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 company at the Birmingham Repertory Theater. 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 biography and contributed verse and prose to periodicals.
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Drip Stone
corona or projecting tablet or molding over the heads of doorways, 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.
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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 quantities, flavored with pepper, salt, and tansy, served hot, and eaten at breakfast.
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Drogheda
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 stubborn garrison to the sword. Poyning's laws were enacted here in 1494, and about the same time a mint was set up. Drogheda surrendered to William III. the day after the battle of the Boyne. Pop. about 13,000.
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Drome
S. E. department of France, covered almost throughout by ramifications of the Alps, the average height of which, however, does not exceed 4,000 feet; area, 2,518 square miles, of which about one-fourth is waste, one-third under wood, and a great part of the remainder under tillage and pasture. A considerable extent of the area is occupied by vineyards, and several of the wines produced have a high reputation, especially Hermitage. Olives, chestnuts, and silks are staple productions. Valence is the capital. Pop. about 290,000.
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Drosky
DROSHKY, or DROSCH- KE , a Russian and Prussian fourwheeled vehicle in which the passengers ride astride a bench, their feet resting on bars near the ground. It has no top.
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Drosometer
an instrument for ascertaining the quantity of dew which falls. It consists of a balance, one end of which is furnished with a plate fitted to receive the dew, the other containing a weight protected from it.
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Drown
THOMAS MESSINGER, an American scientist ; born in Philadelphia, March 19, 1842. He was graduated at the University of Pennsylvania in 1862, studying later at Yale, Harvard, and Heidelberg. He was Professor of Chemistry at Lafayette College, 1874-81; Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1885-95; was president of Lehigh University, 1895-1904. He died Nov. 16, 1904.
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Droz
FRANÇOIS XAVIER torian; born in Besançon in 1773. In 1806 he published "An Essay on the Art of Being Happy," which was very popular; and in 1823 "Moral Philosophy, Life," which procured his admission into or Different Systems of the Science of the Academy. His reputation is, however, founded chiefly on his "Histoire du règne de Louis XVI." He died in 1850. used for medicinal purposes, though the
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Drugget
a woolen texture, chiefly used for covering carpets. It was formerly extensively employed as an article of clothing by the poorer classes, more especially of females.
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Druid Stones
a name given in the S. of England and other parts of the country to those weather-worn, rough pillars of gray sandstone which are scattered over the surface of the chalk-downs in England, in Scotland, and its islands, and which exist in great numbers in others countries; generally in the form of circles, or in detached pillars.
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Druidic Language, Druids, Drum, Magic & Duad
Druidic Language (See Shelta Thari .) Druids (See Celts .) Drum, Magic (See Lapland .) Duad (See God .)
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Drumfish
or DRUM, Pogonias chromis, and other species of the same genus, fishes found on the Atlantic coasts of North America, and so named from the deep, drumming sound they make in the water. They usually weigh about 20 pounds.
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Drummer of Tedworth
A poltergeist who haunted the house of Mr. John Mompesson, of Tedworth, Wilts, about the year 1661 and onwards. In March of that year Mompesson had had a vagrant drummer brought before a justice of the peace, whereby his drum was confiscated. The instrument was taken to the house of Mompesson, during the latter's absence, and immediately a violent poltergeist disturbance broke out. Apparitions were seen by members of the household, pieces of furniture were seen to move of themselves, small objects were flung about by invisible hands, the younger children were levitated as they lay in their beds, and there was a continual sound of drumming every night. The drummer, understood to be the cause of the trouble, was transported, when peace once more reigned in the afflicted household; but ere long he managed to return, when the disturbances broke out with renewed vigour. There is no first-hand account of this poltergeist, save that of Joseph Glanvil- Sadducismus Triumphatus, 1668-and though Glanvil is our authority for the whole story, that part of it which he himself declares to have witnessed is certainly not the most marvellous, but describes scratchings and pantings heard in the vicinity of the childrens' beds.
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Drummond Island
the extreme W. of the Manitoulin chain, in Lake Huron, belongs to Chippewa co., Mich. It measures 20 by 10 miles. 28-Vol. III-Cyc
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Drupe
fruit composed of a single monospermous carpel, and of which the carpellary leaf becomes fleshy at its external division, and ligneous in its internal division, as in the peach, cherry, plum, etc. The stone which incloses the kernel is the endocarp; the pulpy, or succulent part, the mesocarp.
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Drury's Bluff
an eminence on the James river, near Fort Darling, 8 miles S. of Richmond, Va. It was the scene of a battle, May 16, 1864, in which the Confederates under Beauregard defeated the Union troops under Butler, with a loss to the Confederates of 2,500 and to the Union army of 3,012.
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