- 2. Manure, fertilizer, compost.
- 3. Force-meat, stuffing.
Dressy, a. (Colloq.) Showy, flashy, gaudy, fond of dress.
Drib, v. a.
- 1. Crop, lop, cut off, lop off (little by little).
- 2. Purloin, appropriate in driblets, cabbage, crib.
- 3. Entice, allure, decoy, coax, wheedle.
Dribble, v. n. Drip, trickle, fall in drops.
Driblet, n. Fragment, small portion.
Drier, n. Desiccative.
Drift, n.
- 1. Course, bearing, direction.
- 2. Aim, purpose, intention, intent, proposal, design, scope, tendency, object, mark.
- 3. (Geol.) Diluvium, diluvial formations.
- 4. (Mining.) Passage (under ground, between shafts).
- 5. Sweep, rush, current, sweeping pressure, driving impulse.
- 6. Heap, heaped pile, driven mass, drifted pile.
Drift, v. a. Drive into heaps.
Drift, v. n.
- 1. Float, be wafted, be borne or carried by the current or aimlessly.
- 2. Accumulate in heaps, be driven into heaps.
Driftless, a. Aimless, purposeless, without an object.