Wilcox County was relatively young when the Civil War (1861-65) began, but its citizens supported the war effort by sending their sons and husbands to fight. Confederate president Jefferson Davis camped on May 8, 1865, at Abbeville during his flight through Wilcox County at the end of the war, two nights before his capture by Union forces in Irwinville.
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition: Drain. drÄn, v.t. to draw off by degrees: to filter: to clear of water by drains: to make dry: to drink dry: to exhaust.âv.i. to flow off gradually.ân. a watercourse: a ditch: a sewer: (slang) a drink: exhausting expenditure.âadj.
The purpose of a drain is to prevent fluid (blood or other) build-up in a closed (dead) space, which may cause either disruption of the wound and the healing process or become an infected abscess, with either scenario possibly requiring a formal drainage/repair procedure (and possibly another trip to the operating room).