Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Drift (2)

Drift, v. i. [imp. & p. p.Drifted; p. pr. & vb. n.Drifting.] 1. To float or be driven along by, or as by, a current of water or air; as, the ship drifted astern; a raft drifted ...

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Drift (3)

Drift (?), v. t. 1. To drive or carry, as currents do a floating body. J. H. Newman.2. To drive into heaps; as, a current of wind drifts snow or sand.3. (Mach.) To enlarge or sh...

6078

Drift (4)

Drift, a. That causes drifting or that is drifted; movable by wind or currents; as, drift currents; drift ice; drift mud. Kane.Drift anchor. See Sea anchor, and also Drag sail, ...

6079

Drift (5)

Drift, n. 1. (Phys. Geog.) One of the slower movements of oceanic circulation; a general tendency of the water, subject to occasional or frequent diversion or reversal by the wi...

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Driftage

Drift″age (?), n. 1. Deviation from a ship's course due to leeway.2. Anything that drifts.

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Driftbolt

Drift″bolt′ (?), n. A bolt for driving out other bolts.

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Driftless

Drift″less, a. Having no drift or direction; without aim; purposeless.

6083

Driftpiece

Drift″piece″ (?), n.(Shipbuilding) An upright or curved piece of timber connecting the plank sheer with the gunwale; also, a scroll terminating a rail.

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Driftpin

Drift″pin′ (?), n.(Mech.) A smooth drift. See Drift, n., 9.

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Driftway

Drift″way′ (?), n. 1. A common way, road, or path, for driving cattle. Cowell. Burrill.2. (Mining) Same as Drift, 11.

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Driftweed

Drift″weed′ (?), n. Seaweed drifted to the shore by the wind. Darwin.

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Driftwind

Drift″wind′ (?), n. A driving wind; a wind that drives snow, sand, etc., into heaps. Beau. & Fl.

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Driftwood

Drift″wood′ (?), n. 1. Wood drifted or floated by water.2. Fig.: Whatever is drifting or floating as on water.The current of humanity, with its heavy proportion of very useless ...

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Drifty

Drift″y (?), a. Full of drifts; tending to form drifts, as snow, and the like.

6090

Drill

Drill (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p.Drilled (?); p. pr. & vb. n.Drilling.] [D. drillen to bore, drill (soldiers); probably akin to AS. pyrlian, pyrelian, to pierce. See Thrill.] 1. To...

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Drill (2)

Drill, v. i. To practice an exercise or exercises; to train one's self.

6092

Drill (3)

Drill, n. 1. An instrument with an edged or pointed end used for making holes in hard substances; strictly, a tool that cuts with its end, by revolving, as in drilling metals, o...

6093

Drill (4)

Drill, v. t. [Cf. Trill to trickle, Trickle, Dribble, and W. rhillio to put in a row, drill.] 1. To cause to flow in drills or rills or by trickling; to drain by trickling; as, ...

6094

Drill (5)

Drill, v. i. 1. To trickle. Sandys.2. To sow in drills.

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Drill (6)

Drill, n. 1. A small trickling stream; a rill.Springs through the pleasant meadows pour their drills. Sandys.2. (Agr.) (a) An implement for making holes for sowing seed, and som...

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Drill (7)

Drill (?), n. [Cf. Mandrill.] (Zoöl.) A large African baboon (Cynocephalus leucophæus).

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Drill (8)

Drill, n. [Usually in pl.] (Manuf.) Same as Drilling.Imperial drill, a linen fabric having two threads in the warp and three in the filling.

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Drill press

Drill″ press′. A machine for drilling holes in metal, the drill being pressed to the metal by the action of a screw.

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Driller

Drill″er (?), n. One who, or that which, drills.

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Drilling

Drill″ing, n. 1. The act of piercing with a drill.2. A training by repeated exercises.

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Drilling (2)

Drill″ing, n. The act of using a drill in sowing seeds.

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Drilling (3)

Drill″ing, n. [G. drillich, fr. L. trilix having three threads, fr. the of tres three + licium a thread of the warm. See Three, and cf. Twill.] (Manuf.) A heavy, twilled fabric ...