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A kind of sledge or sled. Halliwell. Dray cart, a dray. -- Dray horse, a heavy, strong horse used in drawing a dray.

Use of a dray.

A man who attends a dray.

A helper or assistant. [Archaic] Drayton.

With fright. Drayton.

A garland or fillet; a chaplet or wreath. Drayton. Tennyson.

To read. [Obs.] Drayton.

Rising. [Obs.] Drayton.

Arrival. [Obs.] Chaucer. How should I joy of thy arrive to hear! Drayton.

-- that is, one left by fairies; a deformed or foolish child; a simpleton; an oaf. [Obs.] Drayton.

tication; indication of the future; presage. From their flight strange auguries she drew. Drayton. He resigned himself . . . with a docility that gave little augury of his future greatness. Prescott.

Axle or axletree. [Obs.] Drayton.

See Aerie. Drayton.

Like a babe; a childish; babyish. [R.] "Babish imbecility." Drayton. -- Bab"ish*ly, adv. -- Bab"ish*ness, n. [R.]

and balks his meat. Bp. Hall. Nor doth he any creature balk, But lays on all he meeteth. Drayton.

Ballad poems; the subject or style of ballads. "Base balladry is so beloved." Drayton.

Rich; fertile. [Obs.] "Batful valleys." Drayton.

Having a bay or bays. "The large bayed barn." Drayton.

A small brook. The brooks, the becks, the rills. Drayton.

A grandfather, or ancestor. "His great belsire Brute." [Obs.] Drayton.