List of Old English Words in the OED/DR

Old English	sb	English
Draft	n.	Probably OE but not recorded in O.E.
Drag	n	Resistance of the air or some other fluid; obstruction to progress; slow-motion, retardation of progress. 2. in a foundry, the bottom part of a sand casting mold. 3. a device or apparatus for dragging along the bottom of a body of water; often to recover dead bodies. 4. a puff on cigarette or pipe. 5. someone or something that is annoying or frustrating. 6. someone or something that is, dreary, boring, disappointing. 7. horse-drawn wagon or buggy. 8. a street or road, as 'the main drag' 9. scent-path; a strong smelling lure dawn before the hounds as a substitute.. 10. heavy harrow. 11. kind of sledge. 12. in metallurgy: bottom part of a flask or mould. 13. in masonry: steel instrument for dressing of soft stone. 14. nautical: difference between the true speed of a vessel and theoretical speed attainable by the propeller. 15. anything towed in the water to retard a ship's progress. 16. skid or shoe for retarding the motion of a carriage wheel. 16. motion affected with slowness and difficulty.
Drag	vb	Pull along with effort or difficulty. 2. allow one' s feet, clothing, tail to trail along the ground. 3. to go along or pass heavily, seriously tediously. 4. to search the bottom of a river or waterway with a grapnel or drag (often to find the bodies of drowned persons). 5. take a person to a place, esp. against her or his will. 6. draw or suck on a cigarette, cigar or smoking pipe. 7. continue at a tedious length, as 'drag on'.
Drag	phr	"Drag by the Head and Ears" - to force a person reveal the true facts.
Drag	phr	"Drag In" - introduce (an unnecessary subject) constantly, tiresomely or irrelevantly. 2. make somebody take part in an activity or be the subject of discussion etc against his/her will, or against the will or other interested person.
Drag	phr	"Drag Off" - lead somebody against his/her will (t).
Drag	phr	"Drag One's Feet/Heels" - be deliberately slow or reluctant to act. 2. proceed unwillingly, or with delaying tactics, in a course that one must take or should take.
Drag	phr	"Drag On" - last, endure, persist for a specified period of time. 2. continue at a tedious, boring length, as 'drag on'. 3. go on proceed for an extended period of time.
Drag	phr	"Drag Out" - protract; prolong. 2. make something longer than it need be, thus causing tedium. 2. extract information from a person who is reluctant to give it.
Drag	phr	"Drag Up" - deliberate recall or mention an unwelcome or unpopular subject. 2. allow a child to grow up without proper discipline or training.
Drag	phr	"Look What the Cat Dragged In" - used as an ironic acknowledgement of someone's arrival by implying that they are unwelcome or disagreeable in a some way. (from the habit of domestic cats of leaving mice they have caught on the back doorstep.)
Dragging	n	Marked by a painfully slow effortfulness.
Dragginigly	adv	In a dragging manner.
Draggle	vb.	To wet or befoul by allowing to drag through mire or wet grass, to make wet, dirty or limp; to trail on the ground. 2. to come, do or follow slowly or straggly.
Draggy	adj	Tedious, boring, ennui. 2. unpleasant.
Drag-line	n	An excavator with a bucket pulled in by a wire rope.
Dragnet	n	A net drawn through a river or across ground to trap fish or game. 2. a systematic hunt for criminals.
Drain	n	(No written example of the word between C11th until c16th. 2. applied to a natural water course which drains a tract of country. 3. a wide canal-like navigable channel, in fen country. 4. a drain emptying something accomplished by allowing liquid to run out of it. 5. a gradual depletion of energy or resources. 6. a pipe through which liquid is carried away. 7. a tube inserted into a body cavity (as during surgery) to remove unwanted material.
Drain	vb	To make weak; drain of energy or strength. 2. to empty of liquid; drain the liquid from a tank, etc. 3. deplete of resources. 4. flow off gradually.
Drain	phr	"Drain Away" - flow away down a waste pipe or drain. 2. decrease, disappear gradually. 3. gradually reduce the volume or strength of.
Drain	phr	"Drain Off" - draw liquid from something until it is empty.
Drain	phr	"Go Down the Drain" - got lost, vanish, disappear, deteriorate, go to waste,
Drain	phr	"Laugh Like a Drain" - laugh widely and loudly.
Drained	adj	Of water, carried away by a drain. 2. exhausted or deprived of strength or energy.
Drainer	n	A device for draining; anything on which things are put to drain, e.g. a draining board. 2. a person who drains.
Draining	n	Having a debilitating.
Draining-board	n	A sloping usu. grooved surface beside a sink, on which dishes are washed.
Drain-like	adj	resembling a drain or some aspect of.
Drainless	adj	That cannot be drained or exhausted; inexhaustible.
Drake	n	Dragon; also, representation of this used as a battle standard; a serpent, a fiery monster. 2. a beaked gallery, or ship of the Vikings ,
Drast	n.	Dregs, lees, feces, refuse, draff, residue, swill.
Draught	n	Probably O.E. but not recorded in O.E. (see; 'draft')
Drave	n.	Fishing expedition made by a co-operative; a haul of fish, shoal.
Draw	n	An act of drawing. 2. a person or thing that draws custom, attention, etc. 3. the drawing of lots esp. a raffle. 4. a drawn game or sporting match. 5. a suck on a cigarette, etc. 6. the act of drawing a gun from a holster in order to shoot. 7. strain, pull.
Draw	vb	to produce a picture. 2. to drag, pull 3. to pull out. 4. to extract a liquid, or cause a liquid to come out. 5.to attract. 6. to deduce or infer. 7. to rely on.. 8. to disembowel; as in 'draw and quarter.' 9. archery: to pull back the arrow 10. to close curtains etc. 11. of drinks: to leave temporarily so as to allow the flavor to increase. 12. to end a game with neither side winning.
Draw	phr	"Draw a Bath" - fill a bath with water.
Draw	phr	"Draw a Bead" - take aim at.
Draw	phr	"Draw Abroad" - to spread a thing over a surface, spread out, expand.
Draw	phr	"Draw a Bead On" - to have an ambitious plan or lofty goal. 2. aim with a gun; have in sight or a head on; get in cross hair.
Draw	phr	"Draw a Breath" - breathe; breathe in; pause to breathe.
Draw	phr	"Draw a Deep Breath" - to get ready for exertion or for emotion news.
Draw	phr	"Draw a Furrow" - to plow/plough or make a furrow.
Draw	phr	"Draw Ahead of" - move forward or in front of; progress beyond. 2. get ahead, ahead of.
Draw	phr	"Draw a Head On" - aim at.
Draw	phr	"Draw a Line in the Sand" - ( a state that one has reached) - a point beyond which one will not go.
Draw	phr	"Draw Along" - to stretch, extend, fig. to prolong, protract.
Draw	phr	"Draw Alongside Of" - (of somebody approaching from behind): stop, move or move along, at the side of.
Draw	phr	"Draw a Long Bow" - to state a conclusion which while possible is unlikely to be based on facts.
Draw	phr	"Draw Aside" - pull to one aside. 2. take somebody on side to talk to him quietly, privately or confidentially.
Draw	phr	"Draw Away" - recoil, retreat; withdraw, move away from.
Draw	phr	"Draw Back" - to get back or recover money or goods. 2. fig. to take off, discount. 2. to withdraw from, or move away from an undertaking. 3. recoil, retreat.
Draw	phr	"Draw Blood" - injure somebody sufficiently, seriously enough to make one bleed.
Draw	phr	"Draw Blood (From a Stone)" - do the impossible.
Draw	phr	"Draw Breath" - live, begin, continue, to exist.
Draw	phr	"Draw By" - to draw aside, pass by, draw to a close.
Draw	phr	"Draw Down" - to cause to fall or light upon a person; to attract, bring down; lower.
Draw	phr	"Draw Down (On One's Head)- pass by one's conduct, attract somebody's anger etc.
Draw	phr	"Draw Fire" - encounter criticism. 2. 'draw somebody's fire' - tactically allow oneself to be attacked.
Draw	phr	"Draw First Blood" - get an advantage; make the first decisive blow.
Draw	phr	"Draw From" - obtain from, derive from.
Draw	phr	"Draw In" - shorten or arrive, stop.
Draw	phr	"Draw In One's Horns" - become less assertive or ambitious; draw back.
Draw	phr	"Draw Into" - arrive at, pull into. 2. lead somebody gradually but firmly to take part in something.
Draw	phr	'Draw It Mild" - moderate one's speech or behavior. 2. not exaggerate a description, overstate a case.
Draw	phr	"Draw Lots" - to decide by a lottery' select by lottery.
Draw	phr	" Draw Near" - to come gradually near or nigh to something or someone.
Draw	phr	"Draw Off" - decant, siphon or divert the flow of a liquid. 2. withdraw, retreat, as an enemy. 3. doff, pull of (as clothes).
Draw	phr	"Draw On" - allure, entice, or take from. 2. take from reserve or resources. 3. don, put on clothes, dress. 4. make somebody continually, steadily forward on course. 5. approach, come near, come on. 6. exploit, use. 7.
Draw	phr	"Draw One's Last Breath" - to die, fail, cease to be.
Draw	phr	"Draw Oneself Up" - straighten oneself (often in a solemn ,formal, or pompous way).
Draw	phr	"Draw Out" - extend, prolong; drawn out. 2. extract information, or withdraw money.
Draw	phr	"Draw Out Of" - remove, extract (from) , pull out. 2. produce from an inner space. 3. withdraw from a bank account. 4. elicit, persuade someone to tell or offer. 5. leave, depart (from), pull out of.
Draw	phr	"Draw Somebody Aside" - take somebody from a group for private conversation.
Draw	phr	"Draw Somebody's Fire" - tactically allow oneself to be attacked.
Draw	phr	"Draw Teeth" - render something / somebody harmless. 2. take away from somebody/ something the means to cause fear or harm.
Draw	phr	"Draw the Cloth" - clean Up After a Meal.
Draw	phr	"Draw the Line at That" - to refuse to go any further. 2. not go beyond a certain limit in one's conduct.
Draw	phr	"Draw the Nail" - to release onself from a vow.
Draw	phr	"Draw the Net Tighter" - to intensify one's efforts.
Draw	phr	'Draw the Short Straw" - be selected or appointed from a group to carry out an unpleasant or dangerous task.
Draw	phr	"Draw to An End" - bring or come to an conclusion.
Draw	phr	"Draw Together" - compile, make a bundle or file. 2. add to, accumulate. 3. brinng together in a common cause; unite, unify.
Draw	phr	"Draw Towards" - by force of personality, attract people towards oneself.
Draw	phr	"Draw Up" - compile, compose, prepare, draft. 2. arrive; stop, come to a halt. 3. place close together in lines. 4.
Draw	phr	"Draw Up Sharply" - stop abruptly; cause to pause and consider or reflect.
Draw	phr	"Draw Oneself Up to One's Full Height" - strike a dignified or important attitude.
Draw	phr	"Long Drawn Out" - unduly or tiresomely prolonged or protracted.
Draw	phr	"Quick On the Draw" - quick to react. 2. to act precipitately.
Drawback	n	A pulling back or retiring. 2. amount paid for a charge previously made. 2. a deduction, diminution. 4. a thing that retards progress or advance, or takes from a diminishes success or satisfaction, hindrance, disadvantage, downside. 3. one who draws back or retires.
Draw-bed	n	Extendable bed.
Drawbench	n	A machine used to do cold work on a metal, such as changing the shape of the metal without applying heat and applying only metal.
Drawbolt	n	A coupling pin.
Drawbridge	n	A bridge, esp. over water hinged at one end so that so that it may be raised to prevent passage or allow ships to pass.
Drawbridge	phr	"Pull Up the Drawbridge" - refuse to co-operate.
Drawdown	n	The act of raising money through loans; borrowing.
Drawer	n	A person or thing that draws, esp. a person who draws a cheque etc. 2. boxlike storage compartment without a lid , sliding in and out of a frame, table, etc (a chest of drawers). 3. knickers, underpants (jocular).
Drawer	n	"Out of the Top Drawer" - of a high social position.
Drawerful	adj	As much as a drawer can hold.
Drawerless	adj	Of furniture and cabinets not having drawers.
Draw gate	n	A sluice gate on a canal to let part of the water escape.
Drawing	n	The art of representing by line. 2. delineation without color or with a single color. 3. the art of representing with pencils, pens, crayons, etc., rather than paint. 4. a picture produced in this way.
Drawing	phr	"On the Drawing Board" - at the design or planning stage.
Drawing	phr	"Out of Drawing" - incorrectly depicted or drawn.
Drawing-board	n	A board on which paper is attached for drawing or writing on.
Drawing board	phr	"Back to the Drawing-board" - the details need to be reconsidered.
Drawing board	phr	"On the Drawing Board" - at the designing and/or planning stage. 2. to be planned in detail.
Drawing dead	n	A player is said to be drawing dead when the hand he hopes to cpmplete will nonetheless lose to a player who has already a better one.
Drawing-hand	n	A poker hand which requires some specific cards on later rounds in order to become a strong hand.
Drawingly	adv	In a slow, deliberate or in a hesitatingly manner, drawingly.
Drawing room	n	Of a position, tendency likely to lead to drawing.
Drawish	adj	(chiefly chess) - a game, or a particularly position in a game, deemed likely to end in a draw.
Draw left	adv	Axis drawn from left to right.
Drawloom	n	A machine used to weave many different kinds of items and is capable of weaving complex.
Drawn	adj	Looking strained from fear, anxiety, pain. 2. butter melted. 3. of a position in chess: that will result in a draw if both players make the best moves available.
Drawn	phr	"Drawn In" - of daylight or hours becoming shorter. 2. of a train arriving at a station.
Drawn	phr	"Drawn On"- make use of, employ,rely on, exploit, extract, take from, fall back on, have recourse to.
Drawn	phr	"Drawn Up" - devised, formulated, drafted, esp. in a legal form or as formal proposal of drawing up a will. 2. put in a position, arrange in order of formation. 3. to bring or come to a halt, stop.
Drawnness	n	The quality of being drawn.
Drawnwork	n	Ornamental work on linen etc., by drawing out threads, (also known as 'drawn-thread-work) usually with additional needlework.
Draw-sheet	n	A sheet that can be taken under a patient without making the bed.
Drawspring	n	Of rail transport: the spring to which a draw-bar is attached.
Drawstring	n	A string that can be pulled to tighten the mouth of a bag, the waist of a garment.
Drawth	n	The act or process of drawing; a pull; draught. 2. that which is draughted or drawn; a draught. 3. a treatise.
Draw-well	n	A deep well from which water is drawn by a bucket suspended to a rope.
Dray	n.	Wheel-less sled or cart; a sled or cart without wheels, formerly much used for moving wood, turf. 2. sled used for dragging logs. 3. a low cart without sides for carrying heavy loads.
Dray	vb	To Convey by dray or dragging.
Draying	n	The act of moving goods by dray.
Drayman	n	A man who drives a dray; a brewer's dray.
Dread	n	Fear, great fear in view of impending evil; fearful apprehension of danger; anticipatory terror.. 2. reverential or respectful fear; awe. 3. a person highly revered. 4. somebody or something dreaded. 5. fury; dreadfulness.
Dread	vb	To fear greatly. 2. to anticipate with fear.  3. to be in dread, or great fear. 4. to style (the hair) into dreadlocks.
Dread	adj	Terrible; greatly-feared. 2. (archaic)- awe-inspiring, held in fear.
Dread-bolt	n	Lightning.
Dread-bolted	adj	Lightning, as ' dread-bolted thunder.'
Dread-death	adj	'A reader of old dread-death and dread-devil books.' - horror and blood-chilling literature.
Dreaded	adj	Feared, frighten, terrified.
Dreader	n	ne who fears or lives in fear.
Dread-devil	adj	"A reader of old dread-devil and dread-death books.' - horror, and blood-chilling literature.
Dreadful	adj	Inspiring awe or dread; terrible. 2. awful.
Dreadfullness	n	Awfulness, dread, terror, apprehension.
Dreadfully	adv	With dread, apprehension, fear, terror.
Dreadingly	adv	With dread
Dreadless	adj	Without dread or fear; having no fear, fearless, unfrightened. 2. exempted from dread or apprehension. 3. of danger: secure, free of terror. 4. without doubt or mistake, doubtless, apprehension-free.
Dreadlessly	adv	In a manner free of dread, fear, anxiety or worry.
Dread-lessness	n	Fearlessness
Dreadlocked	adj	having hair styled in dreadlocks.
Dreadlocks	n	A hair style of Rastafarians and others in which the hair is left to grow into long matted strings.
Dreadly	adv	In a manner inspiring dread; dreadfully, awfully, terribly. 2. with dread or awe. 3.
Dreadness	n	The quality of being dread.
Dreadnought	n	Dreading or fearing nothing or no one.
Dreads	n	Short for dreadlocks or by synecdoche a rastafarian
Dreadworthy	adj	Worthy of being dreaded.
Dready	adj	Feeling dread, fearful, awe-filled, timid, frightened, scared.
Dream	n.	The sense - "sequence of sensations passing through a sleeping person's mind"- (also as a verb), probably related to Old Norse draumr, Old Saxon drom "merriment, noise." But Old English dream meant only "joy, mirth, noisy merriment," also "music." And much study has failed to prove that Old English dream is the root of the modern word for "sleeping vision," despite being identical in spelling. Words for "sleeping vision" in Old English were mæting and swefn. Old English "swefn" originally meant "sleep." Dream: "ideal or aspiration" is from earlier sense of "something of dream-like beauty or charm" 2. mirth, noise, pleasure, gladness, rejoicing. Music: the sound of a musical instrument, melody.
Drear	n.	Soundness, gloom, dismalness.
Drearhood	n	Drearihood: dismality, gloominess.
Drearily	adv	In a dreary manner.
Dreary	adj.	Gory, bloody, cruel, dire, horrid, grievous. 2. of persons - sad, melancholy, doleful, 3.dismal, gloomy. 4. repulsively dull or uninteresting.
Dreariness	n	Sadness, gloom, quality or state of being dreary - of an oppressingly uninteresting character. 2. sadness, sorrowfulness (influenced by desolate sadness.) 3. dismality, desolation, gloom
Drearing	n	Sorrowing grief.
Drearisome	adj.	Dreary of character; lonely and desolate.
Drearsome	adj	Dismal, dull, gloomy, dreary.
Dreary	adj	Gory, bloody. 2. cruel, dire, horrid, grievous. 3. of persons: their actions, state, aspect, etc. - full of sadness or melancholy, sad, doleful, dismal, dull or uninteresting.
Dreave	n	A drove; shoal of fish,
Dreave	vb	To drive, repel,
Dreck	n.	Rubbish, trash, worthless debris, rotteness.
Dree	n	The action of the verb 'to dree' 2. suffering, endurance, trouble, forbearance, lasting, doughtiness.
Dree	vb	To do, perform service, duty, any one's will, grievous, to commit sins. 2. to endure undergo, suffer, bear something grievous, burdensome, or painful. 3. to do perform, suffer penance, shrift. 4. to endure, last, hold out, continue. 5. to spin out, protract. 6. also spelt 'dreigh'
Dree	phr	"To Dree One's Weird" - to endure one's fate. destiny. 2. suffer or submit to one's destiny. 3. to suffer,
Dree	adj	Enduring, long suffering, patient. 2. heavy, mighty, doughty, fierce. 3. long, slow, tedious, wearisome, difficult to surmount or get over; stiff, severe. 4, dreary, cheerless, doleful.
Dree	adv	Dreely - heavily, severely, mightily, vehemently. 2. persistently, doggedly,
Dreeing	n	The performance of military service.
Dreely	adv	Heavingly, mightily, vehemently, stiffly, slowly, persistently.
Dreep	n	A wet, dripping condition. 2. an ineffective, spiritless or lugubrious person; a drip.
Dreep	vb	To fall in drops, drip. 2,. fig. to droop, to loose courage (fig.); grow faint.
Dreepy	adj	Drooping, ineffectual, spiritless, lugubrious.
Dref	adj	Troublesome, vexatious, grievious.
Dreigh	n	Variant of 'dree.' - a long duration or space or time, length, distance, extent.
Drench	n	A drink, draught, draft. 2. a medical soporific or poisonous draught, a potion. 3. a draft or dose of medicine administered to an animal.
Drench	vb	Cover with liquid; pour into. 2. permeate or impregnate. 3. force to drink (of an animal.) 4. submerge; steep in moisture, soak. gorge, satiate.
Drench	phr	"Drench In" - covered abundantly or soaked with.
Drenched	adj	Covered abundantly or soaked in.
Drencher	n	One who drenches a beast.
Drenching	n	The action or process of drenching an animal.
Drenchingly	adj	Covered abundantly or soaked in.
Dreng	n.	Young man, fellow, lad, 2. contemptuously, low based fellow.
Drenkle	vb	To submerge, drown. 2. to suffer submersion or drowning.
Drepe	vb	To strike, kill, overcome.
Dreper	n	One who kills, a murderer.
Drese	vb	To fall.
Dretch	n	Trouble, vexation, affliction, suffering, torment.
Dretch	vb	To afflict, torment, vex, to trouble in sleep. 2. to be troubled in speech.
Dretching	n	Torment, vexation, trouble.
Dreve	vb	(drove)to drive away or apart; to separate. 2. to trouble, disturb, agitate. 3. to move, proceed, tend.
Drib	n	A droplet, a petty or in considerable quantity.
Dribble	n	c. 1300, perhaps from Middle Danish drippe, from Proto-Germanic *drup- (source also of Dutch druipen, German triefen), from PIE root *dhreu-. Related to droop and drop. Old English had cognate drypan "to let drop," dropian "fall in drops," and dreopan "to drop." 2. saliva falling from the mouth. 3. the moving of a ball by small kicks or taps. 4.
Dribble	vb	Cause to fall in drops. 2. run or flow slowly.
Dribbler	n	One who dribbles or allow saliva fall from his or her mouth. 2. one who kicks a ball with slight taps.
Dribbling	n	The allowing of saliva to fall from one's mouth. 2. the act of moving a ball by small or slight kicks or taps.
Dribbly	adv	Prone to dribbling; slobbery.
Dried	adj	Free or without moisture; not moist, not wet.
Dried	phr	"Dried Out" - free from moisture or excess moisture; not wet.
Driedness	n	The quality of being dry.
Drier	n	A person or thing that dries.
Dright	n.	Multitude, army, people, company, a body of retainers . 2. march of a host, procession, throng.
Dright	n	Drighten, drightin. - a lord, ruler, chief, spec. the Lord God or Christ. 2
Drightfare	n	March of a host, procession, throng, multitude.
Drightfolk	n	People, nation, army.
Drightful	adj	Multitudinous, thronging.
Drightlike	adj	Lordly, noble.
Drightman:	n	Warrior, soldier
Drightness	n	Majesty, godhead.
Drink	n	The act of drinking alcoholic beverages to excess. 2. the act of swallowing. 3. any liquid suitable for drinking. 4. a single serving of a beverage. 5. any large deep body of water
Drink	vb	To be fascinated or spell-bound by; pay close attention to. 2. take in liquids. 3. to consume alcohol liquid. 4. to drink excessive amounts of alcohol; be an alcoholic. 5. propose a toast to.
Drink	phr	"Be Meat and Drink" - to be very pleasurable.
Drink	phr	"Drink and Drive" - to drive a motor vehicle whilst one blood alcoholic level is above the legal limit.
Drink	phr	"Drink Down" - drink until nothing remains in a cup or glass.
Drink	phr	"Drink Himself Drunk" - to drink until one is drunk.
Drink	phr	"Drink In" - absorb or listen by eager attention such as atmosphere, tranquility, beauty. 2. be fascinated or spell-bound by, pay close attention to.
Drink	phr	"Drink Like a Fish" - drink heavily or to excess.
Drink	phr	"Drink Off" - drink until nothing remains in a cup or glass.
Drink	phr	"Drink Oneself to Death" - kill oneself by excessive drinking.
Drink	phr	"Drink One's Fill" - drink as much as one's wants.
Drink	phr	"Drink on the House" - complimentary drink from owner, proprietor.
Drink	phr	"Drink Someone Under the Table" - drink more alcohol than somebody else whilst remaining more sober than he or she.
Drink	phr	"Drink the Cup of Sorrow" - experience great sorrow.
Drink	phr	"Drink the Sun Up" - to drink heavily or carouse
Drink	phr	"Drink the Waters" - drink medicinal waters, as spa water.
Drink	phr	"Drink To" - to toast.
Drink	phr	"Drink to the Health of" - to drink with good wishes foe one's health.
Drink	phr	"Drink Up" - drink until nothing remains in a cup or glass (often in one swig)
Drink	phr	"Drink with the Flies" - to drink alcohol alone (Australia)
Drink	phr	"Drive to Drink" - make someone so desperate that he or she seeks forgetfulness, or relief, in drinking.
Drink	phr	"In the Drink" - (nautical slang)in the sea, or into the water.
Drink	phr	"Long time Between Drinks" - activity occurring only very spasmodically.
Drink	phr	"One Must Drink as One Brews" - one must take the consequences of one's actions.
Drinkdom	n	The sphere of action of drinking.
Drink-driver	n	A person who drives while under the influence of alcohol.
Drink-driving	n	Driving a car under the influence of alcohol, and above the permitted legal blood-alcohol limit. permitted.
Drinker	n	A person who drinks alcoholic drinks (esp. to excess). 2. a drunkard.
Drink-house	n	A tavern, pub, hotel.
Drinking	n	The act of consuming a beverage. 2. the drinking of alcoholic drinks to excess. 2. the act of consuming a beverage.
Drinking-glass	n	A container for holding liquids while drinking.
Drinking-horn	n	A horn of a bovine used for drinking.
Drinking-house	n	A tavern, hotel, pub.
Drinking-hole	n	One local drinking place; a bar.
Drinkle	vb	To cause to drink; drench,drown, get drunk. 2. to drown.
Drinkless	adj	Without drink or liquid to quench one's thirst; dry.
Drinking-song	n	One written about drink and drinking. 2. a song sang during drinking and carousing.
Drinking-straw	n	A thin paper or plastic tube used to suck liquids into the mouth.
Drinking-up time	n	The time when customers in a public house should finish their drinks before closing time.
Drinking water	n	Water suitable for drinking; potable water.
Drinkless	adj	estitute of drink. 2. without drink; having nothing to drink.
Drink-off	n	A quaffing wholly and at a gulp.
Drinks	n	Beverages collectively.
Drink-seller	n	A seller of drinks.
Drink-shop	n	A shop where drinks can be purchased.
Drink-sodden	adj	Drunken, sodden with alcohol.
Drinkware	n	Drinking vessels collectively.
Drinkworthy	adj	Potable.
Drinky	adj	Tipsy, drunk.
Drip	n	A falling drop. 2. that which drips or falls in drops, dripping. 2. a stupid, feeble or dull person, a fool, bore, one lacking mental alertness. 3. a grumble, complaint.
Drip	vb	To let drop, cause to fall in drops. 2. to moisture, wet with drops.
Drip-drop	n	Continuous dripping with alternating sound.
Drip-feed	n	a method of feeding, lubrication, etc. where liquid is supplied a drop at a time.
Dripless	adj	Without a drip; that does not drip.
Dripped	adj	That has been allowed to drip or percolate (of coffee so made).
Dripper	n	He who, or that which, drips. 2. a wet, rainy day.
Dripping	n	The fall of liquid drops; the liquid so falling. 2. melted fat that drips from roasting meat, whic when cold is used like butter.
Dripping	adj	That drops, having liquid falling off in drops of. 2. of weather: wet, continously raining.
Dripping	adj	Characterized by dripping or drip(s), wet, rainy. 2. drivelly, sloppy, sentimental.
Dripstone	n	A moulding, or cornice over a door, window, etc. to throw off the the rain. 2. a label.?????
Drite	vb	To void excrement, to stool.
Drive	n	A journey in a vehicle (usually an automobile,) "a drive in a new car." 2. the act of driving a herd of animals overland 3. (sports) a hard straight return (as in tennis or squash). 4. the hitting a golf ball off of a tee with a driver. 5. a series of actions advancing a principle or tending toward a particular end "the movement to end slavery". 6. a wide scenic road planted with trees. 7. a mechanism by which force or power is transmitted in a machine. 8. (computer science) a device that writes data onto or reads data from a storage medium. 8 a road leading up to a private house. 9. the trait of being highly motivated. 10. a physiological state corresponding to a strong need or desire.
Drive	vb	To herd (animals) in a particular direction. 2. to cause animals to flee out of. 3. to move something by hitting it with great force. 4. to cause a mechanism to operate. 5. to operate a wheeled motorized vehicle. 6. to motivate. 7. to compel (to do something). 8. to cause to become. 9. to travel by operating a motorized vehicle. 10. to convey (a person, etc) in a wheeled motorized vehicle.
Drive	phr	"Drive At" - imply, suggest.
Drive	phr	"Drive Away" - to force animals or someone to leave a place. 2. repel, discourage.
Drive	phr	"Drive a Wedge Between" - to set out to cause two persons, groups to confront each other. 2. cause disharmony between persons.
Drive	phr	"Drive Back" - repulse, force back; force to withdraw.
Drive	phr	"Drive Back On" - oblige,force somebody (as a last resort) to use something he would rather avoid.
Drive	phr	"Drive By" - pass by or near.
Drive	phr	"Drive Home" - transport an other by one's own vehicle to their home.
Drive	phr	"Drive In" - (in military)force to withdraw towards the main body of one's unit.
Drive	phr	"Drive Into" - force to enter by striking with a hammer or any other object.
Drive	phr	"Drive Off" - drive away, leave (by car) from a place. 2. repel, force back, cause to withdraw. 3. drive a golf ball off a tee at the start of a game or a hole.
Drive	phr	"Drive Out" - force someone to leave a place; expel. 2. drive away, repel.
Drive	phr	"Drive Out of One's Mind or (Wit)" - make mad, drive insane, reduce to be very nervous or in an anxious state. 2. to cause someone great worry.
Drive	phr	"Drive Someone to the Wall" - to ruin a person.
Drive	phr	"Drive Someone Up the Wall" - to make somebody very frustrated or annoyed.
Drive	phr	"Drive Something Home" - try very hard to get somebody to accept, understand something (using a forceful or repeated argument).
Drive	phr	"Drive Someone to Tears" - to present information designed to make another person express sympathy not warranted by the facts.
Drive	phr	"Drive the Pigs to Market" - to snore heavily.
Drive	phr	"Drive to Drink" - make someone so desperate that he or she seeks forgetfulness, or relief, in drinking.
Drive	phr	"Drive Up" - make something increase. 2. arrive in a vehicle.
Drive	phr	"What Are You Driving At" - what are you implying at; trying to say or achieve.
Drive bolt	n	A tool for setting bolts home.
Driveaway	adj	In vehicle sales (Aust): sale price including all dealer's fees, and all legally, required fees such as resignation and insurance. 2. in Canada, USA a variation of car rental in which the driver contracts to deliver the vehicle to a specific location.
Drive-by	adj	A crime carried out from a moving vehicle. 2. done quickly or in a cursorily manner. 3.performed hastily or without adequate care.
Drive-by	phr	"Drive-by Shooting (or Murder)" a shooting or murder carried out from a moving car.
Drive-by	phr	"Drive-by Download" - in computing, a download triggered by scripts etc. on a website, without prompting the user, usually for malicious purposes.
Drive-in	n	Providing service to patrons who remain in their motor cars, as a drive-in restaurant, drive-in funeral home. 2. an outdoor movie theatre where the films are projected onto a large screen and patrons watch from inside their vehicle, listening either by a speaker attached to their vehicle or on a designated radio frequency.
Drivel	n	Nonsense talk. 2. saliva allow to flow from a person mouth.
Drivel	vb	To talk nonsense. 2. to let saliva flow from the mouth; dribble.
Driveler	n	One who talks nonsense. 2. one who allows saliva to flow from the mouth
Driveling	n	The act of talking nonsense. 2. the act of allowing saliva to flow from one's mouth.
Driveless	adj	Without any psychological drive; inert. 2. without a mechanical drive. 3.
Driverless	n	A vehicle moving (usu. out of control) and without a driver.
Drive-like	adj	Resembling or characteristic of a driver, or some aspect of one.
Driveline	n	The drive-train minus the engine and transmission. 2. the power train in general.
Driveling	n	Foolish talk, nonsense.
Driveling	adj	Foolish in speech.
Drivelingly	adv	In a driveling manner. 2. idiotically, foolishly.
Drivelly	adj	Nonsensical, foolish, idiotic.
Driven	adj	Obsessed, passionately, motivated to achieve goals. 2. of snow: driven into snowdrifts by the winds.
Drivenness	n	The quality of being driven: drive, ambition.
Drive-off	n	drive away, leave (by car) from a place. 2. repel, force back, cause to withdraw. 3. a person who fills his car with petrol at the pump or bowser, then drives off without paying. 4. drive a golf ball off a tee at the start of a game or a hole.
Drive-pipe	n	A pipe used to force or for forcing into the earth
Driver	n	To person who drives a motor vehicle. 2. a wooden-headed club with a flat face used to drive a golf ball of a tee. 3. a device or part of a circuit providing power for output. 4. a mallet. 5. a part that transmits motion to another part by contact with it, or through an intermediate relatively movable part, as a gear which drives another, or a lever which moves another through a link, etc. 6. an attachment to a lathe, spindle, or face plate to turn a carrier. 7. an implement used for driving. 8. an overseer of a gang of slaves or gang of convicts at their work. 9. one who, or that which, drives; the person or thing that urges or compels anything else to move onward. 10. (Machinery) the driving wheel of a locomotive. 11. the person who drives beasts or a carriage; a coachman; a charioteer, etc.; hence, also, one who controls the movements of a any vehicle.
Driver	phr	"In the Driver's Seat" - having the most importance in a story line or recognition. 2. of primary importance . 3. in control of an entity or situation.
Driver-side	n	On the side of a car correspondingly to the driver's seat.
Drive-through	n	Of an establishment, providing service to occupants of motor cars while still in their still-running vehicle. 2. an establishment, esp. a restaurant providing a 'drive-thru' service. 3. the window of such an establishment, adapted for such a purpose.
Drive-through	adj	Of an establishment, providing service to occupants of motor cars while still in their still-running vehicle. 2. an establishment, esp. a restaurant providing a drive-thru service.
Drive-time	n	The time it takes to drive between two points. 2. of the time of the day when a person commutes (to) and (from) work, regarded as a popular time to listen to the radio.
Driveway	n	A short private road that leads to a house or garage.
Drive wheel	n	A wheel that transmits power to other elements of a mechanism
Drive-yourself	n	A motor vehicle on hire, and driven by the person who hires it.
Driving	n	The act of controlling and steering the movement of a vehicle or animal.
Driving	adj	Transmitting power. 2. active and energetic. 3. having the power of driving or impelling. 4. acting with vigor.
Driving	phr	"What Are You Driving At" - what are you implying at; trying to say.
Driving iron	n	An 'iron' golf club which can be used as a driver; a driver.
Drizzle	n	(Probably O.E. 'droesan' to fall) - a very fine, steady rain; a light rain. 2. in cookery: a trickle.
Drizzle	vb	Of rain)to fall in very fine drops. 2. in cookery to sprinkle in fine drops or a thin trickle.
Drizzly	adj	Somewhat or rather drizzly.
Drof	adj	OE: turbid, disturbed, troubled, physically or mentally.
Droke	n.	Furrow, grove, ditch. 2. small watercourse, stream, fleet, ditch, ea. 3. steep narrow ditch. 4. narrow passageway.
Drone	n	A non-working male of the honey bee, whose only social function is to mate with the queen bee. 2. a deep humming sound. 4. a monotonous speech or speaker 5. sluggard; idler. 6. a string or stringed instrument used to make a continuous droning sound. 7. remote controlled, pilot-less aircraft or missile.
Drone	vb	To make a deep humming sound. 2. to speak or utter monotonously. 3. to idle away.
Drone	phr	"Drone on" - talk in an monotonous way. 2. speak tediously and at length.
Droned	adj	Sounded in a monotonous tone.
Droner	n	One who talks in an monotonous way.
Drong	n	A narrow passage or way; a lane.
Droning	n	A dull humming sound.
Droningly	adv	In a droning sound.
Dronish	adj	Of the nature or male bee. 2. living on the labor of others, lazy, sluggard, indolently, inactive.
Dronishly	adv	In a rather drony manner.
Drony	adj	Of a sound: dronelike.
Drop	n	The act of dropping something. 2. a central depository where things can be left or picked up. 3. a curtain that can be lowered and raised onto a stage from the flies; often used as background scenery. 4. a sudden sharp decrease in some quantity 5. a free and rapid descent by the force of gravity. 6. a predetermined hiding place for the deposit and distribution of illicit goods (such as drugs or stolen property) 7. a steep high face of rock. 8. a small indefinite quantity (especially of a liquid). 9. a shape that is spherical and small
Drop	vb	To fall. 2. to drip. 3. to fall straight down. 4. to allow to fall from one's grasp. 5. to lower oneself quickly to the ground. 6. to come to an end. 7. to express or utter casually. 8. to part with or spend money. 9. to cease over. 10. to decrease in value. 11. to send a letter or message. 12. to make fall to the ground. 13. to fail to pronounce. 13. to reduce. 14. to eject, remove, dismiss. 15. of music: to release to the public. 16. of music: to enter public distribution. 17. to cancel something scheduled. 18. of a voice, to go down in pitch.
Drop	phr	"At the Drop of a Hat" - at once, without hesitation. 2. with the slightest excuse.
Drop	phr	"Bottom Drop Out of" - prices fall to a very low level.
Drop	phr	"Drop a Hint" - make a subtle suggestion. 2. refer indirectly to something; make a suggestion indirectly, or tactfully, in order to give the listener an opportunity to do something that the speaker wants him to do.
Drop	phr	"Drop a Line" - write a letter; write a brief note.
Drop	phr	"Drop Anchor" - anchor a ship.
Drop	phr	"Drop Away" - decrease or depart gradually.
Drop	phr	"Drop Back" - fall back, get left behind. 2. drop back to lag or linger behind.
Drop	phr	"Drop Back Into" - return to a habit.
Drop	phr	"Drop Behind" - get farther back from the leader. 2. be left behind; fall behind (deliberately.) 3. allow others to move ahead.
Drop	phr	"Drop By" - call on, or casually visit.
Drop	phr	"Drop Dead" - die suddenly in the middle of some activity. 2. go away, stop interfering, I want no dealings with you, stop bothering me! 3. (slang)an exclamation of intense scorn.
Drop	phr	"Drop Down" - to move down a stream, or along a coast, as a vessel.
Drop	phr	"Drop In" - to happen in, as for a call. 2. call on, make a casual visit.
Drop	phr	"Drop In On" - call by, pay a casual visit to.
Drop	phr	"Drop into" - call casually at a place. 2. resort to a habit.
Drop	phr	"Drop Into One's Lap" - to turn up fortuitously.
Drop	phr	"Drop It" - stop that!
Drop	phr	"Drop Like Flies" - die in large numbers.
Drop	phr	"Drop Names" - over use the names of celebrated or influential persons sin order to impress others with one's acquaintance with, or knowledge of, them. 2. to overuse scientific, technical, specialist words and terms in order to impress a lay audience.
Drop	phr	"Drop Off" - fall asleep; doze. 2. diminish, slacken, decrease, fall off. 3. decline gradually.
Drop	phr	"Drop On" - reprimand or punish.
Drop	phr	"Drop 0ut" - leave, withdraw from. 2. reject conventional, and join the alternate society. 3. leave school permanently.
Drop	phr	"Drop Out Of" - withdraw (from), abandon, leave.
Drop	phr	"Have/Get the Drop On" - have the advantage over; specifically, to have 9a person0 covered with a gun before he can draw his.
Drop	phr	"Only a Drop in the Bucket" - insignificant amount; quantity. 2. of inconsiderable value, importance, esp. as compared with something larger in total or in kind.
Drop	phr	"Ready to Drop" - exhausted, tired out.
Drop	phr	"Take a Drop" - have a liking for drinking alcohol.
Drop-back	n	Someone or something that drops back, as a chair or seat.
Drop-back	adj	Lagging, dropping or moving backwards.
Drop cloth	n	A sheet of impermeable material meant to catch paint and other liquids, materials or hard-to-clean substances.
Drop-dead	adj	Stunningly beautiful; brilliant, excellent.
Dropdown	n	An instance of a selection object that hides the contents (es. other choices) until activated.
Dropdown	adj	In computing: dropping down from above, being a specific type of selection control that hides its contents until activated.
Drophead	n	An adjustable fabric roof of a car.
Drop-in	n	One who arrives unannounced or without an appointment. 2. (surfing) the act of paddling into and take off on a wave another surfer is already riding
Drop-in	vb	(Idiom) - to arrive unannounced or with little or no warning; also, to visit without an appointment. 2. to paddle while surfing into and take off on a wave another surfer is already riding.
Drop-in	adj	Made or constructed off-site and then dropped into a place or position.
Dropless	adj	Without a drop or drops, as of water.
Droplet	n	A tiny drop.
Droplight	n	A lamp that is suspended, for example by a cable.
Droplike	adj	Resembling or characteristic of a drop of liquid.
Dropmeal	adv	In drops; drop by drop.
Drop-off	n	The act of dropping off or delivering something to someone. 2. a decline, a decrease. 3. a sheer downward slope; a cliff.
Dropout	n	A person who has dropped out of school, society, etc.
Dropped	adj	Discarded, expelled, discharged, released, dumped, rejected.
Dropper	n	A device for administering liquids, esp. medicine in drops.
Dropping	n	The act of a person or thing that drops.
Droppingly	adv	In a dropping manner; drop-by-drop, one by one.
Droppings	n	The dung of animals or birds. 2.
Droppy	adj	Given to dropping, drippy, rainy.
Dropship	n	A relating practice of sending items for a manufacturer directly to the customer.
Dropside	n	A cot or truck having a side that drops down to open.
Dropstone	n	Old popular name for stalactites, and stalagmites, formed by the dropping of water.
Dropwise	adv	In the manner of a drop, drop by drop.
Dropwort	n	The perennial herb 'Filipenda vulgaris' closely related to the meadow-sweet.
Dross	n	The scum, recrement, or extraneous meatls in proces of smelting. 2. volcanic scoria. 3. impurities, mixed with impurities., dreg, impure or foreign matter.
Dross	vb	To dross out; to sift out the dross. 2. to render impure or corrupt. 3. to free from from dross.
Dross	phr	"Mankind's Dross" (the dross of mankind) - the flotsam and jetsam of society.
Dross	phr	"The Dross of His Flock" - a worthless animal of a flock. 2. fig. & lit. the downtrodden and rejected.
Dross heap	n	Heap of worthless, impure matter, ' having stood for a long time on the edge of a dross heap.
Drossiness	n	The state or quality of being drossy.
Drossless	adj	Lacking or without dross.
Drossy	adj	Resembling or characteristic of dross.
Drought	n	Long-continued dry weather. 2. scarcity, dearth.
Drought	phr	"Break A Drought" - to resume supplies after an interval.
Droughted	adj	Dried, parched, without rain.
Droughtiness	n	The state or condition of experiencing long-continued dry weather.
Droughting	n	Exposure to drought.
Droughtless	adj	Not affected by drought or a serous lack of rain.
Drought-like	adj	Resembling or characteristic of a drought, in some aspect.
Drought-stricken	adj	Seriously or greatly affected by drought or lack of sufficient rainfall.
Droughty	adj	Dry, without moisture, arid. 2. characterized by drought; deficient in rainfall. 3. thirsty, often addicted to alcohol.
Drove	n	The act of driving. 2. a number of beasts, oxen, sheep, etc. driven by a body; a flock, herd. 3. a crowd, multitude, teem, shoal, mob of other animals or human beings, esp. when in body; also fig. of things. 3. in some areas of england, a road along which horses or cattle are driven. 4. a channel for draining and irrigation. 5. a drove-dike, drove-road, drove-way. 5. an ancient road or track along which there is a free right-of-way for cattle, which is not kept in repair by authorities.
Drove	vb	To trouble, disturb. 2. become troubled or overcast.
Drove	vb	To drive herds of cattle; to follow the occupation of a drover.
Drove	vb	To dress stone in parallel lines with a drove or broad chisel.
Drove-den	n	A wooded hollow or tract into which swine and other beasts might be driven to feed.
Drover	n	A dealer, trafficker.
Drovering	n	The business or occupation of a drover.
Droveship	n	The business or occupation of a drover.
Droving	n	The occupation of a drover. 2. troubles, tribulation, disturbance.
Drovy	adj	Troubled, turbid, not clear or transparent, opaque, drumly, cloudy.
Drow	n	Dialect form of drought; adrow: to dry up.
Drow	n	A fit of illness. 2. a fainting fit, a qualm.
Drow	vb	To endure, suffer,
Drown	vb	Not found until the C13th (when it began to replace the related 'drench' in the sense 'suffocate in water' but an Old English verb 'drunian' could well have existed. 2. to sink (a ship or like); to send to the bottom. 3. to submerge, flood, inundate, deluge, drench. 3. to overwhelm, overpower by rising above like a flood. 4. to immerse or smother; to overpower sound by greater loudness. 5. to extinguish by merger in something greater or higher; to merge.
Drown	phr	"Drown One's Sorrows" - to drink, by way of solace, in order to forget (temporarily) one's troubles.
Drown	phr	"Drown Out" - to put or drive out by inundation; to stop( works or people) or drive out from their habitation by inundation
Drown	phr	"Like a Drowned Rat" - extremely wet and bedraggled.
Drown	phr	"Wet As a Drowned Rat" - thoroughly soaked or in a dripping condition.
Drowned	adj	Killed by submersion in water. 2. submerged, flooded, deluged, inundated; of a physical feature such as a valley, dale, that is fully or partially under water as a result of permanent change in the relative levels of land and sea, or lake).
Drowned	phr	"Like a Drowned Rat" - extremely wet and bedraggled.
Drowned	phr	"Wet As a Drowned Rat" - thoroughly soaked or in a dripping condition.
Drowner	n	One who drowns; or suffers drowning; that which drowns.
Drowning	n	Perishing by suffocating in water, suffering inundation. 2. suffocating or destroying by submerging in water; also fig. overwhelming or overpowering.
Drowningly	adv	So as to drown.
Drowse	n	Before 900; Old English drūsian to droop, become sluggish (not recorded in ME); akin to Old English drēosan to fall. 2. the action of drowsing; a fit of drowsing. 3. state of being drowsy or sleepy.
Drowse	vb	Probably from O.E. 'drusin' be languid or slow. to sink, droop, become slow. 2. to become drowsy, to become heavy or dull in or as with sleep. 2. to be half-asleep. 3. to nod off. 4. to become inactive, dull, sluggish. 5. to render drowsy, dull or inactive, as with sleep. 6. to pass away time, drowsily, or in drowsing.
Drowsed	adj	Drooped, dulled, inactive, sleepy, sluggish.
Drowsen	n	OE. drosna: dregs, grounds; a kind of oatmeal porridge.
Drowsihood	n	Drowsiness.
Drowsily	adv	In a drowsy manner; sluggishly, inactively.
Drowsiness	n	The state of being drowsy; or heavy-sleepiness. 2. intellectual or moral lethargy, sloth, sleep, lulling, soporific state, dullness, sluggishness, lethargy.
Drowsing	n	The state of being half asleep, dozing.
Drowsy	adj	Inclined to drowse. 2. disposing to sleep. 3. dull, stupid.
Drowsy-headed	adj	A person of a sleepy or sluggish disposition.
Drowsy-headed	adj	Sleepy, sluggish, inactive, lethargic. 2. a drowsy-headed person. as ' a man, on his bed, slumbers prone.
Drowth	n	Drought, an extreme spell of weather without much rainfall.
Drunk	adj	In a state of intoxication caused by the consumption of excessive alcohol, usually by drinking alcoholic beverages. 2. habitually or frequently in a state of intoxication from alcohol. 3. (usually followed by with or on) elated or emboldened.  4. drunk with power he immediately ordered a management reshuffle. 5. drenched or saturated with moisture or liquid. 6. (intoxicated from alcohol): blitzed, drunken, ebrious, hammered, pissed, tipsy, wasted, smashed.
Drunk	n	One who is intoxicated with alcohol. 2. a habitual drinker, especially one who is frequently intoxicated. 3. a drinking-bout; a period of drunkenness. 4. a drunken state.
Drunk	phr	"Drunk as a Fiddler" - a fiddler at wakes, fairs etc was often paid in liquor.
Drunk	phr	"Drunk as a Lord" - falling down or roaring drunk.
Drunk-driver	n	A person driving a motor vehicle under the influence of, and impaired, by alcohol.
Drunk-driving	n	The crime of driving a motor vehicle while impaired by alcohol or drugs, including those prescribed by a doctor.
Drunken	vb	To be swallowed or sunken in water; to suffer drowning; be drowned. 2. to be swallowed up in water. 3. to saturate or soak with liquid. 4. to be intoxicated or drink to excess.
Drunken	adj	Intoxicated, tipsy.
Drunkendom	n	Stat.e or condition of being drunk; alcoholics collectively; drunkenship.
Drunkenly	adv	In a drunken manner.
Drunkenship	n	Drunkenness.
Drunkenwort	n	Tobacco; minshu ductor
Drunk-head	n	A drunkard affected by alcohol.
Drunk-headly	adj	Extremely affected by drinking too much alcohol.
Drunkhood	n	State or condition of being intoxicated or inclination to excessive drinking..
Drunkish	adj	Somewhat or rather drunk.
Drunk-like	ad	Resembling or characteristic of a drunken state.
Drunkness	n	The state of being drunk, or of intoxication. 2. the habit of being drunken; or addicted to excessive drinking. 3. intoxication of the mind or spirit. 4. unsteadiness of the thread of a screw.
Drunksome	adj	Addicted to drunkenness, or excessive drinking.
Drunk trees	n	Trees which under the discontinuous permafrost or ice have melted, causing the trees to tilt at various angles.
Drunky	adj	Drunksome, intoxicated, tipsy.
Druthers	n	"I would rather" - a choice, preference.
Dry	n	A desert, a water-less place; a long stretch of the dry; a 75 mile dry. 2. prohibitionist, one who believes in an alcohol-free society. 11. a politician (esp. one of the Conservative Party): whose economic stringency, individual responsibility and vehemently opposes high government spending.
Dry	adj	A blow that does not draw blood. 2. feeling or showing no emotion, impassive. 3. dry of tender feeling; want in sympathy or cordiality; stiff, hard, cold. 4. wanting spiritual emotion. 5. yielding no fruit, result or satisfaction, barren, sterile, unfruitful, jejune. 6. of person: miserly, stingy. 7. uncommunicative, reserved. matter of fact, lacking adornment, embellishment, meagre. 8. deficient in interest, unattractive, distasteful, insipid (fig. of food that lack succulency). 9. lacking in softness or mellowness. 10. of acoustics: lacking in warmth and resonance. 11. of money-paid in full. 10. prohibitionist, one who believes in an alcohol-free society. 11. a 'dry' or 'dry-up' - an instance where an actor or orator forgets or fails to speak one's word in a play, speech or other performance.
Dry	vb	To become thirsty. 2. suddenly to forget or fail to speak one's word in a play or other performance, as 'an actor friend of mine once dried at the beginning'. 3. to render a cow dry or stop the secretion of its milk.
Dry	phr	"Dry As a Bone" - very dry.
Dry	phr	"Dry as Dust" - very dry; libale to crumble. 2. (fig) very tedious and uninteresting.
Dry	phr	"Dry Behind the Ears" - naive, gullible, credulous.
Dry	phr	"Dry Down" - of paint: to become dry.
Dry	phr	"Dry Off" - to make dry (after being wet from rain or after swimming.)
Dry	phr	"Dry Out" - become, make, quite free of water. 2. to evaporate; dry up. 3. stop drinking heavy liquor.
Dry	phr	"Dry Up" - cease, halt, stop talking. 2. of something perceived as a continuous flow or source: stop flowing. 3. dwindle, wane, disappear, subside. 4. make dry by wiping with a cloth. 5. be exhausted, come to an end. 6. stop talking, be quiet, shut up (through shyness or anxiety).
Dry	phr	"Dry Wipe" - wipe something dry, as a kitchen bench.
Dry	phr	"Have a Dry Run" - rehearsal, practice run, experimental or trial
Dry	phr	"I Am Dry with Talking" - I am thirsty after talking for so long.
Dry	phr	"Leave High and Dry" - stranded in a very difficult situations.
Dryasdust	n	Dull, pedantic, though often learned person.
Dryasdust	adj	Dull, pedantic, though often learned.
Dryasdustdom	n	The realm, sphere or world of those dryasdust.
Dryasdustness	n	The state or quality of being dryasdust.
Dryasdustly	adv	In a pedantic, boring, but learned manner
Dry-beating	n	A sound beating which does not draw blood.
Dry-boned	adj	Thin, withered, emaciated.
Dry-bones	n	Contemptuous name for a thin or withered person or one who has little flesh on his bones.
Dry clean	vb	To clean fabric clothing by a chemical agent, rather than water.
Dry-cleaned	adj	Of fabrics/ clothes cleaned with a chemical solvent.
Drycleaner	n	The operator of a dry-cleaning business.
Drycleaning	n	The act of cleaning fabrics/clothing with solvents, rather than water.
Drycough	n	Coughing without expectoration.
Drydock	n	A narrow basin or vessel that can be flooded to allow a load to be floated in, the drained to allow the load to come to rest on a dry platform. dry docks are used for construction, maintenance and repair of ships, boats and other watercraft.
Drydock	vb	To flood a narrow basin or vessel to allow a load to be floated in, then drained to allow the load to come to rest on a dry platform. 2. to use a dry dock for construction, maintenance and repair of ships, boats and other watercraft.
Dry-eyed	adj	Tearless, not weeping, unlachymous
Dry-film-thickness	n	The thickness, experienced in mils, of anapplied and / ? coating or mastic.
Dry fire	n	The practice of 'firing' a firearms without ammunition.
Dry-fist	n	A niggardly or stingy person
Dry-fisted	adj	Niggardly, stingy, miserly.
Dry fly	n	A type of fishing fly.
Dry-foot	n	One who tracks criminals or lost-persons by their scent.
Dry foot	vb	To track game (or criminals) by the mere scent of the foot.
Dry-footed	adj	Having feet not wetted. 2. lightly pass through difficulty: like one who steps lightly over a stream without wetting his or her feet.
Dry goods	n	A name for class of merchandise made up of textile fabrics and related things; such as articles of drapery, mercery and haberdashery (as opposed to groceries).
Dry-handed	adj	Having hands that are dry. 2. old and withered with connotations of lacking potency and sexual appeal. 3. empty-handed. 4. lacking special equipment for fighting. 5. snobbish, concerned more with social standing than worth.
Dry-hole	n	A hole drilled to find oil and gas but yielding none.
Dryhood	n.	Drought, dryland, a dry place, desert, rain-lessness.
Dry-house	n	A building in which miners change their clothing.
Dry ice	n	Solid carbon dioxide used as a refrigerant. 2. the cold dense white mist produced by solid in air, used for theatrical effects.
Drying	n	The action of the verb 'dry'; dessication; abstractuion or drying out of moisture.
Drying	adj	That dries or render dry; dessicative, abstracting of moisture from garments or other materials. 3. drying quickly; becoming dry, opposed to oils.
Drying day	n	A sunny, windy day on which washing dries quickly.
Drying-house	n	A enclosure covered with light, see-through material and used to dry vegetables.
Dryingness	n	The quality of drying quickly.
Dryish	adj	Somewhat dry.
Dry lake	n	A dry lake bed, consisting of of fine grained sediment infused with alkali salts, with no outflow
Dryland	n	An arid area. 2. a region with a low rainfall.
Dry-lighting	n	A lightning display without rain.
Dry-lipped	adj	Having dry and chafed lips.
Dryly	adv	In the manner of something without moisture. 2. without emotion, sympathy, or cordiality; coldly, frigidly. 3. without quick sarcasm or caustic humour. 4. in a bare or plain style; without embellishment. 5. badly; dully or uninteresting style or manner.
Dry mouth	n	A condition where does not make enough saliva.
Dry needling	n	A type of Western medical acupuncture.
Dryness	n	The condition or quality, absence or deficiency of moisture, aridity, bing dried up or droughty. 2. a dry place; dryland, as 'that dryness earth men shall call; the gathering of the waters all seas to name.' 3. failure, cessation, 4. thirst, want of water. 5. absence of emotion, feeling or fervour. 6. lack of cordiality, coldness of feeling, distance of manner. 7. absence of embellish, plainness, baldness, lack of interest, dullness. 8. condition of being dry - or without alcohol; prohibition of the sale of alcoholic liquor during the 1930s.
Dry up	n	Of the flow of words: cease talking. 2. cause to forget his or her words.
Dry rot	n	A fungous disease of timber, causing it to crumble. 2. fig. a state of gradual, hidden or unsuspected moral or social decay, tending towards disintegration. 3. a disease of potatoes and other vegetables.
Dry rot	vb	To affect with dry rot.
Dry-rotted	adj	Decayed, rotted (by fungous disease).
Dry run	n	A practice run or testing process where the effects of possible failure are intentionally mitigated. 2. a rehearsal.
Dry salt	n	To preserve food by salting and removing water.
Dry salter	n	A dealer in dyes, gums, and chemical preparations. 2. one who deals in salted meats, pickles, etc.
Drysane	vb	To fall down, sink.
Drysnyng	n	Falling.
Dry-shod	adv	(In dried-feet) having one's shoes dried without wetting the feet. 2. without wetting the shoes or feet
Dry spell	n	A longish period when the weather has been dry, for an abnormally long time. 2. a period dry shorter and less severe than a drought. 2. a period of time (usually quite long) of abstinence from alcohol, drugs; sex, etc.
Dry steering	n	The act of turning the steering wheel or rotating the steering wheel or rotating the vehicle on an axis by some other means, while the vehicle is stationary.
Drystone	n	A building method in which structures are built from stones without any mortar to bind them together.
Dryte	n	Feces.
Dryte	vb	To defecate.
Dryth	n	Dryness, dry condition, dry weather, drought. 2. thirst.
Dry tongue	n	A medical condition where the tongue tends to stick to or against the roof of the mouth, causing a problem with chewing and/or swallowing.
Dry-tongued	adj	Suffering or infliction of the medical condition called 'dry-tongue.'
Dry-thunder	n	A thunder roll without rain.
Dry tool	n	Climbing (rock climbing) axes and crampons.
Dry tooling	n	The action of climbing of rocks using ice axes and crampons.
Dry-up	n	The action of drying up.
Dry-wall	n	A panel of gypsum panels pressed between two thick sheets of paper used to make interior walls amnd ceilings.
Drywalling	n	The construction of interior walls and ceilings using panels of dry walling.
Dryware	n	Goods or merchandise packed in barrels for transport by sea.
Dry wit	n	Humor, when the intent, but not the presentation is humorous, blunt, sarcastic, laconic or apparently unintentional.
Ducky	adj	A term of endearment for an elderly woman. 2. sweet, pretty, splendid, fine.