Definition of "drouth" [drouth]

• Alternative form of drought. (noun)

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• ""The drouth is broken," said Doughall Donn, adding, with wonder in his voice: "What manner of folk are those yonder?"
• "If a season of drouth occurs when the cabbages have begun to head, the heads will harden prematurely; and then should a heavy rain fall, they will start to make a new growth, and the consequence will be many of them will split."
• "a hollow stem, or beets or turnips that split and crack, or where we have so-called drouth spot or internal corking in apples, you can be sure that you can't grow a Persian walnut, because the boron requirement alone is many, many times that of an apple or of most vegetables."