Should the senate-house, where all our lawgivers assemble, be used for a theatre or droll-house, or for idle puppet shows? Watts. DROME, a river of France, in Dauphiny, which rises near the entrance of the Val de Drome, on the borders of the department of the Upper Alps, and which, rapidly traversing the department of its own name from east to west, falls into the Rhone between Montelimart and Valence. It is partially navigable. DROME, a department of France, so named from the foregoing river, comprehends the southwest part of Lower Dauphiny, and is bounded by the departments of the Isere, Upper Alps, Lower Alps, and Vaucluse: the Rhone bounds it on the west. It contains a population of 253,500, among whom there are 34,000 Protestants. The country is high, full of mountains and valleys, and is watered by the Rhone, the Isere, the Drome, and several inferior rivers. In the valley of the Rhone, the mulberry, the almond the chestnut, walnut, and in some places the olive, are found to thrive; and though the climate is cold, wine is a staple production, particularly the kinds called Hermitage and Vin de Nyons. Corn is imported yearly to a considerable amount. The stock of cattle is not considerable, the pasturages being for the most part appropriated to the herds of Provence. Wood is in abundance. The manufactures are in the larger towns are linen, woollen, and cotton works. exports consist of wine, silk, olive and nut oil, and almonds. The DROM'EDARY, n. Fr. dromadaire; Ital. Span. and Port. dromedario; Lat. dromedarius; Gr. pouac, from dpouoc, a course, on account of the swiftness of its course. An animal of the CAMELUS Species, which see. Straw for the horses and dromedaries brought they unto the place. 1 Kings. Mules, after these camels and dromedaries, And waggons fraught with utensils of war. Milton. A sort of camel so called from its swiftness, because it is said to travel a hundred miles a-day. Dromedaries are smaller than common camels, slenderer, and more nimble. Or let me have the long Calmet. And patient swiftness of the desart-ship: Byron. DROMORE, a town of Ireland, in the county of Down. It is a very ancient town, and the seat of a bishopric. The see was founded by St. Colman in the sixth century. It was refounded by king James I., who, by his charters (preserved in the rolls office), granted it very great privileges. Among other marks of royal favor, he distinguished the bishops of this see by the style of A. B., by Divine Providence bishop of Dromore; whereas all other bishops in Ireland, except those of Meath and Kildare, are styled 'by Divine Permission.' Dromore lies seventeen miles east of Armagh, and fifteen south-west of Belfast. droen, to murmur. The bee which makes no honey and only murmurs: hence also a murmuring noise; an idler; a sluggard. To drone is to live idly; to make a low humming noise: dronish, idle, lazy, sluggish. There is a great number of noblemen among you, that are themselves as idle as drones; that subsist on other men's labour, on the labour of their tenants, whom, to raise their revenues, they pare to the quick. Sir T. More. The sad-eyed justice, with his surly hum, Delivering o'er to executors pale The lazy yawning drone. Shakspeare. Henry V. Sit idle on the household hearth, A burdenous drone, to visitants a gaze. Milton, What have I lost by my forefather's fault! Why was I not the twentieth by descent From a long restive race of droning kings? Cobwebs for little flies are spread, And laws for little folks are made; But if an insect of renown, Hornet or beetle, wasp or drone, Couper. Beattie. Be caught in quest of sport or plunder, The flimsy fetter flies in sunder. DRONTHEIM, a town and province of Norway, formerly the capital, and the usual residence of the kings, situated on a gulf of the North Sea. It is nearly surrounded by the ocean and lofty mountains; and has a well-frequented sea-port, which however is not capable of receiving large vessels, on account of rocks at the entrance of the harbour. It is still a bishop's see, is enclosed by a wall, and defended by a castle by no means strong. The houses are mostly of wood. Near it are mines of copper and silver. The principal exports are masts, fir timber, copper, iron, pitch, tar, stock-fish, skins, pot-ash, &c. In exchange, they receive and import spices, wines, salt, brandy, corn, tobacco, cloth, &c. It is 270 miles north-west of Stockholm. Long. 11° 9' E., lat. 63° 20′ N. province of Drontheim is the most northern of the four grand bailliages or dioceses of Norway, and situated on the west coast, between The Bergen, Aggerhuus, the Swedish frontier, and Norrland. In its widest extent it comprises both the last-mentioned province and Finnmach. Drontheim Proper includes eighty-six parishes, with the four towns of Drontheim, Roraas, Christiansand, and Molde. The population of this district has received a marked increase during the last half century; in 1769 it was 105,238, and in 1814, 138,690: including Norrland and Finnmark, the number in 1801 was 239,215. Though full of mountains, and little adapted for cultivation, the progress of rural economy has been of late years very considerable. DROOP, v. n. Dut. droef (sorrow); Sax. drepen; Isl. diupa, from drop, almost a cognate word. To languish; bend in sorrow; sink; hang downwards. I droop, with struggling spent; My thoughts are on my sorrows bent. Sandys. He straight declined, drooped, took it deeply; Whereas Aristotle tells us, that if a drop of wine be put into ten thousand measures of water, the wine, being overpowered by so vast a quantity of water, will be turned into it; he speaks very improbably. Boyle. One only hag remained: Propped on her trusty staff, not half upright, Either you come not here, or, as you grace He could never make any figure in company, but by giving disturbance at his entry: and therefore takes care to drop in when he thinks you are just seated. Spectator, No. 448. Thus was the fame of our Saviour perpetuated by such records as would preserve the traditionary account of him to after-ages; and rectify it, if, by passing through several generations, it might drop any part that was material. Addison. Virgil's friends thought fit to let drop this incident of Helen. Collier on Despair. After having given this judgment in its favour, they suddenly dropt the pursuit. Sharp's Surgery. Philosophers conjecture that you dropped from the moon, or one of the stars. Gulliver's Travels. St. John himself will scarce forbear Swift. To bite his pen and drop a tear. Opinions, like fashions, always descend from those of quality to the middle sort, and thence to the vulgar, where they are dropped and vanish. Id. Pope. The drops to thee, Brillante, we consign; And, Momentilla, let the watch be thine. I heard of threats occasioned by my verses: I sent to acquaint them where I was to be found, and so it Id. dropped. Id. Strain out the last dull droppings of your sense, from him. Sterne. Those who have assumed visible shapes for a season, can hardly be reckoned among this order of compounded beings; because they drop their bodies, and divest themselves of those visible shapes. Watts's Logick. Constancy in friendships, attachments, and familiarities, is commendable, and is requisite to support trust and good correspondence in society. But in places of general, though casual concourse, where the pursuit of health and pleasure brings people promiscuously together, public conveniency has dispensed with this maxim; and custom there promotes an unreserved conversation for the time, by indulging the privilege of dropping afterwards every indifferent acquaintance without breach of civility or good manners. DROPS, in meteorology, small spherical bodies, which the particles of fluids spontaneously form themselves into when let fall from any height. This spherical figure, the Newtonian philosophers demonstrate to be the effect of corpuscular attraction; for, considering that the attractive force of one single particle of a fluid is equally exerted to an equal distance, it must follow, that other fluid particles are on every side drawn to it, and will therefore take their places at an equal distance from it, and consequently form a round superficies. See HYDROSTATICS. DROP'SY, Fr. hydropisie: Span. and DROP'SICAL, adj. Port. dropesia, or tropesia; DROP'SIED, adj. Lat. hydrops; Gr. vôpany, from vdwp, water. A disease which accumulates water in different parts of the body. See below. Where great addition swells, and virtue none, It is a dropsied honour: good alone Is good. Shakspeare. All's Well that Ends Well. There note they the ship's sicknesses, the mast Shaked with an ague, and the hold and waist With a salt dropsie clogged. Donne. Revenge, that thirsty dropsy of our souls, Massinger. The diet of nephritick and dropsical persons ought to be such as is opposite to, and subdueth the alkalescent nature of the salts in the serum of the blood. Arbuthnot on Aliments. A tendency to these diseases is certainly hereditary, though perhaps not the diseases themselves; thus a less quantity of ale, cyder, wine, or spirit, will induce the gout and dropsy in. those constitutions, whose parents have been intemperate in the use of those liquors; as I have more than once had occasion to observe. Darwin. She likewise hinted that a certain widow in the next street had got rid of her dropsy, and recovered her Sheridan. shape in a most surprising manner. DROPSY (vdpw), a collection of a serous fluid in the cellular membrane, the viscera, or other carities of the body. For the general description of this disease, see HYDROPS; for dropsy of the belly, see ASCITES; for dropsy of the brain, HyDROCEPHALUS; for dropsy of the chest, HYDROTHORAX; for dropsy of the skin, ANASARCA; for dropsy of the testicle, HYDRocele. DROSERA, ros solis, or sun-dew, in botany, a genus of the pentagynia order, and pentandria class of plants; natural order fourteenth, gruinales: CAL. quinquefid, petals five: CAPS. unilocular, and quinquevalved at top: SEEDS very numerous. Species eleven, which grow naturally in boggy places, in many parts of the kingdom. They are named sun-dew from a very striking circumstance in their appearance. The leaves, which are circular, are fringed with hairs, supporting small drops or globules of a pellucid liquor like dew, which continue even in the hottest part of the day, and in the fullest exposure to the sun. The whole plant is acrid, and suffi Johnson. Ode to Evening. ciently caustic to erode the skin; but some ladies Evening now from purple wings Hume. As fire these drossy rhymes to purify, Or as elixir to change them into gold. Donne. For, by the fire, they emit not only many drossy and scorious parts, but whatsoever they had received either from earth or loadstone. Browne's Vulgar Errours. All treasures and all gain esteem as dross, And dignities and powers, all but the highest. Milton. Avarice is of all passions the most sordid, the most clogged, and covered with dirt and with dross, so that it cannot raise its wings beyond the smell of the earth. Sir W. Temple. The furnace of affliction refines us from earthly drossiness, and softens us for the impression of God's stamp. Boyle. An emperor, hid under a crust of dross, after cleansing, has appeared with all his titles fresh and beauti O ye wild groves, O where is now your bloom! (The Muse interprets thus his tender thought) Your flowers, your verdure, and your balmy gloom, Of late so grateful in the hour of drought! Beattie. DROWN, v. a. & v. n. From. Germ. drunden, below.-Skinner. From Sax. drunenian.-Mr. Lye. Teut. trauken; Swed. dranka. To suffocate in water; sink; immerge in water; and hence to lose in something that overpowers; to be suffocated with water. There be, that keep them out of fire, and yet was never burned; that beware of water, and yet was never nigh drowning. Ascham's Schoolmaster. Who cometh next will not follow that course however good, which his predecessors held, for doubt to have his doings drowned in another man's praise. Spenser on Ireland. Methought what pain it was to drown! What dreadful noise of waters in my ears! Shakspeare. Or so much as it needs Such precepts exceedingly dispose us to pity and To dew the sovereign flower, and drown the weeds. religion, by purifying our souls from the dross and filth of sensual delights. Tillotson. Id. Galleys might be drowned in the harbour with the great ordnance, before they could be rigged. Knolles's History. Most men being in sensual pleasures drowned, It seems their souls but in their senses are. Davies. That the brightness of the sun doth drown our discerning of the lesser lights, is a popular errour. Wotton. They would soon drown those that refused to swim down the popular stream. King Charles. Here was nothing but a majestical terror in the eyes, in the ears of the Israelites. Here was lightning darted in their eyes, the thunders roaring in their ears, the trumpet of God drowning the thunder claps, the voice of God out-speaking the trumpet of the angel. Bp. Hall. Contemplations. a drowning man, he never loses, though it do but help Whatever he (an obstinate man) lays hold on, like him to sink the sooner. Butler. Betwixt the prince and parliament we stand, The barriers of the state on either hand: May neither overflow, for then they drown the land. Dryden. DROWNING, the extinction of life by a total immersion in water. In some respects, there seems to be a great similarity between the death occasioned by immersion in water, and that by strangulation, suffocation by fixed air, apoplexies, epilepsies, sudden faintings, violent shocks of electricity, or even violent falls and bruises. Physicians, however, are not agreed with regard to the nature of the injury done to the animal system, in any or all of these accidents. It is indeed certain that, in all the cases above mentioned, particularly in drowning, there is very often such a suspension of the vital powers, as to us has the appearance of a total extinction of them; while yet they may be again set in motion, and the person restored to life, after a much longer submersion than has been generally thought capable of producing absolute death. The length of time during which a person may remain in water without being drowned, is very unequal in different individuals; and depends as much on the temperature of the water as on the particular constitution of the subject: in general, however, there is less prospect of recovery, after having continued fifteen minutes immersed in water. In such cases, death ensues from impeded respiration, and the consequent ceasing of the circulation of the blood, by which the body loses its heat, and, with that, the activity of the vital principle. Dr. Goodwyn justly observes, that the water produces all the changes which take place in drowning, only indirectly, by excluding the atmospheric air from the lungs, as they admit but a very inconsiderable quantity of fluid to pass into them, during immersion. Hence we shall find, in the progress of this enquiry, that inflation of the lungs is one of the principal means of restoring life. Notwithstanding the differences in theory among physicians, it is certain, that great numbers of drowned people have been restored to life, by a proper use of remedies; and societies for recovering drowned persons have been instituted in different places. The first society of this kind was instituted in Holland, where, from the great abundance of canals and inland seas, the inhabitants are particularly exposed to accidents by water. In a very few years 150 persons were saved from death by this society; and many of these had continued upwards of an hour without any signs of life, after they had been taken out of the water. The society was instituted at Amsterdam in 1767: and, by an advertisement, informed the inhabitants of the United Provinces of the methods proper to be used on such occasions, offering rewards at the same time to those who should, with or without success, use those methods for recovering persons The laudable drowned and seemingly dead. and humane example of the Dutch was followed, in 1768, by the magistrates of health in Milan and Venice; afterwards by the magistrates of Hamburg in 1771, by those of Paris in 1772, and by those of London in 1774. Similar societies have since been instituted at Leith, Glasgow, Aberdeen, and many other places. The Royal Humane Society of London has circulated the following directions on this important subject:—I. As soon as the patient is taken out of the water, the wet clothes, if the person is not naked at the time of the accident, should be taken off with all possible expedition on the spot (unless some convenient house be very near), and a great coat or two, or some blankets if convenient, should be wrapped round the body. II. The patient is to be thus carefully conveyed in the arms of three or four men, or on a bier, to the nearest public or other house, where a good fire, if in the winter season, and a warm bed, can be made ready for its reception. As the body is conveying to this place, great attention is to be paid to the position of the head; it must be kept supported in a natural and easy posture, and not suffered to hang down. III. In cold or moist weather, the patient is to be laid on a mattress or bed before the fire, but not too near, or in a moderately heated room: in warm or sultry weather, on a bed only. The body is then to be wrapped as expeditiously as possible with a blanket, and thoroughly dried with warm coarse cloths or flannels. IV. In summer or sultry weather too much air cannot be admitted. For this reason it will be necessary to set open the windows and doors, as cool refreshing air is of the greatest importance in the process of resuscitation. V. Not more than six persons are to be present to apply the proper means; a greater number will be useless, and may retard, or totally prevent, the restoration of life, by rendering the air of the apartment unwholesome. It will be necessary, therefore, to request the absence of those who attend merely from motives of curiosity. VI. It will be proper for one of the assistants, with a pair of bellows of the common size, applying the pipe a little way up one nostril, to blow with some force, in order to introduce air into the lungs; at the same time the other nostril and the mouth are to be closed by another assistant, whilst a third person gently presses the chest with his hands, after the lungs are observed to be inflated. By pursuing this process, the noxious and stagnated vapors will be expelled, and natural breathing imitated. If the pipe of the bellows be too large, the air may be blown in at the mouth, the nostrils at the same time being closed, so that it may not escape that way: but the lungs are more easily filled, and natural breathing better imitated, by blowing up the nostril. VII. Let the body be gently rubbed with common salt, or with flannels, |