drupose (dropos)

[ G. traut, a.), a friend, lover.] 1. Love; gallantry. IMG:content-0036.jpg:[blocks in formation] Bonnie House o' Airly (Child's Ballads, VI. 185). 3. A love-token; a gift, especially a jewel or other precious object. Thenne dre ed he his drurye double hym aboute. Sir Gawayne and the Green Knight (E. E. T. S.), 1. 2033. Hit [truth] is as der wort he a druwery as dere god him- selue. Piers Plowman (C), ii. 83. drusel (dröz), n. [ druse (as in def.), druza , in same sense, orig. a brush, = Ru . drusa (obs.), a brush.] A rock-cavity lined with crystals; a geode, or, as miners call it, a vug. A common word in Germany, adopted from the Slavic: the most important mining region of Germany being the Erzgebirge, on the borders Bohemiapplied word originally meant (in Slavic) 'brush,' was to surfaces covered with projecting crystals like teeth, just as comb has been in English. Hence it also came to mean the cavities where such druses are found to occur. In English the word druse is little used at the present time except by mineralogists, and then chiefly in the adjective To be compared to Willie. Burns, Halloween. form drusy (which see). See also geode. Druse