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Drift :: Drift (n.) The act or motion of drifting; the force which impels or drives; an overpowering influence or impulse.

Unthrifty :: Unthrifty (a.) Not thrifty; profuse.

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..

Plumbagineous :: Plumbagineous (a.) Pertaining to natural order (Plumbagineae) of gamopetalous herbs, of which Plumbago is the type. The order includes also the marsh rosemary, the thrift, and a few other genera..

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

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

Preglacial :: Preglacial (a.) Prior to the glacial or drift period.

Shiftless :: Shiftless (a.) Destitute of expedients, or not using successful expedients; characterized by failure, especially by failure to provide for one's own support, through negligence or incapacity; hence, lazy; improvident; thriftless; as, a shiftless fellow; shiftless management..

Thrifty :: Thrifty (superl.) Secured by thrift; well husbanded.

Thrifty :: Thrifty (superl.) Thriving by industry and frugality; prosperous in the acquisition of worldly goods; increasing in wealth; as, a thrifty farmer or mechanic..

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

Drivebolt :: Drivebolt (n.) A drift; a tool for setting bolts home.

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..

Driving :: Driving (n.) Tendency; drift.

Rive :: Rive (n.) A place torn; a rent; a rift.

Snowdrift :: Snowdrift (n.) A bank of drifted snow.

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

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

Rift :: Rift (v. t.) To cleave; to rive; to split; as, to rift an oak or a rock; to rift the clouds..

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

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