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ve a nail; smoke drives persons from a room. A storm came on and drove them into Pylos. Jowett (Thucyd. ). Shield pressed on shield, and man drove man along. Pope. Go drive the deer and drag the finny prey. Pope.

To fall in drops. The kindly dew drops from the higher tree, And wets the little plants that lowly dwell. Spenser.

Free from moisture; having little humidity or none; arid; not wet or moist; deficient in the natural or normal supply of moisture, as rain or fluid of any kind; -- said especially: (a) Of the weather: Free from rain or mist. The weather, we agreed, was too dry for the season. Addison.

A nurse who attends and feeds a child by hand; -- in distinction from a wet nurse, who suckles it.

To rub and cleanse without wetting. Dodsley.

Without wetting the feet.

ize one's income. [Written also economise.] Expenses in the city were to be economized. Jowett (Thucyd. ). Calculating how to economize time. W. Irving.

ivine counsels had decreed. Bp. Hurd. They sailed away without effecting their purpose. Jowett (Th. ).

he tree of life. Rev. xxii. 2. The extreme right and left of either army never engaged. Jowett (Thucyd).

ritual pride. Warburton. You ought not be elated at the chance mishaps of your enemies. Jowett (Thucyd. ).

e aged, or existing longer. Let the elder men among us emulate their own earlier deeds. Jowett (Thucyd. )

te. The simplicity which is so large an element in a noble nature was laughed to scorn. Jowett (Thucyd.).

a slave, or a country. Brasidas . . . declaring that he was sent to emancipate Hellas. Jowett (Thucyd. ).

To rise upright. [Obs.] By wet, stalks do erect. Bacon.

d of existence; always existing. The eternal God is thy refuge. Deut. xxxiii. 27. To know wether there were any real being, whose duration has been eternal. Locke.

bad. "The events of his early years." Macaulay. To watch quietly the course of events. Jowett (Thucyd. ) There is one event to the righteous, and to the wicked. Eccl. ix. 2.

act copy of a letter; exact accounts. I took a great pains to make out the exact truth. Jowett (Thucyd. )

ter than the average; superior. Lyell. This particular spot had exceptional advantages. Jowett (Th. ) -- Ex*cep"tion*al*ly(#), adv.

with erring friends; they bring accusations against enemies who have done them a wrong. Jowett (Thuc. ).

mistocles . . . was of all men the best able to extemporize the right thing to be done. Jowett (Thucyd. ). Pitt, of whom it was said that he could extemporize a Queen's speech Lord Campbell.