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droughty, drouthy, a.
(ˈdraʊtɪ, ˈdraʊθɪ, Sc. ˈdruːθɪ)
[f. drought + -y: cf. mighty, weighty.]
1. Dry, without moisture; arid.
1603Drayton Bar. Wars ii. xvii, Yet not one drop fall from thy droughtie eyes! 1643Lightfoot Glean. Ex. (1648) 28 Out of the droughty rocke Moses..bringeth forth water. 1708J. Philips Cyder ii. Poems (1763) 92 Thou must With tasteless water wash thy droughty throat. 1850Browning Christmas Eve xv, His cough, like a drouthy piston, Tried to dislodge the husk that grew to him.
fig.1818Byron Juan i. ccv, Campbell's Hippocrene is somewhat drouthy. 1848Hare Guesses ii. (1874) 561 Men of drowthy hearts and torpid imaginations.
2. Characterized by drought; deficient in rainfall.
1605Play Stucley in Simpson Sch. Shaks. (1878) I. 261 Preach unto the droughty earth; Persuade it, if thou canst, to shun the rain. 1669W. Simpson Hydrol. Chym. 315 In droughty hot weather. 1739C. Labelye Short Acc. Piers Westm. Bridge 5 Droughty Seasons. 1818Scott Hrt. Midl. xlii, As drouthy as the weather had been.
3. Thirsty; often = addicted to drinking.
α1626T. H[awkins] Caussin's Holy Crt. 71 The children of rich men become drouthy amongst a masse of fountaynes. 1691Tryon Wisd. Dictates 115, I am never droughthy as those are that eat Flesh. 1790Burns Tam o' Shanter 2 When..drouthy neebors, neebors meet. 1879Temple Bar Oct. 237 The dusty, drouthy wayfarers.
βa1713Sloane in Derham Phys.-Theol. x. Note 27 (R.) A limpid..water, or sap, as gives new life to the droughty traveller or hunter. 1812Byron Ch. Har. i. lxix. (Orig. Draft), [He] droughty then alights, and roars for Roman purl. 1863Whittier Cobbler Keezar's Vision 37 But that droughty folk should be jolly Puzzles my poor old wits.
Hence ˈdroughtiness.
1720Welton Suffer. Son of God I. Pref. 63 These Methods..will..refresh the Droughtiness of the Soul. |