dripping pan

A pan for receiving the melted fat which drips or falls from meat while roasting. "When the cook turns her back, throw smoking coals into the dripping -pan."- Swift. dripping-vat, s A tank beneath a boiler or hanging frame, to catch the overflow or drip, as that which receives the solution of indigo running from the boiler in indigo-factories. *drip'-ple, a . [Etym. doubtful.] Weak. drive, *dreve, *drife, *dryve (pa. t. * drave , *drof, *droff, drove ), v . t . & i [A. S. drífan ; cogn. with Dut. drijven ; Goth. dreiban ; Icel. drifa ; Sw. drifva ; Dan. drive ; O. H. Ger. trip an ; M. H. Ger. triben; Ger. treiben .] IMG:content-0542.png:[blocks in formation] "We come not with design of wasteful prey, To drive the country, force the swains away." Dryden: Virgil's Æneid , i. 744, 745. (10) To impel or urge forward a horse or beast of burden: hence, to guide and manage the course of a carriage or other vehicle drawn by it. (11) To convey a person on a carriage or other vehicle. (12) To manage or regulate an engine. *(13) To put off, to delay. "I pray do not drive all till last day." -Notice by Vicar of Hampsthwaite (1686), in Antiquary . 2. Figuratively : (1) To force, to compel, to constrain. "The Romans did not think that tyranny was thoroughly extinguished, till they had driven one of their consuls to depart the city."- Hooker . (2) To force in any direction. "For the metre sake, some words in him sometime be driven awry." - Ascham: Schoolmaster. (3) To distre , to straiten; to push into or place in a position of difficulty or danger. "This kind of speech is in the manner of desperate men far driven." - Spenser: State of Ireland. (4) To urge or impel by violence, as opposed to kindne . "He taught the gospel rather than the law, And forced himself to drive , but loved to draw." Dryden: Character of a Good Parson, 30, 31. (5) To impel or urge by pa ion. "Lord Cotting ton knew too well how to lead him into a mistake, and then drive him into choler."-Clarendon: Civil War. *(6) To pre to a conclusion; to pursue or follow out to the end. "The experiment of wood that shineth in the dark, we have diligently driven and pursued."- Bacon : Natural History. (7) To negotiate, to manage: as, to drive a bar IMG:content-0543.png:[graphic] gain. "Your Pasimond a lawle bargain drove , The parent could not sell the daughter's love." Dryden: Cymon and Iphigenia , 298, 299. (8) To carry on, to prosecute, to push. "As a farmer cannot husband his ground so well if he sit at a great rent; so the merchant cannot drive his trade so well, he sit at great usury." -Bacon. *(9) To pa , to consume, to spend. "And thus they drive forth the day." IMG:content-0544.png:[blocks in formation] B. Intransitive : drive I. Ordinary Language: 1. Literally: (5) To ride or travel in a carriage or other vehicle. "O'er the necks Thou drov'st of warring angels disarrayed." Milton : P. L., iii. 395, 396. to distrain. IMG:content-0545.jpg:[blocks in formation] 1546 2. To be weak or silly; to act as an idiot or dotard. "So dull in youth, so drivelling in his age," Byron: English Bards and Scotch Reviewers. *B. Trans.: To foul or cover with drivel or slaver. "Which stirs his staring, beastly, driuel'd beard." Drayton: Muses' Elysium, Nymphal 10. 5. Naut .: A four-cornered fore-and-aft sail, on the lower mast of a ship; its head is extended by a gaff, and its foot by a boom or sheet; a spanker. A ring-tail is a sail added at the lee-leech of a driver. IMG:content-0546.jpg:[graphic] driv'-el, *drevell, *drivell, s. [DRIVEL, v.] 1. Slaver; spittle running or flowing from the The foremost mouth. "And cleared the driuell from his beard." Warner: Albion's England, bk. iv., c. xx. *2. A driveler; an idiot, a dotard. "Set this drivel out of dore, That in thy traines such tales doth poure." The Lover Describeth his Whole State. 6. Ship build.: spur in the bulge-ways, the heel of which is fayed to the fore-side of the foremost poppet, and the look fore and aft in a ship. *3. Silly, nonsensical talk, such as that of an idiot. sides placed to *4. A servant, a drudge. [DROIL.] drivel-bib, s. A slavering-bib. "Had Teufelsdröckh also a father and mother; did he, at one time, wear drivel - bibs , and live on spoon-meat?"Carlyle: Sartor Resartus, bk. i., ch. xi.