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ever, effeffed liis ruin by liis infinuations; Drufus was 
confined by Tiberius and deprived of all aliment. He 
was found dead nine days after his confinement, A.D. 33. 
•—A fon of the emperor Claudius, who died by fwallowing 
a pear thrown in the air.—M. Livius, a celebrated Ro¬ 
man who renewed the propofals of the Agrarian laws, 
which had proved fatal to the Gracchi. He was mur¬ 
dered as he entered his houfe, though lie was attended 
by a number of clients and Latins, to whom he had 
propofed the privileges of Roman citizens, 190 years 
before Chrift. Cic. ad Her. 4, c. 12.—Nero Claudius, a 
Ion of Tiberius Nero and Livia, adopted by Auguftus. 
He was brother to Tiberius, who was afterwards made 
emperor. He greatly fignalized himfelf in his wars in 
Germany and Gaul a gain'd the Rhxti and Vindelici, and 
was honoured with a -triumph. He died of a fall from 
liis horfe in the thirtieth year of his age, nine years be¬ 
fore Chrift. He left three children, Germanicus, Livia, 
and Claudius, by his wife Antonia. The plebeian fa¬ 
mily of the Drufi produced eight confuls, two cenfors, 
and one dictator. The fur name of Drufus was given to 
the family of the Livii, as fome fuppofe, becaufe one of 
them killed a Gaulifh leader of that name. Virgil, in 
Ain. vi. B24, mentions the Drufi among the illuftrious 
Romans, and that perhaps more particularly becaufe the 
wife of Auguftus was of that family. 
DRUS'WER, a town of Lithuania, in the palatinate 
of Wilna : fourteen miles weft of Braflaw. 
DRUT'ISCHKEN, a town of Pruftian Lithuania, on 
the Rominte : four miles fouth-fouth-eaft of Gumbinen. 
DRUTZ, a river of Ruflia, which runs into the Dnie¬ 
per, at Rogatchev, in the government of Mogilev. 
DRU'YN, or Drevin Petri, or Grand Drevin, a 
town of Africa, on the Ivory coaft, at the mouth of the 
river St. Andre. Lat. 5. N, Ion. 4. 5. W. Greenwich. 
DRUYSK 1 D'WAR, a town of Lithuania, in the pa¬ 
latinate of Wilna : eight miles north-eaft of Braflaw. 
DRU'YE, a town of France, in the department of the 
Yonne, and chief place of a canton, in the diftrict of St. 
Fargeau : fixteen miles fouth of Auxerre. 
DRU'ZENHEIM, a town of France, in the depart¬ 
ment of the Lower Rhine, on the Zorn, taken by the 
imperial troops in 1704, and retaken by the French two 
years after : four leagues and a half north-north-eaft of 
Strafburg. 
DRY, adj. [bp.i£, Sax.] Arid ; not wet; not moift.—. 
If the pipe be a little wet on the infide, it will make a 
differing found from the fame pipe dry. Bacon. 
When God faid, 
Be gather’d now, ye waters under heav’n. 
Into one place, and let dry land appear! Milton. 
Not rainy.—A dry March and a dry May portend a' wltole- 
fome fummer, if there be a fhowering April between. Ba¬ 
con. —Not fucculent; not juicy .—1 will drain him dry as 
hay. Shakefpeare .— Wine that, by reafon of age, is pretty 
well dephlegmated, or has loft much of its waterifh qua¬ 
lity.—Being without tears: 
Dry mourning will decays more more deadly bring, 
As a north wind burns a too forward fpring ; 
Give forr.ow vent, and let the fluices go. Dryden. 
Thirfty ; a-thirft : 
Void of a bulky charger near their lips, 
With which, in often interrupted fleep. 
Their frying blood compels to irrigate 
Their dry furr’d tongues. Philips. 
Jejune ; barren ; plain; unembellifhed ; without pathos; 
without flowers.—-As we fltould take care that our ftile 
in writing be neither dry nor empty, we (hould look again 
if it be not winding or wanton with far-fetched deferip- 
tions : either is a vice. Ben Jon/on. —Hardjfevere. [ Dricn 
anciently to endure ; dree, Scottilh.J 
DRY 
Hard dry ballings us’d to prove 
The readied remedies of love; 
Next a dry diet. . Hudihras. 
“ He who drinks when he is not Dry, will be Dry 
when he has no, drink.’’ That is, will confume his fub- 
ftance in drunkennefs and folly, and thereby render him¬ 
felf incapable of providing for his common neceflities. 
“ Dry bargains are feldom fuccefsful.” Spoken when 
people are about a bargain, and propofe doing it over the 
bottle or bowl. The Latins fay: Venalia, Jine vino , cx- 
pediri non poffunt. 
“To Dry fnow in an ove'n.” The Germans fay: 
Soknee in ofen doerren. There are many proverbs to the 
fame purpofe, calculated to (hew the folly of attempting 
impoftibilities ; as, To wafh a blackmoor white ; To draw wa¬ 
ter in a fuve ; to kick againjl the pricks, &c. 
To DRY, v. a. .To free from moifture ; to rarefy; to 
exficcate.— Herbs and flowers, if they be dried in the 
ftiade, or dried in the hot fun a fmall time, keep belt. Bacon. 
The running ftreams are deep : 
See, they have caught the father of the flock, 
-Who (fries his fLece upon the neighbouring rock. Drydcn» 
To exhale moifture : 
’Twas grief no more, or grief and rage were one 
Within her foul: at laft ’twas rage alone ; 
Which, burning upwards in fucceflion, dries 
The tears that flood confidering in her eyes. Dryden. 
To wipe away moifture.—Then with herveft the wound 
(lie wipes and dries. Denham. —To fcorch with third.—« 
Their honourable men are famifhed, and their multitude 
dried up with third. Ifaiak, v- 13.—To drain ; to exhauft s 
Rafli Elpenor, in an evil hour, 
Dried an immeafurable bowl, and thought 
T’ exhale his forfeit by irriguous fleep, 
Imprudent: him death’s iron fleep oppreft. Philips. ■ 
To Dry up. To deprive totally of moifture ; to take all 
moifture away.—The water of the fea, which formerly 
covered it, was in time exhaled and dried up by the fun. 
Woodward. 
To DRY, v. 72. To grow dry ; to lofe moifture ; to be 
drained of its moifture. 
DRY EXCHANGE, f. [cambiumJicclm,~L?it.'] A term 
invented in former times for the.difguiling and covering 
of ufury ; in which fomething was pretended to pafs on 
both fides, v.-hereas nothing pafled but on one fide, in 
which refpedt it was called dry : punifhed by flat. 3 Hen. 
VII. c. 5. 
DRY-FOOT, f. [a term of the chace.] Hunting by 
the feent of the foot.—A hound that runs counter, and 
yet draws dry-foot well. Shakefpeare. 
DRY HARBOUR, a bay on the north coaft of the 
ifland of Jamaica. Lat. 18. 30. N. Ion. 77. 16. W. Green¬ 
wich. 
DRY-ROT, f. a term lately given by fome modern 
furveyors to what is called “ an infeElious difeafe in tim¬ 
ber,” faid to arife from an infedtion in the ground, or 
from the infedlioufnefs of old houfes. Others contend 
that this decay of the timber in buildings, arifes from 
nothing more than a conftant moifure or damp, either in¬ 
ternal or external, which encourages the growth of a 
fpecies of fungus, or other cryptogamian plant, of which 
the feeds are capable of taking root, on coming in contact 
with the wood; and which, by drawing moifture front 
the atmofphere, and conveying it inwardly by means, of 
its infinuating and fpreading property, thus produces a de¬ 
cay. Analogous to this, a communication has been made 
from Robert Batfon, efq. of Limehoule, near London, to 
the Society for the encouragement of Arts, who have long 
offered premiums for the difeovery and cure of the. dry- 
rot in timber; and in which view Mr. Batfon dates to. 
the fociety as follows; “The dry-rot having taken place 
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