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 155 Down SOUCe. A sudden fall of anything, as, " down it came souce." Also, as in speaking very plainly, '*' I told him down souce." Dowser. One who uses the dowsing rod. Dowsing-rod. A. forked branch of hazel used for discovering a mineral lode. Now laughed at as useless, and dowsing considered as silly and super- stitious. Divining rod. Drabbit ! Drat it! "Aw ! Drabbit the ole scrubbin." Mrs. Parr's Adam & Eve. Draft, or Draff. Brewers' grains. Used as food for pigs. Chaucer uses the word draf^ meaning "things thrown away as unfit for man's food." Dram. A swathe of cut corn. Bottrall. Drang. A narrow place, passage, trench, gutter, or drain. Dranged up. See Dringed up. Drash. To thrash as of corn, to thump or beat. To dash a thing violently down. Also, to shut or open violently. " He drashed open the door." Drashel. A flail. Drasher. A thrasher of corn. (In Celtic Cornish it is> drushier ; oi dr usher. Borlase.) Drashin. Thrashing corn. Also beating, or flogging. Draw-bucket. A bucket with a rope to draw water up a well.