Drosera 
Pacific islands, and most abundantly in cxtratropical Aus- 
tralia. Their leaven are covered with glandular hairs, 
which exude drops ol a clear glutinous tlniil that glitter 
in the sun ; hence the 
it-'"'. These u'laiuliilar bair.s reUj 
them, and other bails around 
tbo.se actually touched by tin: 
insect bend over nnd incl"-c it. 
The excitement of the glands 
induces the > , i. i ion of a di- 
gestive fluid, under tbe opera- 
tion of which the nutritious 
nitrogenous matter of the in- 
sect is dissolved and absorbed. 
The common Kuropean species 
have long had a popular repu- 
tation as a remedy for bronchi- 
tis anil asthma. 
Droseracese (dros-e-ra'- 
se-e), ii. j)l. |N'L.,< Dro- 
iier a + -acew. J A natural 
order of polypetalous in- 
sectivorous herbs, grow- 
ing in marshy localities 
in temperate and tropi- 
cal regions, having their 
leaves mostly circiuate 
in vernation and covered 
with numerous glandu- 
lar viscid hairs. Of the genera, Drosera (which see) 
is by far the largest. Of the others, Dionaa is character- 
ized by having foliaceons petioles bearing a two-lobed lam- 
ina which closes quickly when touched, and Aldrovanda 
by having pitcher shaped leaves. See cut under Dionra. 
droshky, drosky (drosh'-, dros'ki), .; pi. 
droalikirs. iti-oxkies (-kiz). [Also written drozh- 
ki, etc. ; = F. droschki = D. droschke = Dan. 
droske = Sw. droska, < G. droschke, a droshky, 
cab, etc., = Pol. drozhka^ dorozhka, < Russ. 
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drove 
Stindew (Drosera rotundi- 
/alia}. 
2. In galrano-clect., an alloy of zinc aud iron drought 1 , drouth (drout, drouth^ n. [In the 
formed in the zinc-bath, partly by the solvent 
action of the zinc on the iron of the pot, but 
chiefly from the iron articles dipped, and from 
the dripping off of the superfluous amalgam 
as they come from the bath. W. II. Itahl. 
3. Figuratively, a worthless thing; the value- 
less remainder of a once valued thing. 
The world's glory is but dross unclean. >> "> /- 
The past gain each new gain makes a loss, 
And yesterday's gold love to-day makes drott. 
William Morris, Earthly Paradise, III. ::m. 
dross (dros), v. t. [< dross, n.] To remove 
dross from. 
Droaimi is performed with a large perforated Iron spoon 
or ladle, through the openings of which the fluid zinc runs 
otf, while the dross is retained, packed into shallow moulds 
so as to form slabs of alwut seventy -five pounds weight, 
and In this form is usually sold to the smelters ami refin- 
ers, who gain the zinc it contains either by distillation or 
by special patented procedures. 
W. 11. Wahl, Oalvanoplastic Manipulations, p. 529. 
drossardt (dros'ard), n. [< D. drossaard, MD. 
driisxiK rl (with accom. term, -aurd, -aert = E. 
-ard), earlier MD. drossact, D. drost = OFries. 
(frusta = MLG. drossete (> ML. drossatus), drot- 
zete, druczete, droste, druste, LG. droste = OHG. 
'truhtsdzo, truhsdzo, trutsdzo, truhsazzo, MHG. 
truhtseze, truhtsceze, trochtsaze, truhsceze, truch- 
seze, G. truchsess = Icel. drotteeti = Sw. drot- 
drozet, drozt, drots = Dan. drost (< LG.), 
lir.st form (with Hi altered t<. t. as also in i 
< ME. ilrnuijlit, ilnnrylit, drugt, 
'., the more orig. form, early 
mod. E. also drouyth, < ME. drouyth, ilruhth, 
drogthr, ilriii/ilif; < AS. druynth, ilrut/oth (= D. 
droogte), dryness, < dryge, orig. 'druge (= D. 
droog), dry: see dry. Drouth is thus equiv. to 
dry-th (which form is occasionally used, like 
Karm-lh, etc.). Drouth is etymologically the 
more correct spelling. Both forms have been 
in concurrent use since the ME. period, but 
i/roni/lit has been the more common.] If. Dry- 
ness. 
With the droieahte of the daye alledrye ware the flora! 
Murte Arthure (E. E. T. .), 1. 8260. 
The Asp, says Gesner, by reason of her exceeding 
,lr,,n : i/it, it accounted deaf; hut that one Asp Is deafer 
than another I read not Cotgrave. 
2. Dry weather; want of rain or of moisture; 
such a continuance of dry weather as injuri- 
ously affects vegetation ; aridness. 
Whan that Aprllle with his shoures soote 
The droghte of March hath perccd to the roote. 
Chaucer, Gen. ProL to C. T., L 2. 
In a drought the thirsty creatures cry, 
And gape upon the gather'd clouds for rain. 
Dryden, Annus Mirabllls. 
In the dust and drouth of London life 
She moves among my visions of the lake. 
Tennyson, Edwin Morris. 
uu, ciu., = ui. uf i/~ii/vi*, W /i v~ivi*, s. AI lect, cnier omcer, appar. v.as uest siiowii iu 
drozhki (= Little Russ. drozhky), a droshky, OHG.) < OHG. truht(= OS. drulit = AS. dryltt, 
1*111, UM'*c<, HrWM W/I/KJ ^ fmm mm *- y-v UM/| . , . . 
an officer whose duty it was to set the meat on 3. 1 hirst ; want or < inK. 
the table of his prince or sovereign, a steward, 
server, grand master of the kitchen, hence in 
extended use a steward, bailiff, constable, pre- 
fect, chief officer, appar. (as best shown in 
As one, whose drouth 
Yet scarce allay'd, still eyes the current stream. 
MUton, P. L., vll. 86. 
4. Figuratively, scarcity; lack. 
A drought of Christian writers caused a dearth of all his- 
dim. of drogi, a carriage, a hearse, prop. pi. of rfri)(i),'the people, multitude, company, follow- *** 
droga, the pole or shaft of a carriage. Not con- j ng / 8ee dright), + OHG. sdzo (= AS. sceta, etc. : drought-, ". A dialectal form of draft 1 , draught^. 
nected with Russ. doroga, a road (= Pol. droga see cotset), one who sits or settles: the com- dronghtineSS, drouthiness (drou'ti-nes, -thi- 
= Bohem. draga, draha, a road, = QBulg. Serv. pound appar. meaning orig. the officer who as- nes), n. The state of being droughty; dry- 
signed a prince's guests or followers their seats ness; aridness. 
at table. Less prob. the first element is OHG. droughty, drouthy (drou'ti, -thi), a. 1. Char- 
truJi t, a load, draught, provisions (akin to E. acterized by drought; dry. 
draftl, draught*), the lit. meaning of the com- 
draga, a valley), dim. dorozltka (> Pol. doro:1ika), 
a little road, though the second Pol. form simu- 
lates such a connection.] A kind of light four- 
wheeled carriage used iu Russia and Prussia. 
The droshky proper is without a top, and consists of a kind 
of long narrow bench, on which the passengers ride as on 
a saddle ; but the name is now applied to various kinds of 
vehicles, as to the common cabs plying in the streets of 
some German cities, etc. 
Droskiet the smallest carriages in the world, mere 
sledges on wheels, with drivers like old women in low- 
crowned hats and long blue dressing-gowns buttoned from 
their throat* to their feet. A. J. C. Hare, Russia, ii. 
Begovuiya droshlri an extremely light vehicle, com- 
posed of two pairs of wheels joined together by a single 
hoard, on which the driver sits stride-legged. 
D. M. Wallace, Russia, p. 236. 
drosnet, [ME. : see dross.] Dregs; dross. 
drosometer (dro-som'e-ter), n. [< Gr. fyoooc., 
dew, + /itrpov,' a measure.] An instrument 
for ascertaining the quantity of dew that con- 
pound suiting then its first known actual use, 
one who sets the meat on the table.] A stew- 
ard; a bailiff; a prefect. 
There is ... a droxsard of Limburgh near this place 
(to whom I gave an Exemplar of R. B. 's Apology) very de- 
sirous to speak with some of the friends. 
Penn, Travels in Holland, etc. 
drosselt (dros'el), . [Also written drazcl; per- 
haps the same as drotchel, appar. < Sc. dratch, 
dretch = E. dretck*, loiter, delay : see dretch^.] 
a slut. 
That when the time's expir'd, the drazel* 
For ever may become his vassals. 
S. Butler, Hudibras, III. i. 987. 
Now dwels ech drotsel in her glass. 
Warner, Albion's England, ix. 47. 
See the extract. 
denses on a body which has been exposed to drosser (dros'er), n. 
the open air during the night. It consists of a The weight of so many tables pressing one against an- 
balance, one end of which is f iirnished with a plate fitted other would cause the hlndermost to bend ; but this is pre- 
to receive the dew, and the other with a weight protected vented by the invention of iron frames or drossert, which 
from it. divide the tables into sets. Glass-making, p. 125. 
Drosophila (dro-sof 'i-lii), n. [NL.,<Gr. 6p6aac, Dressiness (dros'i-nes), M. The quality or state 
dew, + tOoc. loving.] A genus of flies, ol the of bei (lr foulness ; impurity, 
family Muscidiv, one species of which, Droso- ^^ of afflictlon jmml ^ ^ reflne ua 
plnla flara (the yellow turnip-leaf miner), is from our e8rth | y drosrinett. and soften us for the impres- 
very destructive to turnips, the maggots eating s ion of Ood's own stamp and image. Boyle, Works, 1. 275. 
Oh ! can the clouds weep over thy decay, 
Yet not one drop fall from thy droughty eyes ? 
Drayton, The Barons' Wars, IL 
When the man of God calls to her "Fetch me a little 
water," ... it was no easy suit in so droughtie a season. 
/;/. llnii. Elijah. 
The sun of a drouthy summer . . . was shining on the 
heath. /(. w. Dixon, Hist. Church of Eng., xv. 
2. Thirsty; dry ; requiring drink. 
If the former years 
Exhibit no supplies, alas '. thotl must 
With tasteless water wash thy droughty throat. 
PhiKpt. 
And at his elbow Souter Johnny, 
His ancient, trusty, drouthy cronie. 
tin r us. Tarn o' Shantcr. 
There are capital points In the second Ipicture], which 
depicts the consternation excited in a village inn on dis- 
covering the single ale-cask dry, and the house full of 
drouthy customers. Saturday Ret., July 8, 1866. 
The rustic politicians would gather round Philip, and 
smoke and drink, ami then question and discuss till they 
were drouthy again. Urn. Gaskelt, Sylvia's Lovers, xli. 
drook (drok), v. t. [Sc., < ME. *d 
"(Imuknen (see droukening), < Icel. drukna = 
Dan. drnkne, be drowned: see drown, where 
the k is lost in the w.] To drench; wet thor- 
oughly. Also dratrk. 
And aye she took the tlther souk 
To drouk the stowrle tow. 
Burnt, The Weary Fund o' Tow. 
iiy destructive to turnips, 
into the pulp and producing whitish blisters on d ro88 l e8S (dros'les), a. [< dross + -less.] Free 
the upper side. D. cellarls attacks potatoes. from (lrogg 
dross (dros), M. [Early mod. .E. also rfrosse; < dro BBy (dros'i), n. [< dross + -yl.] Like dross; droukeningt, droukningt, . [ME., alsodnmJt- 
ML. drotM, earlier rOos, < AS. dros = MLG. pertain i n g to dross; abounding with dross, or ,- < 'droiikcn, 'drouknen, drench: see drouk.] 
drott All), tiroes, urej^s. Ihe more common *._ ...1,1...... ... ...,..;.,!. nnniin^i tsimt>tnio . _ ^ ? _i T .1 
ilriixni ), always in syn- 
AS. word is "drosen (or 
copated pi. drosna (or 'drosiui) (== MD. droes- 
xi HI. D. droenem = MLG. druse = OHG. trusana, 
truxiiti, driixi'iin, ilnisiiin. MHG. drum-lie, (Irtisinc, 
dnwcne, OHG. also trittumiut, truosfiui. trnosina, 
tntnurii, ilnioxitna, MHG. truosen, druoscne, G. 
druscii), lei's, dregs, < drcoxan (pp. drorcn for 
'drosen) = < >S. ilnostiii = Norw. drjosa = Goth. 
waste or worthless material: applied to metals, 
and figuratively to other things. 
So doth the flre the drossy gold reflne. 
Sir J. Da vies, Immort 
A wise man, like a good refiner, can gather gold out of 
the drossiest volume. Milton, Areopagttica, p. 21. 
Many more of the same bevy, that, I know, the drotsy 
age doats on. Shaic., Hamlet, v. 2. 
The heart restor'd aud purg'd from drown/ nature 
drfttM'(LGt. itnmen, etc.), fall: see drizsle, and N-w finds the freedom of a new-born creature, 
of. dro-r, ,/,-,,-.] 'I. Refuse or impure or for- ""*" Eulblem8 - " 1B ' 
eign matter which separates from a liquid and drot (drot), v. t. Same as drat*. 
falls to the bottom or rises to the top, as in droud (droud), n. [Sc., origin obscure.] 1. A 
wine or oil or in molten metal ; sediment; lees; ""^fi"*- J-* 
dregs; scum; any refuse or waste matter, as 
chaff; especially, and now chiefly, the slag, 
si-ales, or cinders thrown off from molten metal. 
Cold and sillier clenseth ham of bore dros i the fure [in 
the flre]. An<-r>n Iii"i,. \>. >(. 
1. A slumbering; slumber; a doze. 
Als I lay in a winteris nyt in a droukrninii before the day. 
Debate of Body and Soul, 1. 1. (Lat. Poems attrlb. to 
tal. ofSoul. Int. IW. Mapes, ed. Wright) 
2. A swoon. 
vile the! selden the! weore sort, 
For-dolled in a dntuknyntj dred. 
//.,,,/ /too,'/ (E. E. T. S.), p. 141. 
droukit, drooket (dro'kit, -ket), p. a. [Pp. of 
drouk, q. v.] Drenched. [Scotch..] 
The last Halloween I was waiikin' 
My droukit sark-sleeve, as ye ken. 
Burnt, Tain Glrn. 
The cart gaed ajec and they liaith fell into the water ; 
twa pnir drouii'Mike Ijodies they were when they cam out, 
Petticoat Talet, I. 237. 
droukningt, See droukeiiiiig. 
Drosite of metallc, scorinni ; ilnw of corne, aciis. cri- 
balluui, ruscum : ilrw of f> Ithe ln-re of hyt be, rnsciim, 
rusculuin. Prompt. Parr., p. 1S3. 
Some scunnl the drnsse that from the metal! came. 
Some stird the molten owre "ith ladles great. 
Spenttr, F. i;.. 11. vii. 3ti. 
codfish. Jamieson. 
The flsh are awful ; half a guinea for a cod's head, and 
no bigger than the drouds the cadgers bring from Ayr, at 
a shilling and eigbteen-pence a piece. 
Kiackirood-t Mag., June, 1820, p. 29. (jroumyt ("drou'rai), a. [E. dial. (Devonshire); 
2. A kind of wattled box for catching herrings. c f. drumly.] Troubled; turbid; muddy. 
That . . . protestation of Catiline, to set on flre and 
Jamieson. 3. A lazy, lumpish person. Jamie- 
<. trouble states, to the end to fish In dmimy waters. 
Folk pitied her heavy handful of such a rfro<t Bacon, Advancement of Learning, ii. 350. 
Gait, Annals of the Parish, p. 330. drouth, drouthiness, etc. See drought 1 , etc. 
drought. A Middle English form of the preterit drove 1 . I'ndiii and obsolete and dialectal 
of <//<('. past participle of 
