Emily Dickinson Lexicon

DRAIN'ED, pp.

Emptied of water or other liquor by a gradual discharge, flowing or dropping; exhausted; drawn off.

DRAIN'ING, ppr.

Emptying of water or other liquor by filtration or flowing in small channels.

DRAKE, n. [G. enterich; Dan. andrik; Sw. andrak. It is compounded of ente, and, Sax. ened, L. anas, a duck, and a word which I do not understand.]

1. The male of the duck kind.
2. [L. draco, dragon.] A small piece of artillery. – Clarendon.
3. The drake-fly.

DRAM, n. [contracted from drachma, – which see.]

1. Among druggists and physicians, a weight of the eighth part of an ounce, or sixty grains. In avoirdupois weight, the sixteenth part of an ounce.
2. A small quantity; as, no dram of judgment. – Dryden.
3. As much spirituous liquor as is drank at once; as, a dram of brandy. Drams are the slow poison of life. – Swift.
4. Spirit; distilled liquor. – Pope.

DRAM, v.i.

To drink drams; to indulge in the use of ardent spirit. [A low word expressing a low practice.]

DRAM'A, n. [Gr. δραμα, from δραω, to make.]

A poem or composition representing a picture of human life, and accommodated to action. The principal species of the drama are tragedy and comedy; inferior species are the tragic-comedy, opera, &c. – Encyc.

DRA-MAT'IC, or DRA-MAT'IC-AL, a.

Pertaining to the drama; represented by action; theatrical; not narrative. Bentley.

DRA-MAT'IC-AL-LY, adv.

By representation; in the manner of the drama. – Dryden.

DRAMATIS-PERSONAE, n. [Dramatis personæ. L.]

Actors representing the characters in a play.

DRAM'AT-IST, n.

The author of a dramatic composition; a writer of plays. – Burnet.

DRAM'A-TIZE, v.t.

To compose in the form of the drama; or to give to a composition the form of a play. At Riga, in 1204, was acted a prophetic play, that is, a dramatized extract from the history of the Old and New Testaments. – Tooke's Russia.

DRAM'A-TIZ-ED, pp.

Composed in the form of a play.

DRAM'A-TIZ-ING, ppr.

Composing in the form of a play.

DRAM'A-TUR-GY, n. [Gr. δραμα, and εργον.]

The art of dramatic poetry and representation. German.

DRAM'-DRINK-ER, n.

One who habitually drinks spirits.

DRANK, n.

A term for wild oats. – Encyc.

DRANK, v. [pret. and pp. of Drink.]

DRAPE, v.t. [Fr. draper.]

To make cloth; also, to banter. [Obs.]

DRAP'ED, a.

Adorned with drapery. – Sedgwick.

DRA'PER, n. [Fr. drapier; draper, to make cloth; from drap, cloth.]

One who sells cloths; a dealing in cloths; as, a linen-draper or woolen-draper.

DRA'PE-RY, n. [Fr. draperie; It. drapperia; from drap, drappo; Sp. ropage, from ropa, cloth.]

1. Clothwork; the trade of making cloth. – Bacon.
2. Cloth; stuffs of wool. – Arbuthnot.
3. In sculpture and painting, the representation of the clothing or dress of human figures; also, tapestry, hangings, curtains, &c. – Encyc.

DRA'PET, n.

Cloth; coverlet. [Not in use.]

DRAS'TIC, a. [Gr. δραζτικος, from δραω, to make.]

Powerful; acting with strength or violence; efficacious; as, a drastic cathartic.

DRAUGH, n. [See DRAFF.]

DRAUGHT, n. [draft; from draw, drag.]

1. The act of drawing; as, a horse or ox fit for draught.
2. The quality of being drawn; as, a cart or plow of easy draught.
3. The drawing of liquor into the mouth and throat; the act of drinking.
4. The quantity of liquor drank at once.
5. The act of delineating, or that which is delineated; a representation by lines, as the figure of a house, a machine, a fort, &c. described on paper. [Qu. Ir. dreach, W. dryc.] – Encyc.
6. Representation by picture; figure painted, or drawn by the pencil. – Dryden.
7. The act of drawing a net; a sweeping for fish.
8. That which is taken by sweeping with a net; as, a draught of fishes. Luke v.
9. The drawing or bending of a bow; the act of shooting with a bow and arrow. – Camden.
10. The act of drawing men from a military band, army, or post; also, the forces drawn; a detachment. [See Draft, which is more generally used.]
11. A sink or drain. – Matth. xv.
12. An order for the payment of money; a bill of exchange. [See Draft.]
13. The depth of water necessary to float a ship, or the depth a ship sinks in water, especially when laden; as, a ship of twelve feet draught.
14. In England, a small allowance on weighable goods, made by the king to the importer, or by the seller to the buyer, to insure full weight. – Encyc.
15. A sudden attack or drawing on an enemy. [Query.] – Spenser.
16. A writing composed.
17. Draughts, a kind of game resembling chess.
18. A sinapism; a mild vesicatory.