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

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.

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.…

A vane in the shape of a cock; a weathercock. Drenched our steeples, drowned the cocks! Shak.

ecies. The long tubular leaves are hooded at the top, and frequently contain many insects drowned in the secretion of the leaves.

The act of plunging into a fluid; a drowning.

, or an apparatus, to be drawn along the bottom under water, as in fishing, searching for drowned persons, etc.

p. p. of Drench to drown. [Obs.] Chaucer.

To drown. [Obs.] In the sea he drenched. Chaucer.

Drenched; drowned. [Obs.] "Condemned to be drent." Spenser.

p. p., of Drench to drown. [Obs.] Chaucer.

shelter, as in a bay. If that the Turkish fleet Be not ensheltered and embayed, they are drowned. Shak.

n, grief, joy, anger, etc. Exclamations against abuses in the church. Hooker. Thus will I drown your exclamations. Shak. A festive exclamation not unsuited to the occasion. Trench.

Producing fumes; fumous. "Drowned in fumy wine." H. Brooke.