imaginary or anticipated state of happiness; 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, bu…

Very dreary. Halliwell.

Very fine mineral matter held in suspension in water. Raymond.

enus of bivalve shells of which one species (D. polymorpha) is often so abundant as to be very troublesome in the fresh waters of Europe.

er animal. To dress up or out, to dress elaborately, artificially, or pompously. "You see very often a king of England or France dressed up like a Julius Cæsar." Addison. -- To dress a ship (Naut.), to ornament her by hoisting the national colors at the peak and mastheads, and setting the jack forward; when dressed fu…

s drifting or floating as on water. The current of humanity, with its heavy proportion of very useless driftwood. New Your Times.

To rain slightly in very small drops; to fall, as water from the clouds, slowly and in fine particles; as, it drizzles; drizzling drops or rain. "Drizzling tears." Spenser.

To make a jest of; to set in a comical light. [R.] This drolling everything is rather fatiguing. W. D. Howells.

e her drooped a lamp." Tennyson. I saw him ten days before he died, and observed he began very much to droop and languish. Swift.

A very intense light, produced by turning two streams of gas, one oxygen and the other hydrogen, or coal gas, in a state of ignition, upon a ball of lime; or a stream of oxygen gas through a flame of alcohol upon a ball or disk of lime; -- called also oxycalcium light, or lime light.