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Definition of drift

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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..

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Drift :: 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.

Tide :: Tide (n.) To work into or out of a river or harbor by drifting with the tide and anchoring when it becomes adverse.

Drift :: Drift (n.) That which is driven, forced, or urged along.

Driftway :: Driftway (n.) Same as Drift, 11..

Derelict :: Derelict (a.) Lost; adrift; hence, wanting; careless; neglectful; unfaithful..

Driftpin :: Driftpin (n.) A smooth drift. See Drift, n., 9..

Eschar :: 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..

Tunnel :: Tunnel (n. .) A level passage driven across the measures, or at right angles to veins which it is desired to reach; -- distinguished from the drift, or gangway, which is led along the vein when reached by the tunnel..

Tone :: Tone (n.) Tenor; character; spirit; drift; as, the tone of his remarks was commendatory..

Snowdrift :: Snowdrift (n.) A bank of drifted snow.

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..

Drift :: Drift (v. t.) To enlarge or shape, as a hole, with a drift..

Gurt :: Gurt (n.) A gutter or channel for water, hewn out of the bottom of a working drift..

Drift :: Drift (n.) Anything driven at random.

Drift :: Drift (n.) A driving; a violent movement.

Drifting :: Drifting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Drif.

Drift :: Drift (n.) A passage driven or cut between shaft and shaft; a driftway; a small subterranean gallery; an adit or tunnel.

Sand :: Sand (v. t.) To bury (oysters) beneath drifting sand or mud.

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

Wall :: Wall (n.) The side of a level or drift.