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Tin pulverized by being dropped into water while melted. dropwise (drop'wiz), adv. [ In mine own lady palms I cull'd the spring That gather'd trickling dropwise from the cleft. Tennyson, Merlin and Vivien. The larva of one drop-worm (drop'werm), n. of many insects. Specifically - (a) Of any geometrid moth. Also called span - worm , inch - worm , measuring- worm, etc. (b) Of Thyridopteryx ephemeræform is . Also called hang - worm and bag - worm. dropwort (drop'wert), n. An English name for the Spiræa Filipendula. - False dropwort, an Amer ican book-name for Tiedemannia teretifolia, an umbelliferous plant of the Atlantic States. - Hemlock and water dropwort, common book-names for species of Enanthe. IMG:content-0020.png:[blocks in formation] Drosera Pacific islands, and most abundantly in extratropical Australia. Their leaves are covered with glandular hairs, which exude drops of a clear glutinous fluid that glitter in the sun; hence the name Drosera, and in English sun dew. These glandular hairs retain small insects that touch them, and other hairs around those actually touched by the insect bend over and inclose it. The excitement of the glands induces the secretion of a digestive fluid, under the operation of which the nutritious nitrogenous matter of the insect is di olved and absorbed. The common European species have long had a popular reputation as a remedy for bronchitis and asthma. Droseraceæ (dros-e-rā'sẽ-ē), n. pl. [NL., Sundew (Drosera rotund i folia ). lar viscid hairs. Of the 6 genera, Drosera (which see) is by far the largest. Of the others, Dionea is characterized by having foliaceous petioles bearing a two-lobed lamina which closes quickly when touched, and Aldrovanda by having pitcher-shaped leaves. See cut under Dionœa. droshky, drosky (drosh'-, dros'ki), n.; pl. droshkies, droskies (-kiz). [Also written drozh ki, etc.; = F. droschki = D. droschke = Dan. droske = Sw. droska, Pol. dorozhka ), a little road, though the second Pol. form simulates such a connection.] A kind of light four wheeled carriage used in Ru ia and Pru ia. The droshky proper is without a top, and consists of a kind of long narrow bench, on which the pa engers ride as on a saddle; but the name is now applied to various kinds of vehicles, as to the common cabs plying in the streets of some German cities, etc. Droskies - the smallest carriages in the world, mere sledges on wheels, with drivers like old women in low crowned hats and long blue dre ing-gowns buttoned from their throats to their feet. A. J. C. Hare, Ru ia, ii. Begovuiya droshki- an extremely light vehicle, composed of two pairs of wheels joined together by a single board, on which the driver sits stride-legged. D. M. Wallace, Ru ia, p. 235. drosnet, n. [ME.: see dro .] Dregs; dro . drosometer (drō-som'e-ter), n. [ from it. IMG:content-0021.png:[blocks in formation] The past gain each new gain makes a lo , And yesterday's gold love to-day makes dro . William Morris , Earthly Paradise, III. 340. dro (dros), v. t. [ Dro ing is performed with a large perforated iron spoon or ladle, through the openings of which the fluid zinc runs off, while the dro is retained, packed into shallow moulds so as to form slabs of about seventy-five pounds weight, and in this form is usually sold to the smelters and refiners, who gain the zinc it contains either by distillation or by special patented procedures. drove drought1, drouth drouth (drout, drouth), n. [In the first form (with th altered to t, as also in height, hight, highth), droog), dry: see dry. Drouth is thus equiv. to dry-th (which form is occasionally used, like warm-th, etc.). Drouth is etymologically the more correct spelling. Both forms have been in concurrent use since the ME. period, but drought has been the more common.] 1†. Dry ne . With the droughte of the daye alle drye ware the flores! Morte Arthure (E. E. T. S.), 1. 3250. The Asp, says Gesner, by reason of her exceeding drought , is accounted deaf; but that one Asp is deafer than another I read not. Cotgrave. 2. Dry weather; want of rain or of moisture; such a continuance of dry weather as injuriously affects vegetation; aridne . Whan that Aprille with his shoures soote The droghte of March hath perced to the roote. Chaucer, Gen. Prol. to C. Т., 1. 2. In a drought the thirsty creatures cry, And gape upon the gather'd clouds for rain. Dryden, Annus Mirabilis. In the dust and drouth of London life She moves among my visions of the lake. Tennyson, Edwin Morris. W. H. Wahl, Galvanoplastic Manipulations, p. 529. dro ardt (dros'ärd), n. [ dro aard , MD. dro aert (with accom. term. -aard , -aard , -aert = E. -ard ), earlier MD. dro aet , D. drost = OFries. drusta = MLG. dro ete (> ML. dro at us ), drotzete, druczete, droste , druste , LG. droste = OHG. trutsazo , truhsazo , * truhtsāzo , truhsāzo , trutsāzo , truhsazzo , MHG. truhtsēze, truhtsæze, trochtsaze, truhsæze , truchseze, G. truchse = Icel. drottseti = Sw. drot tsät, drozet, drozt , drots = Dan. drost ( truht (= OS. druht = AS. dryht , driht ), the people, multitude, company, following (see dright ), + OHG. sāzo (=AS. sæta , etc.: see cotset ), one who sits or settles: the com droughtine , drouthine (drou'ti-nes, -thipound appar. meaning orig. the officer who asnes), n. The state of being droughty; dry 3. Thirst; want of drink. As one, whose drouth Yet scarce allay'd, still eyes the current stream. Milton , P. L., vii. 66. 4. Figuratively, scarcity; lack. A drought of Christian writers caused a dearth of all his Fuller. tory. drought2, n. A dialectal form of draft1, draught1. signed a prince's guests a prince's guests or followers their seats aridne . at table. table. Le Le prob. prob. the first element is OHG. truht, a load, draught, provisions (akin to E. draft1, draught1 ), the lit. meaning of the com pound und suiting then its first known actual use, one who sets the meat on the table.) A steward; a bailiff; a prefect. There is.. a dro ard of Limburgh near this place (to whom I gave an Exemplar of R. B.'s Apology) very desirous to speak with some of the friends. Penn, Travels in Holland, etc. dro elt (dros'el), n . [Also written drazel ; per- haps the same as drotchel , appar. dratch , dretch = E. dretch2 , loiter, delay: see dretch2 .] An idle wench; a slut. That when the time's expir'd, the drazels For ever may become his va als. S. Butler, Hudibras, III. i. 987. Now dwels ech dro el in her gla . Warner, Albion's England, ix. 47.