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Definition of drain

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Drain (v. t.) 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..

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Draintrap :: Draintrap (n.) See 4th Trap, 5..

Grindlet :: Grindlet (n.) A small drain.

Drain :: Drain (n.) That means of which anything is drained; a channel; a trench; a water course; a sewer; a sink.

Drain :: Drain (v. t.) To filter.

Exhaustible :: Exhaustible (a.) Capable of being exhausted, drained off, or expended..

Plonge :: Plonge (v. t.) To cleanse, as open drains which are entered by the tide, by stirring up the sediment when the tide ebbs..

Seal :: Seal (v. t.) To close by means of a seal; as, to seal a drainpipe with water. See 2d Seal, 5..

Stulp :: Stulm (n.) A shaft or gallery to drain a mine.

Trench :: Trench (v. t.) A long, narrow cut in the earth; a ditch; as, a trench for draining land..

Thorough :: Thorough (n.) A furrow between two ridges, to drain off the surface water..

Draining :: Draining (v. t.) The art of carrying off surplus water, as from land..

Draining :: Draining (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Drai.

Molasses :: Molasses (n.) The thick, brown or dark colored, viscid, uncrystallizable sirup which drains from sugar, in the process of manufacture; any thick, viscid, sweet sirup made from vegetable juice or sap, as of the sorghum or maple. See Treacle..

Lake :: Lake (n.) A large body of water contained in a depression of the earth's surface, and supplied from the drainage of a more or less extended area..

Top-draining :: Top-draining (n.) The act or practice of drining the surface of land.

Drainer :: Drainer (n.) One who, or that which, drains..

Drein :: Drein (v. i.) To drain.

Basin :: Basin (n.) The entire tract of country drained by a river, or sloping towards a sea or lake..

Cesspool :: Cesspool (n.) A cistern in the course, or the termination, of a drain, to collect sedimentary or superfluous matter; a privy vault; any receptacle of filth..

Banker :: Banker (n.) A ditcher; a drain digger.