• DRAIN

1. s. incilis fossa, incile (for water); fossa percussa ad colligendum humorem circumjacentium agrorum (for collecting the water from lands; Plin., Ep. 10, 70, 4); cloaca (a sewer, explained, Liv., 1, 56, by receptaculum purgamentorum). A clearing of drains, i. e., sewers, purgatio cloacarum (Traj. ap. Plin., Ep. 10, 4): to open a drain, incile aperire; to make one, incile ducere.

2. v. (a field, etc.), siccare (general term, to dry up, paludes, agros, etc.): fossis siccare (e.g., humidum locum): fossas percutere ad colligendum humorem agrorum: *fossis percussis humorem agri colligere.