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Definitions for: Drought [n] a temporary shortage of rainfall
[n] a prolonged shortage
Webster (1913) Definition: Drought, n. [OE. droght, drougth, dru??, AS. druga?,
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.
The drought of March hath pierced to the root.
--Chaucer.
In a drought the thirsty creatures cry. --Dryden.
2. Thirst; want of drink. --Johnson.
3. Scarcity; lack.
A drought of Christian writers caused a dearth of
all history. --Fuller.
See Also: dryness, period, period of time, time period, waterlessness, xerotes
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