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The missel thrush.

One who, or that which, drains.

A sterile plain, containing an excess of alkali, at the bottom of an undrained basin in an arid region; a playa.

The entire tract of country drained by a river, or sloping towards a sea or lake.

A large size of mold, in which sugar is drained.

in which anything is cured; especially, in the West Indies, a building in which sugar is drained and dried.

untains drain the water from the ground adjacent. Bacon. But it was not alone that the he drained their treasure and hampered their industry. Motley.

Capable of being drained.

Area or district drained; as, the drainage of the Po, the Thames, etc. Latham.

To diminish or exhaust by drawing. [R.] The Parliament so often draughted and drained. Sir W. Scott.

Drained; exhausted; having expended or lost its energy.

Capable of being exhausted, drained off, or expended. Johnson.

at any drop thou borrow'dst from thy mother, My sacred aunt, should by my mortal sword Be drained. Shak.

A mixture of sugar and molasses; crude sugar as it comes from the pans without being drained.

A frame with a wire cloth bottom, on which the pump is drained to form a sheet, in making paper by hand.

The part of a sugarhouse where the molasses is drained off from the sugar.

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

ste; as, the wilds of America; the wilds of Africa. then Libya first, of all her moisture drained, Became a barren waste, a wild of sand. Addison.