Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter D - Page 101
Dropwise (adv.) After the manner of a drop; in the form of drops.
Trickling dropwise from the cleft. -- Tennyson.
Dropworm (n.) The larva of any geometrid moth, which drops from trees by means of a thread of silk, as the {cankerworm} or {inchworm}. See {inchworm} and {geometrid}.
Dropwort (n.) An Old World species of {Spir[ae]a} ({Spir[ae]a filipendula}), with finely cut leaves.
Drosera (n.) (Bot.) A genus of low perennial or biennial plants, the leaves of which are beset with gland-tipped bristles. See {Sundew}. -- Gray.
Drosera (n.) The type genus of Droseraceae including many low bog-inhabiting insectivorous plants [syn: {Drosera}, {genus Drosera}].
Drosera (n.) 茅膏菜屬（學名：Drosera），又名毛氈苔屬，屬於多年生草本植物，同屬約有170多種，此屬是在食蟲植物中種類最多、分布最廣的一群。茅膏菜的葉片為圓形，葉片邊緣密布可分泌黏液的腺毛，當昆蟲落上葉面時，即會被粘住。腺毛極為敏感，如有外物觸及，即向內和向下運動，將蟲緊壓於葉面，當昆蟲逐漸消化後，腺毛即恢復原狀。Commonly known as the sundews, is one of the largest genera of carnivorous plants, with at least 194 species. [1] These members of the family Droseraceae lure, capture, and digest insects using stalked mucilaginous glands covering their leaf surfaces. The insects are used to supplement the poor mineral nutrition of the soil in which the plants grow. Various species, which vary greatly in size and form, are native to every continent except Antarctica. [2]
Both the botanical name (from the Greek δρόσος: drosos = "dew, dewdrops") and the English common name (sundew, derived from Latin ros solis, meaning "dew of the sun") refer to the glistening drops of mucilage at the tip of each tentacle that resemble drops of morning dew.
Droskies (n. pl. ) of Drosky.
Drosky (n.) （俄國的）無頂四輪馬車 A low, four-wheeled, open carriage, used in Russia, consisting of a kind of long, narrow bench, on which the passengers ride as on a saddle, with their feet reaching nearly to the ground. Other kinds of vehicles are now so called, esp. a kind of victoria drawn by one or two horses, and used as a public carriage in German cities.
[Written also {droitzschka}, {droshky} and {droschke}.]
Drosky (n.) An open horse-drawn carriage with four wheels; formerly used in Poland and Russia [syn: {droshky}, {drosky}].
Drosometer (n.) (Meteorol.) 露量計 An instrument for measuring the quantity of dew on the surface of a body in the open air. It consists of a balance, having a plate at one end to receive the dew, and at the other a weight protected from the deposit of dew.
Compare: Meteorology
Meteorology (n.) [Mass noun] 氣象學；氣象狀態 The branch of science concerned with the processes and phenomena of the atmosphere, especially as a means of forecasting the weather.
‘An induction course to learn basic meteorology’
Meteorology (n.) The climate and weather of a region.
‘Overwintering would allow the team to investigate the island's meteorology’
Dross (n.) 浮渣；渣滓；廢物 The scum or refuse matter which is thrown off, or falls from, metals in smelting the ore, or in the process of melting; recrement.
Dross (n.) Rust of metals. [R.] -- Addison.
Dross (n.) Waste matter; any worthless matter separated from the better part; leavings; dregs; refuse.
All world's glory is but dross unclean. -- Spenser.
At the devil's booth are all things sold, Each ounce of dross coats its ounce of gold. -- Lowell.
Dross (n.) Unwanted material that is removed from a mineral (such as gold) to make it better : something of low value or quality.
Dross (n.) Worthless or dangerous material that should be removed; "there were impurities in the water" [syn: {impurity}, {dross}].
Dross (n.) The scum formed by oxidation at the surface of molten metals [syn: {slag}, {scoria}, {dross}].
Dross (n.) The impurities of silver separated from the one in the process of melting (Prov. 25:4; 26:23; Ps. 119:119). It is also used to denote the base metal itself, probably before it is smelted, in Isa. 1:22, 25.
Dross (n.) Metallurgy : the scum or unwanted material that forms on the surface of molten metal.
Dross (n.) Waste or foreign matter : impurity.
Dross (n.) Something that is base (see 3 base 7), trivial, or inferior .
// There is quite a lot of dross on TV these days.
// A talent for turning literary dross into gold.
Drossy (a.) 不純淨的 of Dross.
Drossel (n.) A slut; a hussy; a drazel. [Obs.] -- Warner.
Drossless (a.) Free from dross. -- Stevens.
Drossy (a.) 不純淨的 Of, pertaining to, resembling, dross; full of dross; impure; worthless. " Drossy gold." --Dryden. "Drossy rhymes." -- Donne. -- {Dross"i*ness}, n.
Drotchel (n.) See Drossel.
Drough (imp.) of Draw.
Drought (n.) [C, U] 乾旱；旱災，長期乾旱 Dryness; want of rain or of water; especially, such dryness of the weather as affects the earth, and prevents the growth of plants; aridity.
The drought of March hath pierced to the root. -- Chaucer.
In a drought the thirsty creatures cry. -- Dryden.
Drought (n.) Thirst; want of drink. -- Johnson.
Drought (n.) Scarcity; lack.
A drought of Christian writers caused a dearth of all history. -- Fuller.
Drought (n.) A shortage of rainfall; "farmers most affected by the drought hope that there may yet be sufficient rain early in the growing season" [syn: {drought}, {drouth}].
Drought (n.) A prolonged shortage; "when England defeated Pakistan it ended a ten-year drought" [syn: {drought}, {drouth}].
Drought (n.) From the middle of May to about the middle of August the land of Palestine is dry. It is then the "drought of summer" (Gen. 31:40; Ps. 32:4), and the land suffers (Deut. 28:23: Ps. 102:4), vegetation being preserved only by the dews (Hag. 1:11). (See {DEW}.)
Droughtiness (n.) A state of dryness of the weather; want of rain.
Droughtiness (n.) (In British) The condition or state of being dry or arid.
Droughty (a.) 受旱的；乾旱的；【古】【方】口渴的 Characterized by drought; wanting rain; arid; adust.
Droughty and parched countries. -- Ray.
Droughty (a.) Dry; thirsty; wanting drink.
Thy droughty throat. -- Philips.
Droumy (a.) Troubled; muddy. [Obs.] -- Bacon
Drouth (n.) [C, U] 乾旱；旱災，長期乾旱 Same as {Drought}. -- Sandys.
Another ill accident is drouth at the spindling of corn. -- Bacon.
One whose drouth [thirst], Yet scarce allayed, still eyes the current stream. -- Milton.
In the dust and drouth of London life. -- Tennyson.
Drouth (n.) A prolonged shortage; "when England defeated Pakistan it ended a ten-year drought" [syn: {drought}, {drouth}].
Drouth (n.) A shortage of rainfall; "farmers most affected by the drought hope that there may yet be sufficient rain early in the growing season" [syn: {drought}, {drouth}].
Drouthy (a.) 乾旱的；幹躁的 Droughty.
Drove (imp.) of Drive.
Drove (n.) [C] （被驅趕的或向前走動的）畜群；人群；石工的平鑿 A collection of cattle driven, or cattle collected for driving; a number of animals, as oxen, sheep, or swine, driven in a body.
Drove (n.) Any collection of irrational animals, moving or driving forward; as, a finny drove.
Drove (n.) A crowd of people in motion.
Drove (n.) A road for driving cattle; a driftway.
Drove (n.) A narrow drain or channel used in the irrigation of land.
Drove (n.) A broad chisel used to bring stone to a nearly smooth surface; -- called also drove chisel.
Drove (n.) The grooved surface of stone finished by the drove chisel; -- called also drove work.
Droven (p. p.) of Drive.
Drover (n.) 把家畜趕到市集的人 One who drives cattle or sheep to market; one who makes it his business to purchase cattle, and drive them to market.
Why, that's spoken like an honest drover; so they sell bullocks. -- Shak.
Drover (n.) A boat driven by the tide. [Obs.] -- Spenser.
Drover (n.) Someone who drives a herd [syn: {herder}, {herdsman}, {drover}].
Drovy (a.) Turbid; muddy; filthy.
Drow (imp.) of Draw.
Drowned (imp. & p. p.) of Drown.
Drowning (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Drown.
Drown (v. i.) 把……淹死；淹沒，浸濕；（聲音等）壓過，蓋過 [（+out）]；解（憂愁等） To be suffocated in water or other fluid; to perish in water.
Methought, what pain it was to drown. -- Shak.
Drown (v. t.) 溺死；沉沒；浸沒 To overwhelm in water; to submerge; to inundate. "They drown the land." -- Dryden.
Drown (v. t.) To deprive of life by immersion in water or other liquid.
Drown (v. t.) To overpower; to overcome; to extinguish; -- said especially of sound.
Most men being in sensual pleasures drowned. -- Sir J. Davies.
My private voice is drowned amid the senate. -- Addison.
To drown up, to swallow up. [Obs.] -- Holland.
Drown (v.) Cover completely or make imperceptible; "I was drowned in work"; "The noise drowned out her speech" [syn: submerge, drown, overwhelm].
Drown (v.) Get rid of as if by submerging; "She drowned her trouble in alcohol".
Drown (v.) Die from being submerged in water, getting water into the lungs, and asphyxiating; "The child drowned in the lake".
Drown (v.) Kill by submerging in water; "He drowned the kittens".
Drown (v.) Be covered with or submerged in a liquid; "the meat was swimming in a fatty gravy" [syn: swim, drown].
Drownage (n.) The act of drowning. [R.]
Drowner (n.) One who, or that which, drowns.
Drowsed (imp. & p. p.) of Drowse.
Drowsing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Drowse.
Drowse (v. i.) 打瞌睡；迷迷糊糊 To sleep imperfectly or unsoundly; to slumber; to be heavy with sleepiness; to doze.
Drowse (v. t.) 使昏昏欲睡；使呆滯；使不活躍 To make heavy with sleepiness or imperfect sleep; to make dull or stupid. -- Milton.
Drowse (n.) 假寐 A slight or imperfect sleep; a doze.
But smiled on in a drowse of ecstasy. -- Mrs. Browning.
Drowse (v. i.) [imp. & p. p. Drowsed (drouzd); p. pr. & vb. n. Drowsing.] To sleep imperfectly or unsoundly; to slumber; to be heavy with sleepiness; to doze. "He drowsed upon his couch." -- South.
In the pool drowsed the cattle up to their knees. -- Lowell.
Drowse (n.) A light fitful sleep [syn: doze, drowse].
Drowse (v.) Sleep lightly or for a short period of time [syn: snooze, drowse, doze].
Drowse (v.) Be on the verge of sleeping; "The students were drowsing in the 8 AM class".
Drowsihead (n.) Drowsiness.
Drowsihed (n.) Drowsihead.
Drowsily (adv.) In a drowsy manner.
Drowsiness (n.) State of being drowsy.
Drowsy (a.) Inclined to drowse; heavy with sleepiness; lethargic; dozy.
Drowsy (a.) Disposing to sleep; lulling; soporific.
Drowsy (a.) Dull; stupid.
Drowsy (a.) 睡意朦朧的，半夢半醒的，似睡非睡的 Being in a state between sleeping and being awake.
// The room is so warm it's making me feel drowsy.
Drowth (n.) See Drought.
Droyle (v. i.) See Droil.
Drubbed (imp. & p. p.) of Drub.
Drubbing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Drub.
Drub (v. t.) 用棒打；打敗；打擊 To beat with a stick; to thrash; to cudgel.
Soundly Drubbed with a good honest cudgel. -- L'Estrange.
Drub (n.) A blow with a cudgel; a thump. -- Addison.
Drub (v.) Beat thoroughly and conclusively in a competition or fight; "We licked the other team on Sunday!" [syn: {cream}, {bat}, {clobber}, {drub}, {thrash}, {lick}].
Drubber (n.) One who drubs. -- Sir. W. Scott.
Drudged (imp. & p. p.) of Drudge.
Drudging (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Drudge.
Drudge (v. i.) 做苦工To perform menial work; to labor in mean or unpleasant offices with toil and fatigue.
He gradually rose in the estimation of the booksellers for whom he drudged. -- Macaulay.
Drudge (v. t.) To consume laboriously; -- with away.
Rise to our toils and drudge away the day. -- Otway.
Drudge (n.) 做苦工的人；做乏味工作的人 One who drudges; one who works hard in servile employment; a mental servant. -- Milton.
Drudge (n.) One who works hard at boring tasks [syn: {hack}, {drudge}, {hacker}].
Drudge (n.) A laborer who is obliged to do menial work [syn: {drudge}, {peon}, {navvy}, {galley slave}].
Drudge (v.) Work hard; "She was digging away at her math homework"; "Lexicographers drudge all day long" [syn: {labor}, {labour}, {toil}, {fag}, {travail}, {grind}, {drudge}, {dig}, {moil}].
Compare: Menial
Menial (a.) 僕人的；適於僕人的；奴顏婢膝的；卑賤的 (Of work) Not requiring much skill and lacking prestige.
‘Menial factory jobs.’
Menial (n.) 奴僕；奴顏婢膝的人 [C] (Dated) (A ttributive) (Of a servant) Domestic.
Drudger (n.) One who drudges; a drudge.
Drudger (n.) A dredging box.
Drudgery (n.) The act of drudging; disagreeable and wearisome labor; ignoble or slavish toil.
Drudging box () See Dredging box.
Drudgingly (adv.) In a drudging manner; laboriously.
Druery (n.) Courtship; gallantry; love; an object of love.
Drug (v. i.) To drudge; to toil laboriously. [Obs.] "To drugge and draw." -- Chaucer.
Drug (n.) A drudge (?). -- Shak. (Timon iv. 3, 253).
Drug (n.) Any animal, vegetable, or mineral substance used in the composition of medicines.
Whence merchants bring Their spicy drugs. -- Milton.
Drug (n.) Any commodity that lies on hand, or is not salable; an article of slow sale, or in no demand. -- used often in the phrase "a drug on the market". "But sermons are mere drugs." -- Fielding.
And virtue shall a drug become. -- Dryden.
Drug (n.) any stuff used in dyeing or in chemical operations.
Drug (n.) any substance intended for use in the treatment, prevention, diagnosis, or cure of disease, especially one listed in the official pharmacopoeia published by a national authority.
Drug (n.) any substance having psychological effects, such as a narcotic, stimulant, or hallucinogenic agent, especially habit-forming and addictive substances, sold or used illegally; as, a drug habit; a drug treatment program; a teenager into drugs; a drug bust; addicted to drugs; high on drugs.
Syn: illegal drug.
They [smaller and poorer nations] have lined up to recount how drug trafficking and consumption have corrupted their struggling economies and societies and why they are hard pressed to stop it. -- Christopher S.
Wren (N Y. Times, June 10, 1998, p. A5)
Drugged (imp. & p. p.) of Drug.
Drugging (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Drug.
Drugging (n.) 鎮靜 The administration of a sedative agent or drug. (Syn: Sedation)
Drug (v. i.) To prescribe or administer drugs or medicines.
Drug (v. t.) To affect or season with drugs or ingredients; esp., to stupefy by a narcotic drug. Also Fig.
The laboring masses . . . [were] drugged into brutish good humor by a vast system of public spectacles. -- C. Kingsley.
Drug thy memories, lest thou learn it. -- Tennyson.
Drug (v. t.) To tincture with something offensive or injurious.
Drugged as oft, With hatefullest disrelish writhed their jaws. -- Milton.
Drug (v. t.) To dose to excess with, or as with, drugs.
With pleasure drugged, he almost longed for woe. -- Byron.
Drug (n.) A substance that is used as a medicine or narcotic
Drug (v.) Administer a drug to; "They drugged the kidnapped tourist" [syn: drug, dose].
Drug (v.) Use recreational drugs [syn: drug, do drugs].
Drugger (n.) A druggist. [Obs.] -- Burton.
Drugget (n.) A coarse woolen cloth dyed of one color or printed on one side; generally used as a covering for carpets.
Drugget (n.) By extension, any material used for the same purpose.
Druggist (n.) One who deals in drugs; especially, one who buys and sells drugs without compounding them; also, a pharmaceutist or apothecary.
Drugster (n.) A druggist.
Drugstore (n.) [ C ] (US UK C hemist, chemist's) (B1) （兼售化妝品、糖果等的）藥房 A shop where you can buy medicines, make-up, and other things such as chocolate.
Druid (n.) One of an order of priests which in ancient times existed among certain branches of the Celtic race, especially among the Gauls and Britons.
Druid (n.) A member of a social and benevolent order, founded in London in 1781, and professedly based on the traditions of the ancient Druids. Lodges or groves of the society are established in other countries.
Druidess (n.) A female Druid; a prophetess.
Druidic (a.) Alt. of Druidical
Druidical (a.) Pertaining to, or resembling, the Druids.
Druidish (a.) Druidic.
Druidism (n.) The system of religion, philosophy, and instruction, received and taught by the Druids; the rites and ceremonies of the Druids.
Drum (n.) An instrument of percussion, consisting either of a hollow cylinder, over each end of which is stretched a piece of skin or vellum, to be beaten with a stick; or of a metallic hemisphere (kettledrum) with a single piece of skin to be so beaten; the common instrument for marking time in martial music; one of the pair of tympani in an orchestra, or cavalry band.
Drum (n.) Anything resembling a drum in form
Drum (n.) A sheet iron radiator, often in the shape of a drum, for warming an apartment by means of heat received from a stovepipe, or a cylindrical receiver for steam, etc.