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126 haste; agitation; confusion. — the same word as the foregoing.

drive,, to drive, sometimes in some applications handed down from Norn, used somewhat from drive; thus: to d., or d. somet’in’ [‘-thing’], to work or to be occupied with something; de young men never drave [‘drove’] de like de auld [‘old’] men, the young men did not attach importance to deep-sea fishing as the old men did ; what does du d. ? what is your work?. Thus: driva paa, dríva uppá,  drive på.

drivl, drivel [drɩvəl],, a slovenly, dirty, negligent person, a dirty d.
 * drifl, See ,

drivl, drivel [drɩvəl],, to dawdle; to be or go slovenly and untidily, to geng. *drifla. drivla,, to saunter; dawdle, and ,

drivla [drɩvla],, a slovenly, dirty, negligent woman. *drifla,  See ,

drivlet [drɩvlət],, slovenly; dirty and negligent (in appearance), a d.-lookin’ bein’. *driflóttr. See ,

drof,, see ,

drofs, and, and drofset, , see and.

drog [drōg],, a person who is constantly carrying heavy burdens, a drudge, almost =. that drags itself along (d. 12 in R.).
 * drag.  drag,, a being

drog$n$ [drōg],, 1) (to drag), to carry a heavy burden, to d. a heavy burden; to “d. on”; 2) to walk heavily and slowly, to come and behint, to come slowly, toiling behind. 3) of an animal: to be in a state of utter exhaustion, by long pregnancy; de baess [‘beast’] is, shø [‘she’] is still : when a cow is on the point of calving,  when  she is going over her time; ; 4) to work a long time at something without being able to finish it, to d. upon a wark [‘work’]; — draga,, to drag; pull; also to postpone; draga etter, to come toiling behind.

drog$n$ [drōg],, see $1$,

droger [drōgər],, a carrier, one who carries heavy burdens, a peat-d.. From $n$, “water-”.

drogg$2$ [drɔg(g), drȯg(g)],, a person who drags himself along, a slow person, a d. o’ a body. and  [drɔg(g)]. [drȯg(g)]. See ,

drogg$1$ [drȯg(g)],, see ,

drogg [drɔg(g), drȯg(g)],, to drag oneself along, to walk very slowly, to d. awa [‘away’], to come behint. and  [drɔg(g)]. [drȯg(g)]. dragga,, to drag oneself forward ( of draga), and drugga, , to walk wearily. $1$,

drogget [drȯg(g)ət],, 1) rainy, continuously drizzling, a d. kind o’ a day; 2) wet through; soaking wet, partly = (see, , );  —  of $1$,
 * see ,

droggisom [drȯg··ɩsȯm·], ., [sic] = 1; a d. day, a rainy day.

droin and droind,, see ,

droinet,, see ,

in the version of a riddle about the cow, noted down in : …, something ( the tail) comes lagging behind. *drattar (or *drattandi). dratta, , to walk heavily and slowly. $2$,, and the use of this word in the same riddle.
 * droita [drȯita], verbal-form appearing

droiti [drȯi‘ti],, a name given jocularly to an old object of little value, noted down in the sense of an old clay-pipe.  derived