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Quotation dates: 1900-1933
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DROW, n.4 "A melancholy sound, like that of the dashing of waves heard at a distance" (e.Lth. 1825 Jam.2).Sc. 1933 N. B. Morrison Gowk Storm 144:
My thoughts ebbed and flowed to the drow of the sea.Per. 1900 E.D.D.:
Of one in grief crying out, "O me, O dear me!" someone might say "that's a drow", meaning the lament or complaint.
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