droukeningt, droukningt

[ME., also drouk ing, Als I lay in a winter is nyt in a droukening before the day. Debate of Body and Soul, 1. 1. (Lat. Poems attrib. to [W. Mapes, ed. Wright.) So doth the fire the dro y gold refine. Sir J. Davies , Immortal. of Soul. Int. A wise man, like a good refiner, can gather gold out of 2. A swoon. the dro iest volume. Milton , Areopagitica, p. 21. Many more of the same bevy, that, I know, the dro y age doats on. Shak., Hamlet, v. 2. The heart rest or'd and purg'd from dro y nature Now finds the freedom of a new-born creature. Quarles, Emblems, ii. 15. wine or oil or in molten metal; sediment; lees; dregs; scum; any refuse or waste matter, as chaff; especially, and now chiefly, the slag, scales, or cinders thrown off from molten metal. Gold and siluer clenseth ham of hore dros i the fure [in the fire]. Ancren Riwle , p. 284. Dro e of metalle, scorium; dro e of corne, acus, cri- ballum, ruscum; dro e of fylthe where of hyt be, ruscum, rusculum. Prompt . Parv ., p. 133. Sorae scumd the dro e that from the metall came, Some stird the molten owre with ladles great. Spenser, F. Q., II. vil. 36. IMG:content-0024.png:[blocks in formation] of draw . That protestation of Cat i line, to set on fire and trouble states, to the end to fish in droumy waters. Bacon, Advancement of Learning, ii. 350. drouth, drouthine , etc. See drought1, etc. drovel. Preterit and obsolete and dialectal past participle of drive. drove drove (drov), η. [ Of moist full matter, God made the people that frequent the Water; And of an Earthly stuff the stubborn droues That haunt the Hils and Dales, and Downs and Groues. Sylvester, tr. of Du Bartas's Weeks, i. 4. The sounds and seas, with all their finny drove , Now to the moon in wavering morrice move. Milton , Comus, 1. 115. Where droves , as at a city gate, may pa . Dryden, tr. of Juvenal's Satires. 2. A road or drive for sheep or cattle in droves. [Great Britain.] -3. A narrow channel or drain, used in the irrigation of land. [Great Britain.] drove3 (drov), v. t.; pret. and pp. droved, ppr. droving. [Sc., usually in pp. droved; prob. a secondary form (after drove, drove2 ) of drive; cf. D. drijven, drive, also engrave, embo .] In masonry, to tool roughly. - Droved and broached, a phrase applied to work that has been first rough-hewn, and then tooled clean. - Droved and striped, a phrase applied to work that is first rough-tooled, and then formed into shallow grooves or stripes with a half or three-quarter-inch chisel, having the droved interstices prominent. - Droved ashler. See ashler. drove3 (drōv), n. [See droves, v.] A chisel, from two to four inches broad, used in making droved work.