Definition of Drouths

1. drouth [n] - See also: drouth

Lexicographical Neighbors of Drouths

droughting
droughtless
droughtproof
droughts
droughty
drouk
drouked
drouking
droukings
droukit
drouks
droumy
drouth
drouthier
drouthiest
drouths (current term)
drouthy
drove
drove chisel
droved
droven
drover
drovers
droves
droveway
droving
drovings
drovy
drow
drown

Literary usage of Drouths

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Bermuda Islands: An Account of Their Scenery, Climate, Productions by Addison Emery Verrill (1902)
"On islands of small extent, with a thin, dry, porous soil, drouths are still more disastrous, for there is no great reserve of moisture in the soil, ..."

2. Michigan and Its Resources: Sketches of the Growth of the State, Its by Michigan Commissioner of immigration (1883)
"No part of the State lies as far north as Paris. drouths AND ATMOSPHERIC DISTURBANCES. It is well known that wooded countries are not subject to the ..."

3. The Water-power of Maine by Maine Hydrographic Survey (1868)
"Mills operate all the year except in severe drouths. Stream connected with two ponds of about a thousand acres area. Rock abundant. ..."

4. A Concise Analytical and Logical Development of the Atmospheric System: And by Thomas Belden Butler (1870)
"... occasioned by an extension of the outer limits of the NE trades—occur in July and August only—Limited and local drouths—tendency to them in certain ..."

5. Life and Letters of Fathers Ponziglione, Schoenmakers, and Other Early by William Whites Graves (1916)
"SJ drouths AND GRASSHOPPERS. The small allowance of $55 per year for board, and schooling of each pupil, made by the government was not sufficient to pay ..."

6. War and the Weather by Edward Powers (1890)
"I also heartily concur with you in your views that, in time of drouths, large amounts of money could be made to the country, at a little expense, ..."

7. Just Talks on Common Themes by Arthur Gray Staples (1919)
"ON "BREAKING OF drouths" OU like a rainy day better than you like two or three rainy days, don't you ? But in spite of your weariness at the rainy season of ..."

8. The Linnean Fern Bulletin by Linnaean Fern Chapter, Willard Nelson Clute (1893)
"Its stiff, leathery fronds are endowed with ability to resist the drouths' that often occur in these barren places, but its relatives of the genus ..."

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