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Drift :: Drift (n.) A passage driven or cut between shaft and shaft; a driftway; a small subterranean gallery; an adit or tunnel.

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..

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..

Jet :: "Jet (n.) Drift; scope; range, as of an argument..

Crab :: Crab (v. i.) To drift sidewise or to leeward, as a vessel..

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

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

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

Drifted :: Drifted (imp. & p. p.) of Drif.

Boulder :: Boulder (n.) A mass of any rock, whether rounded or not, that has been transported by natural agencies from its native bed. See Drift..

Spooney :: Spoondrift (n.) Spray blown from the tops waves during a gale at sea; also, snow driven in the wind at sea; -- written also spindrift..

Tendency :: Tendency (n.) Direction or course toward any place, object, effect, or result; drift; causal or efficient influence to bring about an effect or result..

Strang :: Strand (v. i.) To drift, or be driven, on shore to run aground; as, the ship stranded at high water..

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

Tide :: Tide (n.) To work into or out of a river or harbor by drifting with the tide and anchoring when it becomes adverse.

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..

Drifting :: Drifting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Drif.

Driftbolt :: Driftbolt (n.) A bolt for driving out other bolts.

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..

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..

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