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Earshrift :: Earshrift (n.) A nickname for auricular confession; shrift.

Drift :: Drift (v. t.) To drive into heaps; as, a current of wind drifts snow or sand..

Drift :: Drift (n.) The distance through which a current flows in a given time.

Drift :: Drift (n.) The horizontal thrust or pressure of an arch or vault upon the abutments.

Rift :: Rift (v. i.) To burst open; to split.

Drift :: Drift (n.) In South Africa, a ford in a river..

Streamed :: Stream (n.) Current; drift; tendency; series of tending or moving causes; as, the stream of opinions or manners..

Sweat :: Sweat (v. t.) To get something advantageous, as money, property, or labor from (any one), by exaction or oppression; as, to sweat a spendthrift; to sweat laborers..

Dingthrift :: Dingthrift (n.) A spendthrift.

Strang :: Strand (v. i.) To drift, or be driven, on shore to run aground; as, the ship stranded at high water..

Torpedo :: Torpedo (n.) A quantity of explosives anchored in a channel, beneath the water, or set adrift in a current, and so arranged that they will be exploded when touched by a vessel, or when an electric circuit is closed by an operator on shore..

Drift :: 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..

Driftpiece :: Driftpiece (n.) An upright or curved piece of timber connecting the plank sheer with the gunwale; also, a scroll terminating a rail..

Club :: Club (v. i.) To drift in a current with an anchor out.

Spooney :: Spoondrift (n.) Spray blown from the tops waves during a gale at sea; also, snow driven in the wind at sea; -- written also spindrift..

Unthrift :: Unthrift (a.) Unthrifty.

Thrifty :: Thrifty (superl.) Thriving by industry and frugality; prosperous in the acquisition of worldly goods; increasing in wealth; as, a thrifty farmer or mechanic..

Thrifty :: Thrifty (superl.) Given to, or evincing, thrift; characterized by economy and good menegement of property; sparing; frugal..

Untrift :: Untrift (n.) Want of thrift; untriftiness; prodigality.

Tendency :: Tendency (n.) Direction or course toward any place, object, effect, or result; drift; causal or efficient influence to bring about an effect or result..

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