Drought

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Drought \Drought\ (drout), n. [OE. droght, drougth,
     dru[yogh][eth], AS. druga[eth], from drugian to dry. See
     {Dry}, and cf. {Drouth}, which shows the original final
     sound.]
     1. Dryness; want of rain or of water; especially, such
        dryness of the weather as affects the earth, and prevents


        the growth of plants; aridity.
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              The drought of March hath pierced to the root.
                                                    --Chaucer.
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              In a drought the thirsty creatures cry. --Dryden.
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     2. Thirst; want of drink. --Johnson.
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     3. Scarcity; lack.
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              A drought of Christian writers caused a dearth of
              all history.                          --Fuller.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  drought
       n 1: a temporary shortage of rainfall
       2: a prolonged shortage

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  45 Moby Thesaurus words for "drought":
     absence, appetite, aridity, aridness, beggary, canine appetite,
     corkiness, defectiveness, deficiency, deficit, deprivation,
     destitution, dryness, emptiness, empty stomach, famine,
     hollow hunger, hunger, hungriness, imperfection, impoverishment,
     incompleteness, juicelessness, lack, need, omission, polydipsia,
     relish, saplessness, shortage, shortcoming, shortfall, starvation,
     stomach, sweet tooth, tapeworm, taste, thirst, thirstiness,
     torment of Tantalus, want, wantage, waterlessness,
     watertight integrity, watertightness
  
  

From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:

  Drought
     From the middle of May to about the middle of August the land of
     Palestine is dry. It is then the "drought of summer" (Gen.
     31:40; Ps. 32:4), and the land suffers (Deut. 28:23: Ps. 102:4),
     vegetation being preserved only by the dews (Hag. 1:11). (See {DEW}.)