drummer 
its head against the wood. The sound very 
much resembles a smart knocking with the 
knuckle upon the wainscot ing. 
drumming (drum'iug), n. Tlie sport of fishing 
for driimtisli. 
drumming-log (drain 'ing-log), . A log to 
which a bird, as a grouse, resorts to drum. 
drummock (drum'ok), H. [Sc., also written 
ili-diiiinitck, aramOOK, dram much, etc., < Gael. 
ili-nii/iiii/i; afoul mixture.] A mixture of un- 
cooked oat-meal and cold water. 
To tremble under Fortune's crumtnock, 
On waive :i hellylil t> tlrum uittck, 
Wi' his proud, independent stomach 
Could 111 agree. 
Ili/i-ns, On a Scotch Bard. 
Drummond light. Same as calcium light (which 
see, under calcium). 
drum-roomt (drum'rom), . The room wliere 
a drum or crowded evening party is held. See 
drum 1 , ., 9. 
The honny housemaid begins to repair the disordered 
drum-room. Fielding, Tom Jones, xi. 9. 
drum-saw (drum'sa), . Same as cylindrical 
miir (which see, under cylindric). 
drum-sieve, n. See sieve. 
drum-skin (drum'skin), n. [= Dan. tromme- 
skiiul = Sw. <n/6'fciHH.] A drumhead. 
His heart 
Beats like an ill-played drum-akin quick and Blow. 
Library Mag., III. 801. 
drumsladet, . [Found in the 16th century, and 
appar. earlier; also spelled drumslet, 'drumsled 
(cited as drumsted), drombeslade, drunslade, 
drounslate; appar. of D. or LG. origin, like 
drumslager, but no corresponding form appears; 
cf. MD. tromnielslayh, D. trmnmelxlaq = G. trtim- 
melschlay = Dan. trommeslag = Sw. trumsla- 
gare, a drum-boat. See drumslager.] 1. A drum. 
The drummers and the </n<MxJn</.' (tympanotrllire), as 
also the trumpeters, call to arms, and inflame the soldiers. 
Uoole, Visible World. 
2. A drummer. Minsheu. 
drumslagert, [< MD. trommelslager, trom- 
mel-slagher, D. trommelslagcr (= G. trommel- 
schlager, earlier tromineti-schldgcr, trumpe-sleger, 
drninine-schldger = Dan. trommeslager = Sw. 
trumslagare),\ trommel, D. trommel and from (= 
G. trommel and tromme, etc.), a drum, + slager 
(= G. schldger, etc.), beater (== E. slayer), < 
slagen (= G. sehlagen, etc., beat, strike) = E. 
slay : see drum and slayer. Cf. drumslade.'] A 
drummer. 
He was slalne and all his compunie, there helng but 
one man, the drnwxla<it'r, left aliue, who by swiftnesse 
of his foote escaped. 
lli'linxhed, C'liron., Ireland, an. 1680. 
drumstick (drum'stik), . [= Dan. tromme- 
xiik.'] 1. One of the sticks used in beating a 
drum. That used for the bass drum has a soft, stuffed 
lir:nl. Drumsticks are generally used in pairs, one in each 
hand of the performer. 
2. Hence, from its shape, the lower or outer 
joint of the leg of a dressed fowl, as a chicken, 
duck, or turkey. Anatomically, ft is the leg from the 
knee to the heel, the leg proper, or crus, intervening be- 
tween the thigh and the shank, which latter is usually 
cut olf when the fowl is dressed for the table. 
3. The stilt-sandpiper or bastard dowitcher, 
Micropalama liimantopus. [Local, U. S.] 
drumstick-tree (drurn'stik-tre), . The Caa- 
niii Fistula: so called from the shape of its pods. 
drum-wheel (drum'hwel), n. In hydraulic eit- 
ifin., a tympanum. 
drumwood (drum'wud), n. The Tarpinia oe- 
ciilciitali.i, a small sapindaceous tree of Jamai- 
ca and other parts of tropical North America. 
It has pinnate leaves and white flowers, which 
are followed by dark-blue drupes. 
drunk (drungk). The regular past participle 
and a former preterit of drink. 
drunk (drungk), p. a. [Pp. of drink, t\] 1. In- 
toxicated ; inebriated ; overcome, stupefied, or 
frenzied by alcoholic liquor: used chiefly in the 
predicate. 
Be not drunk: with wine, wherein is excess. Eph. v: 18. 
Since drunk with Vanity yon fell. 
The things turn round to yon that steadfast dwell. 
Cowley, The Mistress, Called Inconstant. 
I gave 1'atriek half-a-crown for his Christmas-box, on 
condition he would be good ; and he emne home drunk at 
midnight. >'">", .lonrnal to Stella, Dec. 24, 1711. 
2. Drenched or saturated. 
I will make mine arrows drunk with blood. 
Deut. xxxii. 42. 
drunk (drun^lO. ii. [< drunk, a.] 1. Aspree; 
a drinking-bout. 2. A case of drunkenness ; 
a drunken person. [Slang.] 
1783 
drunkard (dmng'kjird). ii. [First in 10th cen- 
tury, also written drunkird; < drunk + -an/.] 
One given to mi excessive use of strong drink; 
a person who is habitually or frequently drunk ; 
an inebriate. 
The drunkard and the glutton shall come to pov< 1 1 \ 
I'rov. xxiii. 21. 
Avoid the company of drunkard* and busylxHlies. 
Jr r. rut/lor, \\ orks (ed. 1835), 1. 404. 
Drunkard's cloak*. See cloak. 
drunkelewt, " and a. [ME. dntnkeletc, ilnm- 
l,i Ii ire, drunken, < drunken, drunken, drunken, 
+ -lew, < Icel. -tear = AS. -lie, E. -ty'A] I. a. 
Given to drink ; drunken. Chaucer. 
Voide alle drunkflew folk, . . . 
And ulle hem that vsen suche vnthriftynesse, 
Ami also dijs pleiers. 
Halve* Book (E. E. T. S.), p. M. 
II. . A drunkard. 
A yonge man to bo a dronkelewe. 
(Sower, Cunt. Amant., vi. 
drunken (drung'kn), p. a. [The older form of 
ilnnik, now used chiefly as an attributive, the 
predicative use, as in senses 1 and 4, being 
archaic or technical.] 1. Affected by or as if 
by strong drink ; intoxicated ; drunk. 
Drunken men imagine everything turneth round. Baton. 
He stares, he sfglis, he weeps and now seems more 
With sorrow drunken than with Wine before. 
J. Beaumont, Psyche, lit 18S. 
Let the earth be drunken with our blood. 
Aa*.,3Hen. VI., H. 8. 
2. Given to drunkenness; habitually intemper- 
ate: as, he is a drunken, worthless fellow. 
Alon. Is not this Stephauo, my drunken butler ? 
Seb. He is drunk now. Shak., Tempest, v. 1. 
3. Proceeding from intoxication; done in a 
state of drunkenness : as, a drunken quarrel. 
When your carters, or your waiting vassals, 
Have done a drunken slaughter, and defac'd 
The precious Image of our dear Redeemer, 
You straight are on your knees for pardon, pardon. 
Shak., Rich. III., U. 1. 
4. Acting as if drunk : applied by workmen to 
a screw the thread of which is uneven and pro- 
duces an unsteadiness of motion in the nut. 
If the tool is moved irregularly or becomes checked in 
its forward movement, the thread will become dninken, 
that Is, it will not move forward at a uniform speed. 
./. /,'".-., Practical Machinist, p. 106. 
Drunken cutter. See cuttrri. 
drunkenheadi (drung'kn-hed), n. [ME. drun- 
keiihed, drunkinhed, dronkehed, < drunken + -hed, 
-head.] Drunkenness. 
For the! two through her dronkenhede, 
Of witles excitaciou 
Oppressed all the nacion 
Of Spayne. Guwer, Conf. Amant., vi. 
drunkenly (drung'kn-li), adv. In a drunken 
manner. [Rare.J 
That blood already, like the pelican, 
Hast thou tapp'd out, and drunkenly carous'd. 
Shak., Rich. II., il. 1. 
drunkenness (drung'kn-nes), n. [< ME. drun- 
kennesse, drunkenesse, dronkenesse, etc., < AS. 
dnincennes, < druncen, drunken: see drunken 
and -ness.'] 1 . The state of being drunk, or over- 
powered by intoxicants ; the habit of indulg- 
ing in intoxicants ; intoxication; inebriation. 
Sum men seye that he sloughe ones an Heremyte in 
his Dronkenesite, that he loved fill wel. 
Mandemlle, Travels, p. 71. 
Let us walk honestly, as in the day ; not in rioting and 
drunkenneas. Rom. xiii. 13. 
2. Disorder of the faculties resembling intoxi- 
cation ; intense excitement ; frenzy ; rage. 
Passion is the drunkenness of the mind. 
.Sotilh, Sermons, II. 362. 
drunkenship (drung'kn-ship), . [< ME. druit- 
ke[n~\ship, drunkeshippe, dronkeship (AS. *drun- 
censcipe, not verified); < drunken + -ship.] Drun- 
kenness. 
For dronkeship in euery place, 
To whether side that It turne, 
Doth liar me. Qower, Conf. Amant,, vi. 
drunkerdt, n. An obsolete spelling of drun- 
kitni. 
drunkwort (drungk'wert). H. An old name 
for tobacco. Minsheu. 
drunt (drunt), v. i. [Also droiint, drant; < Dan. 
ilrunte, drynte (rare), lag, loiter.] To drawl. 
[North. Eng. and Scotch.] 
drunt (drunt), . [Also drant, draunt; from 
the verb.] 1. A slow and dull tone; a drawl- 
ing enunciation. 2. A fit of pettishness ; the 
dumps ; the huff. [North. Eng. and Scotch in 
both senses.] 
An Mary, par iloulit, took the dnint. 
To be compared to Willie, tlunu, Halloween. 
Drupe. 
I. Cherries, y. Section of a cherry : a, fleshy 
sarcocnrp : 6, stony wall of the putamcn. inclos- 
ing the seed. 
druse 
Drupacea (drft-pa'se-e), n. pi. [NL., fern. pi. 
of ilriip<iceun: see drujiaceuuti and -acea:~\ A 
name given by some botanists to that division 
of rosaceous plants which comprehends the al- 
mond, peach, cherry, plum, and similar fruit- 
bearing trees. More generally called Amygdd- 
leai, from Latin <i/y</'''". nlmonil. 
drupaceous (dro-pa'shius), a. [< NL. drupacetw. 
< drupii, a drupe: see drupe, and cf. Drujiacea:.] 
1. Producing drupes: as, drupaceous trees. 
2. Resembling or relating to a drupe ; con- 
sisting of drupes. See drupe. 
drupe (drop), w. [= F. drupe = 8p. Pg. It. 
(/)//, < NL. ilrupa, a drupe, < L. drupa, ilrn/i- 
pa (with or without olira), > LXjr. Api-irira, an 
overripe olive, < Gr. f/nnrevi/f, ripened on the 
tree, quite ripe, a form alternating with Apvnt- 
TI/C, ready to fall, overripe, < <V">, tree, + T<- 
TTT-ftv, cook, ripen, and m-trr-nv (y "TCT), fall, 
respectively.] In hot., a stone-fruit; a fruit in 
which the outer part of the pericarp becomes 
fleshy or softens like a berry, while the inner 
hardens like a nut, forming a stone with a ker- 
nel, as the plum, cherry, apricot, and peach. 
The stone in- 
closing the 
kernel is call- 
ed the puta- 
men (or.endo- 
carp), while the 
pulpy or more 
succulent part 
is called the 
sarcocarp (or 
mesocarp), and 
the outer cov- 
ering the epi- 
earp. The true 
drupe consists 
of a single one- 
celled and usu- 
ally one-seeded 
carpel, but the 
tenn is applied 
to similar fruits resulting from a compound pistil, in which 
there may be several separate or separable putamens. 
Many small drupes, like the huckleberry, are in ordinary 
usage classed with berries. On the other hand, some 
drupe-like fruits, as that of the hawthorn, are technically 
referred to the pome, and the cocoanut and walnut, he- 
Ing intermediate between a nut and a drupe, arc described 
as drupaceous nuts. 
drupel (drO'pel), . [< NL. 'dmpella, dim. of 
drupa, a drupe: see drupe."] A little drupe, 
such as the individual pericarps which together 
form the blackberry. 
drupelet (drop'let), . [< drupe + -let."] Same 
as drupel. 
drupeole (dro'pe-61), n. [< NL. 'dnipeola, dim. 
of drupa, a drupe: see drupe and -ole.~] Same 
as drupel. 
drupetum (drS-pe'tum), n. ; pi. drupeta (-tS). 
tNL., < drupa, a drupe : see drupe and -etum.~\ 
n lui/., an aggregation of drupes, as in the 
blackberry. 
drupose (drfi'pos), . [< drupe + -ose."] A 
compound (C^H^Og) formed by treating the 
stony concretions found in pears with dilute 
hydrochloric acid at a boiling heat. 
druryt, drueryt, . [Early mod. E. also droury, 
drouery; < ME. drury, druri. druery, druerie, 
druwerie, driwerie, etc., < OF. druerie = Pr. dru- 
daria = It. druderia, love, gallantry, < OF. dru, 
drud, druc = Pr. druz = It. drudo, amorous, 
gallant, < OHG. trut, drut (> G. traut, a.), a 
friend, lover.] 1. Love; gallantry. 
Of lailys love and dmctry. 
Chaucer, Sir Thopas, 1. 184. 
The drweeries of ladies and damesels make knyghtes to 
vndirtake the hardynesse of armes that thel don. 
Merlin (E. E. T. S.), Hi. 641. 
2. A mistress. 
Lady, where is your drury I 
Bonnie House o Airly (Child's Ballads, VI. 185). 
3. A love-token; a gift, especially a jewel or 
other precious object. 
Thenne dressed he his itnirtie double hym aboute. 
Sir Oawayne and the Green Knight (E. E. T. S.), 1. 2083. 
Hit (truth) is as der worthe a rfrutrrrv as dere god him- 
selue. Pier* Plowman (C), ii. 83. 
druse 1 (dr8z), . [< G. druse (as in def.), < 
Bohem. druza, in same sense, orig. a brush, = 
Russ. drusa (obs.), a brush.] A rock-cavity 
lined with crystals ; a geode, or, as miners call 
it, a vug. A common word in Germany, adopted from 
the Slavic : the most important mining region of Germany 
being the Erzgebirge, on the borders of Bohemia, The 
word originally meant (in Slavic) 'brush,' and was applied 
to surfaces covered with projecting crystals like teeth, just 
as com6 has been in Ijmlish. Hence it also came to mean 
the cavities where such druses are found to occur. In 
English the word dnue is little used at the present time 
evcejit I iy mini laloKists. and then chlelly in the adjective 
form dnuy (which ). See *\&j ycutle 
