Dictionary entry

Adrift

Webster's Dictionary 1913

A‐drift″ (�), adv. & a. [Pref. a- (for on) + drift.] Floating at random; in a drifting condition; at the mercy of wind and waves. Also fig.

So on the sea shall be set adrift.

Dryden.

Were from their daily labor turned adrift.

Wordsworth.