D R A 
only to let down a pitcher with 3 handcord, for as much 
water as they could eafily pull up. Grew. 
DRAY, or Draycart,/! [bjiapq, Sax.] The car on 
which beer is carried.—Let him be brought into the field 
of election upon his draycart, and I will meet him there 
in a triumphant chariot. Addifon. 
When drays bound high, then never crofs behind, 
Where bubbling yeft is blown by grids of wind. Gay . 
The neft of a fquirrel: 
Whilft he from tree to tree, from fpray to fpray, 
Gets to the wood, and hides him in his dray. W. Browne. 
DRAY'HORSE, f. A horfe which draws a dray.— 
This truth is illuftrated by a difeourfe on the nature of 
the elephant and the drayhorfe. Taller. 
DRAY'MAN, f. One that attends a dray or cart.— 
Have not coblers, draymen, and mechanics, governed as 
well as preached f Nay, have not they by preaching come 
to govern ? South. 
DRAY'TON, or Market-Drayton, an ancient town 
in the county of Salop, pleafantly fituated on the river 
Tern, which here feparutes Shropfhire from Stafford (hire. 
It is diftant from Shrewfbury nineteen miles, from Staf¬ 
ford nineteen, from Chefter thirty, and from L'ondon 150. 
It lies about three miles from Tern-hill inn, which (lands 
in the great road leading from London to Chefter. Here 
is a manufactory of hair-weaving,Tor chair-feats, (ieve-bot- 
toms, See. Its principal market-day is Wednefday, with 
a fmall market on Saturday for butchers meat, Sto, It 
has four fairs annually, viz. nine days before Eafter, near- 
eft Wednefday to the 22ft of June ,September 19, and the 
26th of October. Here was a very ancient church, dedi¬ 
cated to St. Mary, the tower of which is now (landing; 
but the body of it was rebuilt in 1782. About two miles 
from this town was fought the obftinate battle of Bloor- 
heatft, upon which fpot was erected a ftone-crofs, with 
an infeription, to perpetuate this memorable action. The' 
battle was fought in 1459. Lord Audley commanded for 
the houfe of Lancafter, and was (lain : the earl of Salif- 
bury commanded for the houfe of York. In this battle, 
the earl of Salifbury, with five thoufand men, beat Lord 
Audley, who had ten thoufand, after a molt bloody en¬ 
gagement. 
DRAY'TON (Michael), an Englifti poet, born in 
1563, at Hartftiill, a village in Warwickfhire. He was 
for fome time a ftudent at Oxford ; but of his profeflional 
purfuits, and the circumftances of his life, very little is 
known. He feems early to have entered among the vo¬ 
taries of the mitfes; and he became known by various 
poetical publications during the reign of queen Eliza¬ 
beth. He died in 1631, and was honoured with a tomb 
among the poets in Weftminfter-abbey. A great portion 
of his pieces are derived from Englifti hiftory. The bat¬ 
tle of Agincourt, the barons’ wars, the (lories of queen 
Margaret of Anjou, of Robert duke of Normandy, of 
Matilda the Fair, Pierce Gavefton, and Cromwell earl of 
Effex, have employed his heroic or epic (train; and in 
England’s Heroical Epiftles, feigned to have palled be¬ 
tween lovers of the firft rank and fame in our hiftories, 
he has imitated the elegiac manner of Ovid. His greateft 
performance, intitled Polyolbion, is a kind of fyftem of 
the geography and antiquities of England and Wales. It 
has the peculiarity of being written in uniform Alexan¬ 
drines, the effeit of which is far from agreeable to a mo¬ 
dern ear, and feems to aggravate the natural tedioufnefs 
of the work. The learned Selden thought it worth while 
to write annotations on this poem; which is a circum- 
(tance to its honour as a curious piece of narrative, though 
it will not conclude much in favour of its poetry. The 
other poems of Drayton are paltorals, odes, elegies, fa- 
tires, and various anomalous compofitions. An edition 
of his umrks appeared in folio, in 1748, and another in 
4 vols. Svo.jin 1753. 
DRA'ZEL, J. [perhaps corrupted from dro/Td , the 
Vol. VI. No. 331. 
D R A Gi) 
feum or drofs of human nature; or from drojlejfe, Fr. a 
(trumpet.] A low, mean, worthlefs, wretch; 
As the devil ufes witches, ' 
To be their cully for a (pace, 
That, when the time’s.expir’d, the drazds 
For ever may become his vaffals. Hudibras. 
DREAD, f. [bjiab, Sax.] Fear; terror; affright; hor¬ 
ror either felt or impreffed. — Was ever any wicked man 
free from the (tings of a guilty .confidence) from the fe- 
cret dread of divine difpleafure, and of the vengeance of 
another world ? Tillolfon. 
Think’ft thou that duty (hall have dread to (peak, 
When pow’r to flatt’ry bows ? To plainnefs honour 
Is bound, when majefty to folly falls. ShakeJ'pcare. 
Habitual fear; awe.—The fear of you, and the dread of 
you, (hall be upon every bead of the earth. Gen. ix. 2.— 
The perfon or thing feared ; the caufe of fear.—Let him 
be your dread, lfaiah. 
To thee, of all our good the facred fpring; 
To thee, our deareft dread-, to thee, our fofter king. Prior » 
DREAD, aifj. [bpaeb, Sax.] Terrible; frightful: 
To be expos’d againft the warring winds ; 
To (land againft the deep dread bolted thunder. Shakefp . 
Awful; venerable in the higheft degree •. 
Thou, attended glorioufiy from heav’n, 
Shalt in the (ky appear, and from thee fend 
The fummoning archangels to proclaim 
Thy dread tribunal. Milton. 
This feems to be the meaning of that controverted phrafe, 
dread majjly. Some of the old a< 5 ts of parliament are (aid 
in the preface to be metuendijjimi regit, our dread Cove- 
reign’s. Johnfon. 
Co DREAD, v. a. To fear in an exceftive degree.—. 
You may defpife that which terrifies others, and which 
yet all, even thofe who moft dread it, muft in a little 
time encounter. Wake. 
To DREAD, v. n. To be in fear.— Dread not, neither 
be afraid of them. Dcut. i. S. 
“ Do well, and Dread no fhame.” He who a£ts upon 
principles of juftice and honour, never need be apprehen- 
five of the confequences that follow. This proverb di- 
redts us to be virtuous and honed in every exigency of 
our lives. 
DREAD-BOLTED, adj. Having a dreadful bolt.— 
To (land againft the deep dread-bolted thunder. Skahfp. 
DREAD'ER,yi One that lives in fear.—I have Cuf- 
pended much of my pity towards the great dreaders of po¬ 
pery. Swift. t. 
DREAD'FUL, adj. Terrible ; frightful; formidable : 
The (till night, 
Accompanied with damps and dreadful gloom. Milton. 
Awful; venerable.—How dreadful is this place ! Gen efts . 
—Full of fear. —Dreadful of danger that mofe him be- 
tyde. Spcrfer. 
This "to me 
In dreadful fecrecy impart they did. Shakcfpeare. 
DREAD'FULNESS,y. Terriblenefs; frightfulnefs.—- 
It may juftly ferve for matter of extreme terror to the 
wicked, whether they regard the drtadfulnefs of the day in 
which they (trail be tried, or the quality of the judge by 
whom they are to be tried. Hdkewell. 
DREAD'FULLY, adv. Terribly; frightfully: 
Not (harp revenge, nor hell itfelf, can find 
A fiercer torment than a guilty mind, 
Which day and night doth, dreadfully accufe, 
Condemns the w retch, and (till the charge renews. Dryd, 
DREAD'LESS, adj. Fearlefs; unaffrighted ; intrepid; 
unthaken ; undaunted ; free from terror : 
All night the dreadlcjs angel, unpurfu’d, 
Thro’ heav’n’s wide campaign held his way. Milton. 
T - DREAD'- 
