drosser (droser)

See the extract. The weight of so many tables pre ing one against another would cause the hindermost to bend; but this is prevented by the invention of iron frames or dro ers , which divide the tables into sets. Gla -making, p. 125. = dew, φίλος, loving.] A genus of flies, of the family Muscid a, one species of which, Droso phil a flava (the yellow turnip-leaf miner), is very destructive to turnips, the maggots eating into the pulp and producing whitish blisters on the upper side. D. cellar is attacks potatoes. dro (dros), n. [Early mod. E. also dro e; driusan (LG. drusen, etc.), fall: see drizzle, and cf. droze, drowse.] 1. Refuse or impure or for IMG:content-0022.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-0023.png:[blocks in formation] There are capital points in the second [picture], which depicts the consternation excited in a village inn on discovering the single ale-cask dry, and the house full of drouthy customers. Saturday Rev., July 8, 1865. The rustic politicians would gather round Philip, and smoke and drink, and then question and discu till they were drouthy again. Mrs. Gaskell , Sylvia's Lovers, xli. drouk, drook (drök), t . [Sc., drouken , drouknen (see droukening ), = Dan. drukne, be drowned: see drown, where thek is lost in the n.] To drench; wet thoroughly. Also drawk. And aye she took the tither souk To drouk the stowrie tow. Burns, The Weary Pund o' Tow.