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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..

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

Drift :: Drift (v. i.) To accumulate in heaps by the force of wind; to be driven into heaps; as, snow or sand drifts..

Driftwind :: Driftwind (n.) A driving wind; a wind that drives snow, sand, etc., into heaps..

Drift :: Drift (n.) The distance to which a vessel is carried off from her desired course by the wind, currents, or other causes..

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

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

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

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..

Adrift :: Adrift (adv. & a.) Floating at random; in a drifting condition; at the mercy of wind and waves. Also fig.

Driftweed :: Driftweed (n.) Seaweed drifted to the shore by the wind.

Intent :: Intent (n.) The act of turning the mind toward an object; hence, a design; a purpose; intention; meaning; drift; aim..

Driftless :: Driftless (a.) Having no drift or direction; without aim; purposeless.

Afloat :: Afloat (adv. & a.) Unfixed; moving without guide or control; adrift; as, our affairs are all afloat..

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

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

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..

Drumlin :: 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..

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..

Level :: Level (n.) A horizontal passage, drift, or adit, in a mine..

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