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Show DR PR At Auxur's thield he drove, and at the blo Both fhield and arm to ground together go TR Dryden's Aneid T acwhethe fenfes it al i 6. To drive tive or neuter, may be obferved to retai a fenfe compounded of violence. and progreflion 7» DRI'VEL. @. n. [from drip, dripple dribble, drivel. 1. T {flaver ;- to let the {pittle- fall i an ideot, or a do drops, like a child 1 tard 1 met with this Chremes, a driveling old fellow lean, fhaking both of head and hands, already hal earth, and yzt then moft greedy of earth. Sidney No manscould {pit from him, but would b forced to-driwel like fome paralytick, or a fool Griav 2. To be weak or foolith ; to dote "This driveling love is like a great natural, tha runs leliing up and down to hide his bauble Shakefpeare's Ronreo and Fuliet I hate to fce a hrave bold fellow fotted Made {our and fenfelefs, turn'd to whey, by love Dryden A driweling lero, fit for a romance Dr1VEL 2. /.. [from-the verb. 1. Slaver ; moifture fthed from the mouth Befides th' eternal driuel, that fupplie hedropping beard, from noftrils, mouth, and eyes Dryden 2. A fool;: anideor;. 4 driveller Thi fenfe is now: out. of ufe What fool am I, to mingle that driwel's fpeeche Sidney ‘among my noble thoughts Millions of years this old driwe/ Cupid lives . While fill more wretch, more wicked, he dot Sidney prove DRrrVELLER. 2. /. [fiom drivel.] A fool an ideot ; a {laverer I have heard the arranteft drivellers commende for their fhrewdnefs, even by men of tolerable judgSavift ment Dri'vew Participle of drive They were driven-forth from among men Foby XXX+ 5 DriVER. 2. /[ [from.drive. 1. The perfon or inftrument who gives an motion by violence 2. One who drives beafts Contemns theirlabours, and the driver's cries Sandys The driver runs up to him immediarely, an L Eftrange beats him almoft to death "The multitude or common rout, like a drove o fh-:z'epz, or an herd of oxen, may be managed by an noife or cry which their driver thall ascuttom the South to 3. One who-drives a carriage Not the fierce driver-with more fury lend The founding lafh, and,.ere the flroke‘dcfcends Low to the wheels hispliantbody bends. Dryd. Zirg ii . 7o DRI'ZZLE v.a [drifelen, German, to fhed dew.] T fhed in fmall {lo drops as winter rains height, are more expofed to the dews and drizzlin rains than any of the adjacent parts. Addif.on Iraly When the fun fets, the air doth drizz/le dew. .Sh Though now this face of mine be hi In fap-confuming winter's drizzled {now And all the conduits of my blood froze up Yet hath my night of life fome memory. Shakefp Ty Dr1zzLE. v. 7. To fall in fhort flo drops And drizzling drops, that often do redound The ficmeft flint doth in continuance wear. Spenfer Her heart did melt in great campafficn And drizzling tears did fhed for pure affeétion Fair Queen This day will pour down If T conjeure aught, no drizzling thow'r But rattling ftorm of arrows barb'd with fire. M 2. Afluggard ; an idler He fleeps by da More than the wild cat : drones hive not with me Shakefpeare Therefore I part with him Dr1'zzLY. adj. [from drizzle.] Sheddin {mall rain Sit idle on the houfhold hearth Milton A burd'nous drone, to vifitants a gaze It is my misfortune to be married to a droxe This-during winter's drizzly reign be done Till'the new ram receives th' exalted fun who lives upon what I get, without bringing an Addifon thing into the common ftock Dryden's Virgil [b #: / DROIL A drone contraction of driwel. gard a flug flowly 5 to plod Let {uch vile vaflals, born to bafe vocation Drudge in the world, and for their living droil Which have no wit to live withouten toyle. Spenfer Defuetude does contradt and narrow: our facul ties, fo that we can apprehend only thofe things i whic converfant ar we the droilin peafan fcarce thinks there is any w orld®beyond the neighGovernment of the Tongue bouring markets #: /- [droler, French. DROLL ‘L. One whofe bufinefs is to raife mirth b petty tricks; a jefter; a buffoon; jackpudding As he was running home in all hafte, a dro/ L' Eftrange takes him up by the way Why, how now, Andrew ? crieshisbrotherdro// To-day' conceit,,methinks,.i fomething dull Priar Democritus, dear drollI revifit earth Andwithour follies glut thy heighten'd micth. Prior 2. A farce mirth fomething exhibited to raif Some as juftly fame extols Sawift For lofty lines in Smithfield dro/f 7o DrROLL. «w. n. [dréle, Fr.] = 'To jett to play the buffoon Suc auguf defign as infpire your inquiries ufed to be decided by. drolling fantafticks, that hav themfelve only wit encug Glanwille ridiculous Men that will not be reafoned into their fenfes to mak other an may yet be laughed or drolled into them L'Eftrange Let virtuofos infult anddefpife on, yet the Scuthb never fhall be ableto dré/l away nature DrolLrErY: 7. / jokes;- buffoonery The [fro droll.]: Idl hang between heaven and-hell, borrow th DroMEDARY 3. The hum, or inftrument of humming Here while his canting drone-pipe {cann' The myftic figures of her hand, He tipples palmeftry, and dine To work fluggifhly an @. To Drorr underfloo JFuniu chriftians faith, and the atheifts droflery upon it He from the many-peopled city flies ¢ The neighbouring mountains, by reafon of thei 7..[ Gowernmen of-r/‘e Tongue [dromedare, ltal. A fort of camel fo called from its fwiftnefs, becaufe it is faid to travel a hundred miles a-da Dromedaries are {maller than common . cam flanderer, and more nimble; and are of two ki one larger, with two fmail bunches, cevered wit hair, om its back ; the other lefler, .with on hairy eminence, and more frequently called camel Their hair i both are capable of great fatigue foft and fhorn : .they have no fangs and foreteeth, nor horn upon their feet, which are anly covered with a flefhy fkin ;. and they arg about feve feet and a half high, from the ground to the top 6 Cabmet See CaAmEL their heads Straw for the horfes and. dromedaries brought the 1 Kings unto the place Mules, after thefe camels and dromedaries And waggons fraught with utenfils of war. Milton DRONE. 2. /. [onoen, Saxon. 1. The bee which makes no honey, and i therefore driven ont by the reft The fad-eyed juftice, with his furly bum Delivering o'er to executo:s pal Shakefp. Henry V The lazy yawning dione Luxurious kings are to their people loft They-live, like drenes, upan the publick coft Dryden's Aurengiebe All, with united force, combine to driv The lazy drenes from the laborious hiv Deyden's Firgil Cleaweland On all her fortune-telling lines 7o DroNE 1 w. 7 [from the noun. To live in idlenefs ; to dream What have I loft by my forefathers fault Why was not I the twentieth by defcen From a long reftive race of droning kings Dryds 2. 'To give a heavy dull tone Melfoil and honeyfuckles pound thefe alluring favours ftrew the ground, Wit And mix with tinkling brafs the cymbal's dros Dr found ldle; dlug Dro'~1sH. adji [from drores gith ; dreaming indolent ; un lazy active The dronifb monks, the fcorn and thame of manhood Roufe and prepare once more to take poflefiion ve Ro in ag e hi ie an i th i l nef T Ts Droor. w. i.. [droef, forrow,; Dutch. [ 1. To languifh with {orrow. Conceiving the difhonout of his mother He ftraizht declin'd, droop'd, took it deeply Faften'd and fix'd the fhameon't in himfelf. Skake I droop, with ftruggling fpent ANCY So My thoughts are on my forrows bent 2. To faint ; to grow weak ; to be difpi rited 1 find my zenith doth depend upo A moft aufpicious ftar; whofe influenc If now I court not, but omit, my fortunes Will ever after drogp Shakefpeare's Tempefi Good things ef day begin to drogp and drowte While.night's black agents to their prey do roufe Shakefeare When by impulfe from heav'n' Tyrtaeus fung In drecping foldiers a new courage fprung. Rafcom Can flow'rs but'droop in abfence of the {fun Which walk'd their fweets? and mine, alas! i Lr gone Titne feems not.now teneath his years to ftoop Nor do:his wing savith fickly feathers droop. Dryd When factrou rage to cruel exile drov Tle queen of beauty and.-the court of love The muies drosp'd with their forfaken arts, Dryd I'll animate the {oldiers dragping courag With love of freedom and contempt of iife Addijor's Cato obferved 1 faw him ten: days befere he dicd he began very much to drsgp and languith, Sawifr com 3. To fink; to lean downwards monly by weaknefs or grief 1 never from thy fide hencerorzh muft ftray . Where'er our day's work lies 5 though now enjoin' Laborious,.till day drosp Milten's Paradife Loft His head, though gay Carnation, purple, azure, or fpecl'd with gold Hung droping, uniuftain'd. LMiiton's Paradife Lof On her heay'd bofom hung her drooping nead Which with a figh (he rais'd, and this the faid Popea DROP. #../. [bonoppa, Saxon. 1.. A globule of moifture ; as.much liquo as falls at once when there is not a continual ftream Meet we the med'cine of our country's weal And with him.pour we, in our country's purg Shakefpeare s Blacboih Each drop of us W hereas Ariftotle tells us, 1at 1f a drep of win be put into ten-thoufani mea fures of water, tn wine |