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thoughts in fleep, regulated by the fame laws of affoci- 
ation to which it is fubjedte'd while we are awake. The 
profeffor does not leem to be aware, or perhaps is not 
willing to admit, that volition itfelf has been proved by 
Dr. Hartley to be a cafe of afiociation, and the necelfary 
refult of previous circumfiances, which therefore may 
and actually does occur in dreaming like any other mental 
phenomenon. 
DREAMER, /! One who has dreams; one who has 
fancies in his fleep : 
The vifion faid, and vanifh’d from his fight; 
The dreamer waken’d in a mortal fright. Drydcn. 
An idle fanciful man ; a vifionary : 
Sometimes he angers me 
With telling of the moldwarp and the ant, 
Of dreamer Merlin, and his prophecies. Shahcfpcare. 
A mope ; a man loft in wild imagination. A fluggard : 
an idler: 
The man of fenfe his meat devours, 
But only fmclls the peel and flow’rs : 
And he mu ft be an idle dreamer, 
Who leaves the pie and gnaws the ftreamer. Prior. 
DREAM'INGLY, adv. Sluggifhly. 
DREAM'INGNESS,/! Sluggifhnefs. 
DREAM'LESS, adj. Without dreams.—The favages 
of Mount Atlas, in Barbary, were reported to be both 
namelefs and dreamlefs. Camden. 
DREAR, f. Dread; terror: 
The ill-fac’a owl, death’s dreadful meflenger; 
The hoarfe night raven, trump of doleful drear. Spenfer. 
DR.EAR, adj. [bjieojiig, Sax. dreary.] Mournful; 
difinal; forrowful : 
In urns and altars round, 
A drear and dying found 
Affrights the flamens at their fervice quaint. Milton. 
DRE AR'IHEAD, f. Horror; difmalnefs : a word not 
in life: 
She grew to hideous fliape of drearihead. 
Pined with grief of folly late repented. Spenfer. 
DREAR'ILY, adv. Difmally: 
Comes the breme winter with chamfred brows. 
Full of wrinkles and frofty furrows, 
Drerily (hooting his ftormy dart, 
Which cruddles the blood and pricks the heart. Spenfer. 
DREAR'IMENT, f. Sorrow; difmalnefs; melan¬ 
choly : 
I teach the woods and waters to lament 
Your doleful dreariment. Spenfer. 
Horror; dread ; terror. Obfolete: 
Almighty Jove, in wrathful mood, 
To wreak the guilt of mortal fins is bent; 
Hurls forth his thund’ring dart with deadly feud, 
Inroll’d in flames and fmouldring dreariment. Spenfer. 
DREAR'ING,/! Difmalnefs.—All were myfelf thro’ 
grief in deadly drearing. Spenfer. 
DREA'RY, adj. [bpeopig, Sax.] Sorrowful; dif- 
trefsful.—‘This word is fcarcely ufed but in poetical dic¬ 
tion : 
The meflenger of death, the ghaftly owl, 
With dreary flirieks did alfo yell; 
And hungry wolves continually did howl 
At her abhorred face, fo horrid and fo foul. Spenfer. 
Gloomy ; difmal; horrid : 
Obfcure they went thro’ dreary (hades, that led 
Along the vaft dominions of the dead. Dry den, 
DREB'BER JACOBS, a town of Germany, in the 
circle of Weftphalia, and county of Diepholz. 
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DREB'BER MARIEN, a town of Germany, in the 
circle of Weftphalia, and county of Diepholz : five miles 
north of Diepholz. 
DREDGE,/ [ 7 b drfch, in Chaucer, is to delay ; per¬ 
haps a net fo often flopped may be named from this.] A 
kind of net.—Epr oyfters they have a peculiar dredge ; a 
thick, ftrong, net, fattened to three fpills of iron, and 
drawn at the boat’s ftern, gathering whatfoever it meet- 
eth lying in the bottom. Carew. —With farmers, oats and 
barley mixed together. A[k. 
To DREDGE, v. a. To gather with a dredge.—The 
oyfters dredged in the Lyne find a welcome acceptance. 
Carew. —To fcatter flour on meat from a dredging-box. 
DRED'GER, f. One who fifties with a dredge ; a 
flour-box. 
DRE'GEL, a town and caftle' of Hungary : twelve 
miles north-eaft of Gran. 
DREG'GINESS, f. Fulnefs of dregs or lees; foul- 
nefs ; muddinefs; feculence. 
DREG'GISH, adj. Foul with lees; feculent.—To 
give a ftrong tafte to this drcggifi liquor, they fling in an 
incredible deal of broom or hops, whereby fmall beer is 
rendered equal in mifehief to ftrong. Harvey. 
DREG'GY, adj. Containing dregs; confiding of dregs; 
muddy; feculent: 
Thefe num’rous veins, fuch is the curious frame. 
Receive the pure infinuating ftream ; 
But no corrupt or dreggy parts admit, 
To form the blood or feed the limbs unfit. Blackmore. 
DREGS, f. [bpieyten, Sax. dreggian, Iflan.] The fe- 
diment of liquors ; the lees ; the grounds; the feculence ; 
They often tread deftrudtion’s horrid path, 
And drink the dregs of the revenger’s wrath. Sandys. 
We from the dregs of life think to receive 
What the firft fprightly running could not give. Dryden. 
Any thing by which purity is corrupted.—The king by 
this journey purged a little the dregs and leaves of the 
northern people, that were before in no good affeftions 
towards him. Bacon. —Drofs; fvveepings ; refufe.—What 
diffidence we mu ft be under whether God will regard our 
facrifice, when we have nothing to offer him but the dregs 
and refufe of life, the days of loathing and fatiety, and the 
years in which we have no pleafure. Rogers. 
Heav’n’s favourite thou, for better fates defign’d 
Than we, the dregs an'd rubbifh of mankind. Dryden. 
Dreg in the Angular number occurs in Troilus and Cref- 
lida.—What too curious dreg efpies my fvveet lady in the 
fountain of our love > AEl iii. fc. 2. 
DREHE'MI, a town of Arabia, in the country of Ye¬ 
men : twenty miles fouth-eaft of Hodeida. 
To DREIN, v. n. See Drain. To empty. The fame 
with drain: fpelt differently perhaps by cliance.—She is 
the fluice of her lady’s-fecrets : ’tis but fetting her mill 
agoing, and I can clrein her of them all. Congreve. 
’Tis drein’d and emptied of its poifon now ; 
A cordial draught. Southern. 
DRE'ITSCH, a town of Germany, in the circle of 
Upper Saxony, and circle of Neuftadt: two miles north- 
eaft of Neuftadt. 
DRE'LINCOURT (Charles), an eminent French pro- 
teftant divine, born at Sedan, where his father occupied 
the poll: of regiftrar to the fupreme council. He was edu¬ 
cated in the claflics and theology in his native town ; 
whence he was fent to Saumur, to ftudy philofophy un¬ 
der the celebrated profeffor Duncan. In 1618 he was 
admitted to the office of the miniftry; and he removed 
to Paris in 1620, where he was induced to fettle as paftor 
with the church at Charenton. In 1625 he married the 
daughter of a merchant at Paris, by whom he had fixteen 
children. In his pulpit fetvices he was very impreflive 
and edifying ; and, in his paftoral vifits to his flock, par¬ 
ticularly excelled in his manner of adminiftering confola- 
