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157 Droll-teller. An itinerant story-teller, news-monger, and fiddler, who travelled from town to town, and village to village. There were two such in Cornwall as late as 1829. H. Droolin. Drivelling, as with an infant, or an idiot. Droozenhead. A stupid, dull person. Droozlin, Stupid, dull, mournful. (In Celtic Cornish dreuesy means mournful, lamentable. Pryce.) Drover. A fishing boat used in taking fish with a driving net. Usually called driving boat. Druckshar. A small solid wheel. M.A.C. Drug. To drag, as "drug the wheel." The word drugge is used by Chaucer for drag. Druggister. A druggist. Now elegantly called "A pharmaceutical chemist." Drule, or Drool. Drivel. Drumblin. Stupid, obtuse. Drum. To flog. Drumming. Flogging. "Gibb'n a good drumming." Drusy. In most veins (lodes) there is a central line or fissure formed by the close apposition and occasional union of two crystallized or as they may be called, drusy surfaces. Br. Paris. Dry. The name given to a long, low building, (from 100 to 150 feet long), with a tall chimney at one end and a coal-burning furnace at the other. There are