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Tending to a lower condition or state; depressed; dejected; as, downward thoughts. Sir P. Sidney.

A fisherman who uses a dragnet. Sir M. Hale.

To rail at; to banter. [Obs.] Sir W. Temple.

custom of using oxen for all sort of draught would be, perhaps, the greatest improvement. Sir W. Temple.

and mire without remorse. Spenser. He hastened to draw the stranger into a private room. Sir W. Scott. Do not rich men oppress you, and draw you before the judgment seats James ii. 6. The arrow is now drawn to the head. Atterbury.

To shoot (a shaft) so as to pierce on the descent. [Obs.] Sir P. Sidney.

he whole poem a compliment on his country in general. Addison. Now thou knowest my drift. Sir W. Scott.

atened, if I did not do the like, to do as much for my horse as fortune had done for his. Sir P. Sidney.

A driveler; a fool; an idiot. [Obs.] Sir P. Sidney.

es drop you and pick you up again. Thackeray. The connection had been dropped many years. Sir W. Scott. Dropping the too rough H in Hell and Heaven. Tennyson.

to extinguish; -- said especially of sound. Most men being in sensual pleasures drowned. Sir J. Davies. My private voice is drowned amid the senate. Addison. To drown up, to swallow up. [Obs.] Holland.

One who drubs. Sir W. Scott.

See Drier. Sir W. Temple.

Constructed of uncemented stone. "Dry-stone walls." Sir W. Scott.

Doubtfulness; uncertainty; doubt. [R.] Lamb. "The dubiety of his fate." Sir W. Scott.

allow falsities for truths, dubiosities for certainties, possibilities for feasibilities. Sir T. Browne.

tled in opinion; being in doubt; wavering or fluctuating; undetermined. "Dubious policy." Sir T. Scott. A dubious, agitated state of mind. Thackeray.

Act of doubting; doubt. [R.] Sir T. Scott.

One who leads. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

Resentment; ill will; anger; displeasure. I drink it to thee in dudgeon and hostility. Sir T. Scott.