Dragsman

One who manages a drag. Draguignan, ( dra'goo - een - yawng, ) a town of France, cap. of dep. Var, 12 m. from Frejus, and about 430 m. from Paris; pop. 11,141. Drain, v . a . [Dan. draine ; A. S. drag an ; O. Ger. tragan ; to draw. See DRAW.] To draw off; to filter; to cause to pa through some porous substance; as, to drain a marsh. To empty or clear of liquor by causing the liquor to drop or run off slowly; to make dry; - hence, to exhaust or empty; as, to drain a country of its inhabitants. - To draw off gradually, or by degrees; as, to drain a tumbler of punch. -v. n. To flow, or cause to flow off, gradually; as, the water drains off. - To be emptied or exhausted of liquor by flowing or dropping; as, to set a bottle to drain . -n. Act of draining, drawing off, or exhausting by depletion; as, a drain of specie from a bank. - Any channel constructed underground for the purpose of carrying off surplus water and refuse matter from houses, fields, . When D. are open and are merely channels cut along the surface of the ground, or by the sides of streets and roads, they are called ditches and gutters ; when they are of great size, for the purpose of carrying off the refuse of a town, they are called sewers . D. that lie underground may be formed of pipes of clay or earthenware, or of low walls of brick or stone, raised on a bottom formed of broad flat stones, and covered in with the same. These are, however, more liable to become choked by the roots of trees or shrubs growing into them than those which are formed of pipes. Circular D. of brickwork are called barrel - drains . -A draught of liquid refreshment; as, to take a drain of whisky. (Vulgar.) -pl. The refuse grains from a brewer's mash-tub. (Used in England.)