What does "drought" mean?
Drought: Thirst; want of drink. Johnson.
Additional senses
- 2.Scarcity; lack. A drought of Christian writers caused a dearth of all history. Fuller.
Sources
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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