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Webster 1913 Edition

(drout)

Noun.

[OE.

droght

drougth

druȝð

, AS.

drugað

, from

drugian

to dry. See

, and cf.

, which shows the original final sound.]

Dryness; want of rain or of water; especially, such dryness of the weather as affects the earth, and prevents the growth of plants; aridity.

The

drought

of March hath pierced to the root.

Chaucer.

In a

drought

the thirsty creatures cry.

Dryden.

Thirst; want of drink.

Johnson.

Scarcity; lack.

drought

of Christian writers caused a dearth of all history.

Fuller.

[See Drouth.]