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Show P DR P RIO 2. Idlenefs ; indolence ; inaltivity Ealley migh b drowne i th harbou wit ve dr th i w c o i n ‘managed by an rigged b coul the befor ordnance grea th h u S to ll accuftom the th Kolles's Hiftory Any colletion of animal 3 Now to the moon in wavering morrice move The barriers of the ftate on either hand May neither overflow, for then they drow But if to fame alone thou doft pretend The mifer will his empty palace lend Set wide with doors, adorn'd with plated brafs Where droves, as at a city-gate, may pafs Dryden's Fuvenal land O Shakefpeare drowe. fats oxen for fale an One tha the drive t market 70 DrROWN. w. 2 And gape upon the gather'd clouds for rain. Dryd Upon a thower, after a drought, earthworms an Ray 2, Thirft ; want of drink The 1. Sleepily ; heavily to {leep Philips. Zo Drown. w. a. [from drunden, below German, §kinner; from dpuncmian, Sax Mr. Lye. t. To fuffocate in water 2. 'To overwhelm in water Or fo much as it need To dew the fovereign flow'r; and drewon the weeds. Shakelpeare. their eyelid 72 DRUDGE [ bpeccan t vex, T labour in mean offices ; to toil withou honour or dignity ; to work hard ; t {lave. And to crack'd fiddle, and hoarfe tabour In merriment did drudge and labour Hudibras The poor fleep little.: wemuft learn to watc Our labours late; and early every morning Mid@ winter frofts ; then, clad and fed with {panings Rife to ourtoils, and drudge away the day. Otway Advantages obtained. by induftry, directed b philofophy, can never be expeted from drudging ignorance Glanville Soon he came ta court Proffering for hire his fervice at the gate To drudge, draw water, and to run or wait. Dryd. I made no fuch bargain with you, to live always What a firange drowwfingfs poffefles them | Shak In deep of night, when drowvfingf Hath lock'd up mortal fenfe, then liften To the celeftial fyren's harmony Milton drudging Dryden's Dedication, ZEncid What is an age, in dull renown drudg'd o'er One little fingle hour of love is more Granwille Drupct. z /. [from the verb.] One employed in mean labour 5 a flave ; on doomed to {ervile occupation. fuccour can I hope the mufe will fend Crafpazo He pafles his whole life in a dozed condition between fleeping and waking, with a kind o drozufine/s and confufion upon his fenfes South He that from.his childhood has made rifing be _ To conclude, this drudge of the devil, thi diviner, laid claim to me Shakefp. Comedy of Err He fits above and laughs the while At thee, ordain'd his drudge, to execut times familiar to him, will. not wafte the beft part of his life in drozwfinefs and lying a-bed. Locke. Whate'er his wrath thall bid. A fenfation of drowyfincfs, oppreffion, and lafiitude, arg figns of a plentiful meal in young people «. » Saxon ; draghen, to carry, Dutch. with an inclinatio Arbythnot Hudibrass By fecting an unfortunate mark on their follow-ers, they have expofed them to innumerable diub and contufions Addifon Whofe droavfinefs bath wrong'd the mufe's friend They would foon dronvn thofe that refufed t fwim down the popular ftrear King Charles When of God's image only eight he foun Snatch'd fr m the wat'ry grave, and fav'd from Prior My limbs of ftrength We fatisfy our underftanding with the firf things, and, thereby fatiated, flothfully and drazwSy fit down Raleigh Wha A thump The blows and drzbs T have receiv' Have bruis'd my body, and bereav' Dro'wsiness. z. /; [from drow. 1. Sleepinefs ; heavinefs with fleep; difpofition to fleep Exhibit no fupplies, alas! thou muf With taftelefs watei wath: thy drougbty. throat Drue. z / [from the verb, a knock; a blow 2. Sluggifhly; idly; flothfully ; lazily - If the former year lefs than weight, I thould have been drubbed. Locke D);ydcfl @. a. [druber,. to kill,, Danifh.} Though the bread be not mine, yet, if it had been -\ The air fwarms thick with wand'ring deities Which drozvfingly like humming beetles rife where it is of fuch eminent ufe for travelling ove thofe dry and fandy defarts where no water is t be had, muft he acknowledged an aék of providenc Atterbury Hudib The little thief had been foundiy drubbed with a good honeft cudgel L' Eftrange. Dro'wsiLy. adwv. [from drow)). 7. [0 [from droughty. drown'd hun coul He that is valiant, and dares fight Though drubb'd, can lofe no honour by't Shakefps Henry V1 That a camel, fo patient of long thirft, thoul be bred in fuch droughty and parched countries ‘nation an all his drozofy- reafoning tempt not cheerful rather drowws'd wit To threfh; to beat ; to bang ; to thumpy; to thwack ; to cudgel A word of con Slept in his face, and render'd fuch afpe As cloudy men ufe to their adverfaries _ The ftate of wanting rain Dro'ucuTY. ad). [from drought. 1. Wanting rain ; fultry Afcham's Schoolmafler down One, whofe drough Vet fcarce allay'd, ftill eyes the current fircam Whofe liquid murmur heard new thirft excites Milton 2, Thirfty ; dry with thirft 79 DRUB to grow heavy with fleep 2. To look heavy His carcafe, pin'd with hunger and with drought Milton dull never have been capable of All their fhape Spangled with eyes, more numerous than thof Of Argus; and more wakeful than to drow/z Charm'd with Arcadian pipe. Ailt. Parad. Lofp land-fnails innumerable come out of their lurking Ray on Creation our author There gentle flee 1. To{lumber Add. Thofe inadvertencies; a body would think, eve Firft found me, and with foft oppreflion feiz' My drowvfed fenfes uncontroll'd. Ailt. Parad. Loff 7o DROWSE.. w. 7 droughts, and great plagues Teniple In a drought, the thirfty creatures cry and defign 3. Stupid Zo DROWSE. «. a. [drosfen, Dutch.] T make heavy with {leep "Fhey were {0 learned in natural philofophy, tha they foretold earthquakes and forms, grea Drov'cuTINESS In drowfy murmurs lull'd the gentle maid Methought what pain it was to dyozon What dreadful noife of waters in my ears ! Shat So perifh'd man from death fhallnever rife. Sandys ftray'd was never burned; that beware of water, and ye Milton lulling ; caufing fleep Sir Guyon, mindful of his vows yplight Uprofe from drowufy couch Fairy Queen. While thus fhe refted, on her arm reclin'd The hoary willows waving with' the wind And feather'd quires that warbled in the fhade And purling ftreams that through the meado There be, that keep them out of fire, and ye . As torrents in the drowth of fummer fail places 2. Heavy waters Bacon Cleaveland Drunken at laft, and drowfy, they depar Each to his houfe Drydeno To be fuffocated in th was never nigh drowning are a'rorwf_y, and defirous to fleep, before the Start and raife up their droaofy heads Some aged man who lives this aét to fee And who in former times remember'd me May fay, the fon, in fortitude and fa:pe Outgoes the mark, and drovns his father's name Diydon O earth! I will befriend thee more with rai Than youthful April fhall with all his thowers In fummer's drought P'll drop upon thee fill. Shak Great droughts in fummer, lafting till the en of Auguft, fome gentle fhowers upon them, an then fome dry weather, portend a peftilent fumme To fouth the Perfian bay And inacceffible th> Arabian drought cometh next will not follow that courfe good, which his predeceffors held, fo have his doings drowuned in another man' Spenfer on Ireland the brightnefs of the fun doth drewon ou My private voice is drowun'd amid the fenate Addifon DROUGHT. 7. /. [opugode, Saxon. 1. Dry weather; want of rain Sidney fit of an ague, and do ufe to yawn and ftretch Bacon's Natural HifforyoThe flowers, call'd out of their beds Witton The drowver, who his fellow drower meet In narrow paflages of winding ftreets. Dryd. Fuv the year following Me difcerning of the leffer lights, is a popular errour The prince hath got your hero wifh him joy of her -Why, that's fpoken like an honeft drower; f Shak. Much ado abour Nothing they fell bullocks Obfolete Drowfy am I, and yet can rarely fleep Dawies COovers Wh howeve doubt t praife Tha inclina Dro'wsy. adj. [from drowyfe. 1. Sleepy; heavy with fleep ; lethargick. 5. To lofe in fomething that overpower Had we fo done at fisft, we had dreven them home 7./. [fro th Moft men being in fenfual pleafures drowwn'd This is fought indeed Sleepinefs The royal virgin fhook off drowfibed And rifing forth out of her bafer boure Look'd for her knight Fairy Queens Dryden It feems their fouls but in their fenfes are 7. / tion to fleep 4. To immerge ; to lofe in any thing DRrO'VEN. part. from driwe. Not now ufed "With clouts about their heads Dro'wstHED Betwixt the prince and parliament we ftand Milton . A crowd; a tumult for it feemed to be the trumpet ofa war Bacon's Holy War-. 3. To overflow ; to bury in an inundation to deluge The founds and feas, with all the'ir finny drowve Dro'vER It falleth out well, to fhake off your drow/finefs ; § Milton's Pars Lof Art thou our flave Qur captive;. at the publick mill our drudge; And dar'ft thou, at ouy fending and command, Difpute thy coming Bilton's Agoniffess H |