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Webster 1913 Edition
Drouth
Drouth
,Noun.
Same as
Drought
. Sandys.
Another ill accident is
drouth
at the spindling of corn. Bacon.
One whose
Yet scarce allayed, still eyes the current stream.
drouth
[thirst],Yet scarce allayed, still eyes the current stream.
Milton.
In the dust and
drouth
of London life. Tennyson.
Webster 1828 Edition
Drouth
DROUTH
,Noun.
1.
Dryness; want of rain or of water; particularly, dryness of the weather, which affects the earth, and prevents the growth of plants; aridness; aridity.2.
Dryness of the throat and mouth; thirst; want of drink.Definition 2024
drouth
drouth
English
Noun
drouth (plural drouths)
- Alternative form of drought
- 1965, Marguerite Young, Miss MacIntosh, My Darling, Scribner, page 174:
- Name other great catastrophes this world has seen, the floods, the fires, the earthquakes, plague or famine or drouth.
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