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cellent phrase that has become vernacular since the appearance of the last dictionaries. Thackeray.

trickery; artifice. [Obs.] Hacket.

capable of containing many beds; esp., one connected with a college or boarding school. Thackeray.

at of a dowager. Also used figuratively. Mansions that have passed away into dowagerism. Thackeray.

A heavy coach with seats on top; also, a heavy carriage. [Collog.] Thackeray.

To drink drams; to ply with drams. [Low] Johnson. Thackeray.

A series of real events invested with a dramatic unity and interest. "The drama of war." Thackeray. Westward the course of empire takes its way; The four first acts already past, A fifth shall close the drama with the day; Time's noblest offspring is the last. Berkeley. The drama and contrivances of God's providence. S…

A current of air moving through an inclosed place, as through a room or up a chimney. Thackeray. He preferred to go and sit upon the stairs, in . . . a strong draught of air, until he was again sent for. Dickens.

See Dryly. Thackeray.

erry with him. Gem. xliii. 34. Bolingbroke always spoke freely when he had drunk freely. Thackeray. To drink to, to salute in drinking; to wish well to, in the act of taking the cup; to pledge in drinking. I drink to the general joy of the whole table, And to our dear friend Banquo. Shak.

tage; to drive a person to his own door. How . . . proud he was to drive such a brother! Thackeray.

. S. Sharp. That astonishing ease with which fine ladies 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 prepare for fighting, as a gamecock, by trimming the hackles and cutting off the comb and wattles. To dub a fly, to dress a fishing fly. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell. -- To dub out (Plastering), to fill out, as an uneven surface, to a plane, or to carry out a series of small projections.

uating; undetermined. "Dubious policy." Sir T. Scott. A dubious, agitated state of mind. Thackeray.

ting readiness of apprehension; stupid; doltish; blockish. "Dull at classical learning." Thackeray. She is not bred so dull but she can learn. Shak.

erbold Have eat our substance. Tennyson. His wretched estate is eaten up with mortgages. Thackeray.

To struggle out; -- with out. [Obs.] Bp. Hacket.

Disposed to embrace; fond of caressing. [R.] Thackeray.

room, house, etc.; as, an empty chest, room, purse, or pitcher; an empty stomach; empty shackles.

of; as, to encore a song or a singer. [Rebecca] insisted upon encoring one of the duets. Thackeray.