DRAGOMAN

An interpreter employed in the east, and particularly at the Turkish court. DRAIN, v. To make dry; to draw oft water; to rid land of its superfluous moisture by adapting or improving natural watercourses and supplementing them,· when nece ary, by artificial ditches. People v. Parks, 58 Cal.· 639. DRAIN, n.. A trench or ditch to convey water from wet land; a channel through which water may ·flow oft. The word has no technical legal meaning. Any hollow space in the ground, natural or artificial, where water is collected and pas,es off, is a ditch or drain. Goldthwait v. East Bridge water, 5 Gray (Ma .) 61. The word "drain" also sometimes denotes the easement or 13ervitude (acquired by grant or prescription) which consists in the right to drain water through another's land. See 3 Kent, Comm. 436. [s. 402]