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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
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.
[See dry. The word generally used is now, as it was written by Bacon, drouth or drowth; its regular termination is th.]
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)

  1. Alternative form of drought