Definition of drift

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Drift (n.) A driving; a violent movement.

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Driftage :: Driftage (n.) Anything that drifts.
Drift :: Drift (n.) The angle which the line of a ship's motion makes with the meridian, in drifting..
Drift :: Drift (n.) The horizontal thrust or pressure of an arch or vault upon the abutments.
Drift :: Drift (n.) A driving; a violent movement.
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..
Driftless :: Driftless (a.) Having no drift or direction; without aim; purposeless.
Drift :: Drift (n.) The act or motion of drifting; the force which impels or drives; an overpowering influence or impulse.
Driftpin :: Driftpin (n.) A smooth drift. See Drift, n., 9..
Drift :: Drift (v. t.) To drive into heaps; as, a current of wind drifts snow or sand..
Scope :: Scope (n.) That at which one aims; the thing or end to which the mind directs its view; that which is purposed to be reached or accomplished; hence, ultimate design, aim, or purpose; intention; drift; object..
Snowdrift :: Snowdrift (n.) A bank of drifted snow.
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..
Gallery :: Gallery (a.) A working drift or level.
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..
Drifty :: Drifty (a.) Full of drifts; tending to form drifts, as snow, and the like..
Sand :: Sand (v. t.) To bury (oysters) beneath drifting sand or mud.
Dune :: Dune (n.) A low hill of drifting sand usually formed on the coats, but often carried far inland by the prevailing winds..
Drift :: Drift (n.) A tool used in driving down compactly the composition contained in a rocket, or like firework..
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..
Driftwood :: Driftwood (n.) Fig.: Whatever is drifting or floating as on water.
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