_Drab_: A thick woolen cloth, of a light brown or dun color. The
name is sometimes used for the color itself.
_Dredging-box_: A box with holes in the top, used to sift or scatter
flour on meat when roasting.
_Drill_: (In husbandry,) to sow grain in rows, drills, or channels;
the row of grain so sowed.
_Duchess of Orleans_: See _Orleans_.
The _East_, and the _Eastern States_: Those of the United States
situated in the north-east part of the country, including Maine,
New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, and Vermont.
_Elevation_, (of a house:) A plan representing the upright view
of a house, as a ground-plan shows its appearance on the ground.
_Euclid_: A celebrated mathematician, who was born in Alexandria,
in Egypt, about two hundred and eighty years before Christ. He
distinguished himself by his writings on music and geometry. The most
celebrated of his works is his _Elements of Geometry_, which is in use
at the present day. He established a school at Alexandria, which became
so famous that, from his time to the conquest of Alexandria by the
Saracens, (A.D. 646,) no mathematician was found who had not studied
at Alexandria.
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