drappie 
drappie (drap'i), . [Sc., dim. of drap = E. 
drop.] A little drop; a trifling quantity. 
We're nae that fou', 
But just a dmviiie in our e'e. 
Burn*, Oh, Willie Brew'd. 
drappit (drap'it), . A Scotch form of dropped, 
past participle of drop. Drappit egg, a poached 
or fried egg. (Scotch.] 
drassid (dras'id), n. A spider of the family 
Drassid<e. 
Drassidae (dras'i-de), n. pi. [NL., < Drassus + 
-id.] A family of tubitelarian spiders, of the 
suborder Dipneumones, typified by the genus 
Drassus. The principal distinctive characters are the 
development of only two stigmata and two tarsal claws, 
the want of a distinct demarcation between the head and 
thorax, and the second pair of legs not longer than the 
others. The species have eight eyes disposed in two rows, 
and they are mostly of dull color. 
Drassoidse (dra-soi'de), n.pl. [NL.] Same as 
Drassid(e. 
Drassus (dras'us), . [NL., appar. irreg. < 
Gr. dpaaacaffat, grasp, lay hold of: see drachma.] 
The typical genus of spiders of the family Dras- 
sidce. 
drastt, drest 2 t (drast, drest), n. [Usually in pi., 
= E. dial, darsts, < ME. druste, dreste, alsodarste, 
derate, pi. drastes, drestes, etc., < AS. dcerstan, 
derstan, pi., dregs, lees, = OHG. trcstir, trester, 
MHG. trester, G. trester, dial, trest = OBulg. 
drostija, dregs. Hence drasty.] Dregs; lees. 
Cocumber wilde, or sour lupyne in drestes 
Of oil comyxt, wol dryve away thees beestes. 
Palladium, Husbondrie (E. E. T. 8.), p. 85. 
The dreste [var. drestw, draft] of it is not wastid out, 
ther shal drink of it alle the synneres of erthe. 
Wydif, Ps. Ixxiv. 9 (Oxf.). 
Thou drunke it vp vnto the drestis [var. drastis, Purv.]. 
Wydif, Is. Ix. 17 (Oxf.). 
drastic (dras'tik), a. and n. [= F. drastique = 
Sp. drdstico = Pg. It. drastico (cf. G. drastisch 
= Dan. Sw. drastisk), < Gr. opaariKof, active, 
efficacious, < 6pav, act, effect, do : see drama.] 
I. a. Effective ; efficacious ; powerful ; acting 
with force or violence ; vigorous : as, a drastic 
cathartic. Compare cathartic, a. 
The party was in such extreme and imminent danger 
that nothing but the most drastic remedies could save it. 
Lecky, Eng. in 18th Cent., i. 
The Coercion Act . . . had imprisoned 918 persons with- 
out trial, and in many cases without even letting them 
know the offences with which they were charged. But 
these drastic measures, far from pacifying the country, 
had brought it to the very verge of civil war. 
W. S. Gregg, Irish Hist, for Eng. Readers, p. 195. 
II. n. A medicine which speedily and effec- 
tually purges. 
drastyt, Trashy ; of no worth ; filthy. 
Myn eres aken [ache] of thy drasty speche. 
Chaucer, Prol. to Melibeus, 1. 5. 
. An obsolete contracted form of dreadeth 
(dredeth), third person singular indicative pres- 
ent of dread. Chaucer. 
drat 2 (drat), v. t. [A minced form of 'od rot: 
see 'od and rot.] An expletive expressive 
of mild indignation or annoyance, similar to 
plague on, plague take, bother: as, drat that 
child! [Low, and chiefly prov. Eng.] 
And sleepers waking grumble "drat that cat." 
T. Hood. 
The quintain was " dratted " and " bothered," and very 
generally anathematized by all the mothers who had young 
sons. Trollope. 
drattle(drat'l),v.t Same as dra2. [Prov. Eng.] 
Drattle 'em ! thaay be mwore trouble than they be wuth. 
T. Hughes, Tom Brown at Oxford, xxiii. 
draught, A corrupt spelling of draff. 
draught 1 , n., a., and v. See drafft. 
draught-t, See draff. 
draught-hoard (draft'bord), n. The board on 
which the game of draughts or checkers is 
played; a checker-board. 
draught-bridget, n. [ME. drauht brigge, drawte 
brydge: see draffl, draught*, n., 24, and bridge 1 , 
and cf. drawbridge.] A drawbridge. 
Was ther non entre that to the castelle pan ligge 
Bot a streite kauce, at the ende a drauht brigge. 
Rob. o/Brunne, tr. of Langtoft's Chrou. (ed. Hearne), p. 183. 
draught-houset (draft ' hous), n. A sink; a 
privy. 
And they brake down the image of Baal, and brake 
down the house of Baal, and made it a draught house 
unto this day. 2~Ki. x. 27. 
draughtiness, . See draftiness. 
draughtsman, . See draftsman. 
draughtsmanship, . See draftsmanship. 
draughty 1 , . See drafty^. 
draughty 2 t, . See drafty*. 
drave (drav). Archaic preterit of drive. 
1760 
Dravidian (dra-vid'i-an), a. [< Skt. Drdvida, 
with cerebral d, whence in Hind. Drdvida and 
Drdvira: see def.] Of or pertaining to Dra- 
vida or Dravira, an ancient province of south- 
ern India : specifically applied to a family of 
tongues spoken in southern India and Ceylon, 
supposed by some to be Scythian or Ural- 
Altaic, by others to constitute an independent 
group of languages. It includes Tamil, Telu- 
gu, Canarese, Malayalam or Malabar, Tulu, 
etc. Also called Tamilian. 
Dravidic (dra-vid'ik), a. Same as Dravidian. 
They first entered India, became mingled with the 
Dravidic race, and afterward were driven out. 
Amer. Antiquarian, X. 59. 
draw (dra), v. ; pret. drew, pp. drawn, ppr. draw- 
ing. [< ME. drawen, draglien, dragen, drahen 
(pret. drew, drewe, drowe, drowgh, drough, drag, 
droh, pp. drawen, drawe, dragen), < AS. dragan 
(pret. drag, droh, pi. dragon, pp. dragen), tr. 
draw, drag, intr. go, = OS. dragan = OFries. 
drega, draga = D. dragen, carry, = MLG. LG. 
dragen = OHG. tragan, MHG. G. tragen, carry, 
bear, = Icel. draga = Sw. draga = Dan. drage, 
draw, pull, drag, = Goth, dragan, draw. Not 
cognate with L. trahere, draw, whence E. trace, 
tract, ete. Hence ult. drag, draggle, drawl, 
drain, draughft = draft 1 , dray 1 , dredge*, and 
prob. dregs. Cf. indraw, outdraw, withdraw] 
1. trans. 1. To give motion to by the action of 
pulling ; cause to move toward the force applied, 
or in the line of pull or traction : often with an 
adverb of direction : as, to draw a wagon, a train, 
or a load ; to draw down the blinds. 
'Tis a bearded Arrow, and will more easily be thrust 
forward than drawn back. Congreve, Old Batchelor, iii. 10. 
They draw up the water by a windlass [from cisterns], 
and carry it in leather bags on camels to the houses. 
Pococke, Description of the East, I. 6. 
The carriage was drawn by a pair of well-kept black 
ponies, furnished with every European appurtenance. 
H. 0. Forbes, Eastern Archipelago, p. 184. 
2. To pull along, as a curtain, or to pull with 
strings, as a purse, so as to open or to close 
it ; pull across : as, to draw the bow across the 
strings of a violin. 
Even such a man . . . 
Drew Priam's curtain in the dead of night, 
And would have told him, half his Troy was burn'd. 
Shak., 2 lien. IV., i. 1. 
We will draw the curtain, and show you the picture. 
Shak., T.S.,1. 5. 
Close up his eyes, and draw the curtain close ; 
And let us all to meditation. 
SAa*.,2Hen. VI., iii. 3. 
I draw not my purse for his sake that demands it, but 
His that enjoined it. Sir T. Browne, Eeligio Medici, ii. 2. 
Which [heart] shall ever when I am with you be in my 
face and tongue, and when I am from you, in my letters, 
for I will never draw curtain between you and it. 
Donne, Letters, xxiii. 
3. To remove or extract by pulling: as, to draw 
a sword (from its scabbard) ; to draw teeth ; to 
draw a cork. 
Agranadain . . . drough his swerde, and appareiled 
hym self to diffende. Merlin (E. E. T. S.), iii. 569. 
Draw not thy sword ; thou know'st I cannot fear 
A subject's hand. 
Beau, atid Fl, Maid's Tragedy, iii. 1. 
He durst not draw a knife to cut his meat. 
Fletcher (and another), Love's Cure, iii. 2. 
4. To take or let out, as from a receptacle or 
repository; remove; withdraw: as, to draw wa- 
ter from a well or wine from a cask ; to draw 
blood; to draw money from a bank; to draw 
the charge from a gun. 
The Angell of Death drew from him his soule out of his 
nostrils, by the smell of an apple of Paradise. 
Purchas, Pilgrimage, p. 261. 
Myself drew some blood in those wars, which I would 
give my hand to be washed from. 
Beau, and Fl., Philaster, I. 1. 
5. To take, get, derive, or obtain, as from a 
source: as, to draw supplies from home; to 
draw consolation from the promises of Scrip- 
ture. 
I write to gou a tretice in englisch breuely drawe out 
of the book of quintis essence's in latyn. 
Book of Quinte Essence (ed. Furnivall), p. 1. 
The colonies of heaven must be drawn from earth. 
Sir T. Browne, Christ. Mor., iii. 25. 
What I argue shall be drawn from the scripture only ; 
and therin from true fundamental principles of the gospel. 
M'dton, Civil Power. 
The Poet draws the Occasion from an Invitation which 
he here makes to his Friend. 
Congreve, tr. of Juvenal's Satires, xi., Arg. 
The genius of every remembered poet drew the forces 
that built it up out of the decay of a long succession of 
forgotten ones. Lowell, Study Windows, p. 234. 
draw 
6. To lead or take along, as by inducement, 
persuasion, or command; induce or cause to go 
with one : as, to draw a person to the top of a 
hill. 
Nay, rather wilt thou draw thy forces hence. 
Shak., 3 Hen. VI., v. 1. 
Sir Francis improved his opportunity to buttonhole Mr. 
Fillmore, and drew him into the next room. 
J. Hawthorne, Dust, p. 164. 
7. To lead or cause to come ; bring by induce- 
ment or attraction; call up or together; at- 
tract: as, to draw a large audience; to draw 
lightning from the clouds. 
So they yede, and met with their enmyes, and saugh 
that thei hadde drawe to hem grete part of the londe. 
Merlin (E. E. T. S.), i. 92. 
He shal drawe into rememhraunce 
The fortune of this worldes chaunce. 
Gower, Conf. Amant., I. 5. 
Why do melodramas draw larger audiences than Mac- 
beth? Whipple, Ess. and Rev., I. 132. 
8. In billiards, to cause to recoil after impact, 
as if pulled back: as, to draw a ball. 9. To 
allure ; entice ; induce : as, to draw the atten- 
tion of an assembly. 
She [Mary Queen of Scots] answered, That Letters 
might be counterfeited, her Secretaries might be cor- 
rupted ; the rest, in hope of life, might be draivn to con- 
fess that which was not true.- Baker, Chronicles, p. 369. 
I may be drami to shew I can neglect 
All private aims, though I affect my rest. 
B. Jonson, Sejanus, iii. 1. 
Some ladies of position actually engaged a famous mim- 
ic and comic singer to set up a puppet show, in the hope 
of drawing away the people from Handel. 
Lecky, Eng. in 18th Cent., iv. 
10. To elicit ; evoke ; bring out by some induce- 
ment or influence : as, to draw a confession from 
a criminal ; to draw the fire of an enemy in or- 
der to ascertain his strength or gain some ad- 
vantage ; to draw down vengeance upon one's 
head. 
When he was spit upon, mocked, reproached and 
scourged, none of all these could draw one impatient ex- 
pression from him. Stillingjleet, Sermons, I. vi. 
The skill and care with which those fathers had, during 
several generations, conducted the education of youth, 
had drawn forth reluctant praises from the wisest Protes- 
tants. Macaulay, Hist. Eng., vi. 
11. To deduce; infer: as, to draw conclusions 
or arguments from the facts that have come to 
light ; to draw an inference. 
Some persons draw lucky or unlucky omens from the 
first object they see on going out of the house in the 
morning. E. W. Lane, Modern Egyptians, I. 340. 
12. To extort; force out: as, the recital of his 
sufferings drew tears from every eye. 
He [William II.] set forth a Proclamation that none 
should go out of the Realm without his Licence, by which 
he drew much Money from many. Baker, Chronicles, p. 34. 
13. To inhale or suck in; get or cause to pass 
by inhalation or suction: as, to draw a long 
breath ; to draw air into the lungs ; the dust is 
drawn into the chimney. 
'Tis bane to draw 
The same air with thee. 
B. Jonson, Catiline, iii. 1. 
14. To drain or let out the contents of ; empty 
by drawing off a fluid from : as, to draw a pond. 
"O father, father, draw your dam, . . . 
There's either a mermaid or a swan. " 
The Twa Sisters (Child's Ballads, II. 241). 
A lioness, with udders all drawn dry, 
Lay couching. Shak., As you Like it, iv. 3. 
Or hath the paleness of thy guilt drunk up 
Thy blood, and drawn thy veins as dry of that, 
As is thy heart of truth ? B. Jonson, Catiline, iv. 2. 
15. To drag along on the ground or other sur- 
face; move in contact with a surf ace: as, to draw 
the finger over anything. [In an early form of the 
punishment of death by hanging, the sufferer was violent- 
ly dragged or drawn to the gallows at the tail of a horse. 
Later the execution was rendered more humane, without 
altering its form, by drawing the condemned on a hurdle, 
or in a cart, instead of literally on the ground. See def. 
16. and compare to hang, draw, and quarter, under hang, v. ] 
With wilde hors he schal be drawe. 
Iti'chard Coer de Lion, 1. 4632. 
The howndes schuld the flesch drawe. 
Sir Amadas, 1. 173 (Weber's Metr. Rom., III.). 
16. To eviscerate; disembowel: as, to draw 
poultry; hanged, drawn, and quartered. See 
hang, v. 17. To extract the strength or essen- 
tial qualities of; prepare by infusion: as, to 
dra ic tea. 18. To extend by or as if by pull- 
ing; stretch; lengthen; prolong: as, to draw 
wire ; to draw a long face. 
His face drawn longer than 'twas wont. 
B. Jonson, Volpone, i. 1. 
While the fatal sister sought to twine 
His thread and keep it even, she drew it so fine 
It burst. Webster, Monumental Column. 
