Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- intransitive verb obsolete To drain.
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- verb Obsolete form of
drain .
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Examples
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This Monster carry'd me into the Hollow of a Rock, and there laid me on a Crag to drein and come to myself; which I soon did, to behold the greatest Horror that ever could be presented to human View.
Exilius 2008
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His _bowels_ are the _sink_, whose part's to drein
The Lives of the Most Famous English Poets (1687) William Winstanley
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Geschwindigkeit nach, oder brachen Stecken vom nächsten Zaun oder rissen aus einem Reissigbündel den ersten besten Prügel, setzten sich darauf und ritten mit einer solchen Wut hinter ihm drein, dass sie einen
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Herr, wie du willt, i gib mi drein, Bei dir will i verbleiba; I will mi gern dem Wille dein Geduldig unterschreiba.
American Lutheranism Volume 1: Early History of American Lutheranism and The Tennessee Synod 1894
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Boards, or pieces of Timber lie Horizontal, 'alfo a Ma - thematical Inftrument whofe ufe is to find the true level, in order to convey Water to iiipply Towns, make Rivers navigable, drein Boggs, &c. Lavellers J? cop\Q who would have all things common.
Glossographia Anglicana Nova: Or, A Dictionary, Interpreting Such Hard Words of Whatever ... 1707
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