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of Draw. [Obs.] Chaucer.

be suffocated in water or other fluid; to perish in water. Methought, what pain it was to drown. Shak.

The act of drowning. [R.]

One who, or that which, drowns.

To sleep imperfectly or unsoundly; to slumber; to be heavy with sleepiness; to doze. "He drowsed upon his couch." South. In the pool drowsed the cattle up to their knees. Lowell.

Drowsiness. Thomson.

Drowsihead. [Obs.] Spenser.

In a drowsy manner.

State of being drowsy. Milton.

Inclined to drowse; heavy with sleepiness; lethargic; dozy. "When I am drowsy." Shak. Dapples the drowsy east with spots of gray. Shak. To our age's drowsy blood Still shouts the inspiring sea. Lowell.

See Drought. Bacon.

To wet or drench to excess. [Obs.] W. Browne.

To arrange in lines or windrows, as hay when newly made. Forby.

n. Suspended animation, temporary suspension of the vital functions, as in persons nearly drowned.

ation; the condition which results from interruption of respiration, as in suffocation or drowning, or the inhalation of irrespirable gases.

A mischance causing a person's death without felony, as by drowning, or falling into the fire.

Fig.: Intoxicating liquor; as, to drown one's reason in the bottle.

Relating to an open fields; drowing in a field; growing in a field, or open ground.

caul or membrane over the face. This caul is esteemed an infallible preservative against drowning . . . According to Chysostom, the midwives frequently sold it for magic uses. Grose. I was born with a caul, which was advertised for sale, in the newspapers, at the low price of fifteen guineas. Dickens.…

rovide with clothes; as, to feed and clothe a family; to clothe one's self extravagantly. Drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags. Prov. xxiii. 21 The naked every day he clad, When he put on his clothes. Goldsmith.