Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter D - Page 96
Drawback (n.) (Com.) Money paid back or remitted; especially, a certain amount of duties or customs, sometimes the whole, and sometimes only a part, remitted or paid back by the government, on the exportation of the commodities on which they were levied. -- MCCulloch.
Drawback (n.) The quality of being a hindrance; "he pointed out all the drawbacks to my plan."
Drawback (n.), com. law. An allowance made by the government to merchants on the reexportation of certain imported goods liable to duties, which, in some cases, consists of the whole; in others, of a part of the duties which had been paid upon the importation. For the various acts of congress which regulate drawbacks, see Story, L. U. S. Index, h.t.
Drawbar (n.) (Railroad) An openmouthed bar at the end of a car, which receives a coupling link and pin by which the car is drawn.
It is usually provided with a spring to give elasticity to the connection between the cars of a train.
Drawbar (n.) (Railroad) A bar of iron with an eye at each end, or a heavy link, for coupling a locomotive to a tender or car.
Drawbar (n.) A strong metal bar bearing a hook to attach something to be pulled.
Drawbench (n.) (Med.) A machine in which strips of metal are drawn through a drawplate; especially, one in which wire is thus made; -- also called drawing bench.
Drawbolt (n.) (Engin.) A coupling pin. See under Coupling.
Drawbore (n.) (Joinery) A hole bored through a tenon nearer to the shoulder than the holes through the cheeks are to the edge or abutment against which the shoulder is to rest, so that a pin or bolt, when driven into it, will draw these parts together. -- Weale.
Drawbore (v. t.) To make a drawbore in; as, to drawbore a tenon.
Drawbore (v. t.) To enlarge the bore of a gun barrel by drawing, instead of thrusting, a revolving tool through it.
Drawboy (n.) (Weaving) A boy who operates the harness cords of a hand loom; also, a part of power loom that performs the same office.
Compare: Drawloom
Drawloom (n.) A kind of loom used in weaving figured patterns; -- called also drawboy.
Drawloom (n.) A species of damask made on the drawloom.
Drawbridge (n.) A bridge of which either the whole or a part is made to be raised up, let down, or drawn or turned aside, to admit or hinder communication at pleasure, as before the gate of a town or castle, or over a navigable river or canal.
Note: The movable portion, or draw, is called, specifically, a bascule, balance, or lifting bridge, a turning, swivel, or swing bridge, or a rolling bridge, according as it turns on a hinge vertically, or on a pivot horizontally, or is pushed on rollers.
Drawbridge (n.) A bridge that can be raised to block passage or to allow boats or ships to pass beneath it [syn: drawbridge, lift bridge].
Drawcansir (n.) A blustering, bullying fellow; a pot-valiant braggart; a bully.
The leader was of an ugly look and gigantic stature; he acted like a drawcansir, sparing neither friend nor foe. -- Addison.
Draw-cut (n.) A single cut with a knife.
Drawee (n.) (Law) 付款人；受票人 The person on whom an order or bill of exchange is drawn; -- the correlative of drawer.
Drawee (n.) The person (or bank) who is expected to pay a check or draft when it is presented for payment.
Drawee (n.) A person to whom a bill of exchange is addressed, and who is requested to pay the amount of money therein mentioned.
Drawee (n.) The drawee may be only one person, or there may be several persons. The drawee may be a third person, or a man may draw a bill on himself. 18 Ves. jr. 69; Carth. 509; 1 Show. 163; 3 Burr. 1077.
Drawee (n.) The drawee should accept or refuse to accept the bill at furthest within twenty-four hours after presentment. 2 Smith's R. 243; 1 Ld. Raym. 281 Com. Dig. Merchant, F 6; Marius, 15; but it is said the holder is entitled. to a definite answer if the mail go out in the meantime. Marius' 62. In case the bill has been left with the drawee for his acceptance, he will be considered as having accepted it, if he keep the bill a great length of time, or do any other act which gives credit to the bill, and induces the holder not to protest it; or is intended as a surprise upon him, and to induce him to consider the bill as accepted. Chit. on Bills, 227. When he accepts it, it is his duty to pay it at maturity.
Drawer (n.) One who, or that which, draws. as:
Drawer (n.) One who draws liquor for guests; a waiter in a taproom. -- Shak.
Drawer (n.) One who delineates or depicts; a draughtsman; as, a good drawer.
Drawer (n.) (Law) One who draws a bill of exchange or order for payment; -- the correlative of drawee.
Drawer (n.) That which is drawn. as:
Drawer (n.) A sliding box or receptacle in a case, which is opened by pulling or drawing out, and closed by pushing in.
Drawer (n.) pl. An under-garment worn on the lower limbs.
Chest of drawers. See under Chest.
Drawer (n.) A boxlike container in a piece of furniture; made so as to slide in and out.
Drawer (n.) The person who writes a check or draft instructing the drawee to pay someone else.
Drawer (n.) An artist skilled at drawing [syn: draftsman, drawer].
Drawer, () contracts. The party who makes a bill of exchange.
Drawer, () The obligations of the drawer to the drawee and every subsequent holder lawfully entitled to the possession, are, that the person on whom he draws is capable of binding himself by his acceptance that he is to be found at the place where he is described to reside, if a description be given in the bill; that if the bill be duly presented to him, he will accept in writing on the bill itself, according to its tenor, and that he will pay it when it becomes due, if presented in proper time for that purpose; and that if the drawee fail to do either, he, the drawer, will pay the amount, provided he have due notice of the dishonor. 3. The engagement of the drawer of a bill is in all its parts absolute and irrevocable. 2 H. Bl. 378; 3 B. & P. 291; Poth. Contr. de Change, n. 58; Chit. Bills, 214, Dane's Ab. h.t.
Compare: Chest
Chest (n.) A large box of wood, or other material, having, like a trunk, a lid, but no covering of skin, leather, or cloth.
Heaps of money crowded in the chest. -- Dryden.
Chest (n.) A coffin. [Obs.]
He is now dead and mailed in his cheste. -- Chaucer.
Chest (n.) The part of the body inclosed by the ribs and breastbone; the thorax.
Chest (n.) (Com.) A case in which certain goods, as tea, opium, etc., are transported; hence, the quantity which such a case contains.
Chest (n.) (Mech.) A tight receptacle or box, usually for holding gas, steam, liquids, etc.; as, the steam chest of an engine; the wind chest of an organ.
Bomb chest, See under Bomb.
Chest of drawers, A case or movable frame containing drawers.
Chest of drawers (n.) Furniture with drawers for keeping clothes [syn: chest of drawers, chest, bureau, dresser].
Drawer (n.) (Furniture) (A2) [ C ] 抽屜 A box-shaped container, without a top, that is part of a piece of furniture. It slides in and out to open and close and is used for keeping things in.
// I keep my socks in the bottom drawer.
// He rummaged through his desk drawer trying to find a pen.
Drawer (n.) (Clothes) Drawers (n. pl.) (Old-fashioned) 內褲，襯褲 Underpants.
Chest of drawers (n.) [ C ] (US also Bureau) (B1) 五斗櫥；（有抽屜的）衣櫃，衣櫥 A piece of furniture with drawers in which you keep things such as clothes.
Drawfiling (n.) The process of smooth filing by working the file sidewise instead of lengthwise.
Drawgear (n.) A harness for draught horses.
Drawgear (n.) (Railroad) The means or parts by which cars are connected to be drawn.
Drawgloves (n. pl.) An old game, played by holding up the fingers. -- Herrick.
Drawhead (n.) (Railroad) The flanged outer end of a drawbar; also, a name applied to the drawgear.
Drawing (n.) The act of pulling, or attracting.
Drawing (n.) The act or the art of representing any object by means of lines and shades; especially, such a representation when in one color, or in tints used not to represent the colors of natural objects, but for effect only, and produced with hard material such as pencil, chalk, etc.; delineation; also, the figure or representation drawn.
Drawing (n.) The process of stretching or spreading metals as by hammering, or, as in forming wire from rods or tubes and cups from sheet metal, by pulling them through dies.
Drawing (n.) (Textile Manuf.) The process of pulling out and elongating the sliver from the carding machine, by revolving rollers, to prepare it for spinning.
Drawing (n.) The distribution of prizes and blanks in a lottery.
Note: Drawing is used adjectively or as the first part of compounds in the sense of pertaining to drawing, for drawing (in the sense of pulling, and of pictorial representation); as, drawing master or drawing-master, drawing knife or drawing-knife, drawing machine, drawing board, drawing paper, drawing pen, drawing pencil, etc.
A drawing of tea, A small portion of tea for steeping.
Drawing knife. See in the Vocabulary.
Drawing paper (Fine Arts), A thick, sized paper for draughtsman and for water-color painting.
Drawing slate, A soft, slaty substance used in crayon drawing; -- called also black chalk, or drawing chalk.
Free-hand drawing, A style of drawing made without the use of guiding or measuring instruments, as distinguished from mechanical or geometrical drawing; also, a drawing thus executed. Drawing knife
Drawing knife (n.) Alt. of Drawknife.
Drawknife (n.) A joiner's tool having a blade with a handle at each end, used to shave off surfaces, by drawing it toward one; a shave; -- called also drawshave, and drawing shave.
Drawknife (n.) A tool used for the purpose of making an incision along the path a saw is to follow, to prevent it from tearing the surface of the wood.
Drawing-room (n.) A room appropriated for the reception of company; a room to which company withdraws from the dining room.
Drawing-room (n.) The company assembled in such a room; also, a reception of company in it; as, to hold a drawing-room.
Drawl (n.) A lengthened, slow monotonous utterance.
Drawled (imp. & p. p.) of Drawl.
Drawling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Drawl.
Drawl (v. t.) To utter in a slow, lengthened tone.
Drawl (v. i.) To speak with slow and lingering utterance, from laziness, lack of spirit, affectation, etc.
Theologians and moralists . . . talk mostly in a drawling and dreaming way about it. -- Landor.
Drawl (n.) A slow speech pattern with prolonged vowels.
Drawl (v.) Lengthen and slow down or draw out; "drawl one's vowels."
Drawlatch (n.) A housebreaker or thief. [Obs.] -- Old Play (1631).
Drawling (n.) The act of speaking with a drawl; a drawl. -- Drawl"ing*ly, adv. -- Bacon.
Compare: Shackle
Shackle (n.) [Generally used in the plural.] Something which confines the legs or arms so as to prevent their free motion; specifically, a ring or band inclosing the ankle or wrist, and fastened to a similar shackle on the other leg or arm, or to something else, by a chain or a strap; a gyve; a fetter.
His shackles empty left; himself escaped clean. -- Spenser.
Shackle (n.) Hence, that which checks or prevents free action.
His very will seems to be in bonds and shackles. -- South.
Shackle (n.) A fetterlike band worn as an ornament.
Most of the men and women . . . had all earrings made of gold, and gold shackles about their legs and arms. -- Dampier.
Shackle (n.) A link or loop, as in a chain, fitted with a movable bolt, so that the parts can be separated, or the loop removed; a clevis.
Shackle (n.) A link for connecting railroad cars; -- called also drawlink, draglink, etc.
Shackle (n.) The hinged and curved bar of a padlock, by which it is hung to the staple. -- Knight.
Shackle joint (Anat.), A joint formed by a bony ring passing through a hole in a bone, as at the bases of spines in some fishes.
Drawlink (n.) Same as Drawbar (b).
Dragbar (n.) Same as Drawbar (b) . Called also draglink, and drawlink. [U. S.]
Drawloom (n.) A kind of loom used in weaving figured patterns; -- called also drawboy.
Drawloom (n.) A species of damask made on the drawloom.
Drawn (p. p. & a.) See Draw, v. t. & i.
Drawnet (n.) A net for catching the larger sorts of birds; also, a dragnet.
Drawplate (n.) A hardened steel plate having a hole, or a gradation of conical holes, through which wires are drawn to be reduced and elongated.
Drawrod (n.) A rod which unites the drawgear at opposite ends of the car, and bears the pull required to draw the train.
Drawshave (n.) See Drawing knife.
Drawspring (n.) The spring to which a drawbar is attached.
Dray (n.) A squirrel's nest. -- Cowper.
Dray (n.) A strong low cart or carriage used for heavy burdens. -- Addison.
Dray (n.) A kind of sledge or sled. -- Halliwell.
Dray cart, A dray.
Dray horse, A heavy, strong horse used in drawing a dray.
Dray (n.) A low heavy horse cart without sides; used for haulage [syn: dray, camion].
Drayage (n.) Use of a dray.
Drayage (n.) The charge, or sum paid, for the use of a dray.
Draymen (n. pl. ) of Drayman.
Drayman (n.) A man who attends a dray.
Drazel (n.) A slut; a vagabond wench. Same as Drossel. [Obs.] -- Hudibras.
Dreaded (imp. & p. p.) of Dread.
Dreading (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dread.
Dread (v. t.) 懼怕；擔心 [+to-v] [+v-ing] [+（that）] To fear in a great degree; to regard, or look forward to, with terrific apprehension.
When at length the moment dreaded through so many years came close, the dark cloud passed away from Johnson's mind. -- Macaulay.
Dread (a.) Exciting great fear or apprehension; causing terror; frightful; dreadful.
A dread eternity! how surely mine. -- Young.
Dread (a.) Inspiring with reverential fear; awful' venerable; as, dread sovereign; dread majesty; dread tribunal.
Dread (v. i.) 懼怕；擔心 To be in dread, or great fear.
Dread not, neither be afraid of them. -- Deut. i. 29.
Dread (n.) 恐懼，害怕；憂慮 Great fear in view of impending evil; fearful apprehension of danger; anticipatory terror.
The secret dread of divine displeasure. -- Tillotson.
The dread of something after death. -- Shak.
Dread (n.) Reverential or respectful fear; awe.
The fear of you, and the dread of you, shall be upon every beast of the earth. -- Gen. ix. 2.
His scepter shows the force of temporal power, The attribute to awe and majesty, Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings. -- Shak.
Dread (n.) An object of terrified apprehension.
Dread (n.) A person highly revered. [Obs.] "Una, his dear dread." -- Spenser.
Dread (n.) Fury; dreadfulness. [Obs.] -- Spenser.
Dread (n.) Doubt; as, out of dread. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Syn: Awe; fear; affright; terror; horror; dismay; apprehension. See Reverence.
Dread (a.) Causing fear or dread or terror; "the awful war"; "an awful risk"; "dire news"; "a career or vengeance so direful that London was shocked"; "the dread presence of the headmaster"; "polio is no longer the dreaded disease it once was"; "a dreadful storm"; "a fearful howling"; "horrendous explosions shook the city"; "a terrible curse" [syn: awful, dire, direful, dread(a), dreaded, dreadful, fearful, fearsome, frightening, horrendous, horrific, terrible].
Dread (n.) Fearful expectation or anticipation; "the student looked around the examination room with apprehension" [syn: apprehension, apprehensiveness, dread].
Dread (v.) Be afraid or scared of; be frightened of; "I fear the winters in Moscow"; "We should not fear the Communists!" [syn: fear, dread].
Dreadable (a.) Worthy of being dreaded.
Dread-bolted (a.) Armed with dreaded bolts. "Dread-bolted thunder." [Poetic] -- Shak.
Dreader (n.) One who fears, or lives in fear.
Dreadful (a.) Full of dread or terror; fearful. [Obs.] "With dreadful heart." -- Chaucer.
Dreadful (a.) Inspiring dread; impressing great fear; fearful; terrible; as, a dreadful storm. " Dreadful gloom." --Milton.
For all things are less dreadful than they seem. -- Wordsworth.
Dreadful (a.) Inspiring awe or reverence; awful. [Obs.] "God's dreadful law." -- Shak.
Syn: Fearful; frightful; terrific; terrible; horrible; horrid; formidable; tremendous; awful; venerable. See Frightful.
Dreadful (a.) Causing fear or dread or terror; "the awful war"; "an awful risk"; "dire news"; "a career or vengeance so direful that London was shocked"; "the dread presence of the headmaster"; "polio is no longer the dreaded disease it once was"; "a dreadful storm"; "a fearful howling"; "horrendous explosions shook the city"; "a terrible curse" [syn: awful, dire, direful, dread(a), dreaded, dreadful, fearful, fearsome, frightening, horrendous, horrific, terrible].
Dreadful (a.) Exceptionally bad or displeasing; "atrocious taste"; "abominable workmanship"; "an awful voice"; "dreadful manners"; "a painful performance"; "terrible handwriting"; "an unspeakable odor came sweeping into the room" [syn: atrocious, abominable, awful, dreadful, painful, terrible, unspeakable].
Dreadful (a.) Very unpleasant.
Dreadfully (adv.) In a dreadful manner; terribly. -- Dryden.
Dreadfully (adv.) Of a dreadful kind; "there was a dreadfully bloody accident on the road this morning" [syn: dreadfully, awfully, horribly].
Dreadfully (adv.) In a dreadful manner; "as he looks at the mess he has left behind he must wonder how the Brits so often managed to succeed in the kind of situation where he has so dismally failed" [syn: dismally, dreadfully].
Dreadfulness (n.) The quality of being dreadful.
Dreadfulness (n.) A quality of extreme unpleasantness [syn: awfulness, dreadfulness, horridness, terribleness].
Dreadingly (adv.) With dread. -- Warner.
Dreadless (a.) Free from dread; fearless; intrepid; dauntless; as, dreadless heart. "The dreadless angel." -- Milton.
Dreadless (a.) Exempt from danger which causes dread; secure. " safe in his dreadless den." -- Spenser.
Dreadless (adv.) Without doubt. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Dreadlessness (n.) Freedom from dread.
Dreadlessness (n.) (In British English) The state or quality of being without fear or dread.
Dreadly (a.) Dreadful. [Obs.] "Dreadly spectacle." -- Spenser.
Dreadly (adv.) With dread. [Obs.] "Dreadly to shake." --Sylvester (Du Bartas).
Dreadnaught (n.) A fearless person.
Dreadnaught (n.) Hence: A garment made of very thick cloth, that can defend against storm and cold; also, the cloth itself; fearnaught.
Dreadnaught (n.) A dreadnought, in either sense.
Dreadnought (n.) (Capitalized) A British battleship, completed in 1906 -- 1907, having an armament consisting of ten 12-inch guns mounted in turrets, and of twenty-four 12-pound quick-fire guns for protection against torpedo boats. This was the first battleship of the type characterized by a main armament of big guns all of the same caliber. She had a displacement of 17,900 tons at load draft, and a speed of 21 knots per hour.
Dreadnought (n.) Any battleship having its main armament entirely of big guns all of one caliber. Since the Dreadnought was built, the caliber of the heaviest guns has increased from 12 in. to 131/2 in., 14 in., and 15 in., and the displacement of the largest batteships from 18,000 tons to 30,000 tons and upwards. The term superdreadnought is popularly applied to battleships with such increased displacement and gun caliber. [Also spelled dreadnaught.]
Dreadnaught (n.) Battleship that has big guns all of the same caliber [syn: dreadnought, dreadnaught].
Dream (v. t.) To have a dream of; to see, or have a vision of, in sleep, or in idle fancy; -- often followed by an objective clause.
Your old men shall dream dreams. -- Acts ii. 17.
At length in sleep their bodies they compose, And dreamt the future fight. -- Dryden.
And still they dream that they shall still succeed. -- Cowper.
To dream away To dream out, To dream through, etc., to pass in revery or inaction; to spend in idle vagaries; as, to dream away an hour; to dream through life. " Why does Antony dream out his hours?" -- Dryden.
Dream (n.) The thoughts, or series of thoughts, or imaginary transactions, which occupy the mind during sleep; a sleeping vision.
Dreams are but interludes which fancy makes. -- Dryden.
I had a dream which was not all a dream. -- Byron.
Dream (n.) A visionary scheme; a wild conceit; an idle fancy; a vagary; a revery; -- in this sense, applied to an imaginary or anticipated state of happiness; as, a dream of bliss; the dream of his youth.
There sober thought pursued the amusing theme, Till Fancy colored it and formed a dream. -- Pope.
It is not them a mere dream, but a very real aim which they propose. -- J. C. Shairp.
Dreamed (imp. & p. p.) of Dream.
Dreamt () of Dream.
Dreaming (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dream.
Dream (v. t.) To have ideas or images in the mind while in the state of sleep; to experience sleeping visions; -- often with of; as, to dream of a battle, or of an absent friend.
Dream (n.) To let the mind run on in idle revery or vagary; to anticipate vaguely as a coming and happy reality; to have a visionary notion or idea; to imagine.
Here may we sit and dream Over the heavenly theme. -- Keble.
They dream on in a constant course of reading, but not digesting. -- Locke.
Dream (n.) A series of mental images and emotions occurring during sleep; "I had a dream about you last night" [syn: dream, dreaming].
Dream (n.) Imaginative thoughts indulged in while awake; "he lives in a dream that has nothing to do with reality" [syn: dream, dreaming].
Dream (n.) A cherished desire; "his ambition is to own his own business" [syn: ambition, aspiration, dream].
Dream (n.) A fantastic but vain hope (from fantasies induced by the opium pipe); "I have this pipe dream about being emperor of the universe" [syn: pipe dream, dream].
Dream (n.) A state of mind characterized by abstraction and release from reality; "he went about his work as if in a dream."
Dream (n.) Someone or something wonderful; "this dessert is a dream."
Dream (v.) Have a daydream; indulge in a fantasy [syn: dream, daydream, woolgather, stargaze].
Dream (v.) Experience while sleeping; "She claims to never dream"; "He dreamt a strange scene."
Dream, () God has frequently made use of dreams in communicating his will to men. The most remarkable instances of this are recorded in the history of Jacob (Gen. 28:12; 31:10), Laban (31:24), Joseph (37:9-11), Gideon (Judg. 7), and Solomon (1 Kings 3:5). Other significant dreams are also recorded, such as those of Abimelech (Gen. 20:3-7), Pharaoh's chief butler and baker (40:5), Pharaoh (41:1-8), the Midianites (Judg. 7:13), Nebuchadnezzar (Dan. 2:1; 4:10, 18), the wise men from the east (Matt. 2:12), and Pilate's wife (27:19).
To Joseph "the Lord appeared in a dream," and gave him instructions regarding the infant Jesus (Matt. 1:20; 2:12, 13, 19). In a vision of the night a "man of Macedonia" stood before Paul and said, "Come over into Macedonia and help us" (Acts 16:9; see also 18:9; 27:23).
Dreamer (n.) One who dreams.
Dreamer (n.) A visionary; one lost in wild imaginations or vain schemes of some anticipated good; as, a political dreamer.
Dreamer (n.) Someone who is dreaming.
Dreamer (n.) Someone guided more by ideals than by practical considerations [syn: idealist, dreamer].
Dreamer (n.) A person who escapes into a world of fantasy [syn: escapist, dreamer, wishful thinker].
Dreamful (a.) Full of dreams. " Dreamful ease." -- Tennyson. -- Dream"ful*ly, adv.
Dreamily (adv.) As if in a dream; softly; slowly; languidly. -- Longfellow.
Dreamily (adv.) In a dreamy manner; "`She would look beautiful in the new dress,' Tommy said dreamily" [syn: dreamily, moonily, dreamfully].