Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Dictionary: DRAIN'ED – DRAUGHT
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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.]
- The male of the duck kind.
- [L. draco, dragon.] A small piece of artillery. – Clarendon.
- The drake-fly.
DRAM, n. [contracted from drachma, – which see.]
- 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.
- A small quantity; as, no dram of judgment. – Dryden.
- As much spirituous liquor as is drank at once; as, a dram of brandy. Drams are the slow poison of life. – Swift.
- 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.]
- Clothwork; the trade of making cloth. – Bacon.
- Cloth; stuffs of wool. – Arbuthnot.
- 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.]
- The act of drawing; as, a horse or ox fit for draught.
- The quality of being drawn; as, a cart or plow of easy draught.
- The drawing of liquor into the mouth and throat; the act of drinking.
- The quantity of liquor drank at once.
- 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.
- Representation by picture; figure painted, or drawn by the pencil. – Dryden.
- The act of drawing a net; a sweeping for fish.
- That which is taken by sweeping with a net; as, a draught of fishes. Luke v.
- The drawing or bending of a bow; the act of shooting with a bow and arrow. – Camden.
- 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.]
- A sink or drain. – Matth. xv.
- An order for the payment of money; a bill of exchange. [See Draft.]
- 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.
- 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.
- A sudden attack or drawing on an enemy. [Query.] – Spenser.
- A writing composed.
- Draughts, a kind of game resembling chess.
- A sinapism; a mild vesicatory.