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The flowers, call’d out of their beds. 
Start and raife up their drowfy heads. Clcaveland. 
Heavy ; lulling ; caufing fieep : 
While thus die relied, on hSr arm reclin’d. 
The hoary willows waving with the wind, 
And purling dreams that through the meadow flray’d, 
In drowfy murmurs lull’d the gentle maid. Addifon. 
Stupid; dull.—Thole inadvertencies, a body would think, 
even our author, with all his drowfy reafoning, could ne¬ 
ver have been capable of. Atterbury. 
DROW'SY-FLIGHTED, adj. Moving drowfily: 
Gave refpite to the drowfy-flighted deeds 
That draw the litter of clofe-curtain’d deep. Milton. 
DROYE, a river of PrulTia, which runs into the Pre- 
gel, four miles wed of Inderburg. 
DROYS'ZIG, a town of Germany, in the circle of 
Upper Saxony, in Thuringia: lix miles fouth-ead of 
Stoffen. 
DRU, /. in Doomfday-book, a thicket or wood. A 
man’s name. 
To DRUB, v. a. [ druber , to kill, Dan.] Tothrefh; to 
beat; to bang; to thump; to thwack; to cudgel. A word 
of contempt.— The little thief had been foundly drubbed 
with a good honed cudgel. VEflrange. 
He that is valiant, and dares fight, 
Though doubl'd, can lofe no honour by’t. Hudibras. 
DRUB,/. A thump; a knock; a blow.—By fetting 
an unfortunate mark on their followers, they have ex- 
pofed them to innumerable drubs and contufions. Addifon. 
DRUCK'EB ACH, a river of Germany, in the Upper 
Bavaria, which runs into the Inn, about three miles be¬ 
low Kuffflein. 
To DRUDGE, v.a. [bpeccan, to vex, Sax. draghen , 
to carry, Dut.] To labour in mean offices ; to toil with¬ 
out honour or dignity; to work hard; to dave.—Ad¬ 
vantages obtained by indudry, directed by philofophy, 
can never be expended from drudging ignorance. Glanville. 
Proffering for hire his fervice at the gate, 
To drudge, draw water, and to run or wait. Dryden. 
DRUDGE, f. One employed in mean labour; a dave; 
one doomed to fervile occupation.—The hard mader 
makes men ferve him for nought, who rewards his drudges 
and daves with nothing but fliame, and forrow, and mi¬ 
le ry . Tillotfon. 
He is content to be their drudge. 
And on their errands gladly trudge. Hudibras. 
DRUD'GER, f. A mean labourer. An oider-fidier. 
The drudging-box ; the box out of which flour is thrown 
over meat. See Dredger. 
DRUD'GERY, f. Mean labour; ignoble toil; diflio- 
nourable work ; fervile occupation.—Paradife was a place 
of blifs, as well as immortality, without drudgery, and 
without forrow. Locke. 
Even Drudgery liimfelf. 
As at the car he fweats, or dufly hews 
The palace done, looks gay. Thomfon. 
DRUD'GING-BOX, f. Tin. box out of which flour 
is fprinkled upon road meat, See. 
But if it lies t®o long, the crackling’s pall’d, 
Not by the drudging-box to be recall’d. King. 
DRUD'GINGLY, adv. Laborioufly; toilfomely.— 
He does now all the meaned and triflinged things himfelf 
drudgingly, without making ufe of any inferior or fubor- 
dinate minider. Ray. 
DRU'ENT, a town of the principality of Piedmont : 
four miles foulh-wed of Turin. 
DRUG,/. [ drogue , Fr.] An ingredient ufed in phy- 
fic; a medicinal fimple. See Materia Medica, and 
Pharmacy. —In the names of drugs and plants, the mif- 
take in a word may endanger life. Baker. 
Judicious phyfic’s noble art to gain, 
He ^rajrand plants explor’d, alas! in vain. Smith. 
Bright Helen mix’d a mirth-infpiring bowl, 
Temper’d with drugs of fov’reign ufe, t’alfuage 
The boiling boforn of tumultuous rage- Pope, 
It is ufed fometimes for poifon: 
Mortal drugs I have; but Mantua’s law 
Is death to any he that utters them. Shakefpeare. 
And yet no doubts the poor man’s draught controll; 
He dreads no poifon in his homely bowl: 
Then fear the deadly drug, when gems divine 
Enchafe the cup, and fparkle in the wine. Dryden. 
Any thing without worth or value; any thing of which 
no purchafer can be found : 
Each noble vice fliall bear a price. 
And virtue fliall a drug become : 
An empty name, was all her fame. 
But now die (hall be dumb. Dryden . 
A drudge. This feems the meaning here: 
He from his fil'd fwath proceeded 
Thro’ fweet degrees that this brief world affords, 
To fuch as may the paflive drugs of it 
Freely command. Shakefpeare. 
To DRUG, v. a. To feafon with ingredients, commonly 
medicinal. To tinCture with fomething offenlive: 
Oft they affay’d, 
Hunger and third condraining ; drugg'd as oft 
With hatefuled difrelifli, writh’d their jaw's 
With foot and cinders fill’d. Milton. 
DRUG-DAMNED, adj. Infamous for poifons.—That 
drug-damn'd Italy hath out-crafted him. Shakefpeare. 
DRUG'GET, /. A flight kind of woollen duff: 
In druggets dred, of thirteen pence a-yard, 
See Philip’s fon amidfi his Perfian guard. Swift. 
DRUG'GIST, f. One who fells phyfical drugs. A 
dealer in medicine. 
DRUG'STER, /. One who fells phyfical fimples.— 
Common oil of turpentine I bought at the drugjlcr s„ 
Boyle. —They fet the clergy below their apothecaries, 
the phyfician of the foul below the drug flees of the body. 
Atterbury. 
DRU'IA, a town of Lithuania, in the palatinate of 
Wilna : fixteen miles north-eafi of Brallaw. 
DRU'IA, a town of Ruflia, in the government of 
Polotfk, on the Duna: fifty miles north-wed of Polotfk, 
and 2 Go fouth-fouth-wefl of Peterfburgh. 
DRU'IDAI, or Droium, a very ancient town, the 
principal place of the Druids in Gaul : now Dreux. Here 
they met annually, in a confecrated grove, according to 
Caefar. The town was alfo called Durocafcs.. 
DRU'IDS, Druides, or Druidje, /. Priefis or mi- 
niflers of religion among the ancient Celtte or Gauls, 
Britons, and Germans. Some authors derive the word 
from the Hebrew Q'trrri deruflim or druflim, which they 
tranflate contemplatores. Picard, Celtopsed. lib. ii. p. 58, 
believes the druids to have been thus called from Druis, 
or Dryius, their leader, the fourth or fifth king of the 
Gauls. Pliny, Salmafius, Vigenere, &c. derive the name 
from oak; on account of their teaching in groves, 
or under oaks. Menage derives the word from the old 
Britifh drus, daemon, magician. Borel, from the old 
Britifli dru, or derzu, oak, whence he takes fyoc to be de¬ 
rived ; which is the mod probable fuppofition. Becanus, 
lib. i. takes druis to be an old Celtic and German word, 
formed from trowis or truwis, “a doCtor of the truth and 
the faith;” which etymology Vofliusadopts and approves. 
The accounts we have of the druids, from different 
writers, are extremely various and contradictory, mingled 
with much childifh fuperdition and fable. The mod 
rational conjectures relative to their e-dabIifitment and . 
defignation, are to be collected from Julius Ctelar, Pliny, 
Strabo, 
