Drivers, among sportsmen, a machine for driving pheasant powts, consisting of good strong ozier wands, such as the basket makers use, set in a handle, and twisted or bound with small oziers in two or three places; with this instrument the sportsman drives the young powts into his nets.—Ency. Lond.
Drop, s. A globule of moisture; as much liquor as falls at once when there is not a continual stream.
Dropper, s. A dog of irregular breed.
A breed between a pointer and a setter. It is deemed by some to be a good cross, but I never saw one of them that was worth much. They are by sportsmen termed droppers, and, what is very remarkable, if they are tolerably good themselves their breed falls off wonderfully.—Thornton.
Drove, s. A body or number of cattle; a number of sheep driven; any collection of animals.
Drug, s. An ingredient used in physic, a medicinal simple; anything without worth or value, anything for which no purchaser can be found.
Dub, v. obs. To form the body of a fly.
Duck, s. A water fowl, both wild and tame. Vide Anas.
Bimaculated Duck—Clucking Duck.—(Anas glocitans.)—Length twenty inches. Taken in a decoy in England. Has been met with along the Lena, and about the lake Baikal. Has a singular note, somewhat like clucking.