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To plunge suddenly into water; to duck; to immerse; to dowse. Bp. Stillingfleet.

sound. Down the country, toward the sea, or toward the part where rivers discharge their waters into the ocean. -- Down the sound, in the direction of the ebbing tide; toward the sea.

Towards the bottom of a hill; as, water runs downhill.

To plunge, or duck into water; to immerse; to douse.

A divining rod used in searching for water, ore, etc., a dowsing rod. [Colloq.]

Depth of water necessary to float a ship. See Draught.

ag or harrow over it; to harrow; to draw a drag along the bottom of, as a stream or other water; hence, to search, as by means of a drag. Then while I dragged my brains for such a song. Tennyson.

A net to be drawn along the bottom of a body of water, as in fishing.

ause to flow gradually out or off; hence, to cause the exhaustion of. Fountains drain the water from the ground adjacent. Bacon. But it was not alone that the he drained their treasure and hampered their industry. Motley.

The mode in which the waters of a country pass off by its streams and rivers.

The art of carrying off surplus water, as from land. Draining tile. Same as Draintile.

A pipe used for carrying off surplus water.

A flat stone so thrown along the surface of water as to skip from point to point before it sinks; also, the sport of so throwing stones; -- sometimes called ducks and drakes. Internal earthquakes, that, not content with one throe, run along spasmodically, like boys playing at what is called drakestone. De Quincey.…

Act of drawing a net; a sweeping the water for fish. Upon the draught of a pond, not one fish was left. Sir M. Hale.

o bring or take out, or to let out, from some receptacle, as a stick or post from a hole, water from a cask or well, etc. The drew out the staves of the ark. 2 Chron. v. 9. Draw thee waters for the siege. Nahum iii. 14. I opened the tumor by the point of a lancet without drawing one drop of blood. Wiseman.…

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

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

To steep in moisture; to wet thoroughly; to soak; to saturate with water or other liquid; to immerse. Now dam the ditches and the floods restrain; Their moisture has already drenched the plain. Dryden.

To fall in drops or small drops, or in a quick succession of drops; as, water dribbles from the eaves.

or forced onward together in a body, or thrown together in a heap, etc., esp. by wind or water; as, a drift of snow, of ice, of sand, and the like. Drifts of rising dust involve the sky. Pope. We got the brig a good bed in the rushing drift [of ice]. Kane.