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Drifty :: Drifty (a.) Full of drifts; tending to form drifts, as snow, and the like..

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..

Drift :: Drift (a.) That causes drifting or that is drifted; movable by wind or currents; as, drift currents; drift ice; drift mud..

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.

Adit :: 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..

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

Drift :: 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..

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

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

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

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

Broach :: Broach (n.) A straight tool with file teeth, made of steel, to be pressed through irregular holes in metal that cannot be dressed by revolving tools; a drift..

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

Univocal :: Univocal (n.) Having always the same drift or tenor; uniform; certain; regular.

Driftway :: Driftway (n.) A common way, road, or path, for driving cattle..

Driftwood :: Driftwood (n.) Fig.: Whatever is drifting or floating as on water.

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..

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

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..

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

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