At length in sleep their bodies they compose,
And dreamt the future fight, and early rose.
Dryden.

DREAMER. n. s. [from dream.]"
1. One who has dreams; one who has
fancies in his sleep.

The vision said, and vanish'd from his sight; The dreamer waken'd in a mortal fright. Dryd. If our dreamer pleases to try whether the glow ing heat of a glass furnace be barely a wandering imagination in a drowsy man's fancy, by putting his head into it, he may perhaps be awakened into a certainty.

Locke.

2. An idle tanciful man; a visionary. Sometimes he angers me

3.

With telling of the moldwarp and the ant,
Of dreamer Merlin and his prophecies. Shaksp.
mope; a man lost in wild imagina-

A

tion; a reveur.

The man of sense his meat devours,

But only smells the peel and flow'rs;
And he must be an idle dreamer,

Who leaves the pie and għaws the streamer.

Prior.

4. A sluggard; an idler.
DREAMLESS. adj. [from dream.] Free
from dreams.

The savages of Mount Atlas, in Barbary,
were reported to be both nameless and dream-
less.
Camden's Remains.
DREAR. n. s. Dread; terrour.

The ill-fac'd owl, death's dreadful messenger; The hoarse night raven, trump of doleful drear. DREAR. adj. [oneong, Saxon, dreary.] Spenser. Mournful; dismal; sorrowful.

In urns and altars round,

A drear and dying sound

Affrights the flamens at their service quaint.

Milton.

no

DRE ARIHEAD. n. s. [from dreary.] Horrour; dismalness: a word now longer in use. That shortly from the shape of womanhed, Such as she was when Pallas she attempted, She grew to hideous shape of drearihead, Pined with grief of folly late repented. Spenser. DRE ARIMENT. 2. s. [from dreary.] This word is now obsolete.

1. Sorrow; dismalness; melancholy. I teach the woods and waters to lament

DREDGE. n. s. [To dretch, in Chaucer, is to delay; perhaps a net so often stopped may be called from this.] A kind of net.

Your doleful dreariment. Spenser's Epithalamium. 2. Horrour; dread; terrour. Almighty Jove, in wrathful mood, To wreak the guilt of mortal sins is bent; Hurls forth his thundering dart with deadly feud,

Inroll'd in flames and smouldring dreariment. DREARY. adj [reoruz, Saxon.] Fairy Queen. This word is scarcely used but in poc

tical diction.

1. Sorrowful; distressful.

For oysters they have a peculiar dredge; a thick, strong net, fastened to three spills of iron, and drawn at the boat's stern, gathering whatsoTo DREDGE. v. a. [from the noun.] ever it meeteth lying on the bottom. Carew. To gather with a dredge.

Carew.

The oysters dredged in the Lyne find a welcome acceptance. DREDGER. .s. [from dredge.] One who fishes with a dredge.

DREGGINESS. 1. s. [from dreggy.] Fulness of dregs or lees; foulness; muddiness; feculence.

The messenger of death, the ghastly owl,
With dreary shrieks did also yell;
And hungry wolves continually did howl
At her abhorred face, so horrid and so foul
Fairy Queen.

2. Gloomy; dismal; horrid.
Obscure they went through dreary shades,
that led

DREGGISH. adj. [from dregs.] Foul with lees; feculent.

On

To give a strong taste to this dreggish liquor, they fling in an incredible deal of broom or hops, whereby small beer is rendered equal in miscluef to strong. Harvey Consumptions. DREGGY. adj. [from dregs.] Containing dregs; consisting of dregs; muddy; feculent.

Along the vast dominions of the dead. Dryden.
Towns, forests, herds, and men promiscuous

drown'd,

With one great death deform the dreary ground.

These num'rous veins, such isthe curious frame,
Receive the pure insinuating stream;

But no corrupt or dreggy parts admit,
To form the blood or feed the linibs unfit.

Blackmore.
Ripe grapes being moderately pressed, their
juice may, without much dreggy matter, be
squeezed out.
DREGS. n. s. [onerten, Saxon; dreg-
Boyle.
gian, Islandick.]

1. The sediment of liquors; the lees; the grounds; the fecalence.

Fain would we make him author of the wine, If for the dregs we could some other blame. Davies

They often tread destruction's horrid path, And drink the dregs of the revenger's wrath.

We from the dregs of life think to receive
Sandys.
What the first sprightly running could not give.
Dryden.

Such run on poets in a raging vein,
E'en to the dregs and squeezings of the brain.
Pope.

2. Any thing by which purity is cor-
rupted.

The king by this journey purged a little the dregs and leaven of the northern people, that were before in no good affections towards him. Bacon.

3. Dross; sweepings; refuse.

Heav'n's favourite thou, for better fates de-
sign'd

Than we, the dregs and rubbish of mankind.
Dryden.

What diffidence we must be under whether
God will regard our sacrifice, when we have no-
thing to offer him but the dregs and refuse of
life, the days of loathing and satiety, and the
years in which we have no pleasure.
To DREIN. V. n. [See DRAIN.]
empty. The same with drain: spelt
differently perhaps by chance.

Prior. To DRENCH. v, a. [Spencan, Saxon.]

1. To wash; to soak; to steep.

Our garments being as they were drenched in the sea, hold notwithstanding their freshness and glosses. Shakspeare.

To-day deep thoughts learn with me to drench In mirth, that after no repenting draws. Milt. Now dam the ditches, and the floods restrain; Their moisture has already drench'd the plain.

Dryden. 2. To saturate with drink or moisture: in an ill sense.

In swinish sleep
Their drenched natures lie, as in a death. Shaks.
Too oft, alas! has mutual hatred drench'd
Our swords in native blood.
3. To physick by violence.

Philips.

If any of your cattle are infected, speedily let
both sick and well blood, and drench them.
Mortimer's Husbandry.
DRENCH. n. s. [from the verb.]
1. A draught; a swill: by way of ab-
horrence or contempt.

Let such bethink them, if the sleepy drench
Of that forgetful lake benumb not still,
That in our proper motion we ascend. Milton.
2. Physick for a brute.

A drench is a potion or drink prepared for a
sick horse, and composed of several drugs in a
liquid form.
Farrier's Dictionary.

Harry, says she, how many hast thou kill'd to day? Give my roan horse a drench, says he; and answers, fourteen, an hour after. Shaks.

A drench of wine has with success been us'd, And through à horn the gen'rous juice infus'd.

3. Physick that must be given by vioDryden. lence.

Their counsels are more like a drench that must be poured down, than a draught which must be leisurely drank if I liked it.

King Charles.

4. A channel of water.
DRENCHER. 2. s. [from drench.]
1. One that dips or steeps any thing.
2. One that gives physick by force. Dict.
DRENT. participle. Probably corrupted
from drenched, to make a proverbial
rhyme to brent, or burnt.

What flames, quoth he, when I the present

see

In danger rather to be drent than brent.

To DRESS. v. a. [dresser, French.]
Fairy Queen.
1. To clothe; to invest with clothes.
The first request
He made, was, like his brothers to be dress'd;
And, as his birth requir'd, above the rest.
2. To clothe pompously or elegantly. It
Dryden.
is used with up and out to enforce it.

Look upon pleasures not upon that side that is next the sun, or where they look beauteously; that is, as they come towards you to be enjoyed; for then they paint and smile, and dress themselves up in tinsel, and glass gems, and counterfeit imagery. Taylor.

Few admir'd the native red and white, Till poets dress'd them up to charm the sight. Lollia Paulina wore, in jewels, when dressed Dryden. out, the value of three hundred twenty-two thousand nine hundred and sixteen pounds thirteen shillings and four-pence. Arbuthnot. 3. To adorn; to deck; to embellish; to furnish,

When he dresseth the lamps he shall burn
incense.
Exodus.
When you dress your young hops, cut away
roots or sprigs.
Mortimer's Husbandry.
10. To prepare victuals for the table.
Thus the voluptuous youth, bred up to dress
For his fat grandsire some delicious mess,
In feeding high his tutor will surpass,
An heir apparent of the gourmand race.
Dryden.

1

DRESS. n. s. [from the verb.].
1. Clothes; garment; habit.

Dresses laughed at in our forefathers wardrobes
or pictures, when, by the circulation of time
and vanity they are brought about, we think
becoming.
Government of the Tongue.
A robe obscene was o'er his shoulders thrown,
A dress by fates and furies worn alone.
Pope's Statius.

2. Splendid clothes; habit of ceremony. Full dress creates dignity, augments consciousness, and keeps at a distance an encroacher. Clarissa,

3. The skill of adjusting dress.

The men of pleasure, dress, and gallantry! DRESSER. n. s. [from dress] Pope 1. One employed in putting on the clothes and adorning the person of ano

ther.

She hurries all her hand-maids to the task; Her head alone will twenty dressers ask. Dryden, 2. One employed in regulating, trim ming, or adjusting any thing.

Said he unto the dresser of his vineyard, Behold, these three years I come seeking fruit on this fig tree, and find none. Luke. 3. The bench in a kitchen on which meat is dressed or prepared for the table.

'Tis burnt, and so is all the meat. What dogs are these! Where is the rascal cook? How durst you, villains! bring it from the dresser,

And serve it thus to me that love it not.

Shakspeare.

A maple dresser in her hall she had,
On which full many a slender meal she made.

When you take down dishes, tip a dozen upon
Dryden.
the dreser.
Swift's Directions to the Cook.
DRESSING. 2. s. [from dress.] The ap-
plication made to a sore.

The second day after we took off the dressings, and found an eschar made by the catheretick. Wiseman on Tumours.

DRESSINGROOM. n. s. [dress and room.]
The room in which clothes are put on.
Latin books might be found every day in his
drusingroom, if it were carefully searched.

DREST. part. [from dress.]

Swift.

In flow'ry wreaths the royal virgin drest
His bending horns, and kindly clapt his breast.
Addison.

TO DRIB. v. a. [contracted from drib-
ble.] To crop, to cut off; to defal-
cate. A cant word.

Merchants gains come short of half the mart; For he who drives their bargains dribs a part. DRIBBLE. v. n. [This word seems Dryden. to have come from drop by successive 8. alterations, such as are usual in living languages: drop, drip, dripple, dribble, thence drivel and driveller. Drip may indeed be the original word, from the Danish drypp.]

1. To fall in drops.

over it.

Semilunar processes on the surface, owe their form to the dribbling of water that passed A dribbling, difficulty, and a momentary sup Woodward on Fossils. pression of urine, may be caused by the stone's shutting up the orifice of the bladder.

Arbuthnot.

2. To fall weakly and slowly.
Believe not that the dribbling dart of love
Can pierce a complete bosom."
Shakspeare.

3. To slaver as a child or ideot.

To DRIBBLE. v. a. To throw down in

drops.

Let the cook follow with a ladle full of soup, and dribble it all the way up stairs. DRIBLET. n..

Swift.

sum; odd money in a sum. Twelve long years of exile borne,

[from dribble.] A small

Twice twelve we number'd since his blest

return;

So strictly wert thou just to pay,
Even to the dribblet of a day.

Dryden.

DRIER. n. s. [from dry.] That which has the quality of absorbing moisture; a desiccative.

There is a tale, that boiling of daisy roots in

The particular drift of every act, proceeding eternally from God, we are not able to discern; and therefore cannot always give the proper and certain reason of his works. Hooker. Their drift 'comes known and they discover'd

are;

For some, of many, will be false of course.

Scope of a discourse.

Daniel

The main drift of his book being to prove, that what is true is impossible to be false, he opposes nobody. Tillotson.

The drift of the pamphlet is to stir up our compassion towards the rebels. Addison. This, by the style, the manner, and the drift, "Twas thought could be the work of none but Swift.

Swift.
To DRIFT. v. a. [from the noun.]
1. To drive; to urge along.

Snow, no larger than so many grains of sand, drifted with the wind in clouds from every plain. Ellis's Voyage.

2. To throw together on heaps. Not authorized.

Thomson. [drillen, Dutch; Sinlian, Sax. from Jungh, through.] 1. To pierce any thing with a drill. The drill-plate only a piece of flat iron fixed upon a flat board, which iron hath an hole punched a little way into it, to set the blunt end of the shank of the drill in, when you drill a hole. Moxon's Mechanical Exercises. 2. To perforate; to bore; to pierce. My body through and through he drill'd, And Whacum by my side lay kill'd. Hudibras, Tell, what could drill and perforate the poles, And to th' attractive rays adapt their holes? Blackmore.

milk, which it is certain are great drier, will 3. To make a hole.

make dogs little.

DRIFT. . .
[from drive.]

when they turn small work, they hold the drillbow in their left hand. Moxon. 4. To delay; to put off: in low phrase; corrupted, I believe, from drawled. She has bubbled him out of his youth; she drilled him on to five-and-fifty, and she will drop him in his old age. Addison. 5. To draw from step to step. A low phrase.

When by such insinuations they have once got within him, and are able to drill him on from one lewdness to another, by the same arts they corrupt and squeeze him. South. 6. To drain; to draw slowly. This sense wants better authority.

Drill'd through the sandy stratum every way,
The waters with the sandy stratum rise.

Thomson.

7. To form to arms; to teach the military exercise. An old cant word.

Hudibras.

The foe appear'd drawn up and drill'd, Ready to charge them in the field. DRILL. n. s. [from the verb.] 1. An instrument with which holes are bored. It is a point pressed hard against the thing bored, and turned round with a bow and string.

The way of tempering steel to make gravers, drills, and mechanical instruments, we have taught artificers. Boyle.

Drills are used for the making such holes as punches will not serve for; as a piece of work that hath already its shape, and must have an hole made in it.

2. An ape; a baboon.

Moxon.

Shall the difference of hair be a mark of a different internal specifick constitution, between a changeling and a drill, when they agree in shape and want of reason? Locke.

3. A small dribbling brook. This I have found no where else, and suspect it should be rill.

Springs through the pleasant meadows pour their drills, Which snake-like glide between the bordering hills. Sandys. TO DRINK. v. n. preter. drank, or drunk; part. pass. drunk, or drunken. [pincan, Saxon.]

1. To swallow liquors; to quench thirst. Here, between the armies,

Let's drink together friendly, and embrace.

She said, drink, and I will give thy camels Shaksp. drink also; so I drank, and she made the camels drink also.

Genesis.
Genesis.

He drank of the wine. When delight is the only end, and rests in itself, and dwells there long, then eating and drinking is not a serving of God, but an inordi nate action. Taylor's Rule of Living Holy. 2. To feast; to be entertained with liquors.

We came to fight you. -For my part I am sorry it is turned to a drinking. Shaksp.

3. To drink to excess; to be a habitual drunkard. A colloquial phrase.

TO DRINK 10. To salute in drinking; to invite to drink by drinking first.

I take your princely word for those redresses. -I gave it you, and will maintain my word; And thereupon I drink unto your grace. Shaksp. 5. To DRINK to. To wish well to in the act of taking the cup.

Benhadad was drinking himself drunk in the pavilions. 1 Kings.

6. It is used with the intensive particles off, up, and in. Off, to note a single act of drinking.

South

One man gives another a cup of poison, a thing as terrible as death; but at the same time he tells him that it is a cordial, and so he drinks it off, and dies. 7. Up, to note that the whole is drunk. Álexander, after he had drunk up a cup of fourteen pints, was going to take another. Arbuthnot on Coins.

8. In, to enforce the sense: usually of inanimate things.

The body being reduced nearer unto the earth, and emptied, becometh more porous, and greedily drinketh in water.

DRINK. n. s. [from the verb.]
Brown's Vulgar Erreurs,
1. Liquor to be swallowed: opposed to

meat.

DRINKABLE. adj. [from drink.] Potable;
such as may be drunk.
DRINKER. n. s. [from drink.] One that
drinks to excess; a drunkard.

full of the moon.

It were good for those that have moist brains,
and are great drinkers, to take fume of lignum,
ales, rosemary, and frankincense, about the
The drinker and debauched person is the ob-
Bacon.
ject of scorn and contempt.
The urine of hard drinkers affords a liquor
South.
extremely fetid, but no inflammable spirit: what
is inflammable stays in the blood, and affects
the brain. Great drinkers commonly die apo-
plectick.
Arbuthnot on Aliments.

T DRIP. v. n. [drippen, Dutch.]
1. To fall in drops.

2. To have drops falling from it.

The soil, with fatt'ning moisture fill'd,
Is cloath'd with grass, and fruitful to be till'd;
Such as in fruitful vales we view from high,
Which dripping rocks, not rowling streams
Dryden.

supply.

The finest sparks and cleanest beaux,
Drip from the shoulders to the toes.

To DRIP. v. a.

1. To let fall in drops.

Her flood of tears

Prior.

Seem like the lofty barn of some rich swain,

Which from the thatch drips fast a show'r of

rain.

To drop fat in roasting.

Swift.

violence: as, the hammer drives the nail.

2. To force along by impetuous pressure. He builds a bridge, who never drove a pite.

3.

Let what was put into his belly, and what he rips, he his sauce. His offer'd entrails shall his crime reproach, Walton's Angler. And drip their fatness from the hazle broach. [from the verb.] That which Dryden's Virgil.

DRIP. 2. S.

On helmets helmets throng,

Pope.

Shield press'd on shield, and man drove man
Pepe.

along.

To expel by force from any place: with from.

Driven from his native land to foreign grounds, He with a gen'rous rage resents his wounds. Dryden's Virgil. His ignominious flight the victors boast, Beaux banish beaux, and swordknots swordknots

drive.

Pope

4. To send by force to any place: with

falls in drops.
Water may be procured for necessary occa-
sus from the heavens, by preserving the drips
Mortimer.

of the houses.

DRYPPING. 2.s. [from drip.] The fat which housewives gather from roast

meat.

Shews all her secrets of housekeeping;
For candles how she trucks her dripping:

to.

DRIPPINGPAN. 2. S. [drip and paň.] Swift. The pan in which the fat of roast meat is caught. When the cook turns her back, throw smoaking coals into the drippingpan. Swift.

DRYPPLE. adj. [from drip.] This word is used somewhere by Fairfax for weak, or rare; dripple shot.

T DRIVE. . a. pret. drove, anciently drave; part. pass. driven, or drove. [dreban, Gothick; iran, Saxon; dryven, Dutch.

1. To produce motion in any thing by

There find a herd of heifers wand'ring o'er The neighb'ring hill, and drive 'em to the shore. Addison.

10. To clear any place by forcing away what is in it.

We come not with design of wasteful prey, To drive the country, force the swains away. Dryden.

11. To force; to compel.

For the metre sake, some words in him sometime be driven awry, which require straighter placing in plain prose. Ascham.

12. To hurry on inconsiderately.

Most miserable if such unskilfulness make them drive on their time by the periods of sin and death. Taylor.

He, driven to dismount, threatened, if I did not the like, to do as much for my horse as fortune had done for his. Sidney.

The Romans did not think that tyranny was thoroughly extinguished, till they had driven one of their consuls to depart the city, against whom they found not in the world what to object, saving only that his name was Tarquin. He was driven by the necessities of times, Hooker. more than led by his own disposition, to rigour. King Charles.

13. To distress; to straiten.

This kind of speech is in the manner of despe rate men far driven. Spenser's State of Ireland. 14. To urge by violence, not kindness.

He taught the gospel rather than the law,
And forc'd himself to drive, but lov'd to draw.

Dryden. 15. To impel by influence of passion.