·noun Scarcity; lack.
II. Drought ·noun Thirst; want of drink.
III. Drought ·noun Dryness; want of rain or of water; especially, such dryness of the weather as affects the earth, and prevents the growth of plants; aridity.
From the middle of May to about the middle of August the land of Palestine is dry. It is then the "d...
Easton's Bible Dictionary
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A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose