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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Drought \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.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
drought
n 1: a temporary shortage of rainfall
2: a prolonged shortage
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
Drought
From the middle of May to about the middle of August the land of
Palestine is dry. It is then the "drought of summer" (Gen.
31:40; Ps 32:4), and the land suffers (Deut. 28:23: Ps 102:4),
vegetation being preserved only by the dews (Hag. 1:11). (See {DEW}.)
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