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- Drift - n. - A driving; a violent movement.
- Drift - n. - The act or motion of drifting; the force which impels or drives; an overpowering influence or impulse.
- Drift - n. - Course or direction along which anything is driven; setting.
- Drift - n. - The tendency of an act, argument, course of conduct, or the like; object aimed at or intended; intention; hence, also, import or meaning of a sentence or discourse; aim.
- Drift - n. - That which is driven, forced, or urged along
- Drift - n. - Anything driven at random.
- Drift - n. - A mass of matter which has been driven or forced onward together in a body, or thrown together in a heap, etc., esp. by wind or water; as, a drift of snow, of ice, of sand, and the like.
- Drift - n. - A drove or flock, as of cattle, sheep, birds.
- Drift - n. - The horizontal thrust or pressure of an arch or vault upon the abutments.
- Drift - n. - A collection of loose earth and rocks, or boulders, which have been distributed over large portions of the earth's surface, especially in latitudes north of forty degrees, by the agency of ice.
- Drift - n. - In South Africa, a ford in a river.
- Drift - n. - A slightly tapered tool of steel for enlarging or shaping a hole in metal, by being forced or driven into or through it; a broach.
- Drift - n. - A tool used in driving down compactly the composition contained in a rocket, or like firework.
- Drift - n. - A deviation from the line of fire, peculiar to oblong projectiles.
- Drift - n. - A passage driven or cut between shaft and shaft; a driftway; a small subterranean gallery; an adit or tunnel.
- Drift - n. - The distance through which a current flows in a given time.
- Drift - n. - The angle which the line of a ship's motion makes with the meridian, in drifting.
- Drift - n. - The distance to which a vessel is carried off from her desired course by the wind, currents, or other causes.
- Drift - n. - The place in a deep-waisted vessel where the sheer is raised and the rail is cut off, and usually terminated with a scroll, or driftpiece.
- Drift - n. - The distance between the two blocks of a tackle.
- Drift - n. - The difference between the size of a bolt and the hole into which it is driven, or between the circumference of a hoop and that of the mast on which it is to be driven.
- Drift - v. i. - To float or be driven along by, or as by, a current of water or air; as, the ship drifted astern; a raft drifted ashore; the balloon drifts slowly east.
- Drift - v. i. - To accumulate in heaps by the force of wind; to be driven into heaps; as, snow or sand drifts.
- Drift - v. i. - to make a drift; to examine a vein or ledge for the purpose of ascertaining the presence of metals or ores; to follow a vein; to prospect.
- Drift - v. t. - To drive or carry, as currents do a floating body.
- Club - v. i. - To drift in a current with an anchor out.
- Eschar - n. - In Ireland, one of the continuous mounds or ridges of gravelly and sandy drift which extend for many miles over the surface of the country. Similar ridges in Scotland are called kames or kams.
- Univocal - n. - Having always the same drift or tenor; uniform; certain; regular.
- Preglacial - a. - Prior to the glacial or drift period.
- Driftless - a. - Having no drift or direction; without aim; purposeless.
- Score - n. - To mark with parallel lines or scratches; as, the rocks of New England and the Western States were scored in the drift epoch.
- Heading - n. - A gallery, drift, or adit in a mine; also, the end of a drift or gallery; the vein above a drift.
- Drift - n. - A mass of matter which has been driven or forced onward together in a body, or thrown together in a heap, etc., esp. by wind or water; as, a drift of snow, of ice, of sand, and the like.
- Crab - v. i. - To drift sidewise or to leeward, as a vessel.
- Run - n. - The horizontal distance to which a drift may be carried, either by license of the proprietor of a mine or by the nature of the formation; also, the direction which a vein of ore or other substance takes.
- Drumlin - n. - A hill of compact, unstratified, glacial drift or till, usually elongate or oval, with the larger axis parallel to the former local glacial motion.
- Gallery - a. - A working drift or level.
- Tenor - n. - That course of thought which holds on through a discourse; the general drift or course of thought; purport; intent; meaning; understanding.
- Adit - n. - An entrance or passage. Specifically: The nearly horizontal opening by which a mine is entered, or by which water and ores are carried away; -- called also drift and tunnel.
- Drift - a. - That causes drifting or that is drifted; movable by wind or currents; as, drift currents; drift ice; drift mud.