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Drows

or Trows. A sort of fairy race, residing in hills and caverns. They are curious artificers in iron and precious metals. (Zetland superstition.)

“I hung about thy neck that gifted chain, which all in our isles know was wrought by no earthly artist, but by the Drows in the secret recesses of their caverns.”—Scott: The Pirate, chap. x.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Drop
Drop (To)
Drop in (To)
Drop off (To)
Drop Serene (gutta serena)
Drown the Miller (To)
Drowned Rat
Drowned in a Butt of Malmsey
Drowning Men
Drows
Drub, Drubbing
Drug
Druid
Drum
Drum Ecclesiastic
Drum-head Court-martial
Drummers
Drummond Light
Drumsticks
Drunk