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Show DR 1 Re= T 92 DrA'GGLE. @. a [from drag. You'll fee a draggled damfel, here and there From Billingfgate her fifhy tratfick bear. Gay's Trivia He wore the fame gown five years, withou t i S g ri te o in dragg b r d o g T # w E G ' ¢» DrR Hudibras Direétly bent againft the French Deny to have your free-born fo Dragoor'd into a wooden thoe Dragnets were made to fifh within the deep And caftingnets did rivers bottoms {weep ha toward a draugh the evening, which put them in hope of a fturgeo L'Efrange at laft One of our late great poets is funk in his repu concei dragnet Dryden dragnet of ages, pebbles tation, becaufe he could never forgive an which came in his way, but fwept, like great and {mall Whatfoever old Time, with his hug has conveyed down to us along the ftrea whether it be fhells or fhellfith, jewels o fticks or ftraws, feaweeds or mud, thefe are the anWatts cients, thefe are the fathers DRA'GON French. 3, A kin 1 go alone Like to a lonely dragon, that his fe Makes fear'd and talk'd of more than feen Swift, fwift, yo Shakefpeare. dragoss of the night! that dawnin May bear the raven's eye Shakefpeare's Cymbeline And you, ye dragons ! of the fcaly race Whom glittering gold and fhining armours grace In other nations harmlefs are you found Their guardian genii and protectors own'd On fpiery volumes there a dragon rides Roave Here, from our ftri¢t embrace, a ftream he glides Pope .2, A fierce violent man or woman 3. A conttellation near the north pole Dra'coN 2. / ~ [drocunculus, Latin, plant Dra'coNET. # [ [from dragon. dragon A littl Or in his womb might lurk fome hidden nef Of many dragonets, his fruitful feed Fairy Queen fly Dra'conrry. n. [ [ dragen an libella.] A fierce ftinging fly The body of the cantharides is bright coloured and it may be, that the delicate coloured dragonfiie may have likewife fome corrofive quality. Bacon's Natural Hiffory Dra'conisH. adj. [from dragorn.] Having the form of a dragon ; dragonlike An arbitrary word Sometimes we fec a cloud that's dragoni/b A vapour fometimes like a bear or lion S/M]z/i[/y DrA'GONLIKE. adj. [dragon and life.] Furious ; fiery He fights dragonlike, and does achiev As foon as draw his fword Shakefp. Coriolanys Dra'conseLoop. 2 /. [dragon and blood. So called from ‘a falfe opinion of th dragon's combat with the elephant Dragonftlood is a refin, fo name as to feem t aye been imagined an animal produétion i . Fake dragonfblood, beat it in a mortar, and pu it in a vloth with agua wite, and ftrain them toge thers Peagham 70 DrRaM. @, 2. [from the noun.] In lo language, to drink drams 5 to drink diftilled {pirits DRA'MA. n. /. [Yxpx.] A poem accom modated to aftion ; a poem in which th Pricr actio ‘Whilft a foreign war devoured our firength, an Drama'ricar. ] adj. [from drama.] Re Drama'rick. § prefented by action not narrative drained our treafures, luxury and expences increafe Altterbury at home mets muf have been drained of all their fluids Cheyne -3. To make quite dry ‘When wine is to be bottled, wath your bottles but do notdrain them Swift's Direc. tothe Butler Drain. n /. [from the verb.] The chan- nel through which liquids are graduall drawn ; a watercourfe ; a fink If your drains be deep, that you fear cattle falling into them, cover them, Mortimer's Hufbandry Why fhould T tell of ponds and drains ‘What carps we met with for our pains? Swvif? Draxe. z /. [of uncertain etymology. 1. 'The male of the duck The duck fhould hide her eggs from the drake who will fuck them if he finds them Mortimer's Hufbandry ‘2. [ from draco, dragon, Latin. piece of artillery A {mal but reprefented Many rules of imitating nature Ariftotle dre from Homer, which he fitted to the drama; furnithing himfelf alfo with obfervations from the theatre when it flourifhed under /Ef{chylus, Euripides and Sophocles Diryden Bacon to Villicrs Sinking waters, the firny: land to drairn Fill'd the capacious deep, and form'd the main Rofcommion The royal babes a tawny wolf thall drain. Dryd ‘While cruel Nero only drain The mortal Spaniard's ebbing veins By ftudy worn, and flack with age How dull, how thoughtlefs is his rage ! Prior Had the world lafted from all eternity, thefe co is not related and in which therefore {uch rules are t be obferved as make the reprefentatic probable I hope to make it appear, that, in the great dra matick poem.of nature, is.a neceflity of introducing a God Bentley 2. To empty, by drawing gradually awa what it contains of winged {ferpent, perhap imaginary, much celebrated in the romances of the middle ages Spirit liiiquors opirits ;; diffille diliile A fecond fee, by meeker manners known And modct as the maid that fips alone From the ftrong fate of drams if thou get free Another Durfy, Ward! fhall fing in thee Pope The laft emperor drained the wealth of thof countries into his own coffers, without increafin Savift bis troops againft France dragon #. /. [ drace, Latin 4. Salt water, drained through twenty veffels o earth, hath become frefh. Bacon's Nataral Hiftory The fountains drain the water from the groun adjacent, and leave but fufficient moifture to bree Bacon mofs In times of dearth it drained much coin of th kingdom, to furnifh us with corn from foreig parts Shakefp. Winter's Tale Every dram of brandy, every pot of dle that yo drink, raifeth your character Swift 7o DRAIN. @. a. [trainer, French. 1. To draw off gradually ay's Virgil Some fithermen, that had been out with a drag nothing Malicioully like poifon In politicks I hear you're ftanch water caugh I could do this, and that with no rath potion But with a ling'ring dram, that fhould not wor 7o Draco'oN. w. a. [from the noun.] T perfecate by abandoning a place to th rage of foldiers DrAa'GNET. 7. /. [drag and net.] A ne which is drawn along the bottom of th #¢t, an ufually drank at once Two regiments of dragosns {uffered much in th Tatler late a&tion being drawn along the ground Which on his rider he would flitt 3. ‘Such a quantity of diftilled fpirits as i Dra'coNsHEAD. #. /o A plan Dra'coNTREE. 7./. A {pecies of palm DRAGOON. m /. [from drager, GerA kind of {oldier tha man, to carry. ferves indifterently either on foot o horfeback n o g t o n g a d b r d k m His draggling tail hung in the dirt DR Drama'rrcarry. adv. [from dramatick. Reprefentatively ; by reprefentation Ignorance and errors are feverally reprechended, partly dramatically, partly fimply Dryden Dra"MaTisT, 2 f. [from drama. author of dramatick compoiitions | Th The whole theatre refounds with the praifes o the great dramatift, and the wonderful art and orde of the compofition Burnet's Theorye Drank. [the preterite of drink. 70 DRAPE. wv. n. [drap, French; drapuc low Latin. 1. To make cloth. It was rare to fet prices by ftatute; and this:aé did not prefcribe prices;, but ftinted them not te exceed a rate; that the clothier might drape accordingly as he might afford Bacon 2. To jeer, or fatirize. [drapper, French. It is ufed in this fenfe by the innovato T emple, whom nobody has imitated DraPER n. f. [from drape.] One wh fells cloth If a piece of cloth in a draper's fHop be varioufl folded, it will appear of differing colours. Boyle on Cols The draper-and mercer may meafure her Howel DrA‘PERY. . [. [drapperia, French. 1 Clothwor th trad o makin clot Two or three fhots, made at them by a coupleo drakes, made them ftagger DRAM =z / [fro Clarendon drachm ; drachma L:ltin. 1. In weight the eighth part of an ounce The tsial being made betwixt lead and lead weighing feverally feven drams in the air, the balance in the water weigheth only. four drams an forty-one grains, and abateth of the weight in th air two drams and nineteen grains: the balanc Bacon kept the fame depth in the water 2. A fmall quantity, in a kind of proverbial fenfe One loving hou For many years of forrow can difpenfe A dram of {weet is worth a pound of four. Fairy Queen No dram of judgment with thy force is join'd Thy body is of profit, and my minds Dryd, Fables woollen manufacture He made ftatutes for the maintenance of drapery and the keeping of wools within the realm Bacon's Hepry VIl The reverend clergy fhould fet us.an example, b contenting themfelves with wearing gowms, an other habiliments, of Irith drapery Swift 2.. Cloth ; ftuffs of wool The Bulls and Frogs had ferved: the lord Strut with drapery ware for man years Arbutbnot's Hiftory of Sobn Bulls 3. The drefs of a- piGure or ftatue Poets are allowed the fame liberty in their deferiptions and comparifons, as painters in thei draperies and-oraaments Pricre DrA‘PET. . /. [from drape.]t Cloth; co verlet Not in ufe Thence fhe them brought into a ftately Liall Wherein were many tables fair difpred And |