Meanings
noundrowth (countable and uncountable, plural drowths)
plural drowths
- countableobsoleteuncountabledrought
Who taught the raven in a drowth to throw pebbles into an hollow tree where she spied water , that the water might rise so as she might come to it ?
1605, Francis Bacon, “(please specify |book=1 or 2)”, in The Twoo Bookes of Francis Bacon. Of the Proficience and Aduancement of Learning, Diuine and Humane, London: […] [Thomas Purfoot and Thomas Creede] for Henrie Tomes, […], →OCLC
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