Druse noun¹ & adjective. [dru:z] Also Druze. L18.
[(French from) Arab. Durūz pl. of Durzī var. of Darazī, from the name of Muammad ibn Ismāīl ad-Darazī (d. 1019), one of the founders.]
A. noun. Pl. same, -s. A member of a small religious and political sect, orig. an offshoot of the Ismaili Shiite Muslims, that lives chiefly in Syria and Lebanon and believes in the divinity of the 6th Fatimid caliph of Egypt (d. AD 1020). L18.
b. adjective. Of, pertaining to, or designating the Druse. L18.
Also
■ Drusian noun & adjective L16.

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druse noun². [dru:z] E19.
[French from German, = Middle Low German drūse, drose, Dutch droes.]
(A cavity in a rock lined with) a crust of small projecting crystals.

■ drusy adjective covered or lined with a druse; containing druses, of the nature of a druse: L18.

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