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n. A ditch or drain along the side of a hill to catch the surface water; also, a ditch at the side of a canal to catch the surplus water. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Drained p. pr. & vb. n. Draining. ] [ AS. drehnigean to drain, strain; perh. akin to E. draw. ] 1. To draw off by degrees; to cause to flow gradually out or off; hence, to cause the exhaustion of. [ 1913 Webster ]

Fountains drain the water from the ground adjacent. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

But it was not alone that the he drained their treasure and hampered their industry. Motley. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To exhaust of liquid contents by drawing them off; to make gradually dry or empty; to remove surface water, as from streets, by gutters, etc.; to deprive of moisture; hence, to exhaust; to empty of wealth, resources, or the like; as, to drain a country of its specie. [ 1913 Webster ]

Sinking waters, the firm land to drain,
Filled the capacious deep and formed the main. Roscommon. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To filter. [ 1913 Webster ]

Salt water, drained through twenty vessels of earth, hath become fresh. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. 1. To flow gradually; as, the water of low ground drains off. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To become emptied of liquor by flowing or dropping; as, let the vessel stand and drain. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The act of draining, or of drawing off; gradual and continuous outflow or withdrawal; as, the drain of specie from a country; the project is a drain on resources. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. That means of which anything is drained; a channel; a trench; a water course; a sewer; a sink. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. pl. The grain from the mashing tub; as, brewers' drains. [ Eng. ] Halliwell. [ 1913 Webster ]

Box drain,
Counter drain. See under Box, Counter. --
Right of drain (Law), an easement or servitude by which one man has a right to convey water in pipes through or over the estate of another. Kent. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Capable of being drained. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A draining; a gradual flowing off of any liquid; also, that which flows out of a drain. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The mode in which the waters of a country pass off by its streams and rivers. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Engin.) The system of drains and their operation, by which superfluous water is removed from towns, railway beds, mines, and other works. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Area or district drained; as, the drainage of the Po, the Thames, etc. Latham. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. (Surg.) The act, process, or means of drawing off the pus or fluids from a wound, abscess, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

Drainage tube (Surg.), a tube introduced into a wound, etc., to draw off the discharges. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a board beside a kitchen sink having a surface inclined so as to drain into the sink.
Syn. -- draining board. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

‖n. [ F. ] (Zool.) The missel thrush. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. having lost much energy or emotion from vigorous activity; -- of people; as, the day's events left her completely drained of strength. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. having resources completely depleted.
Syn. -- depleted. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

3. having no power remaining; -- of a battery.
Syn. -- run-down. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

to go down the drain 1. to be consumed in profitless activity; to be wasted; to become worthless. 2. to vanish or cease existing. [ PJC ]

n. One who, or that which, drains. [ 1913 Webster ]

vb. n. of Drain, v. t. (Agric.) The art of carrying off surplus water, as from land. [ 1913 Webster ]

Draining tile. Same as Draintile. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A pipe used for carrying off surplus water. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A hollow tile used in making drains; -- called also draining tile. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See 4th Trap, 5. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To drain by means of tiles; to furnish with a tile drain. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To drain the surface of, as land; as, to top-drain a field or farm. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act or practice of drining the surface of land. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. An underground drain or trench with openings through which the water may percolate from the soil or ground above. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To drain by forming an underdrain or underdrains in; as, to underdrain land. [ 1913 Webster ]

See drainable.
See dramatic.
See drinkable.
See durable.
See duteous.
See dutiful.
See earnest.
See eatable.
See ecclesiastical.
See edible.
See elaborate.
See elective.
See elusive.
See emotional.
See emphatic. See employable.
See employable.
See endurable.
See -English.
See entire.
See enviable.
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See episcopal.
See equable.
See errable.
See escapable.
See evangelical.
See eventful.
See evident.
See exact.
See examinable.
See exceptionable.
See exclusive.
See exemplary.
See exempt.
See exhaustible.
See existent.
See expectable.
See expectant.
See explainable.
See express.
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See expugnable.
See extinct.
See factious.
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See fain.
See familiar.
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See fashionable.
See fast.
See fatherly.
See fathomable.
See faulty.
See fearful.
See feasible.
See felicitous.
See felt.
See feminine.
See fermentable.
See festival.
See fine.
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See fluent.
See forcible.
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See foreseeable.
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See formal.
See framable.
See fraternal.
See friable.
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See frustrable.
See full.
See gainable.
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See gallant.
See genial.
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See geometrical.
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See hale.
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See healable.
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See healthy.
See heavenly.
See heedful.
See helpful.
See heritable.
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[ 1913 Webster ]

A drain or channel for draining off water. [ 1913 Webster ]

The draining off of water. [ 1913 Webster ]