Druse

[Bohem. druza. See DROSS.] ( Mining.) A hole in a rock, filled with water, either in a liquid or crystallized form. Drusil'la, the youngest daughter of Herod Agrippa I., and sister of the younger Agrippa and Berenice, celebrated for her beauty, and infamous for her licentiousne . She was first espoused to Epiphanes, son of Antiochus king of Comagena, on condition of his embracing the Jewish religion; but as he afterwards refused to be circumcised, D. was given in marriage by her brother to Azizus king of Eme a. When Felix came as governor of Judea, he persuaded her to abandon her husband and her religion, and become his wife. Paul bore testimony before them to the truth of the Christian religion ( Acts xxiv. 24). She and her son afterwards perished in an eruption of Vesuvius.