which filth is deposited.

-nd, move, når, nôt;-tùbe, tüb, bûll ;—¿ìì ;-pôûnd ;-thin, THIS. manner of pronouncing Latin words, though, DRAUGHTHOUSE, draft'house. s. A house in contrary to Latin quantity, it is no wonder, when we adopt words from that language with out any alteration, we should pronounce them in the same manner; and it may be fairly concluded, that this uniform pronunciation of the Latin arises from the genius of our own tongue; which always inclines us to lengthen the accented vowel before a single consonant in words of two syllables; otherwise, what reason can we assign for the rule laid down by our ancestors for doubling the consonant in verbs, verbal nouns, and participles, where a single vowel was preceded by a single consonant in the theme? But an affectation of Latinity seems to have disturbed the general pronunciation of our own language, as much as our own pronunriation has disturbed the Latin quantity: for, though we neglect the quantity of Latin dissyllables, when we are pronouncing that language, yet in dissyllables of our own, formed from the Latin, and anglicised, we seem to be, in some measure, guided by the Latin quantity. To what else can we attribute the short sound of the first vowel in magick, placid, tepid, vigil, novel, &c.? and to what but the genuine force of vernacular pronunciation can we ascribe the long sound of u in this situation, let the quantity of the Latin original be what it will? Thus, though epic, topic, cynic, and tonic, have the first vowel short, tunic, stupid, Cupid, tumid, &c. have the long, though always short in the Latin words from whence they are derived. But however this may be in words anglicised from the La-DRAWBACK, draw bak. s. Money given back tm, and ending in a consonant, perhaps, in nothing is our pronunciation more regular than in the quantity of the first vowel in a word of two syllables ending with a vowel in this case the first vowel is invariably long; and why the word in question should be the only exception, cannot easily be accounted for. We have no words originally English of this form; but those we adopt from other languages sufficiently show the analogy of pronunciation: thus Gola, Loma, China, Era, Strata, Quota, Fico, Dallo, Sago, Braro, Tyro, Hero, Negro, &c. &c have all| the first syllable long; and why Drama should not fall into the same analogy, I cannot conceive. A corroboration of this is the pronunciation of Lama, Brama, Zama, and Zara, and all proper Rares of the same form from the Greek and Latin, as Cato, Plato, Strato, Crito, Draco, &c.; and I think it may be with confidence asserted, that an Englishman, who had never heard the word Druma pronounced, would naturally place the accent upon the first syllable, and pronounce the vowel in that syllable long and slender. 544.

To DRAW, draw. v. a. Pret. Drew, Part. Pass Drawn. To pull along; to pull forcibly, to drag; to suck; to attract; to inhale; to take from a cask; to pull a sword from the sheath; to let out any liquid; to take bread out of the oven; to unclose or slide back curtains; to close or spread curtains; to extract; to protract, to lengthen; to represent by picture; to form a representation; to deduce as from postulates; to allure, to entice; to persuade to follow; to induce; to win, to gain; to extort, to force; to wrest, to distort; to compose, to form in writing; to eviscerate, to embowel; To draw in, to contract, to pull back, to inveigle, to entice; To draw off, to extract by distillation, to withdraw, to abstract. To draw on; to occasion; to invite, to cause, to bring by degrees. To draw over; to persuade to revolt. To draw out; to protract, to lengthen, to pump out by insinuation, to call to action, to detach for service, to range in battle. To draw up; to form in order of battle, to form in wri ting.

DRAMATICAL, drâ-mât ́è-kál.
DRAMATICK, drâ-mâtik. 509.
Represented by action.

a

DRAMATICALLY, drá-mât ́é-kál-è. ad. Repre-
catatively, by representation.
DRAMATIST, drama-tist. s. 503. The author
of dramatick compositions.
DRANK, drink. The pret. of Drink.
DRAPER, dra pår. s. 93. One who sells cloth.
DRAPERY, dra pår-è. s. Cloth work, the trade
of making cloth; cloth, stuffs of wool; the
dress of a picture of statue.

To DRAW, dråw. v. n. To perform the office of a beast of draught; to act as a weight; to contract, to shrink; to advance, to move; to unsheath a weapon; to practise the art of delineation; to take a card out of the pack, to take a lot; to make a sore run by attraction. To draw off; to retire, to retreat. To draw on; to advance, to approach.

for ready payment.

DRAWBRIDGE, dråw'bridje. s. A bridge made
to be lifted up, to hinder or admit communica-
tion at pleasure.

DRAWER, draw'ar. s. One employed in pro-
curing water from the well; one whose busi
ness is to draw liquors from the cask; that
which has the power of attraction.
DRAWER, dråwår. s. A box in a case, out of
which it is drawn at pleasure; in the plural,
part of a man's dress worn under the breeches.
DRAWING, drawing. s. Delineation, repre.

sentation.

DRAWING-ROOM, drawing-rôôm. 8. The room
in which company assemble at court; the com-
pany assembled there.
DRAWN, drawn. part. from Draw. Equal, where
each party takes his own stake; with a sword
unsheathed; open, put aside or unclosed;
eviscerated; induced as from some motive.
DRAWWELL, draw'wel. 8. A deep well, a well
out of which water is drawn by a long cord.-
See DUNGHILL.

To DRAWL, drawl. v. n. To utter any thing in
a slow way.
DRAY, drå.
DRAYCART, dråkårt.

8. The car on which

beer or goods are carried. DRAYHORSE, drå'horse. s. A horse which draws a dray.

DRAYMAN, drå'mân. s. 88. One that attends a drav.

DRAZEL, drâz'zl. s. 102, 405. A low, mean, worthless wretch. Not used.

DREAD, drẻd. s. 234. Fear, terrour; awe; the person or thing feared.

DRASTICK, das tik. a. u medicine, powerful,!DREAD, dred. a. Terrible, frightful; awful,

gurous, cili aci 304.

DRAUGH, drit. 8. 351 Refuse, swill.

venerable in the highest degree.

To DREAD, dred. v. a. To fear in an excessive degree.

DRAUGHT, draît. s. 215,593. The act of drinking, a quantity of liquor drunk at once; the To DREAD, dr3d. v. n. To be in fear. act of drawing or pulling carriages; the quali- || DREADER, dred'år. s. 93. One that lives in ty of being drawn "delineation, sketch; a pic- fear.

pay drawn; the art of sweeping with a det;DREADFUL, diédfùl. a. Terrible, frightful. the quaunty in fishes taken by once drawing DREADFULNESS, drêd'fål-nes. s. Terrible. The forces drawn off from the anin army, ness, frightfulness.

a deturiuent, a siak, d du, the depth which|| DREADFULLY, drêd t'ôl-è, ad. Terribly, fright❤vrei draws, or staks into the with a bill! fully. drawn for the payment of mency

7 559.—Fate, får, fall, fåt;—m3, måt;-pine, pîn ;—

DREADLESNESS, drêd 'lès-nês. s. Fearless- || To DRILL, dril. v. a. To pierce any thing with

ness, intrepidity.

DREADLESS, drêd'lês. a. Fearless, unaffrighted, intrepid.

a drill; to perforate, to bore, to pierce; to make a hole; to delay, to put off; to teach recruits their exercise.

DRILL, dr. s. An instrument with which holes are bored; an ape, à baboon.

Part. Pass. Drunk, or Drunken. To swallow liquors, to quench thirst; to be entertained with liquors to be an habitual drunkard; to drink to, to salute in drinking.

DREAM, drème. s. 227. A phantasm of sleep, the thoughts of a sleeping man; an idle fancy To DREAM, drème. v. n. To have the represen-To DRINK, drink. v. n. Pret. Drank, or Drunk tation of something in sleep; to think, to imagine; to think idly; to be sluggish; to idle. To DREAM, drème. v. a. To see in a dream. DREAMER, drè'mûr. S. 93. One who has dreams; an idle fanciful man; a mope, a mauTo lost in wild imagination; a sluggard, an idler. DREAMLESS, drème lês. a. Without dreams. DREAR, drère. a. 227. Mournfid, dismal. DREARY, drè'rè. a. Sorrowful, distressful:

gloomy, dismal, horrid. DREDGE, drédje. s. A kind of net. To DREDGE, dredje. v. a. To gather with a dredge.

DREDGER, drêd'jår. s. One who fishes with a dredge.

DREGGINESS, dreg'gè-nês. S. Fulness of dregs or lees, feculence.

DREGGISH, dreggish. a. Foul with lees, feculent.
DREGGY, dregg. a. 382. Containing dregs,
consisting of dregs, feculent.

DREGS, dragz. s. The sediment of liquors, the
lees, the grounds any thing by which purity
is corrupted; dross, sweepings, refuse.
To DREIN, dråne. v. n. 249. To empty.
ter written Drain.
To DRENCH, drềnsh. v. a. To soak, to steep;
to saturate with drink or moisture; to physick
by violence.

DRINK, drink. v. a. To swallow, applied to liquids; to suck up, to absorb. DRINK, drink, s. Liquor to be swallowed, op nosed to meat: liquor of any particular kind. DRINKMONEY, drink'mûn-é. s. Money given to buy liquor.

DRINKABLE, drink'å-bl. a. What may be drank.

DRINKER, drink'ür. s. 98. One that drinks to
excess, a drunkard.
To DRIP, drip. v. n.
drops falling from it.
To DRIP, drip. v. a.

To fall in drops; to have

dron fat in roasting.

To let fall in drops; to

DRIP, drip, s. That which falls in drops. DRIPPING, drip'ing. s. The fat which housewives gather from roast meat.

Τα

DRIPPING-PAN, driping-pan. s. The pan ia which the fat of roast meat is caught. Bet-To DRIVE, drive. v. a. Pret. Drove, anciently Drave; Part. Pass. Driven, or Drove. force along by impetuous pressure; to expel by force from any place; to force or urge in any direction; to guide and regulate a carriage; to make animals march along under guidance; to clear any place by forcing away what is in it; to force, to compel; to carry on; to drive out, to expel.

DRENCH, drensh. s. A draught, swill; physick for a brute; physick that must be given by violence.

DRENCHER, drênsh'or. s.

One that dips or steeps any thing; one that gives physick by force.

To DRESS, drês. v. a. To clothe; to adorn, to embellish; to cover a wound with medicaments;|| to curry, to rub; to prepare for any purpose; to trim, to fit any thing for ready use; to prepare victuals for the table.

DRESS, dres. s. Clothes, garment; the skill of adinsting dress.

DRESSER, drês'sûr. s. One employed in putting on the clothes of another; one employed in regulating or adjusting any thing; the bench in a kitchen on which meat is drest. DRESSING, dres'sing. s. The application made

to a sore,

DRESSING-ROOM, dres'sing-133m.

S. The

To DRIVE, drive. v. n. To go as impelled by any external agent; to rush with violence; to pass in a carriage; to tend to, to consider as the scope and ultimate design; to aim, to strike at with fury.

To DRIVEL, driv'vl. v. n. 102. To slaver, to let
the spittle fall in drops; to be weak or foolish,
to dote.

DRIVEL, driv'vl. s. Slaver, moisture shed from
the mouth; a fool, an idiot, a driveller.
DRIVELLER, driv'vl-år. s. A fool, an idiot.
RIVEN, driv'vn. 103. Participle of Drive.
DRIVER, drivar. s. The person or instrument
who gives any motion by violence; one who
drives beasts; one who drives a carriage.
To DRIZZLE, drizzl. v. a. 405. To shed in
small low drops.

To DRIZZLE, driz'zl. v. n. To fall in short
slow drops.

room in which clothes are put on. DRESSY, dres'sè. a. Showy in dress. Mason. DREST, drest. part. from Dress, properly dressed. D This is one of those words which, for the DRIZZLY, diz'zl-. a. Shedding small rair sake of rhyming to the eye, as it may be called.||DROLL, drôle. s. 406. One whose business is to poets have contracted into an irregular form; but how unnecessarily may be seen, Principles, No. 360.

To DRIE, drb. v. a. To crop, to cut off. A cont word.

To DRIBBLE, drib'bl. v. n. 405. To fall in drops; to fall weakly and slowly; to slaver as a child or idiot.

To DRIBBLE, dribbl. v. a. To throw down in drops.

DRIBLET, drib'let. s-See CoDLE. A small sun, odd money in a sum.

DRIER, driûr. s. That which has the quality of
absorbing moisture.

DRIFT, drit. s. Force impellent, impulse; vi-
olence, course; any thing driven at random;
any thing driven or borne along in a lody; a
storm, a shower; a heap or stratum of any
matter thrown together by the wind; tendency,
or aim of action; scope of a discourse.
To DRIFT, drift. v. a. To drive, to urge along
to throw together on heaps.

raise mirth by petty tricks, a jester, a buffoon a farce, something exhibited to raise mirth.

When this word is used to signify a farce, it is pronounced so as to rhyme with doll, lell, &e If this wanted proof, we might quote Swift, who was too scrupulous to rhyme it with eat, it w had not been so pronounced.

"Some as justly fame extols,

"For lofty lines in Smithfield drolls." DROLL. drole. a. Comic, farcical, merry To DROLL, drôle. V. n. To jest, to play the

buffoon.

DROLLERY, drår-è. s. Idle jokes; buffoonery. DROMEDARY, drani'è-da-rè. A sort of camel.

S.

I have in the sound of the o in this word followed Mr. Nares rather than Mr. Sheridan, aud I think with the best usage on my side. 165. The bee which makes na DRONE, drine. s. honey; a pipe of a bagpipe; a sluggard, an idler; the hom, or instrument of humming. To DRONE, denen. To live in idleness.

-nỏ, môve, nôr, nôt;-tåbe tub, bảll ;—¿ã ;-pound;-thin, THIS

DRONISH, dro'nish. a. Idle, sluggish.

To DROOP, droop. v. n. To languish with sor-
row; to faint, to grow weak.
DROP, drop. s. A globule of moisture, as much
liquor as falls at once when there is not a con-
tinual stream; diamond hanging in the ear.
DROP-SERENE, drop-sè-rène'. s. A disease
of the eye.

To DROP, drop. v. a. To pour in drops or single
globules; to let fall; to let go, to dismiss from
the hand, or the possession; to utter slightly or
casually; to insert indirectly, or by way of di-
gression; to intermit, to cease; to let go a de-
pendant, or companion; to suffer to vanish, to
come to nothing; to bedrop, to bespeckle, to
variegate.

To DROP, drop. v. n. To fall in drops or single globules; to let drops fall; to fall, to come from a higher place; to fall spontaneously; to fall in death, to die suddenly; to sink into silence, to vanish, to come to nothing; to come unexpectedly.

DROPPING, dropping. s. That which falls in drops; that which drops when the continuous

stream ceases.

Diseased with a

To DRUDGE, drådje. v. n. To iabour in mean offices, to toil without honour or dignity. DRUDGE, drůdje. s. One employed in mean

labour.

DRUDGER, drådje år. s. A mean labourer; the box out of which flour is thrown to roast meat DRUDGERY, drådje'ûr-è. s. Mean labour, ig

noble toil.

DRUDGING-BOX, drådjeîng-bôks. s. The box
out of which flour is sprinkled upon roast meat.
DRUDGINGLY, drådjeîng-lè. ad. Laboriously,
toilsomely.
DRUG, drug, s. An ingredient used in physick,
a medicinal simple; any thing without worth or
value; any thing for which no purchaser can
be found.

To DRUG, dråg. v. a. To season with medicinal
ingredients; to tincture with something offen-
sive.

DRUGGET, dråg'git. s. 99. A coarse kind of woollen cloth.

DRUGGIST, drug'gist. s. 382. One who sells drugs.

DRUGSTER, drug'står. s. One who sells medicinal simples. This word is only used by the vulgar. DRUID, 'drid. s. The priests and philosophers of the ancient Britons.

DRUM, drum. s. An instrument of military musick, the tympanum of the ear.

To DRUM, drám. v. n. To beat a drum, to beat a tune on a drum; to beat with a pulsatory motion. To DRUMBLE, drâm'bl. v. n. 405. To drone, to be sluggish. Obsolete.

DROPLET, droplet. s. A little drop. DROPSTONE, drop'stone. s. Spar formed into the shape of drops. DROPWORT, drop'wart. s. A plant. DROPSICAL, drop'sè-kâl. a. dropsy. DROPSIED, drop'sid. s. 282. dropev DROPSY, drop'sè. s. water in the body. DROSS, drôs. s. The recrement or scum of metals; rust, incrustation upon metal; refuse, leavings, sweepings, feculence, corruption. DROSSINESS, ciros sè-nès. s. Foulness, fecu-||DRUMMER, drâm'mår. s. He whose office is to

lence, rust.

Diseased with a
A morbid collection of

DROSSY, dros'se. a. Full of dross; worthless,
ford, feculent.

DROVE, drove. s. A body or number of cattle;
a number of sheep driven; any collection of
animals; a crowd, a tumult.
DROVE, drove. Pret. of Drive.

DROVEN, drown. Part. a. from Drive Not in

DROVER, dro'v år. s. One that fats oxen for
sale, and drives them to market.
DROUGHT, drôåt s. 313, 393. Dry weather,
want of rain; thirst, want of drink.

This word is often pronounced as if written droth, but improperly. When these abstracts tak g in their composition, and this g is preceded by a vowel, the does not precede the h, but follows it; as weigh, weight; fly, flight; mo, nonight, &c.

DROUGHTINESS, drôd'tè-nès. s. The state of wanting rain.

DROUGHTY, drôd ́tè. s. Wanting rain, sultry; thirsty, dry with thirst.

To DROWN, droôn. v. a. 323. To suffocate in water; to overwhelm in water; to overflow, to bury in an inundation; to immerge.

To DROWN, drôân. v. n. To be suffocated by

DRUMFISH, drâm'fish. s. The name of a fish. DRUMMAJOR, dråm-måjår. s. The chief drummer of a regiment.

DRUMMAKER, drum'må-kûr. s. He who deals in or makes drums.

beat the drum.

DRUMSTICK, dråm'stîk. s. The stick with which a drum is beaten.

DRUNK, drink. s. Intoxicated with strong li-
quor, inebriated; drenched or saturated with
moisture.

DRUNKARD, drink'ård. s. 88. One given to
excessive use of strong liquors.
DRUNKEN, drån'ku. a. 103. Intoxicated with
liquor, inebriated; given to habitual ebriety;
saturated with moisture; done in a state of ine-
briation.

DRUNKENLY, drån'kn-lẻ. ad. In a drunken

manner.

DRUNKENNESS, drån'kn-nês. s. Intoxication
with strong liquor; habitual ebriety; intoxica-
tion or inebriation of any kind, a disorder of the
faculties.

DRY, dri. a. Arid, not wet, not moist; without
rain; not succulent, not juicy; without tears;
thirsty, athirst; jejune, barren, unembellished.
To DRY, dri. v. a. To free from moisture; to
exhale moisture; to wipe away moisture; to
scorch with thirst; to drain, to exhaust.
To DRY, dri. v. n. To grow dry, to lose mois-

ture.

DRYAD, dri'âd. s. A wood-nymph. Mason.
DRYER, driur. s. 93. That which has the quali-
ty of absorbing moisture.
DRYEYED, drl'ide. a. Without tears, without
weeping.

DRYLY, drile, ad. Without moisture, coldly,
without affection; jejunely, barrenly.
DRYNESS, drinės. s. Want of moisture; want
of succulence; want of embellishment, want of
pathos; want of sensibility in devotion.
DRYNURSE, drinårse. s. A woman who brings
up and feeds a child without the breast; one
who takes care of another.

To DRY NURSE, dri'nurse. v. a. To feed without

the breast.

DRYSHOD, dri'shod. a. Without wet feet, with out treading above the shoes in the water

559.-Fåte, får, fall, fât;—mè, m3t, -pine, pin ;—

-nò, môve, når, nôt ;-tube, tåb, båll ;—¿il ;-påånd ;-thin, THIS. cmission of a letter, there to spare the letter is to ||DUSTY, dis'tè. a. Filled with dust, clouded injure the language. A secret conviction of this has made all our Lexicographers waver greatly in spelling these words, as may be seen at large in the Preliminary Observations to the Rhyming Dictionary, page xv.

with dust; covered or scattered with dust. ||DUTCHESS, dûtsh'ês. s. The lady of a duke, a lady who has the sovereignty of a dukedom. DUTCHY, dåtsh'è. s. A territory which gives title to a duke.