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rge body of water contained in a depression of the earth's surface, and supplied from the drainage of a more or less extended area.

to the l of the plateau and then descent to the level of the valley or of the sea. After draining of the level in Northamptonshire. Sir M. Hale. Shot from the deadly level of a gun. Shak.

des for removing the hair; to lime sails in order to whiten them. Land may be improved by draining, marling, and liming. Sir J. Child.

A hole through which a man may descend or creep into a drain, sewer, steam boiler, parts of machinery, etc., for cleaning or repairing.

A mixture of sugar and molasses; crude sugar as it comes from the pans without being drained.

The thick, brown or dark colored, viscid, uncrystallizable sirup which drains from sugar, in the process of manufacture; any thick, viscid, sweet sirup made from vegetable juice or sap, as of the sorghum or maple. See Treacle.

A frame with a wire cloth bottom, on which the pump is drained to form a sheet, in making paper by hand.

A plow of peculiar construction, for forming underground drains. [U.S.] Duck mole. See under Duck. -- Golden mole. See Chrysochlore. -- Mole cricket (Zoöl.), an orthopterous insect of the genus Gryllotalpa, which excavates subterranean galleries, and throws up mounds of earth resembling those of the mole. It is said…

of, unrefined or raw sugar, obtained from the juice of the sugar cane by evaporating and draining off the molasses. Muscovado sugar contains impurities which render it dark colored and moist.

The mouth of a river; the lower end of a water course; the open end of a drain, culvert, etc., where the discharge occurs.

In irrigating, a subdivision of an irrigated surface between a feeder and an outlet drain.

ne campaign may spare us the expense of many years; whereas a long, parsimonious war will drain us of more men and money. Addison.

tle faucet in a water pipe or pump, to let air out, or at the end of a steam cylinder, to drain it.

To cleanse, as open drains which are entered by the tide, by stirring up the sediment when the tide ebbs.

s; also used to furrow or break up the soil for other purposes; as, the subsoil plow; the draining plow. Where fern succeeds ungrateful to the plow. Dryden.

To seal with lead; as, to plumb a drainpipe.

airs lead, iron, or glass pipes, and other apparatus for the conveyance of water, gas, or drainage in buildings.

A perforated cask for draining sugar. Knight.

The process of putting sugar in casks for cleansing and draining. [West Indies] B. Edwards.

The part of a sugarhouse where the molasses is drained off from the sugar.