Index of English words, starting with "dr"

(1) - Dredge (v. t.) To sift or sprinkle flour, etc., on, as on roasting meat.
(2) - Dredge (n.) A mixture of oats and barley.
(3) - Dredge (v. t.) To catch or gather with a dredge; to deepen with a dredging machine.
(4) - Dredge (n.) Very fine mineral matter held in suspension in water.
(5) - Dredge (n.) Any instrument used to gather or take by dragging; as: (a) A dragnet for taking up oysters, etc., from their beds. (b) A dredging machine. (c) An iron frame, with a fine net attached, used in collecting animals living at the bottom of the sea.

(1) - Dredger (n.) A box with holes in its lid; -- used for sprinkling flour, as on meat or a breadboard; -- called also dredging box, drudger, and drudging box.
(2) - Dredger (n.) A dredging machine.
(3) - Dredger (n.) One who fishes with a dredge.

(1) - Dreg (n.) Corrupt or defiling matter contained in a liquid, or precipitated from it; refuse; feculence; lees; grounds; sediment; hence, the vilest and most worthless part of anything; as, the dregs of society.

(1) - Dreggy (a.) Containing dregs or lees; muddy; foul; feculent.

(1) - Drench (n.) A military vassal mentioned in Domesday Book.
(2) - Drench (v. t.) A drink; a draught; specifically, a potion of medicine poured or forced down the throat; also, a potion that causes purging.
(3) - Drench (v. t.) To steep in moisture; to wet thoroughly; to soak; to saturate with water or other liquid; to immerse.
(4) - Drench (v. t.) To cause to drink; especially, to dose by force; to put a potion down the throat of, as of a horse; hence. to purge violently by physic.