The Collaborative International Dictionary
Drow \Drow\, imp.
of Draw. [Obs.]
--Chaucer.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (label en fantasy gaming) a fictional race of dark elf in various fantasy settings, such as ''http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dungeons%20&%20Dragons''. 2 (label en fantasy gaming) Appendix:Drow, a fictional constructed language spoken by the Drows. 3 (label en rare mythology) A variant of trow; a member of a race of folkloric beings from Orkney and Shetland; cognate to the Scandinavian troll.
Wikipedia
The drow ( or ) or dark elves are a generally evil, dark-skinned subrace of elves in the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy roleplaying game.
Drow may refer to:
- Trow (folklore) or Drow, mythical creatures from Orkneyjar and Shetlandic folklore
- Drow (Dungeons & Dragons), fictional dark elves from Dungeons & Dragons
Usage examples of "drow".
When it was activated by the dozen drow mages standing by, it would open an enchanted pathway through space and time onto the surface, and into a place Bodhi could never have walked into, let alone a drow strike regiment.
The four drow males moved to kneel before the matron and her daughters, Rizzen to Malice, Zaknafein to Briza, Nalfein to Maya, and Dinin to Vierna.
He waited for a few moments before moving to rouse the drow to make sure that some of the giants were actually coming out of the hole.
Entreri glanced over at the mercenary and saw the drow holding his wide-brimmed hat in his hand, fiddling with the diatryma feather.
A familiar clicking sounded from the tunnel directly across the small chamber and, a moment later, in swept Jarlaxle, the extraordinary drow mercenary, his wide-brimmed hat festooned with a giant diatryma feather, his vest cut high to reveal rolling lines of muscles across his abdomen.
There was a loud, drumlike boom, a magical concussion that was obviously much louder than the simple impact of metal on bone, and the drow sank to the ground, his jaw shattered.
Then, in an instant, he spotted a drow form rise up just long enough to fling another firepot down before ducking out of sight again.
Shakti knew that overambitious drow were often found dead in their own chambers.
Drizzt was far quicker, and the drow believed that he could play the game a good while longer.
But to find her slippery rival, Shakti sought a more direct route and a more powerful ally than drow merchants.
It grew rapidly until it was identical in every respect to the scrying bowl given to Shakti by the drow god Vhaeraun.
The barghests, like all intelligent creatures on nearly every plane of existence, knew of the drow and maintained a healthy respect for the race.
Was the drow in league with the barghests, a communion that fast soured?
Druzil was coated in drow sleep poison, which was among the most potent concoctions in all the world.
Ten-Towns, the land that Jankin had named a house for the homeless, a gathering ground for those who had nowhere else to go, brought the drow a measure of hope.