drill-rod 
drill-rod (dril'rod), n. In boring wells, etc., the 
rod used to support the drill or boring-tool and 
to connect it with the motor at the surface. 
drill-sergeant (drirsar"jeut), n. Mllit., a non- 
commissioned officer who instructs soldiers in 
their duties and trains them to military move- 
ments. 
drill-Stock (dril'stok), n. In meek., the holder 
(of which there are many kinds) for receiving 
the fixed end of a drill. 
drily, adv. See dryly. 
Drimys (dri'mis), n. [NL., so named from 
the bitter tonic taste of the bark, < Gr. dpipvf, 
piercing, sharp, keen, acrid, bitter.] A genus 
of evergreen aromatic shrubs or small trees, 
Flowering Branch of Drimys Winteri. 
belonging to the natural order Magnoliacea and 
nearly related to the genus Illicium. There are 5 
species, of which 2 are Australian, the others belonging 
respectively to New Zealand, Borneo, and South America. 
D. Winteri of South America yields Winter's bark (which 
see, under tor*2). 
drinesst, An obsolete spelling of dryness. 
drink (dringk), v. ; pret. drank (formerly drunk), 
pp. drunk (sometimes drank, formerly drunken), 
ppr. drinking. [< ME. drinken (pret. drank, 
dronk, pi. drunke, drunken, dronke, dronken, pp. 
drunken, dronken, dronke), < AS. drincan (pret. 
dranc, pi. druncon, pp. druncen) = OS. drinkan 
= OFnes. dritika = D. drinken = MLG. LG. 
drinken = OHG. trinchan, MHG. G. trinken = 
Icel. drekka = Sw. dricka = Dan. drikke = Goth. 
drigkan, drink. From G. come It. trincare = 
F. trinquer, touch glasses, hobnob. Hence 
drench 1 , drown, q. v.] I. intrans. 1. To swal- 
low water or other fluid. 
The! ne ete ne dronke of all that nyght, and no more lie 
hadde the! don of all the day be-fore, for the Ijataile hadde 
endured all the day. Merlin (E. E. T. S.), ii. 171. 
To drink or eat in earthenware we scorn, 
Which cheaply country cupboards does adorn. 
Dryden, tr. of Juvenal's Satires, iii. 281. 
Specifically 2. To imbibe spirituous liquors, 
especially habitually or to excess ; be intem- 
perate in the use of spirituous liquors. 
They drank, and were merry with him. Gen. xliii. 34. 
To drink deep, to take a deep draught; indulge in 
intoxicating liquors to excess. 
A little learning is a dangerous thing ; 
Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring : 
There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain, 
And drinking largely sobers us again. 
Pope, Essay on Criticism, 1. 216. 
To drink to, to salute in drinking ; invite to drink by 
drinking first ; wish well to in the act of taking the cup. 
I drink to the general joy of the whole table, 
And to our dear friend Banquo. Shak., Macbeth, iii. 4. 
II. trans. 1. To swallow (a liquid) ; receive 
(a fluid) into the stomach through the mouth ; 
imbibe : as, to drink water or wine. 
After drinking a glass of very good iced lemonade I 
took my leave, much amused and pleased. 
Macavlay, Life and Letters, I. 192. 
2. To affect in a specific way by or in drinking ; 
induce a condition in by the act or example of 
drinking : as, to drink a bowl empty; he drank 
his companions drunk. 
Xerxes, whose populous Army drunk rivers dry and 
made mountains circunmavigable. 
Sandys, Travailes, p. 20. 
3. To suck in ; absorb ; imbibe. 
And let the purple vi'lets drink the stream. Dryden. 
4. Figuratively, to take in through the senses, 
as the ear or eye, with eagerness and pleasure : 
with reference to utterance or appearance. 
My ears have not yet drunk a hundred words 
Of thy tongue's uttering. SAa*., R. and J., ii. 2. 
1772 
Still drink delicious poison from thy eye. 
Pope, Eloisa to Abelard, 1. 122. 
5f. To take in (vapor, fumes, or smoke) ; in- 
hale : as, to drink the air. Old writers often 
used drink for smoke with reference to tobacco. 
I did not, as you barren gallants do, 
Fill my discourses up drinking tobacco. 
Chapman, All Fools, ii. 1. 
By this air, the most divine tobacco that ever I drunk. 
B. Jonson, Every Man in his Humour, iii. 2. 
Thou can'st not live on this side of the world, feed well, 
and drink tobacco. 
G. Wilkins, Miseries of Inforced Marriage. 
Fumosus cannot eat a bit, but he 
Must drink tobacco, so to drive it down. 
Dames, Scourge of Folly, epig. 148. 
To drink down, to take away thought or consideration 
of by drinking; subdue or extinguish : as, to drink douii 
care ; to drink down unkindness. To drink In, to ab- 
sorb ; take or receive by absorption, or through the senses 
or the mind : as, a plant drinks in oxygen from the at- 
mosphere ; to drink in wisdom from instruction ; to drink 
in the beauties of the scene. To drink off, to drink the 
whole of at a draught : as, to drink of a cup of cordial. 
We have no cause to complain of the bitterness of that 
Cup which he hath drunk off the dregs of already. 
Stillingjleet, Sermons, I. vi. 
To drink off candles' endst. See candle. To drink 
the health or to the health Of, to drink while express- 
ing good wishes for the health or welfare of ; signify good 
will to by drinking ; pledge. Todrinkup. (a)Todrink 
the whole of ; as, to drink up a glass of wine. 
That 'tis Decreed, confirm'd, and ratified, 
That (of necessity) the fatall Cup, 
Once, all of vs must (in our turn) drink up. 
Sylvester, tr. of Du Bartas's Weeks, ii., The Decay. 
(6) To draw up or exhaust : as, the heated air drinks up 
the moisture of the earth. 
drink (dringk), n. [< ME. drink, drinke, also 
assibilated drinch, < AS. drine, drync, also drinca, 
gedrinc (= Sw. drick = Dan. drik), a drink, < 
drincan, drink : see drink, v., drench 1 , .] 1 . Any 
liquid, as water or wine, swallowed or taken 
into the stomach as a beverage for quenching 
thirst, or for medicinal purposes. 
Returning back to Rome, was chosen Pope by the Name 
of Adrian the Fourth, and dyed, being choaked with a Fly 
in his Drink. Baker, Chronicles, p. 58. 
We drunk our first New England water, with as much 
delight as ever we drunk drink in all our lives. 
Chron. Pilgrims, quoted in Tyler's Amer. Lit., I. 160. 
Specifically 2. Strong or intoxicating liquor ; 
alcoholic stimulants collectively: as, a craving 
for drink. 
They fall to those spiced drinkes and sacriflceth flesh 
with great mirth, and being well apayed, returne home. 
Purchas, Pilgrimage, p. 430. 
3. A draught ; as much of any liquid as is or 
may be taken at one time ; a potion : as, a long 
drink of lemonade ; have a drink. 
If thou doe give or fill the drinke, with duty set it downe 
Babees Book(E. E. T. 8.), p. 291. 
We will give you sleepy drinks. Shak., W. T., i. 1. 
Black drink. See black. Imperial drink, a sweeten- 
ed and flavored solution of bitartrate of potassium, potus 
imperialis. If. S. Dispensatory. In drink, drunk; in- 
toxicated. 
I could find it in my heart to beat him . . . but that the 
poor monster's in drink. Shak., Tempest, ii. 2. 
Strong drink, alcoholic liquor of any kind or all kinds. 
But they also have erred through wine, and through 
strong drink are out of the way. Isa. xxviii. 7. 
drinkable (dring'ka-bl), a. and . [< drink + 
-able.] I. a. That 'may be drunk; fit or suit- 
able for drinking ; potable. 
By this means the water would become drinkable with 
some coolness. Boyle, Works, V. 698. 
The water that is in it [the pool] seems to depend on the 
rains, and is not drinkable. 
Pococke, Description of the East, II. 1. 10. 
II. n. A liquor that may be drunk. 
I never have courage till I see the eatables and drink- 
ables brought upo' table, and then I'm as bauld as a lion. 
Goldsmith, She Stoops to Conquer, ii. 1. 
drinkableness (dring'ka-bl-nes), n. The state 
of being drinkable. Imp. Diet. 
drink-a-penny (dringk'a-pen"i), . The little 
grebe, Podicipes or Tachybaptes fluviatilis. Also 
penny-bird. Swainson. [Local, Irish.] 
drinker (dring'ker), n. [< ME. drinkere, drynk- 
are, < AS. drincere (= D. drinker = OHG. trin- 
chan, drinkari, trinchare, G. trinker = Sw. drick- 
are, drinker, drinkare, drunkard), < drincan, 
drink.] One who drinks; particularly, one 
who drinks spirituous liquors habitually or to 
excess ; a tippler. 
The sonne of man came eatynge and drynckynge, and 
they say, behold a glutton and dryncker of wine, and a 
frende vnto publicans and synners. Bible (1551), Mat. xi. 
, . . 
Spiders are great drinkers, and suffer severely from 
Encyc. Brit., II. 298. 
drought. 
. 
drinker-moth (dring'ker-mdth), . The pop- 
ular name of a large European bombycid moth, 
dripping-pan 
Odonestis potatoria : so called from its long suc- 
torial proboscis or antlia. 
drinking-bout (dring'king-bout), n. A con- 
vivial revel ; a set-to at drinking. 
The drinking-bout and quarrels of the shepherds are 
seasoned with homely English allusions. 
A. W. Ward, Eng. Dram. Lit., I. 48. 
drinking-horn (dring'king-hfirn), n. [= Dan. 
drikkehorn.] A horn used as a drinking-vessel, 
or a drinking-cup made of horn. See horn. 
drinklet, drenklet, ' [ME. drinklen, drenklen, 
freq. of drinken, drink : see drink, and cf . drench. 
See also dronkle, drown.] I. trans. To drench; 
drown. Prompt. Pan., p. 132. 
II. intrans. To drown. 
drinkless (dringk'les), a. [< ME. drinkeles; 
< drink + -leys.] Without drink ; having no- 
thing to drink. [Rare.] 
Though a man forbede dronkennesse, 
He nought forbet that every creature 
Be drunkynlees for alway, as I gesse. 
Chaucer, Troilus, Ii. 718. 
[Fairfax MS. Other MSS. have drinklesi.} 
0, which a sorwe 
It is for to be drinkeles ! 
Gower, Coal. Amant., III. 3. 
drink-money (dringk'mun"i), n. Money given 
to buy liquor to drink ; hence,, a fee or gratuity. 
drink-offering (dringk'of "er-ing), n. A Jewish 
offering of wine, etc., in sacrifices. 
And with the one lamb a tenth deal of flour mingled with 
the fourth part of an hin of beaten oil ; and the fourth 
part of an hin of wine for a drink-offering. Ex. xxix. 40. 
drip (drip), v. ; pret. and pp. dripped, ppr. drip- 
ping. [< ME. dryppen (rare), < AS. dryppan 
(pret. drypte, impv. dryp ; also drypian, pret. 
*drypede, impv. drype), cause to drop, let fall 
(= Sw. drypa = Dan. dryppe, drip), a causative 
verb associated with the rarer secondary forms 
dropian (dial, drupian; pret. dropede, dial. 
drtipede) and droppan (pret. "dropte), whence 
E. drop, v., < "dredpan, pp.*dropen, pret.*<fre<y), 
pi. "drupon (occurring, if at all, only in uncer- 
tain passages, but no doubt once existent), ME. 
drepen, drop, fall, = OS. driopan (pret. drop) = 
OFries. driapa = D. druipen = OHG. triufan, G. 
triefen (pret. troff) = Icel. drjupa (pret. draup), 
drop, drip. See drop, and cf. drib 2 , v., drio- 
ftfel.j I. intrans. 1. To fall in drops. 
Of the yonge oute trie 
Oon here, oon there, and elles where hem dripe. 
Palladms, Husbondrie (E. E. T. S.), p. 64. 
2. To shed or let fall a liquid in drops, as a wet 
garment or a roof. 
The eaves dripped now 
Beneath the thaw. 
William Morris, Earthly Paradise, II. 84. 
II. trans. To let fall in drops. 
Her flood of tears 
Seems like the lofty barn of some rich swain, 
Which from the thatch drips fast a shower of rain. 
Swift. 
From the roofless walls 
The shuddering ivy dripped large drops. 
Words-worth, Prelude, ii. 
drip (drip), n. [< ME. dryppe, later drippe = 
Dan. dryp, a drop : see drop, n. In the other 
senses from the verb. Cf. drib 2 , .] If. A 
drop. See drop, n. 2. A falling or letting 
fall in drops ; a dripping. 
On the ear 
Drops the light drip of the suspended oar. 
Byron, Childe Harold, iii. 86. 
The drip of water night and day 
Giving a tongue to solitude. 
D. O. Kosselti, The Portrait. 
3. That which falls in drops ; specifically, drip- 
ping, or melted fat which drips from meat while 
roasting. 
Water may be procured for necessary occasions from 
the heavens by preserving the drips of the houses. 
Mortimer. 
4. In arch., a projecting member of a cornice, 
etc., so cut as to throw off water, which would 
without it trickle down upon the parts beneath. 
See dripstone. 5. A receptacle for waste or 
overflow: as, the drip of a water-cooler or a 
refrigerator Right Of drip, in lair, an easement or 
servitude which entitles one person to let the drip from 
his eaves fall on another's property. 
drip-joint (drip'joint), . In plumbing, a mode 
of uniting two sheets of metal in roofing, where 
the joint is with the current, so as to form a 
water-conductor. E. H. Knight. 
dripping (drip'ing), . That which falls in 
drops; specifically, the fat which falls from 
meat in roasting: commonly in the plural. 
dripping-pan (drip'ing-pan), n. A pan for re- 
ceiving the fat which drips from meat in roast- 
ing. 
