driskn.
U.S.
A drizzly mist.
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1717 S. Sewall Diary 27 Apr. (1973) II. 853 My Calash defended me well from the Cold Drisk.
a1862 H. D. Thoreau Maine Woods (1864) iii. 180 We mistook a little rocky islet seen through the ‘drisk’,..for the steamer.
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n.1717- to throw (etc) something in a person's face
- to throw ) in a person's face
- to throw ) something in a person's face
- to throw a blanket on
- to throw a curtain over
- to throw a curve
- to throw a curveball
- to throw a dicky fit
- to throw a discreet veil over
- to throw a fall
- to throw a fastball
- to throw a maddie
- to throw a main
- to throw a merry main
- to throw a mist before a person's eyes
- to throw a monkey wrench into the machinery
- to throw a moody
- to throw a paper route
- to throw a person a bone
- to throw a person into fits
- to throw a person off his or her bias
- to throw a person under the bus
- to throw a punch
- to throw a seven
- to throw a sheep's-eye at