Definition of drift

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Drift (v. t.) To drive or carry, as currents do a floating body..

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Drive :: Drive (n.) In type founding and forging, an impression or matrix, formed by a punch drift..
Tone :: Tone (n.) Tenor; character; spirit; drift; as, the tone of his remarks was commendatory..
Driftwood :: Driftwood (n.) Wood drifted or floated by water.
Drift :: Drift (n.) The distance between the two blocks of a tackle.
Driftwood :: Driftwood (n.) Fig.: Whatever is drifting or floating as on water.
Drift :: Drift (n.) The distance to which a vessel is carried off from her desired course by the wind, currents, or other causes..
Driftway :: Driftway (n.) Same as Drift, 11..
Anchorless :: Anchorless (a.) Without an anchor or stay. Hence: Drifting; unsettled.
Drift :: Drift (n.) In South Africa, a ford in a river..
Drift :: 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..
Crab :: Crab (v. i.) To drift sidewise or to leeward, as a vessel..
Drift :: Drift (n.) The distance through which a current flows in a given time.
Driftway :: Driftway (n.) A common way, road, or path, for driving cattle..
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..
Heading :: Heading (n.) A gallery, drift, or adit in a mine; also, the end of a drift or gallery; the vein above a drift..
Run :: 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..
Score :: 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..
Drove :: Drove (n.) A road for driving cattle; a driftway.
Drifty :: Drifty (a.) Full of drifts; tending to form drifts, as snow, and the like..
Tenor :: Tenor (n.) That course of thought which holds on through a discourse; the general drift or course of thought; purport; intent; meaning; understanding.
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