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A drove cf fheep, or an herd of oxen may be managed by 
any noife or cry which the drivers (hall accudom them 
to. South. —Any collection of animals : 
The founds and feas, with all their finny drove, 
Now to the moon in wavering mortice move. Milton. 
A crowd ; a tumult: 
But if to fame alone thou dod pretend. 
The mifer will his empty palace lend, 
Set wide with doors, adorn’d with plated brafs, 
Where droves, as at a city-gate, may pals. Drydcn. 
DRO'VEN, part, from drive. Not-now vfed: 
This is fought indeed ; 
Had we fo done at fird, we had droven them home 
With clouts about their heads. Skak.ejma.re. 
DRO'VKR, ft One that fats oxen for fifle, and drives 
them to market: 
The drover, who his fellow drover meets 
In narrow palfages of winding dreets. Dryden, 
A boat driven by the current: 
At laft when droncke with drowfinefs he woke 
And law his drover drive along the llreame, 
He was difmay’d. Spenfer. 
This word feems to have been fabricated only for the 
occafion. Mafon’s Supplement. 
DROUGHT,/, [fcjiugobe, Sax.] Dry weather; want 
of rain.—Upon a fhower, after a drought, earth-worms 
and land-fnails innumerable come out of their lurking- 
places. Ray. —Third ; want of drink : 
O earth! I will befriend thee more with rain 
Than youthful April fiiall with all his fiiowers: 
In rummer’s drought I’ll drop upon thee dill. Shakefpeare. 
Third, want of drink : 
One whofe drought 
Yet fcarce allay’d, dill eyes the current dream 
Whofe liquid murmur heard new third excites. Milton. 
DROUGH'TINESS, f. The date of wanting rain. ' 
DROUGH'TY, adj. Wanting rain; fultry.—That a 
camel, fo patient of long third, fhould be bred in fucli 
droughty and parched countries, where it is of fuch emi¬ 
nent ufe for travelling over thofe dry and fandy defarts 
where no water is to be had, mud be acknowledged an aft 
of Providence and defign. Ray. —Thirdy ; dry with third: 
If the former years 
Exhibit no fupplies, alas! thou mud 
With tadelefs water wadi thy droughty throat. Philips. 
DROU'IN (Rene), a learned French dominican monk, 
who didinguiflied himfelf in the controverfy between the 
Janfenidsand the Jefuits. For fome time he was pro- 
fefTor of theology at Chamberry, and afterwards at Ver- 
ceil, and died in 1742, at Ivrea in Piedmont, in the fix- 
tieth year of his age. He was the author of a profound 
and learned work, in confidcrable edimation among the 
catholics, and intitled, A dogmatical and moral Treatife 
on the Sacraments; which was publifhed at Venice in 
1737, in two volumes folio, and has fince been reprinted 
at Paris, in 1775, in nine volumes izmo. 
DROUNE, a river of France, which runs into the 
Dordogne, between Libourne and FronfaC. 
DROUX, a town of France, in the department of the 
Upper Vienne : five miles fouth-ead of Dorat. 
To DROWN, v. a. [from drunden, below, German, 
Skinner-, from bjauncman, Sax. Mr. Lye.] To fuffocate 
in.water.—They would foon drown thofe that refufed to 
fwim down the popular dream. King Charles. 
When of God’s image only eight he found 
■ Snatch’d from the wat’ry grave, and fav’d from nations 
drown’d. Prior. 
To overwhelm in water.—Galleys might be drowned in 
she harbour with the great ordnance, before they could 
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be rigged. Knolles.—To overflow; to bury in aninunda. 
tion; to deluge : , 
Betwixt the prince and parliament we dand, 
The barriers of the date on either hand : 
May neither overflow, for then they drown the land. 
Dryden, 
To immerge ; to lofe in any thing: 
Mod men being in fenfual pleafures drown'd, 
It feems their fouls but in their fenfes are. Davies. 
To lofe in fomething that overpowers or covers.—My 
private voice is drown’d amid the fenate. Addifon. 
Some aged man who lives this aft to fee, 
And who in former times remember’d me, 
May fay, the fon, in fortitude and fame, 
Outgoes the mark, and drozons his father’s name. Dryden, 
To DROWN, v, n. To be fuffocated in the waters : 
Methought what pain it was to drown ! 
What dreadful noife of waters in my ears 1 Shakefpeare. 
DROWN '£D LANDS, a confiderable tract of flat 
country in North America, in the date of New York, 
amounting to near 50,000 acres, annually overflowed by 
waters which fall from the neighbouring hills in the 
winter; this adds much to the fertility of the foil, but 
makes the air unhealthy, and produces inflammatory and 
intermitting fevers among the inhabitants: dtuated wed- 
ward of Hudfon’s River, on the borders of Jerfey. 
DROW'NING,/. The aft of fuffocation by water. 
For the mod elfeftual means of recovering drowned 
persons, fee the article Medicine. 
To DROWSE, v. a. \_droofen, Dut.] To make heavy- 
with deep : 
There gentle deep 
Fird found me, and with foft oppredion feiz’d 
My droftfed fenfes uncontroll’d. Milton. 
To DROWSE, v. n. To dumber; to grow heavy with 
deep : 
All their fhape 
Spangled with eyes, more numerous than thofe 
Of Argus ; and more wakeful than to drowfe, 
Charm’d with Arcadian pipe. Milton, 
To look heavy; not cheerful: 
They rather drows’d, and hung their eyelids down. 
Slept in his face, and render’d fuch afpeft 
As cloudy men ufe to their adverfaries. Shakefpeare, 
DROW'SIHED, /. Sleepinefs ; inclination to deep- 
Obfolete ; 
The royal virgin (hook off drowfiked-, 
And riling forth out of her bafer boure. 
Look’d for her knight. Spenfer. 
DROW'SILY, adv. Sleepily; heavily; with an incli¬ 
nation to deep : 
The air fwarms thick with vvand’ring deities. 
Which drowfngly like humming beetles rife. Dryden. 
Sluggifhly ; idly ; dothfully ; lazily.—We fatisfy our un- 
derdanding with the fird things, and, thereby fatiated, 
dothfully and drowfily fit down. Raleigh. 
DROW'SINESS, f. Sleepinefs; heavinefs with fleep; 
difpofition to fleep.—He that from his childhood has 
made rifing betimes familiar to him, will not wafte the 
bed part of his life in drozufmefs, and lying a-bed. Locke. 
In deep of night, when drowfinefs 
Hath lock’d up mortal fenfe, then liden I 
To the celedial fyren’s harmony. Milton. 
Idlenefs ; indolence ; inaftivity.—It falleth out well, to 
fliake off your drowfinefs-, for it feerned to be the trumpet 
of a war. Bacon . 
DROW'SY, adj. Sleepy; heavy with deep ; lethargic, 
—Men are drowfy, and defirous to deep, before the fit of 
an ague, and do ufe to yawn and liretch. Bacon. 
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