Part 3497

<blockquote>Why, that's spoken like an honest <b>drover</b>; so they sell bullocks. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>A boat driven by the tide.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Spenser.</i>

<h1>Drovy</h1> <Xpage=457>

<hw>Dro"vy</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[AS. <ets>dr<?/f</ets> dirty; cf. D. <ets>droef</ets>, G. <ets>tr\'81be</ets>, Goth. <ets>dr<?/bjan</ets> to trouble.]</ety> <def>Turbid; muddy; filthy.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Chaucer.</i>

<h1>Drow</h1> <Xpage=457>

<hw>Drow</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>imp.</tt> <def>of <er>Draw</er>.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Chaucer.</i>

<h1>Drown</h1> <Xpage=457>

<hw>Drown</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Drowned</er> <tt>(?)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Drowning</er>.]</wordforms> <ety>[OE. <ets>drunen</ets>, <ets>drounen</ets>, earlier <ets>drunknen</ets>, <ets>druncnien</ets>, AS. <ets>druncnian</ets> to be drowned, sink, become drunk, fr. <ets>druncen</ets> drunken. See <er>Drunken</er>, <er>Drink</er>.]</ety> <def>To be suffocated in water or other fluid; to perish in water.</def>

<blockquote>Methought, what pain it was to <b>drown</b>. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Drown</h1> <Xpage=457>

<hw>Drown</hw>, <tt>v. t.</tt>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>To overwhelm in water; to submerge; to inundate.</def> "They <i>drown</i> the land."

<i>Dryden.</i>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To deprive of life by immersion in water or other liquid.</def>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>To overpower; to overcome; to extinguish; -- said especially of sound.</def>

<blockquote>Most men being in sensual pleasures <b>drowned</b>. <i>Sir J. Davies.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>My private voice is <b>drowned</b> amid the senate. <i>Addison.</i></blockquote>

<cs><col>To drown up</col>, <cd>to swallow up. <mark>[Obs.]</mark></cd></cs>

<i>Holland.</i>

<h1>Drownage</h1> <Xpage=457>

<hw>Drown"age</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>The act of drowning.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark>

<h1>Drowner</h1> <Xpage=457>

<hw>Drown"er</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>One who, or that which, drowns.</def>

<h1>Drowse</h1> <Xpage=457>

<hw>Drowse</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Drowsed</er> <tt>(?)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Drowsing</er>.]</wordforms> <ety>[AS. <ets>dr<?/sian</ets>, <ets>dr<?/san</ets>, to sink, become slow or inactive; cf. OD. <ets>droosen</ets> to be sleepy, fall asleep, LG. <ets>dr<?/sen</ets>, <ets>druusken</ets>, to slumber, fall down with a noise; prob, akin to AS. <ets>dre\'a2san</ets> to fall. See <er>Dreary</er>.]</ety> <def>To sleep imperfectly or unsoundly; to slumber; to be heavy with sleepiness; to doze.</def> "He <i>drowsed</i> upon his couch."