| drive | 1. To rush and press with violence; to move furiously. "Fierce Boreas drove against his flying sails." (Dryden) "Under cover of the night and a driving tempest." (Prescott) "Time driveth onward fast, And in a little while our lips are dumb." (Tennyson) 2. To be forced along; to be impelled; to be moved by any physical force or agent; to be driven. "The hull drives on, though mast and sail be torn." (Byron) "The chaise drives to Mr. Draper's chambers." (Thackeray) 3. To go by carriage; to pass in a carriage; to proceed by directing or urging on a vehicle or the animals that draw it; as, the coachman drove to my door. 4. To press forward; to aim, or tend, to a point; to make an effort; to strive; usually with at. "Let them therefore declare what carnal or secular interest he drove at." (South) 5. To distrain for rent. To let drive, to aim a blow; to strike with force; to attack. "Four rogues in buckram let drive at me." 1. To impel or urge onward by force in a direction away from one, or along before one; to push forward; to compel to move on; to communicate motion to; as, to drive cattle; to drive a nail; smoke drives persons from a room. "A storm came on and drove them into Pylos." (Jowett (Thucyd)) "Shield pressed on shield, and man drove man along." (Pope) "Go drive the deer and drag the finny prey." (Pope) 2. To urge on and direct the motions of, as the beasts which draw a vehicle, or the vehicle borne by them; hence, also, to take in a carriage; to convey in a vehicle drawn by beasts; as, to drive a pair of horses or a stage; to drive a person to his own door. "How . . . Proud he was to drive such a brother!" (Thackeray) 3. To urge, impel, or hurry forward; to force; to constrain; to urge, press, or bring to a point or state; as, to drive person by necessity, by persuasion, by force of circumstances, by argument, and the like. " Enough to drive one mad." "He, driven to dismount, threatened, if I did not do the like, to do as much for my horse as fortune had done for his." (Sir P. Sidney) 4. To carry or; to keep in motion; to conduct; to prosecute. [Now used only colloquially] "The trade of life can not be driven without partners." (Collier) 5. To clear, by forcing away what is contained. "To drive the country, force the swains away." (Dryden) 6. <chemical> To dig Horizontally; to cut a horizontal gallery or tunnel. 7. To pass away; said of time. Drive, in all its senses, implies forcible or violent action. It is the reverse of to lead. To drive a body is to move it by applying a force behind; to lead is to cause to move by applying the force before, or in front. It takes a variety of meanings, according to the objects by which it is followed; as, to drive an engine, to direct and regulate its motions; to drive logs, to keep them in the current of a river and direct them in their course; to drive feathers or down, to place them in a machine, which, by a current of air, drives off the lightest to one end, and collects them by themselves. "My thrice-driven bed of down." Origin: AS. Drifan; akin to OS. Driban, D. Drijven, OHG. Triban, G. Treiben, Icel. Drifa, Goth. Dreiban. Cf. Drift, Drove. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| driver | 1. One who, or that which, drives; the person or thing that urges or compels anything else to move onward. 2. The person who drives beasts or a carriage; a coachman; a charioteer, etc.; hence, also, one who controls the movements of a locomotive. 3. An overseer of a gang of slaves or gang of convicts at their work. 4. <machinery> A part that transmits motion to another part by contact with it, or through an intermediate relatively movable part, as a gear which drives another, or a lever which moves another through a link, etc. Specifically: The driving wheel of a locomotive. An attachment to a lathe, spindle, or face plate to turn a carrier. A crossbar on a grinding mill spindle to drive the upper stone. 5. The after sail in a ship or bark, being a fore-and-aft sail attached to a gaff; a spanker. <zoology> Driver ant, a species of African stinging ant; one of the visiting ants (Anomma arcens); so called because they move about in vast armies, and drive away or devour all insects and other small animals. Origin: From Drive. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| driving | 1. Having great force of impulse; as, a driving wind or storm. 2. Communicating force; impelling; as, a driving shaft. Driving axle, the axle of a driving wheel, as in a locomotive. Driving box, a wheel that communicates motion; one of the large wheels of a locomotive to which the connecting rods of the engine are attached; called also, simply, driver. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| drogman | See Dragoman. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| drogoman | See Dragoman. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| dromaeognathous | <zoology> Having the structure of the palate like that of the ostrich and emu. Origin: NL. Dromaius emu + Gr. Jaw. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| dromatherium | <paleontology> A small extinct triassic mammal from North Carolina, the earliest yet found in America. Origin: NL, fr. Gr. Running + beast. See Dromedary. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| drome | <zoology> The crab plover (Dromas ardeola), a peculiar North African bird, allied to the oyster catcher. Origin: F, fr. Gr. Running. See Dromedary. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| dromedary | <zoology> The Arabian camel (Camelus dromedarius), having one hump or protuberance on the back, in distinction from the Bactrian camel, which has two humps. In Arabia and Egypt the name is restricted to the better breeds of this species of camel. See Deloul. Origin: F. Dromadaire, LL. Dromedarius, fr. L. Dromas (sc. Camelus), fr. Gr. Running, from, used as aor. Of to run; cf. Skr. Dram to run. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| dromedary hump | <radiology> Extra mass of normal tissue found only on the lateral portion of the left kidney, normal variant. (12 Dec 1998) |
| dromic | Synonym: orthodromic. Origin: G. Dromos, a running, race-course (05 Mar 2000) |
| dromograph | An instrument for recording the rapidity of the blood circulation. Origin: G. Dromos, a running, + grapho, to record (05 Mar 2000) |
| dromomania | <psychiatry> An uncontrollable impulse to wander or travel. Origin: G. Dromos, a running, + mania, insanity (05 Mar 2000) |
| dromostanolone propionate | 17b-Hydroxy-2a-methyl-5a-androstan-3-one propionate;an antineoplastic agent. (05 Mar 2000) |
| dromotropic | Influencing the velocity of conduction of excitation, as in nerve or cardiac muscle fibres. Origin: G. Dromos, a running, + trope, a turn (05 Mar 2000) |
Synonyms : Drug Interaction, Interaction, Drug, Interactions, Drug
Synonyms : Drug Labelling, Drug Package Insert, Drug Package Inserts, Drug Product Labeling, Insert, Drug Package, Inserts, Drug Package, Labeling, Drug Product, Labelling, Drug, Package Insert, Drug
Synonyms : Drug Monitoring, Therapeutic, Monitoring, Therapeutic Drug
Synonyms : Drug Containers, Container, Drug, Containers, Drug, Drug Container, Drug Packagings, Packagings, Drug
Synonyms : Drug Residue, Residue, Drug, Residues, Drug
| dry mouth |
xerostomia: abnormal dryness of the mouth resulting from decreased secretion of saliva
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| drip |
flowing in drops; the formation and falling of drops of liquid; "there's a drip through the roof" the sound of a liquid falling drop by drop; "the constant sound of dripping irritated him" fall in drops; "Water is dripping from the faucet" dribble: let or cause to fall in drops; "dribble oil into the mixture" (architecture) a projection from a cornice or sill designed to protect the area below from rainwater (as over a window or doorway)
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| drag |
pull, as against a resistance; "He dragged the big suitcase behind him"; "These worries were dragging at him" haul: draw slowly or heavily; "haul stones"; "haul nets" embroil: force into some kind of situation, condition, or course of action; "They were swept up by the events"; "don't drag me into this business" move slowly and as if with great effort to lag or linger behind; "But in so many other areas we still are dragging" the phenomenon of resistance to motion through a fluid puff: suck in or take (air); "draw a deep breath"; "draw on a cigarette" something that slows or delays progress; "taxation is a drag on the economy"; "too many laws are a drag on the use of new land" use a computer mouse to move icons on the screen and select commands from a menu; "drag this icon to the lower right hand corner of the screen" something tedious and boring; "peeling potatoes is a drag" scuff: walk without lifting the feet clothing that is conventionally worn by the opposite sex (especially women's clothing when worn by a man); "he went to the party dressed in drag"; "the waitresses looked like missionaries in drag" dredge: search (as the bottom of a body of water) for something valuable or lost puff: a slow inhalation (as of tobacco smoke); "he took a puff on his pipe"; "he took a drag on his cigarette and expelled the smoke slowly" persuade to come away from something attractive or interesting; "He dragged me away from the television set" the act of dragging (pulling with force); "the drag up the hill exhausted him" proceed for an extended period of time; "The speech dragged on for two hours"
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| drachm |
dram: a unit of apothecary weight equal to an eighth of an ounce or to 60 grains fluidram: a British imperial capacity measure (liquid or dry) equal to 60 minims or 3.5516 cubic centimeters fluidram: a unit of capacity or volume in the apothecary system equal to one eighth of a fluid ounce
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| dracunculiasis |
Guinea worm disease: a painful and debilitating infestation contracted by drinking stagnant water contaminated with Guinea worm larvae that can mature inside a human's abdomen until the worm emerges through a painful blister in the person's skin
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| DR | European arum resembling the cuckoopint |
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| DR | the largest lizard in the world (10 feet) |
| DR | tall tree of the Canary Islands |
| DR | a dark red resinous substance derived from various trees and used in photoengraving |
| DR | Asian fruit similar to litchi |
| DR | American herb having sharply serrate lanceolate leaves and spikes of double-lipped blue to violet flowers |
| DR | a bog orchid with usually a solitary fragrant magenta pink blossom with a wide-gaping corolla |
| DR | small often brightly colored scaleless marine bottom-dwellers |
| DR | slender-bodied non-stinging insect having iridescent wings that are outspread at rest |
| DR | American herb having sharply serrate lanceolate leaves and spikes of double-lipped blue to violet flowers |
| DR | a member of a European military unit formerly composed of heavily armed cavalrymen |
| DR | subjugate by imposing troops |