† droumy, a. Obs. rare.
[? Related to Sc. drumly.]
Turbid.
| 1605 Bacon Adv. Learn. ii. xxiii. §45 To set on fire and trouble states, to the end to fish in droumy waters. 1640 Watts tr. Lat. version of do. 421 To become an incendiarie and a perturber of states, to the end he may better fish in droumy waters [L. turbidis aquis]. 1847–78 Halliwell, Droumy, dirty, muddy. Devon. |