than a downright advice, which may be mistaken as spoken magisterially. Bacon. It is downright madness to strike where we have no power to hurt. L'Estranger The merchant's wife, who abounds in plenty, is not to have downright money; but the mercenary part of her mind is engaged with a present of plate. Spectator. 2. Directly tending to the point; plain; artless, I would rather have a plain downright wisdom, than a foolish and affected eloquence. 3. Unceremonious; honestly surly. Ben Jonson. When it came to the count to speak, old Fact so stared him in the face, after his plain downright way, that the count was struck dumb. 4. Plain, without palliation. Addison. The idolatry was direct and downright in the people, whose credulity is illimitable. Brown. Religion seems not in danger from downright atheism, since rational men must reject that for want of proof. Do WNSITTING. 2. s. [down and sit.] Rogers. Rest; repose; the act of sitting down, or going to rest. Thou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising; thou understandest my thoughts afar off. Do WNWARD. Psalms. DOWNWARDS.adv. [ounepeand, Sax.] 1. Toward the centre.. As you lift up the glasses, the drop will ascend slower and slower, and at length rest, being carried dotoward by its weight as much as upwards by the attraction. Newton. 2. From a higher situation to a lower. Look downward on that globe, whose hither side, With light from hence, shines. Hills are ornamental to the earth, affording Milton. pleasant prospects to them that look downwards from them upon the subjacent countries. Ray. What would this man? Now upward will he soar, Do'wNY. adj. [from down.] 1. Covered with down or nap. By his gates of breath And, little less than angel, would be more: pears 3. In a course of successive or lineal dePope. scent. A ring the count does wear, That downward hath succeeded in his house, From son to son, some four or five descents. Do'WNWARD. adj. Shaksp. 1. Moving on a declivity; tending toward the centre; tending to the ground. With downward force, There lies a downy feather, which stirs not: Did he suspire, that light and weightless down Perforce must move. Shaksp. There be plants that have prickles, yet have downy or velvet rind upon their leaves, as stockgillyflowers and coltsfoot; which down or nap consisteth of a subtle spirit, in a soft substance." Bacon's Natural History. In her hand she held 2. Made of down or soft feathers. That drove the sand along, he tool his way, And roll'd his yellow billows to the sea. Dryden. 3. 2. Declivous; bending. When Aurora leaves our northern sphere, She lights the downward heaven, and rises there. Dryden. 3. Depressed; dejected. Milton. A side breeze from westward waits their sails to fill, And rests in those high beds his doruny wings. Belinda still her downy pillow prest, Pope. Banquo! Donalbain! Malcolm! awake! Sbaksp. At the lowest of my downward thoughts, I pulled up my heart to remember, that nothing is achieved before it be thoroughly attempted, and that lying still doth never go forward. VOL. II. Sidney. 1. A portion given with a wife. 2. I could marry this wench for this dowre. See An hundred of the faithless foe shall slay, DOXO LOGY. n. s. [oga and ay.] A David breaks forth into these triumphant praises and doxologies, Blessed be the Lord God of Israel, who has kept me this day from shedding blood, and from avenging myself with my own haud. South. Do'xy. n. s. Little did Athanasius imagine, that ever it would have been received in the christian church, to conclude their books with a doxology to God and the blessed virgin. Stilling fleet. A whore; a loose wench. When daffodils begin to peer, With heigh! the doxy over the dale. To DOZE. v. n. [pær, Saxon; daes, Dutch.] 1. To slumber; to sleep lightly. Shaksp. There was no sleeping under his roof: if he happened to doze a little, the jolly cobbler waked him. 2. To live in a state of drowsiness; to be L'Estrange. half asleep.. It has happened to young men of the greatest wit, to waste their spirits with anxiety and pain, so far, as to doze upon their work with too much eagerness of doing well. Dryden. H Pope. T. DOZE. v. a. To stupify; to dull. He was now much decayed in his parts, and with immoderate drinking dozed in his understanding. Clarendon. Two satyrs, on the ground Stretch'd at his ease, their sire Silenus found Doz'd with his fumes, and heavy with his load. Dryden. Do'ZEN. n. s. [douzaine, French.] The number of twelve. It is seldom used but on light occasions. We cannot lodge and board a dozen or fourteen gentlewomen, but we keep a bawdyhouse straight. Shaksp. That the Indian figs bear such huge leaves, or delicate fruit, I could never find; yet I have travelled a dozen miles together under them. Raleigh. By putting twelve units together, we have the complex idea of a dozen. Locke The number of dissenters was something under a dozen with them. Swift. DO'ZINESS. n. s. [from dozy.] Sleepiness; drowsiness. Little used. A man, by a violent fit of the gout in his limbs, finds a doziness in his head, or a want of appetite Locke. Do'zy. adj. [from doze.] Sleepy; drowsy; sluggish. The yawning youth, scarce half awake, essays His lazy limbs and doxy head to raise. Dryden. DRAB. n. s. [nabbe, Saxon, lees.] whore; a strumpet. A That I, the son of a dear father murder'd, Must, like a whore, unpack my heart with words, And fall a cursing like a very drab! Shaksp If your worship will take order for the drabs and the knaves, you need not fear the bands. Babe, Ditch-delivered by a drab. · Shaksp. Shaksp. Curs'd be the wretch so venal, and so vain," Paitry and proud as drabs in Drury-lane. Pepe. DRACHM. n. 5. [drachma, Latin.] 1. An old Roman coin. See here these movers, that do prize their honours At a crack'd drachm. 2. The eighth part of an ounce. DRACUNCULUS. n. s. Shalip A [Latin.] worm bred in the hot countries, which grows to many yards length between the skin and flesh. DRAD. adj. [for dread, or the part. passive of To dread.] Terrible; formidable; dreaded." Th' utmost sand-beach they shortly fetch, Whilst the drad danger does behind remain. Fairy Queen. DRAFF. n. s. [onor, dirty, Saxon; 'draf, Dutch, the sediment of ale.] 1. Refuse; lees; dregs: properly something fluid. You would think I had a hundred and fifty tatter'd prodigals, Tately come from swinekeeping, from eating draff and husks. Staksp. "Twere simple fury, still thyself to Waste On such as have no taste; To offer them a surfeit of pure bread No, give them grains their fill; Husks, draff, to drink and swill. Ben Jonson. I call'd and drew them thither, My hell-hounds to lick up the draff and filth, Which man's polluting sin with taint had shed On what was pure. Milton Here rather let me drudge, and earn my bread, Till vermin, or the draff of servile food, Milton 2. Refuse; sweepings. Perhaps improper. Younger brothers but the draf of nature. Dryden. DRA FFY. adj. [from draff.] Worthless; dreggy. DRAFT. adj. [corrupt for draught.] Employed to draw. Ulysses and old Nestor yoke you like draft oxen, and make you plough up the wair. Shaks. To DRAG. v. a. [nagan, Saxon.] 1. To pull along the ground by main force; to draw heavily along. Such his aspect, when, foil'd with bloody dust, Dragg'd by the cords which through his feet were thrust. Denbam. Clarendon. The constable was no sooner espied but he was reproached with disdainful words, beaten and dragged in so barbarous a manner, that he hardly escaped with his life. 5. To pull roughly and forcibly. To fall, that's justice; But then, to drag him after! For to die, And yet in death to conquer, is my wish. Dryd. In my fatal cause your sword was drawn; The weight of my misfortunes dragg'd you down. Dryden. To DRAG. v.n. To hang so low as to trail or grate upon the ground. From hence are heard the groans of ghosts, the pains Of sounding lashes, and of dragging chains. Dryden. A door is said to drag, when, by its ill hanging on its hinges, the bottom edge of the door rides in its sweep upon the floor. Moxon. DRAG... [from the verb.] 1. A net drawn along the bottom of the water. nooks. Casting nets were spread in shallow brooks, Drags in the deep, and baits were hung on Dryden. The creatures are but instruments in God's hand: the returning our acknowledgments to them is just the same absurdity with theirs who burnt incense to the drag, and sacrificed to the 2. An instrument with hooks to catch Rogers. hold of things under water. 3. net. You may in the morning find it near to some A kind of car drawn by the hand. Or in his womb might lurk some hidden nest Of many dragonets, his fruitful seed. Fairy Qu DRAGONFLY. n. s. [dragon and Ay: libella. A fierce stinging fly. Moxon's Mechanical Exercises. the water. Hudibras. The body of the cantharides is bright coloured; and it may be, that the delicate coloured dra gonflies may have likewise some corrosive quality. DRAGONISH. adj. [from drogon.] HavBacon's Natural History. ing the form of a dragon; dragonlike. An arbitrary word. Sometimes we see a cloud that's dragonish; Shaksp. He fights dragonlike, and does achieve As soon as draw his sword. DRAGONSBLOOD. blocd.] So called from a false opinion n. s. [dragon and of the dragon's combat with the elephant. Dragonsblood is a resin, so named as to seem to have been imagined an animal production. Hill. Take dragonsblood, beat it in a mortar, and put it in a cloth with aqua vite, and strain them together. Peacham. DRAGONSHEAD. n. 5. A plant. DRAGONTRES. n. s. A species of palm. DRAGO ́ON. n. s. [from dragen, German, to carry.] A kind of soldier that serves indifferently either on foot or horseback. the Dragnets were made to fish within the deep,. And castingnets did rivers bottoms sweep. Two regiments of dragoons suffered much in Some fishermen, that had been out with a May's Virgil. the late action. drague, and caught nothing, had a draught toTo DRAGO ́ON. v. a. [from the noun.] Tatler. wards the evening, which put them in hope of Το a sturgeon at last. persecute by abandoning a place to One of our late great poets is sunk in his reL'Estrange. rage of soldiers. putation, because he could never forgive any In politicks I hear your'e stanch, conceit which came in his way, but swept, like Directly bent against the French; Adragnet, great and small. Deny to have your free-born foe Whatsoever old Time, with his huge dragnet, Dryden. Dragoon'd into a wooden shoe. has conveyed down to us along the stream of ages, To DRAIN. v. a. [trainer, French.] whether it be shells or shell-fish, jewels or peb1. To draw off gradually. bles, sticks or straws, seaweeds or mud, these are the ancients, these are the fathers. Watts. DRAGON. n. s. [draco, Latin ; dragon, Like to a lonely dragon, that his fen And you, ye dragons! of the scaly race, On spiry volumes there a dragon rides; 2. A fierce violent man or woman. DRAGON. 7.5. plant. Prior. Salt water, drained through twenty vessels of earth, hath become fresh. Bacon's Natural Hist. The fountains drain the water from the ground adjacent, and leave but sufficient moisture to breed moss.. In times of dearth it drained much coin of the Bacon. kingdom, to furnish us with corn from foreign parts. Whilst a foreign war devoured our strength, Bacon to Villiers. and drained our treasures, luxury and expences increased at home. Atterbury. The last emperor drained the wealth of those countries into his own coffers, without increasing his troops against France. 2. To empty, by drawing gradually away what it contains. Swift. Sinking waters, the firm land to drain, The royal babes a tawny wolf shail drain. Dryden. While cruel Nero only drains Prior. Had the world lasted from all eternity, these comets must have been drained of all their fluids. Cheyne. DRAGONET. . [from dragon.] A 3. To make quite dry. When wine is to be bottled, wash your bottles, but do not drain them. H 2 Swift. DRAIN. . s. [from the verb.] The channel through which liquids are gradually drawn; a watercourse; a sink. If your drains be deep, that you fear cattle falling into them, cover them. Mortimer. Why should I tell of ponds and drains, What carps we met with for our pains? Swift. DRAKE. H.S. [of uncertain etymology.] 1. The male of the duck. The duck should hide her eggs from the drake, who will suck them if he finds them. Mortimer. 2. [from draco, dragon, Latin.] A small piece of artillery. Two or three shots, made at them by a couple of drakes, made them stagger. Clarendon. DRAM. n. s. [from drachm; drachma, Latin.] 1. In weight the eighth part of an ounce. The trial being made betwixt lead and lead, weighing severally seven drams in the air, the balance in the water weigheth only four drams and forty-one grains, and abateth of the weight in the air two drams and nineteen grains: the balance kept the same depth in the water. 2. A small quantity, in a kind of proverbial sense. One loving hour Bacon. For many years of sorrow can dispense; A dram of sweet is worth a pound of sour. Fairy Queen. No dram of judgment with thy force is join'd; Thy body is of profit, and my mind. Dryden. 3. Such a quantity of distilled spirits as is usually drank at once. I could do this, and that with no rash potion, But with a ling'ring dram, that should not work Maliciously like poison. Shaksp. Winter's Tale. Every dram of brandy, every pot of ale that you drink, raiseth your character. Swift. 4. Spirit; distilled liquor. A second see, by meeker manners known, And modest as the maid that sips alone; From the strong fate of drams if thou get free, Another Durfy, Ward! shall sing in thee. Pope. To DRAM. v.n. [from the noun.] In low language, to drink drams; to drink distilled spirits. DRAMA. n. s. [dpaμa.] A poem accommodated to action; a poem in which the action is not related, but represented; and in which therefore such rules are to be observed as make the representation probable. Many rules of imitating nature Aristotle drew from Homer, which he fitted to the drama; fur The draper and mercer may measure her. DRAPERY. n. s. [drapperie, French.] 1. Clothwork; the trade of making cloth; woollen manufacture. He made statutes for the maintenance of drapery, and the keeping of wools within the realm. Bacon's Henry VII. The reverend clergy should set us an example, by contenting themselves with wearing gowns, and other habiliments, of Irish drapery. Swift. 2. Cloth; stuffs of wool. 3. The Bulls and Frogs had served the lord Strutt with drapery ware for many years. Arbuthnot. The dress of a picture or statue. Poets are allowed the same liberty in their descriptions and comparisons, as painters in their draperies and ornaments. Prior DRA'PET. n. s. [from drape.] Cloth; co verlet. Not in use. Thence she them brought into a stately hall, Wherein were many tables fair dispred, And ready dight with drapets feastival, Against the viands should be ministred. Fairy Quee DRA STICK. adj. [Spaclix] Powerful; vigorous; efficacious. It is used of a medicine that works with speed; as jalap, scammony, and the stronger Quincy DRAVE. The preterit of drive. Drove is purges. more used. Pope. nishing himself also with observations from the DRAUGH. n. s. [corruptly written for theatre, when it flourished under Æschylus, Euripides, and Sophocles. DRAMATICAL. } Dryden. adj. [from drama.] Represented by ac DRAMATICK. I hope to make it appear, that, in the great dramatick poem of nature, is a necessity of introducing a God. Bentley. DRAMATICALLY. adv. [from dramatick.] Representatively; by representation. Ignorance and errors are severally reprehended, partly dramatically, partly simply. Dryd. DRAMATIST. n. s. (from drama.] The author of dramatick compositions. The whole theatre resounds with the praises of the great dramatist, and the wonderful art and order of the composition. Burnet. draff] Refuse; swill. See DRAFE. We do not act, that often jest and laugh: "Tis old, but true, still swine eat all the draugh Shakspeart. DRAUGHT. N. 5. [from draw.] 1. The act of drinking. They slung up one of their hogsheads, and I drank it off at a draught; which I might well do, for it did not hold half a pint. Gulliver's Trav 2. A quantity of liquor drank at once. He had once continued about nine days without drink; and he might have continued longer, if, by distempering himself one night with hard study, he had not had some inclination to take a small draught. Boyle Fill high the goblets with the sparkling flood, And with deep draughts invoke our common Dryden god. Long draughts of sleep his monstrous limbs He reels, and falling fills the spacious cave. I have cured some very desperate coughs by a dreht every morning of spring water, with a handful of sage boiled in it. Temple. Every draught, to him that has quenched his thirst, is but a further quenching of nature; a provision for rheum and diseases. South. 3. Liquor drank for pleasure. Were it a draught for Juno when she banquets, Temple. provement. The quality of being drawn. The Hertfordshire wheel-plough is the best and strongest for most uses, and of the easiest draught. Mortimer. 6. Representation by picture. Her pencil drew whate'er her soul design'd, And off the happy draught surpass'd the _image Dryden. in her mind. 7. Delineation; sketch; outline. A good inclination is but the first rude draught of virtue; but the finishing strokes are from the will. South. I have, in a short draught, given a view of our original ideas, from whence all the rest are derived. Locke. 1. A picture drawn. 9. Whereas in other creatures we have but the trace of his footsteps, in man we have the draught of his hand in him were united all the scattered perfections of the creature. South. The act of sweeping with a net. Upon the draught of a pond, not one fish was left, but two pikes grown to an excessive bigness. Hale. 10. The quantity of fishes taken by once drawing the net. He laid down his pipe, and cast his brought him a very great draught. L'Estrange.. net, which 11. The act of shooting with the bow. Geffery of Boullion, at one draught of his bow, shooting against David's tower in Jerusalem, broached three feetless birds called allerions. 12. Diversion in war; the act of disturbCamden's Remains. ing the main design, perhaps sudden attack. And they brake down the image of Baal, and brake down the house of Baal, and made it a To DRAW. v. a. pret. drew; part. pass. draughthouse. 2 Kings. drawn. [onagan, Saxon.] 1. To pull along; not to carry. 2. Then shall all Israel bring ropes to that city, and we will drate it into the river. 2 Samuel. To pull forcibly; to pluck. The arrow is now drazen to the head. Atterb. Judges. 3. To bring by violence; to drag. Do not rich men oppress you, and draw you before the judgment-seats? James. 4. To raise out of a deep place. They drew up Jeremiah with cords, and took him up out of the dungeon. Draw thee waters for the siege. 5. To suck. 6. 7. He hath drawn thee dry. There was no war, no dearth, no stop of trade or commerce: it was only the crown which had sucked too hard, and now being full, upon the head of a young king, was like to draw less. Bacon's Henry VII. Sucking and drawing the breast dischargeth the milk as fast as it can be generated. Wiseman. To attract; to call toward itself. We see that salt, laid to a cut finger, healeth it; so as it seemeth salt drawweth blood, as well as blood drarveth salt. Bacon. Majesty in an eclipse, like the sun, draws eyes that would not have looked towards it if it had shined out. Suckling. He affected a habit different from that of the times, such as men had only beheld in pictures, which drew the eyes of most, and the reverence To draw as the magnet does. of many, towards him. Clarendon. She had all magnetic force alone, To draw and fasten sundred parts in one. Donne. At will the manliest, resolutest breast, I conceive the manner of your handling of the service, by drawing sudden draughts upon the enemy, when he looketh not for you. Spenser. 8. To inhale. 13. Forces drawn off from the main army; a detachment. Such a draught of forces would lessen the number of those that might otherwise be employed. Addison. 14. A sink; a drain. Matthew. Thus I call'd, and stray'd I know not whither, I draw the sultry air, and gasp for breath, breath, 5. The depth which a vessel draws, or 9. To take from any thing containing or When nature sicken'd, and each gale was death? sinks into the water. holding |