Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Dictionary: DRIV'EL-ER – DROLL'ING-LY
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DRIV'EL-ER, n.
A slaverer; a slabberer; an idiot; a fool. – Swift.
DRIV'EL-ING, ppr.
Slavering; foolish.
DRIV'EN, pp. [driv'n; from drive.]
Urged forward by force; impelled to move; constrained by necessity.
DRIV'ER, n.
- One who drives; the person or thing that urges or compels any thing else to move.
- The person who drives beasts.
- The person who drives a carriage; one who conducts a team.
- A large sail occasionally set on the mizzen-yard of gaff, the foot being extended over the stern by a boom. – Mar. Dict.
- In machinery, a wheel which communicates motion to another; used in composition, as in screw-driver.
- A substance interposed between the driving instrument and the thing driven. A cooper drives hoops by striking upon the driver.
DRIV'ING, n.
- The act of impelling.
- Tendency.
DRIV'ING, ppr.
Urging forward by force; impelling.
DRIZ'ZLE, v.i. [G. rieseln. The sense is probably to sprinkle, or to scatter. Qu. L. ros, dew, and Fr. arroser. See Heb. Ch. רסס, Ar. رَسَّ rassa. Class Rs, No. 16, 28.]
To rain in small drops; to fall as water for the clouds in very fine particles. We say, it drizzles; drizzling drops; drizzling rain; drizzling tears. – Addison.
DRIZ'ZLE, v.t.
To shed in small drops or particles. The air doth drizzle dew. – Shak. Winter's drizzled snow. – Shak.
DRIZ'ZLED, pp.
Shed or thrown down in small drops or particles.
DRIZ'ZLING, n.
The falling of rain or snow in small drops.
DRIZ'ZLING, ppr.
Falling in fine drops or particles; shedding in small drops or particles.
DRIZ'ZLY, a.
Shedding small rain, or small particles of snow. The winter's drizzly reign. – Dryden.
DROCK, n.
Part of a plow. [Local.]
DROG'MAN, n. [See DRAGOMAN.]
DROIL, n.
A mope; a drone; a sluggard; a drudge. [Little used.]
DROIL, v.i. [D. druilen, to mope.]
To work sluggishly or slowly; to plod. [Not much used.] – Spenser.
DROIT, n. [Fr.]
- Right; the law; title; fee; privilege; also, in finance, duty, custom.
- adj. Straight; right.
DROLL, a. [Fr. drôle; G. drollig; D. id.; Sw. troll, a satyr; trolla, to use magic arts, to enchant. Qu. its alliance to roll, troll.]
Odd; merry; facetious; comical; as, a droll fellow.
DROLL, n.
- One whose occupation or practice is to raise mirth by odd tricks; a jester; a buffoon. – Prior.
- A farce; something exhibited to raise mirth or sport. – Swift.
DROLL, v.i.
To jest; to play the buffoon. – South.
DROLL, v.t.
To cheat. – L'Estrange.
DROLL'ER, n.
A jester; a buffoon. – Glanville.
DROLL'ER-Y, n.
- Sportive tricks; buffoonery; comical stories; gestures, manners or tales adapted to raise mirth.
- A puppet-show. – Shak.
DROLL'ING, n.
Low wit; buffoonery.
DROLL'ING-LY, adv.
In a jesting manner.