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LEFT DRIMYS 426 DBOPSY more cutting edges. In stone drills the action is rotative or reciprocating; in the latter case the tool is alternately lifted and dropped. In agriculture, a machine for sowing grain in rows; in fabrics, a heavy cotton twilled goods, used especially for lining; drilling: in military and naval language, the act or process of training soldiers or sailors to military or naval warfare, as in the manual of arms, the execution of evolutions, etc. DRIMYS, a genus of plants belonging to the order Magnoliacag. They are dis- tinguished by their bitter, tonic, and aro- matic qualities. D. winteri, or aroma- tica, carried to Europe by Captain Winter from the Straits of Magellan in 1579, yields Winter's bark, which has been em- ployed medically as an aromatic stimu- lant. It somewhat resembles canella bark. The bark of D. granatensis is used in Brazil against the colic. It is tonic, aromatic, and stimulant. That of D. axillaris, a native of New Zealand, has similar qualities. DRINKER, HENRY STURGIS, an American educator, born in Hong Kong, China, in 1850. He graduated from Le- high University in 1871. For several years he was engaged in the practice of engineering. He then studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1878. From 1885 to 1905 he was general solicitor of the Lehigh Valley Railroad. In the latter year he was chosen president of the Le- high University. He was the author of "Tunneling, Explosive Compounds and Rock Drills" (1878), and was the author of several works on law relating to rail- roads. From 1913 to 1916 he was presi- dent of the National Reserve Corps, and from 1916 to 1919 he was chairman of the board of Military Training Camps Association. DRINKWATER, JOHN, an English poet and critic, born in 1882. He was educated in the Oxford High School and spent 12 years In business. He was one of the founders of The Pilgrim Players and for several years managed that com- pany at the Birmingham Repertory The- ater. He wrote many plays, some of which were extremely successful. These included: "Rebellion" (1914); "Swords and Ploughshares" (1915) ; "Abraham Lincoln" (1919). The latter play was very successful both in England and in the United States. In addition to his plays he wrote several books on biog- raphy and contributed verse and prose to periodicals. DRIP STONE, corona or projecting tablet or molding over the heads of door- ways, windows, archways, niches, etc. Called also a label, weather-molding, water-table, and hood-molding. The term label is usually applied to a straight molding. DRISHEEN CITY, Cork, Ireland. The name arises from a favorite dish, native to the place, composed of cows' milk and the blood serum of sheep in equal quanti- ties, flavored with pepper, salt, and tansy, served hot, and eaten at breakfast. DROGHEDA (droch'e-da), a seaport town, and county of itself, in the S. E. of County Louth, Ireland, built mostly on the N. bank of the river Boyne, 4 miles from its mouth, 32 N. of Dublin by rail, and 81 S. of Belfast. The Boyne is crossed here by a railway viaduct 95 feet high. In 1649 Cromwell stormed the town after a desperate struggle, and for a stern lesson to the Irish, put its stub- born garrison to the sword. Poyning's laws were enacted here in 1494, and about the same time a mint was set up. Drog- heda surrendered to William III. the day after the battle of the Boyne. Pop. about 13,000. DROME, S. E. department of France, covered almost throughout by ramifica- tions of the Alps, the average height of which, however, does nut exceed 4,000 feet; area, 2,518 square miles, of which about one-fourth is waste, one-third un- der wood, and a great part of the re- mainder under tillage and pasture. A considerable extent of the area is occupied by vineyards, and several of the wines produced have a high reputation, especi- ally Hermitage. Olives, chestnuts, and silks are staple productions. Valence is the capital. Pop. about 290,000. DROMEDARY, a swift variety of the one-humped camel, bearing the same re- lation to it as race horse to cart horse. Its usual pace is a trot, which can be maintained often at the rate of nine miles an hour for many hours on a stretch. After running for 24 hours, when in good condition, the dromedary is refreshed with a frugal meal of barley and pow- dered dates, along with a little water or camel's milk, and is then ready for an- other day of it. Though now distinctive of north Africa, the dromedary seems to have been unknown to the ancient Egyp- tians. DRONE. See Bee. DROUTHEIM. See Trondhjem. DROPSY, a class of diseases always of serious import, though not often, per- haps, directly fatal. Dropsy is rather a symptom than a disease; it consists of the effusion of watery fluid from the blood into the skin and subjacent tex<