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tory ordinances for the protection of public health, such as quarantine, fever hospitals, draining, etc. De Quincey.

of water or other liquid, or a deep bend or sag in the pipe is filled with the liquid; a draintrap. Great seal. See under Great. -- Privy seal. See under Privy, a. -- Seal lock, a lock in which the keyhole is covered by a seal in such a way that the lock can not be opened without rupturing the seal. Seal manual. See…

Oozy; -- applied to land under cultivation that is not well drained.

To drain, as a pond, for taking the fish. [Obs.] Tusser.

The contents of a sewer or drain; refuse liquids or matter carried off by sewers

A drain or passage to carry off water and filth under ground; a subterraneous channel, particularly in cities.

The system of sewers in a city, town, etc.; the general drainage of a city or town by means of sewers.

A drain to carry off filthy water; a jakes.

A shovel for sludging out drains, etc.

Fig.: To absorb; to drain. [Obs.] Sir H. Wotton.

night soil. Improve land by dung and other sort of soils. Mortimer. Soil pipe, a pipe or drain for carrying off night soil.

A pipe or drain for carrying off night soil.

A small drain; an adit. [Prov. Eng.] W. M. Buchanan.

he same mold and connected by sprues formed in the runner and its branches. Knight. Spray drain (Agric.), a drain made by laying under earth the sprays or small branches of trees, which keep passages open.

rap, a contrivance to prevent stench or foul air from rising from the openings of sewers, drains, etc.

A shaft or gallery to drain a mine. [Local, Eng.] Bailey.

To draw or drain. Old ocean, sucked through the porous globe. Thomson.

A drain or collection of filth. [Obs.] [Written also sulliage, and sullage.] Sir H. Wotton.

Drainage of filth; filth collected from the street or highway; sewage. [Obs.] The streets were exceedingly large, well paved, having many vaults and conveyances under them for sullage. Evelyn.

The bottom of a drain. [Prov. Eng.]