Vocabulary : Dragoon to Draine

Dragoon : Formerly, a soldier who was taught and armed to serve either on horseback or on foot; now, a mounted soldier; a cavalry man. ;; A variety of pigeon. ;; To harass or reduce to subjection by dragoons; to persecute by abandoning a place to the rage of soldiers. ;; To compel submission by violent measures; to harass; to persecute.
Dragoonade : See Dragonnade.
Dragooned : of Dragoon
Dragooner : A dragoon.
Dragooning : of Dragoon

Drail : To trail; to draggle.
Drain : To draw off by degrees; to cause to flow gradually out or off; hence, to cause the exhaustion of. ;; To exhaust of liquid contents by drawing them off; to make gradually dry or empty; to remove surface water, as from streets, by gutters, etc.; to deprive of moisture; hence, to exhaust; to empty of wealth, resources, or the like; as, to drain a country of its specie. ;; To filter. ;; To flow gradually; as, the water of low ground drains off. ;; To become emptied of liquor by flowing or dropping; as, let the vessel stand and drain. ;; The act of draining, or of drawing off; gradual and continuous outflow or withdrawal; as, the drain of specie from a country. ;; That means of which anything is drained; a channel; a trench; a water course; a sewer; a sink. ;; The grain from the mashing tub; as, brewers' drains.
Drainable : Capable of being drained.
Drainage : A draining; a gradual flowing off of any liquid; also, that which flows out of a drain. ;; The mode in which the waters of a country pass off by its streams and rivers. ;; The system of drains and their operation, by which superfluous water is removed from towns, railway beds, mines, and other works. ;; Area or district drained; as, the drainage of the Po, the Thames, etc. ;; The act, process, or means of drawing off the pus or fluids from a wound, abscess, etc.
Draine : The missel thrush.

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