Drain

dran, v. t. [drained (drand), draining.] To draw off by degrees; to empty or exhaust of; to make gradually dry or empty; to exhaust of wealth, resources, etc.; to filter. — v. i. To flow off gradually to; be emptied of liquor by flowing or dropping. — n. Act of draining, or of emptying by drawing off; that by which anything is drained, a channel, trench, draining water-course,; mode in which sewer."— the Drain'age, waters of a -ej, country n. A pa off by its streams. (Engin.) System of drains removing water from towns, etc.