Part 3496

<hw>Drou"my</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[Cf. Scot. <ets>drum</ets>, <ets>dram</ets>, melancholy, Icel <ets>prumr</ets> a moper, W. <ets>trwm</ets> heavy, sad.]</ety> <def>Troubled; muddy.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Bacon.</i>

<h1>Drouth</h1> <Xpage=457>

<hw>Drouth</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>Same as <er>Drought</er>.</def>

<i>Sandys.</i>

<blockquote>Another ill accident is <b>drouth</b> at the spindling of corn. <i>Bacon.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>One whose <b>drouth</b> [thirst], Yet scarce allayed, still eyes the current stream. <i>Milton.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>In the dust and <b>drouth</b> of London life. <i>Tennyson.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Drouthy</h1> <Xpage=457>

<hw>Drouth"y</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Droughty.</def>

<h1>Drove</h1> <Xpage=457>

<hw>Drove</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>imp.</tt> <def>of <er>Drive</er>.</def>

<h1>Drove</h1> <Xpage=457>

<hw>Drove</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[AS. <ets>dr\'bef</ets>, fr. <ets>dr\'c6fan</ets> to drive. See <er>Drive</er>.]</ety>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>A collection of cattle driven, or cattle collected for driving; a number of animals, as oxen, sheep, or swine, driven in a body.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Any collection of irrational animals, moving or driving forward; <as>as, a finny <ex>drove</ex></as>.</def>

<i>Milton.</i>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>A crowd of people in motion.</def>

<blockquote>Where <b>droves</b>, as at a city gate, may pass. <i>Dryden.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>A road for driving cattle; a driftway.</def> <mark>[Eng.]</mark>

<p><b>5.</b> <fld>(Agric.)</fld> <def>A narrow drain or channel used in the irrigation of land.</def>

<i>Simmonds.</i>

<p><b>6.</b> <fld>(Masonry)</fld> <sd>(a)</sd> <def>A broad chisel used to bring stone to a nearly smooth surface; -- called also <altname>drove chisel</altname>.</def> <sd>(b)</sd> <def>The grooved surface of stone finished by the drove chisel; -- called also <altname>drove work</altname>.</def>

<h1>Droven</h1> <Xpage=457>

<hw>Dro"ven</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>p. p.</tt> <def>of <er>Drive</er>.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<h1>Drover</h1> <Xpage=457>

<hw>Dro"ver</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>One who drives cattle or sheep to market; one who makes it his business to purchase cattle, and drive them to market.</def>