drunt (drunt)

[Also drant, draunt; from the verb.] 1. A slow and dull tone; a drawling enunciation.-2. A fit of pettishne ; the dumps; the huff. [North. Eng. and Scotch in both senses.] An' Mary, nae doubt, took the drunt , celled and usually one-seeded carpel, but the term is applied Drupe. 2 1. Cherries. 2. Section of a cherry: a , fleshy sarcocarp; b, stony wall of the putamen, inclosing the seed. to similar fruits resulting from a compound pistil, in which there may be several separate or separable putamens. Many small drupes, like the huckleberry, are in ordinary usage cla ed with berries. On the other hand, some drupe-like fruits, as that of the hawthorn, are technically referred to the pome, and the cocoanut and walnut, being intermediate between a nut and a drupe, are described as drupaceous nuts.