Dozen (n.) A collection of twelve objects; a tale or set of twelve; with or without of before the substantive which follows.
Dozen (n.) An indefinite small number.
Dozenth (a.) Twelfth.
Dozer (n.) One who dozes or drowses.
Doziness (n.) The state of being dozy; drowsiness; inclination to sleep.
Dozy (a.) Drowsy; inclined to doze; sleepy; sluggish; as, a dozy head.
Dozzled (a.) Stupid; heavy.
Drab (n.) A low, sluttish woman.
Drab (n.) A lewd wench; a strumpet.
Drab (n.) A wooden box, used in salt works for holding the salt when taken out of the boiling pans.
Drabbed (imp. & p. p.) of Drab
Drabbing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Drab
Drab (v. i.) To associate with strumpets; to wench.
Drab (n.) A kind of thick woolen cloth of a dun, or dull brownish yellow, or dull gray, color; -- called also drabcloth.
Drab (n.) A dull brownish yellow or dull gray color.
Drab (a.) Of a color between gray and brown.
Drab (n.) A drab color.
Drabber (n.) One who associates with drabs; a wencher.
Drabbet (n.) A coarse linen fabric, or duck.
Drabbish (a.) Somewhat drab in color.
Drabbish (a.) Having the character of a drab or low wench.
Drabbled (imp. & p. p.) of Drabble
Drabbling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Drabble
Drabble (v. t.) To draggle; to wet and befoul by draggling; as, to drabble a gown or cloak.
Drabble (v. i.) To fish with a long line and rod; as, to drabble for barbels.
Drabbler (n.) A piece of canvas fastened by lacing to the bonnet of a sail, to give it a greater depth, or more drop.
Drabble-tail (n.) A draggle-tail; a slattern.
Dracaena (n.) A genus of liliaceous plants with woody stems and funnel-shaped flowers.
Dracanth (n.) A kind of gum; -- called also gum tragacanth, or tragacanth. See Tragacanth.
Drachm (n.) A drachma.
Drachm (n.) Same as Dram.
Drachmas (pl. ) of Drachma
Drachmae (pl. ) of Drachma
Drachma (n.) A silver coin among the ancient Greeks, having a different value in different States and at different periods. The average value of the Attic drachma is computed to have been about 19 cents.
Drachma (n.) A gold and silver coin of modern Greece worth 19.3 cents.
Drachma (n.) Among the ancient Greeks, a weight of about 66.5 grains; among the modern Greeks, a weight equal to a gram.
Drachme (n.) See Drachma.
Dracin (n.) See Draconin.
Draco (n.) The Dragon, a northern constellation within which is the north pole of the ecliptic.
Draco (n.) A luminous exhalation from marshy grounds.
Draco (n.) A genus of lizards. See Dragon, 6.
Draconian (a.) Pertaining to Draco, a famous lawgiver of Athens, 621 b. c.
Draconic (a.) Relating to Draco, the Athenian lawgiver; or to the constellation Draco; or to dragon's blood.
Draconin (n.) A red resin forming the essential basis of dragon's blood; -- called also dracin.
Dracontic (a.) Belonging to that space of time in which the moon performs one revolution, from ascending node to ascending node. See Dragon's head, under Dragon.
Dracontine (a.) Belonging to a dragon.
Dracunculi (pl. ) of Dracunculus
Dracunculus (n.) A fish; the dragonet.
Dracunculus (n.) The Guinea worm (Filaria medinensis).
Drad (p. p. & a.) Dreaded.
Dradde (imp.) of Dread.
Dradge (n.) Inferior ore, separated from the better by cobbing.
Draff (n.) Refuse; lees; dregs; the wash given to swine or cows; hogwash; waste matter.
Draffish (a.) Worthless; draffy.
Draffy (a.) Dreggy; waste; worthless.
Draff (n.) The act of drawing; also, the thing drawn. Same as Draught.
Draff (n.) A selecting or detaching of soldiers from an army, or from any part of it, or from a military post; also from any district, or any company or collection of persons, or from the people at large; also, the body of men thus drafted.
Draff (n.) An order from one person or party to another, directing the payment of money; a bill of exchange.
Draff (n.) An allowance or deduction made from the gross veight of goods.
Draff (n.) A drawing of lines for a plan; a plan delineated, or drawn in outline; a delineation. See Draught.
Draff (n.) The form of any writing as first drawn up; the first rough sketch of written composition, to be filled in, or completed. See Draught.
Draff (n.) A narrow border left on a finished stone, worked differently from the rest of its face.
Draff (n.) A narrow border worked to a plane surface along the edge of a stone, or across its face, as a guide to the stone-cutter.
Draff (n.) The slant given to the furrows in the dress of a millstone.
Draff (n.) Depth of water necessary to float a ship. See Draught.
Draff (n.) A current of air. Same as Draught.
Draft (a.) Pertaining to, or used for, drawing or pulling (as vehicles, loads, etc.). Same as Draught.
Draft (a.) Relating to, or characterized by, a draft, or current of air. Same as Draught.
Drafted (imp. & p. p.) of Draft
Drafting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Draft
Draft (v. t.) To draw the outline of; to delineate.
Draft (v. t.) To compose and write; as, to draft a memorial.
Draft (v. t.) To draw from a military band or post, or from any district, company, or society; to detach; to select.
Draft (v. t.) To transfer by draft.
Draftsman (n.) See Draughtsman.
Drag (n.) A confection; a comfit; a drug.
Dragged (imp. & p. p.) of Drag
Dragging (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Drag
Drag (v. t.) To draw slowly or heavily onward; to pull along the ground by main force; to haul; to trail; -- applied to drawing heavy or resisting bodies or those inapt for drawing, with labor, along the ground or other surface; as, to drag stone or timber; to drag a net in fishing.
Drag (v. t.) To break, as land, by drawing a drag or harrow over it; to harrow; to draw a drag along the bottom of, as a stream or other water; hence, to search, as by means of a drag.
Drag (v. t.) To draw along, as something burdensome; hence, to pass in pain or with difficulty.
Drag (v. i.) To be drawn along, as a rope or dress, on the ground; to trail; to be moved onward along the ground, or along the bottom of the sea, as an anchor that does not hold.
Drag (v. i.) To move onward heavily, laboriously, or slowly; to advance with weary effort; to go on lingeringly.
Drag (v. i.) To serve as a clog or hindrance; to hold back.
Drag (v. i.) To fish with a dragnet.
Drag (v. t.) The act of dragging; anything which is dragged.
Drag (v. t.) A net, or an apparatus, to be drawn along the bottom under water, as in fishing, searching for drowned persons, etc.
Drag (v. t.) A kind of sledge for conveying heavy bodies; also, a kind of low car or handcart; as, a stone drag.
Drag (v. t.) A heavy coach with seats on top; also, a heavy carriage.
Drag (v. t.) A heavy harrow, for breaking up ground.
Drag (v. t.) Anything towed in the water to retard a ship's progress, or to keep her head up to the wind; esp., a canvas bag with a hooped mouth, so used. See Drag sail (below).
Drag (v. t.) Also, a skid or shoe, for retarding the motion of a carriage wheel.
Drag (v. t.) Hence, anything that retards; a clog; an obstacle to progress or enjoyment.
Drag (v. t.) Motion affected with slowness and difficulty, as if clogged.
Drag (v. t.) The bottom part of a flask or mold, the upper part being the cope.
Drag (v. t.) A steel instrument for completing the dressing of soft stone.
Drag (v. t.) The difference between the speed of a screw steamer under sail and that of the screw when the ship outruns the screw; or between the propulsive effects of the different floats of a paddle wheel. See Citation under Drag, v. i., 3.
Dragantine (n.) A mucilage obtained from, or containing, gum tragacanth.
Dragbar (n.) Same as Drawbar (b). Called also draglink, and drawlink.
Dragbolt (n.) A coupling pin. See under Coupling.