well how to lead him into a mistake, and then drive him into choler. Clarendon. It is better to marry than to burn, says St. Paul; where we may see what drives men into a conjugal life: a little burning pushes us more powerfully than greater pleasures in prospect. Locke. 16. To urge; to press to a conclusion. The experiment of wood that shineth in the dark, we have diligently driven and pursued; the rather for that, of all things that give light here be low, it is the most durable, and hath least apparent motion. Bacon's Natural History. We have thus the proper notions of the four elements, and both them and their qualities driven up and resolved into their most simple principles. Digby on Bodies. To drive the argument farther, let us inquire into the obvious designs of this divine architect. Cheyne's Philosophical Principles. The design of these orators was to drive some particular point, either the condemnation or acquittal. Savift. 17. To carry on; to keep in motion. usury. As a farmer cannot husband his ground so well, if he sit at a great rent; so the merchant cannot drive his trade so well, if he sit at great Bacon. The bees have common cities of their own, And common sort; beneath one law they live, And with one common stock their traffick drive. Dryden. Your Pasimond a lawless bargain drove, The parent could not sell the daughter's love. Dryden. The trade of life cannot be driven without partners. Collier. 18. To purify by motion: so we say to drive feathers. His thrice driven bed of down. Shaksp. The one's in the plot, let him be never so innocent; and the other is as white as the driven snow, let him be never so criminal. L'Estrange. 19. To DRIVE out. To expel. Tumults and their exciters drave myself and many of both houses out of their places. King Charles. As soon as they heard the name of Roscetes, they forthwith drave out their governour, and received the Turks into the town. Knolles. To DRIVE. V. n. 1. To go as impelled by any external agent. The needle endeavours to conform unto the meridian; but, being distracted, driveth that way where the greater and powerfuller part of the earth is placed. Brown's Vulgar Errors. Love, fixt to one, still safe at anchor rides, And dares the fury of the winds and tides; But losing once that hold, to the wide ocean born, It drives away at will, to every wave a scorn. Dryden. Nor with the rising storm would vainly strive; But left the helm, and let the vessel drive. 2. To rush with violence. Dryden. Fierce Boreas drove against his flying sails, And rent the sheets. Dryden's Encid. Near as he draws, thick harbingers of smoke With gloomy pillars cover all the place; Whose little intervals of night are broke By sparks that drive against his sacred face. Dryden. Then with so swift an ebb the flood drove backward, It slipt from underneath the scaly herd. Dryden. Dryden. As a ship, which winds and waves assail," Now with the current drives, now with the gale; She feels a double force, by turns obeys Th' imperious tempest and th' impetuous seas. Dryden. The wolves scampered away, however, as hard as they could drive. L'Estrange. Thick as autumnal leaves, or driving sand, The moving squadrons blacken all the strand. 3. To pass in a carriage. Pope's Iliad. There is a litter ready; lay him in 't, Thy flaming chariot-wheels that shook Milton. 4. To tend to; to consider as the scope and ultimate design. Authors drive at these, as the highest elegancies, which are but the frigidities of wit. Brown. We cannot widely mistake his discourse, when we have found out the point he drives at. Lecke. They look no further before them than the next line; where it will inevitably follow, that they can drive to no certain point, but ramble from one subject to another. Dryde We have done our work, and are come within view of the end that we have been driving at. Addison on the War. 5. To aim; to strike at with fury. Four rogues in buckram let drive at me. Shaksp. Henry W. At Auxur's shield he drove, and at the blow Both shield and arm to ground together go. Dryden's Eneid. 6. To drive, in all its senses, whether active or neuter, may be observed to retain a sense compounded of violence and progression, To DRIVEL. v. n. [from drip, dripple, dribble, drivel.] 1. To slaver; to let the spittle fall in drops, like a child, an ideot, or a dotard. I met with this Chremes, a driveling old fellow, lean, shaking both of head and hands. already half earth, and yet then most greedy of Sidney. No man could spit from him, but would be forced to drivel like some paralytick, or a fool. Gret earth. prove. While still more wretch, more wicked, he doth DRIVELLER..S. [from drivel.] A fool; Sidney. an ideot; a slaverer. I have heard the arrantest drivellers commended for their shrewdness, even by men of tolerable judgment. Swift. DRIVEN. The participle of drive. DRIVER. . . [from drive.] Job. 1. The person or instrument that gives any motion by violence. 2. One who drives beasts. He from the many-people city flies; The driver runs up to him immediately, and 3. One who drives a carriage. Not the fierce driver with more fury lends The sounding lash, and, ere the stroke descends, T DRIZZLE. v.a. [driselen, German, When the sun sets, the air doth drizzle dew. Though now this face of mine be hid To DRIZZLE. V. n. Shakspeare. slow drops. To fall in short Spenser. by petty tricks; a jester; a buffoons a jack pudding. As he was running home in all haste, a drell takes him up by the way. L'Estrange Why, how now, Andrew? cries his brother droll; To-day's conceit, methinks, is something dull. Democritus, dear droll! revisit earth, 2. A farce; something exhibited to raise Her heart did melt in great compassion, This day will pour down, Milton. Some as justly fame extols, The neighbouring mountains, by reason of their height, are more exposed to the dews and drizzling rains than any of the adjacent parts. Such august designs as inspire your inquiries, used to be decided by drolling fantasticks, that have only wit enough to make others and themselves ridiculous. Glanville. Men that will not be reasoned into their. senses, may yet be laughed or drolled into them. L'Estrange. DRO LLERY. 2. s. [from droll.] Idle Let virtuosos insult and despise on, yet they never shall be able to droll away nature. South. jokes; buffoonery. They hang between heav'n and hell, borrow the christian's faith, and the atheist's drollery upon it. Government of the Tongue DROMEDARY. n. s. [dromedare, Ital.] A sort of camel, so called from its swiftness, because it is said to travel a hundred miles a-day. DRIZZLY. adj. [from drizzle.] Shedd- sluggard. A drone; a To DROIL. v. n. To work sluggishly and slowly; to plod. Let such vile vassals, born to base vocation, Drudge in the world, and for their living droil, Which have no wit to live without entoyle. Spenser. Desuetude doc contract and narrow our faculties, so that we can apprehend only those things in which we are conversant: the droiling peasant scarce thinks there is any world beyond the neighbouring markets. Gov. of the Ton DROLL. n. s. [droler, French.] we. 1. One whose business is to raise mirth VOL. II. Dromedaries are smaller than common camels, DRONE. n. s. [dɲoen, Saxon.] 2. A sluggard; an idler. Cleaveland. He tipples palmestry and dines. On all her fortune-telling lines. To DRONE. V. n. [from the noun.] 1. To live in idleness; to dream. What have I lost by my forefathers fault! Why was not I the twentieth by descent From a long restive race of droning kings? 2. To give a heavy dull tone. Dryden. Melfoil and honeysuckles pound, With these alluring savours strew the ground, And mix with tinkling brass the cymbal's droning sound. Dryden. DRO NISH. adj. [from drone.] Idle; sluggish; dreaming; lazy; indolent; unactive. The dronish monks, the scorn, and shame of manhood, Rouse and prepare once more to take possession, To nestle in their ancient hives again. Rozve. To DROOP. V. n. [droef, sorrow, Dutch.] 1. To languish with sorrow. Conceiving the dishonour of his mother, He straight declin'd, droop'd, took it deeply; Fasten'd and fix'd the shame on 't in himself. Shaksp. 1 droop, with struggling spent ; My thoughts are on my sorrows bent. Sandys. 2. To faint; to grow weak; to be dispirited. I find my zenith doth depend upon Shaksp. Tempest. Good things of day begin to droop and drowse, While night's black agents to their prey do Shaksp. When by impulse from heav'n Tyrtæus sung, In drooping soldiers a new courage sprung. rouse. Roscommon. Can flow'rs but droop in absence of the sun Which wak'd their sweets? and mine, alas! is gone. Dryden. Time seems not now beneath his years to stoop, Nor do his wings with sickly feathers droop. Dryden. When factious rage to cruel exile drove The queen of beauty and the court of love, The muses droop'd with their forsaken arts. I'll animate the soldiers drooping courage Dryden. With love of freedom and contempt of life. Addison's Cate.. I saw him ten days before he died, and observed he began very much to droop and languish. Swift. 3. To sink; to lean downward: commonly by weakness or grief. I never from thy side henceforth must stray, Where'er our day's work lies; though now enjoin'd Laborious; till day droop. Milton's Par. Lost. His head, though gay, Carnation, purple, azure, or speck'd with gold, Hung drooping, unsustain'd. Milton's Par. Lost. On her heav'd bosom hung her drooping head, Which with a sigh she rais'd, and this she said. Pope. DROP. n. s. [Snoppa, Saxon.] 1. A globule of moisture; as much liquor as falls at once when there is not a continual stream. Meet we the med'cine of our country's weal, ́ 2. And with him pour we, in our country's purge Each drop of us. Shakst Macbeth -Whereas Aristotle tells us, that if a drop of wine be put into ten thousand measures of wa ter, the wine, being overpowered by so vast a quantity of water, will be turned into it; he speaks very improbably. Admiring in the gloomy shade Those little drops of light. Boyle. Waller. Had I but known that Sancho was his father, I would have pour'da deluge of my blood To save one drop of his. Dryden's Span. Friar Diamond hanging in the ear. The drops to thee, Brillante, we consign; And, Momentilla, let the watch be thine. Pope. DROP SERENE. n. s. [gutta serena, Lat.] A disease of the eye, proceeding from an inspissation of the humour. So thick a drop serene hath quench'd their orbs, Or dim suffusion veil'd! Milton's Par. Lost. To DROP. v. a. [droppan, Saxon.] 1. To pour in drops or single globules. His heavens shall drop down dew. 2. To let fall. Deut. EX To suffer to vanish, or come to no- Thus was the fame of our Saviour perpetuated by such records as would preserve the traditionary account of him to after-ages; and rectify it, if, by passing through several generations, it might drop any part that was material. Addison. Opinions, like fashions, always descend from those of quality to the middle sort, and thence to the vulgar, where they are dropped and vanish. 10. To bedrop; to speckle; to variegate Swift. with spots. Varies stellatus corpora guttis. Or sporting, with quick glance, To DROP. v. n. 1. To fall in drops, or single globules. 2. To let drops fall; to discharge itself in drops. The heavens dropped at the presence of God. Psalms. While cumber'd with my dropping cloaths I lay, The cruel nation, covetous of prey,, stone. 3. To fall; to come from a higher place. Philosophers conjecture that you dropped from the moon, or one of the stars. Gulliver's Trav. In every revolution, approaching nearer and nearer to the sun, this comet must at last drop into the sun's body. Cheyne. 4 To fall spontaneously. So mayst thou live, till, like ripe fruit, thou Into thy mother's lap; or be with ease Milton. 5. To fall in death; to die suddenly. From niggard nature fall. DRO'PWORT. 2. s. [drop and wort.] A DRO PSICAL. adj. [from dropsy.] Diseased with a dropsy; hydropical; tending to a dropsy. 6. To die. Nothing, says Seneca, so soon reconciles us to the thoughts of our own death, as the prospect of one friend after another dropping round us. 7. To sink into silence; to vanish; to Bigby to Pope. come to nothing: a familiar phrase. Virgil's friends thought fit to let drop this incident of Helen. I heard of threats occasioned by my verses: I Addison's Travels. acquaint them where I was to be found, and so it dropped. Popea He could never make any figure in company, but by giving disturbance at his entry and therefore takes care to drop in when he thinks you are just seated. Spect. 9. To fall short of a mark. Often it drops or overshoots by the disproportions of distance or application. Callier, DROPPING. . . [from drop.] 1. That which falls in drops. The diet of nephritick and dropsical persons ought to be such as is opposite to, and subdueth, the alkalescent nature of the salts in the serum of the blood. Arbuthnot on Aliments. DROPSIED. adj. [from dropsy.] Diseased with a dropsy. Where great addition swells, and virtue none, It is a dropsied honour: good alone DROPSY. n. s. [hydrops, Latin; whence Is good. Shaksp. Al's well that ends well. anciently bydropisy, thence dropisy, dropsy.] A collection of water in the body, from too lax a tone of the solids, whereby digestion is weakened, and all the parts stuffed. Quincy. An anasarca, a species of dropsy, is an extravasation of water lodged in the cells of the membrana adiposa. Sharp. DROSS. n. s. [onor, Saxon.] 1. The recrement or despumation of metals. Some scumm'd the dross that from the metal came, Some stirr'd the molten ore with ladles great, 2. Rust; incrustation upon metal. An emperor, hid under a crust of dross, after cleansing, has appeared with all his titles fresh and beautiful. Addison. 3. Refuse; leavings; sweepings; any thing remaining after the removal of the better part; dregs; feculence; corruption. Fair proud, now tell me why should fair be proud, Sith all world's glory is but dross unclean; And in the shade of death itself shall shroud, However now thereof ye little ween? Spenser. That most divine light only shineth on those minds which are purged from all worldly dross and human uncleanness. Raleigh. All treasures and all gain esteem as dross, Such precepts exceedingly dispose us to piety I 2 9 1. Full of scorious or recrementitious parts; full of dross. So doth the fire the drossy gold refine, Davies. For, by the fire, they emit not only many dnessy and scorious parts, but whatever they had received either from earth or loadstone. Brown. 2. Worthless; foul; feculent. Your intention hold, As fire these dressy rhymes to purify, Or as elixir to change them into gold. Donne. DRO'TCHEL. . s. [corrupted perhaps from dretchel. To dretch, in Chaucer, is to idle, to delay. Droch, in Frisick, is delay. An idle wench; a sluggard. Scottish it is still used. DROVE. n. s. [from drive.] 1. A body or number of cattle: generally used of oxen or black-cattle. They brought to their stations many droves of cattle; and within a few days were brought out of the country two thousand muttons. Hayr. A Spaniard is unacquainted with our northern droves. Brown, 2. A number of sheep driven. To an herd of oxen we regularly oppose, not a drove, but a flock, of sheep. A drove of sheep, or an herd of oxen, may be managed by any noise or cry which the drivers shall accustom them to. South. 3. Any collection of animals. The sounds and seas, with all their finny drove, Now to the moon in wavering morrice move. 4. A crowd; a tumult. Milton. But if to fame alone thou dost pretend, The miser will his empty palace lend, Set wide with doors, adorn'd with plated brass, Where droves, as at a city-gate, may pass. Dryden's Juvenal. DRO VEN. part. from drive. used. This is fought indeed; Not now Had we so done at first, we had dreven them home To south the Persian bay, And inaccessible th' Arabian drought. Milten As torrents in the drowth of summer fail, So perish'd man from death shall never rise. Sandys. They were so learned in natural philosophy, that they foretold earthquakes and storms, great droughts, and great plagues. Temple. In a drought, the thirsty creatures cry, And gape upon the gather'd clouds for rain. Dryden. Upon a shower, after a drought, earthworms and land-snails innumerable come out of their lurking-places. Roy. 2. Thirst; want of drink. His carcase, pin'd with hunger and with drought. Milton One, whose drought Yet scarce allay'd, still eyes the current stream, Whose liquid murmur heard new thirst excites. Milton DROUGHTINESS. . n. s. [from droughty.] The state of wanting rain. DROUGHTY. adj. [from drought.] Wanting rain; sultry. I. That a camel, so patient of long thirst, should be bred in such droughty and parched countries, where it is of such eminent use for travelling over those dry and sandy desarts where no water is to be had, must be acknowledged an act of providence and design. Ray on Creation. 2. Thirsty; dry with thirst. 1. To suffocate in water. They would soon drown those that refused to swim down the popular stream. King Charles When of God's image only eight be found Snatch'd from the watery grave, and sav'd from nations drown'd. 2. To overwhelm in water. Or so much as it needs Prier. To dew the sovereign flow'r, and drown the weeds. Shaksp Galleys might be drowned in the harbour with the great ordnance, before they could be rigged Knolles' History. 3. To overflow; to bury in an inunda tion; to deluge. 4. Betwixt the prince and parliament we stand, The barriers of the state on either hand: land. To immerge; to lose in any thing. It seems their souls but in their senses are. 5. To lose in something that overpowers or covers. Who cometh next will not follow that course, however good, which his predecessors held, for doubt to have his doings drowned in another man's praise. Spenser on Ireland. That the brightness of the sun doth drown our discerning of the lesser light, is a popular Wetton errour. My private voice is drown'd amid the senate. Addison: Some aged man who lives this act to see, And who in former times remember'd me May say, the son, in fortitude and fame, |