Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Drouth \Drouth\, n.
   Same as {Drought}. --Sandys.

         Another ill accident is drouth at the spindling of
         corn.                                    --Bacon.

         One whose drouth [thirst], Yet scarce allayed, still
         eyes the current stream.                 --Milton.

         In the dust and drouth of London life.   --Tennyson.