Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter D - Page 98

Drib (v. t. & i.) To shoot (a shaft) so as to pierce on the descent.

Drib (n.) A drop.

Dribber (n.) One who dribs; one who shoots weakly or badly.

Dribbled (imp. & p. p.) of Dribble

Dribbing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dribble

Dribble (v. i.) To fall in drops or small drops, or in a quick succession of drops; as, water dribbles from the eaves.

Dribble (v. i.) To slaver, as a child or an idiot; to drivel.

Dribble (v. i.) To fall weakly and slowly.

Dribble (v. t.) To let fall in drops.

Dribble (n.) A drizzling shower; a falling or leaking in drops.

Dribbler (n.) One who dribbles.

Dribblet (n.) Alt. of Driblet

Driblet (n.) A small piece or part; a small sum; a small quantity of money in making up a sum; as, the money was paid in dribblets.

Drie (v. t.) To endure.

Dried (imp. & p. p.) of Day. Also adj.; as, dried apples.

Drier (n.) One who, or that which, dries; that which may expel or absorb moisture; a desiccative; as, the sun and a northwesterly wind are great driers of the earth.

Drier (n.) Drying oil; a substance mingled with the oil used in oil painting to make it dry quickly.

Drier (superl.) Alt. of Driest

Driest (superl.) of Dry, a.

Drift (n.) A driving; a violent movement.

Drift (n.) The act or motion of drifting; the force which impels or drives; an overpowering influence or impulse.

Drift (n.) Course or direction along which anything is driven; setting.

Drift (n.) The tendency of an act, argument, course of conduct, or the like; object aimed at or intended; intention; hence, also, import or meaning of a sentence or discourse; aim.

Drift (n.) That which is driven, forced, or urged along

Drift (n.) Anything driven at random.

Drift (n.) A mass of matter which has been driven or forced onward together in a body, or thrown together in a heap, etc., esp. by wind or water; as, a drift of snow, of ice, of sand, and the like.

Drift (n.) A drove or flock, as of cattle, sheep, birds.

Drift (n.) The horizontal thrust or pressure of an arch or vault upon the abutments.

Drift (n.) A collection of loose earth and rocks, or boulders, which have been distributed over large portions of the earth's surface, especially in latitudes north of forty degrees, by the agency of ice.

Drift (n.) In South Africa, a ford in a river.

Drift (n.) A slightly tapered tool of steel for enlarging or shaping a hole in metal, by being forced or driven into or through it; a broach.

Drift (n.) A tool used in driving down compactly the composition contained in a rocket, or like firework.

Drift (n.) A deviation from the line of fire, peculiar to oblong projectiles.

Drift (n.) A passage driven or cut between shaft and shaft; a driftway; a small subterranean gallery; an adit or tunnel.

Drift (n.) The distance through which a current flows in a given time.

Drift (n.) The angle which the line of a ship's motion makes with the meridian, in drifting.

Drift (n.) The distance to which a vessel is carried off from her desired course by the wind, currents, or other causes.

Drift (n.) The place in a deep-waisted vessel where the sheer is raised and the rail is cut off, and usually terminated with a scroll, or driftpiece.

Drift (n.) The distance between the two blocks of a tackle.

Drift (n.) The difference between the size of a bolt and the hole into which it is driven, or between the circumference of a hoop and that of the mast on which it is to be driven.

Drifted (imp. & p. p.) of Drift

Drifting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Drift

Drift (v. i.) To float or be driven along by, or as by, a current of water or air; as, the ship drifted astern; a raft drifted ashore; the balloon drifts slowly east.

Drift (v. i.) To accumulate in heaps by the force of wind; to be driven into heaps; as, snow or sand drifts.

Drift (v. i.) to make a drift; to examine a vein or ledge for the purpose of ascertaining the presence of metals or ores; to follow a vein; to prospect.

Drift (v. t.) To drive or carry, as currents do a floating body.

Drift (v. t.) To drive into heaps; as, a current of wind drifts snow or sand.

Drift (v. t.) To enlarge or shape, as a hole, with a drift.

Drift (a.) That causes drifting or that is drifted; movable by wind or currents; as, drift currents; drift ice; drift mud.

Driftage (n.) Deviation from a ship's course due to leeway.

Driftage (n.) Anything that drifts.

Driftbolt (n.) A bolt for driving out other bolts.

Driftless (a.) Having no drift or direction; without aim; purposeless.

Driftpiece (n.) An upright or curved piece of timber connecting the plank sheer with the gunwale; also, a scroll terminating a rail.

Driftpin (n.) A smooth drift. See Drift, n., 9.

Driftway (n.) A common way, road, or path, for driving cattle.

Driftway (n.) Same as Drift, 11.

Driftweed (n.) Seaweed drifted to the shore by the wind.

Driftwind (n.) A driving wind; a wind that drives snow, sand, etc., into heaps.

Driftwood (n.) Wood drifted or floated by water.

Driftwood (n.) Fig.: Whatever is drifting or floating as on water.

Drifty (a.) Full of drifts; tending to form drifts, as snow, and the like.

Drilled (imp. & p. p.) of Drill

Drilling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Drill

Drill (v. t.) To pierce or bore with a drill, or a with a drill; to perforate; as, to drill a hole into a rock; to drill a piece of metal.

Drill (v. t.) To train in the military art; to exercise diligently, as soldiers, in military evolutions and exercises; hence, to instruct thoroughly in the rudiments of any art or branch of knowledge; to discipline.

Drill (v. i.) To practice an exercise or exercises; to train one's self.

Drill (n.) An instrument with an edged or pointed end used for making holes in hard substances; strictly, a tool that cuts with its end, by revolving, as in drilling metals, or by a succession of blows, as in drilling stone; also, a drill press.

Drill (n.) The act or exercise of training soldiers in the military art, as in the manual of arms, in the execution of evolutions, and the like; hence, diligent and strict instruction and exercise in the rudiments and methods of any business; a kind or method of military exercises; as, infantry drill; battalion drill; artillery drill.

Drill (n.) Any exercise, physical or mental, enforced with regularity and by constant repetition; as, a severe drill in Latin grammar.

Drill (n.) A marine gastropod, of several species, which kills oysters and other bivalves by drilling holes through the shell. The most destructive kind is Urosalpinx cinerea.

Drill (v. t.) To cause to flow in drills or rills or by trickling; to drain by trickling; as, waters drilled through a sandy stratum.

Drill (v. t.) To sow, as seeds, by dribbling them along a furrow or in a row, like a trickling rill of water.

Drill (v. t.) To entice; to allure from step; to decoy; -- with on.

Drill (v. t.) To cause to slip or waste away by degrees.

Drill (v. i.) To trickle.

Drill (v. i.) To sow in drills.

Drill (n.) A small trickling stream; a rill.

Drill (n.) An implement for making holes for sowing seed, and sometimes so formed as to contain seeds and drop them into the hole made.

Drill (n.) A light furrow or channel made to put seed into sowing.

Drill (n.) A row of seed sown in a furrow.

Drill (n.) A large African baboon (Cynocephalus leucophaeus).

Drill (n.) Same as Drilling.

Driller (n.) One who, or that which, drills.

Drilling (n.) The act of piercing with a drill.

Drilling (n.) A training by repeated exercises.

Drilling (n.) The act of using a drill in sowing seeds.

Drilling (n.) A heavy, twilled fabric of linen or cotton.

Drillmaster (n.) One who teaches drill, especially in the way of gymnastics.

Drill press () A machine for drilling holes in metal, the drill being pressed to the metal by the action of a screw.

Drillstock (n.) A contrivance for holding and turning a drill.

Drily (adv.) See Dryly.

Drimys (n.) A genus of magnoliaceous trees. Drimys aromatica furnishes Winter's bark.

Drank (imp.) of Drink

Drunk () of Drink

Drunk (p. p.) of Drink

Drunken () of Drink

Drinking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Drink

Drink (v. i.) To swallow anything liquid, for quenching thirst or other purpose; to imbibe; to receive or partake of, as if in satisfaction of thirst; as, to drink from a spring.

Drink (v. i.) To quaff exhilarating or intoxicating liquors, in merriment or feasting; to carouse; to revel; hence, to lake alcoholic liquors to excess; to be intemperate in the /se of intoxicating or spirituous liquors; to tipple.

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