so 
D R I D R I 
I gave it you, and will maintain my word; 
And thereupon I drink unto your grace. Shdkc/peare. 
To wifli well to in the aft of taking the cup : 
Give me home wine ; fill full: 
1 drink.to th’general joy of the whole table, 
And to our dear.friend Banqup, whom we mifs. Shakefp. 
To DRINK, v. a. To Availow : applied to liquids.— 
He had eaten no bread, nor drunk any water, three days 
and three nights, i Sam. xxx. 12.—We have drunken our 
water for money. Lam.v. 4.—To fuck up; to abi'orb : 
Set rows of rofcmary with flow’ring (tern. 
Anti let the purple violets drink the dream. Dryden. 
To take in by ahy inlet; to hear; to fee.—I drink deli- 
cious poifon from thy eye. Pope. 
My ears have yet not drunk a hundred words 
Of that tongue’s uttering, yet I knovv.the found. Shakefp. 
To aft upon by drinking.—Come, we have a'hot venifon 
party to dinner: come, gentlemen, I hope we fhall drink 
down all unkindnefs. ShakeJpeare .—He will drown his 
health and his rtrength in Iris-belly ; and, after all his 
drunken trophies, at length drink down himfelf too. South. 
—To make drunk.—Benhadnd was drinking himfelf drunk 
in the pavilions. 1 Kings .—It is ufea with the intenfive 
particles off, up, and in. Off, to note a fingle act of drink¬ 
ing.—One man gives another a cup of poifon, a thing as 
terrible as death ; but at the fame time he tells him that 
it is a cordial, and fo he drinks it ff, and dies. 'South. —• 
Up, to note that the whole is drunk .—Alexander, after 
he had drank up a cup of fourteen pints, was going to 
take another. Arbuthnot. — In, to enforce the fenfe : ufually 
of inanimate things.—The body being reduced nearer 
unto the earth, and emptied, becometh more porous, and 
greedily drinketh in water. Brown. 
DRINK, f. Liquor to be fvvallowed; oppofed tomcat: 
When God made choice to rear 
J-Iis mighty champion, ftrong above compare, 
Whofe drink w-as only from the liquid brook ! Milton. 
Liquor of any particular kind.—We will give you rare 
and fleepy drinks. ShakeJpeare. 
O madnefs, to think ufe of ftrongert wines, 
And ftrongert: drinks, our chief fupport of health! Milton. 
DRINK'ABLE, adj. Potable ; fuch as may be drunk. 
DRINK'ER,/! One that drinks to excefs; a drunkard. 
•—The drinker and debauched perfon is the object of fcorn 
and contempt. South .—The urine of hard drinkers affords 
a liquor extremely fetid, but no inflammable fpirit: 
what is inflammable flays in the blood, and affeCts the 
brain. Great drinkers commonly die apopleitic. Arbuthnot. 
DRINK'ING, f. [from to drink, v. ??.] The habit of 
drinking ftrong liquors to excefs.—I then confidered 
drinking as a neceffary qualification for a fine gentleman 
and a man of fathion. Chejlerficld. 
DRINK'LEAN, f. A contribution of tenants, in the 
time of the Saxons, towards a potation, or ale, provided 
to entertain the lord, or his fteward. 
DRI'NO BIAN'CA, or White Drino, a river of 
European Turkey, which riles near Rechia, on the bor¬ 
ders of Dalmatia, and joins the Drino Nero, fifteen miles 
north-weft of Ibali, where they form one ftream, called 
Drino. * 
DRI'NO NE'RO, or Black Drino, a river of Eu¬ 
ropean Turkey, which rifes in a lake near Akrida; join¬ 
ing the Drino Bianca, it takes the name of Drino only, 
and runs into the Adriatic, about eight miles fouth-weft 
of Aleflio, forming a bay at its mouth, called the Gulf 
of Drino , 
DRI'NOVATZ, a town of European Turkey, in Bul¬ 
garia: twenty-eight miles fouth of St. Viddin. 
To DRIP, v. n. [drippen , Dut.] To fall in drops. To 
have drops falling from it; 
The foil, with fatt’ning moifture fill'd, 
Is cloath’d with grafs, and fruitful to be till’d; 
Such as in fruitful vales we view from high, 
Which dripping rocks, not rolling ftreams, fupply, Dryddn „ 
To DRIP, v. a. To let fall in drops : 
Her flood of tears 
Seem like the lofty barn of fome rich Twain, 
Which-from the thatch drips faft a fhow’r of rain. Swift , 
To drop fat in roafting.—Let what was put into his belly, 
and what he drips, be his fauce. Walton. 
His offer’d entrails fhall his crime reproach, 
And drip their fatnefs from the hazle broach. Dryden. 
DRIP, f. That which falls in drops.—Water may be 
procured for neceffary occafions from the heavens, by pre. 
ferving the drips of the houfes. Mortimer. 
DRIP'PING, f. The fat which houfewives gather 
from roaft meat: 
Shews all her fecrets of hoitfekeeping; 
For candles how ihe trucks her dripping. Swift. 
DRIP'PING-PAN, f. The pan in which the fat of 
roaft meat is caught.—When the cook turns her back, 
throw fmoakirig coals into the dripping-pan. Swift. 
DRIP'PLE, adj. [from drip .] This word is ufed by 
Fairfax for weak, or rare ; dripple f ot. 
DRIPS, f. in architecture, the flopes or falls with 
which fome roofs are conftr Lifted. 
DRIP'SEY, a river of Ireland, which runs into the 
Lee ten miles weft of Cork. 
DRIS, a town of Perfia, in the province of Farfiftan: 
feventy miles weft-fouth-weft of Schiras. 
DRIS'SA, a town of Ruffia, in the government of 
Polotlk, at the conflux of the Driffa with the Dwina : 
twenty miles weft-north-wefl of Polotfx, and 272 fouth, 
of Peterlburg. 
DRIS'SA, a river of Ruffia, which runs into the Duna 
at the town of Driffa. 
DRIS'TRA, or Silistria, a town of European Tur¬ 
key, in Bulgaria, near the Danube: 216 miles north of 
Conftantinople, and 160 north of Adrianople. Lat. 44, 
17. N. Ion. 44. 55. E. Ferro. 
DRIT'TEY, a town of Germany, in the duchy of Car-, 
niola : ten miles eaft-fouth-eaft of Stein. 
DRIVAS'TO, a town of European Turkey, in Al¬ 
bania: twenty miles north-eaft of Dulcigno. 
To DRIVE, v. a. preterite drove, anciently drave ; part, 
paff. driven, or drove-, [ dreiban, Goth, bjiipan, Sax. dry- 
ven, Dut.] To produce motion m any thing by violence : 
as, the hammer drives the nail. To force along by impe¬ 
tuous preffure: 
On helmets helmets throng, 
Shield prefs’d on ftiield, and man drove man along. Pope. 
To expel by force from any place ; with from: 
Driven from his native land to foreign grounds, 
He with a gen’rous rage refents his wounds. Dryden « 
To fend by force to any place ; with to; 
Time drives the flocks from field to fold, 
When rivers rage, and rocks grow cold. ShakeJpeare , 
To chafe ; to hunt: 
To drive the deer with hound and horn 
Earl Percy took his way. Chevy Chafe. 
To force or urge in any direction.—He flood and mea- 
fured the earth : he beheld, and drove afunder the nations. 
Hab. iii. 6.—To impel to greater fpeed. To guide and 
regulate a carriage.—He took off their chariot wheels, 
that they drave them heavily. Exod. xiv.25.—To convey 
animals; to make animals march along under guidance; 
There find a herd of heifers, wand’ring o’er 
The neighb’ring hill, and drive ’em to the fliore. Add fan. 
To clear any place by forcing away what is in it; 
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