Definition of drift

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Drift (n.) Course or direction along which anything is driven; setting.

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Tone :: Tone (n.) Tenor; character; spirit; drift; as, the tone of his remarks was commendatory..
Jet :: "Jet (n.) Drift; scope; range, as of an argument..
Drift :: Drift (v. i.) to make a drift; to examine a vein or ledge for the purpose of ascertaining the presence of metals or ores; to follow a vein; to prospect.
Driftweed :: Driftweed (n.) Seaweed drifted to the shore by the wind.
Gurt :: Gurt (n.) A gutter or channel for water, hewn out of the bottom of a working drift..
Drift :: Drift (n.) A slightly tapered tool of steel for enlarging or shaping a hole in metal, by being forced or driven into or through it; a broach..
Drift :: Drift (n.) The distance to which a vessel is carried off from her desired course by the wind, currents, or other causes..
Drift :: Drift (n.) A mass of matter which has been driven or forced onward together in a body, or thrown together in a heap, etc., esp. by wind or water; as, a drift of snow, of ice, of sand, and the like..
Turn :: Turn (n.) A pit sunk in some part of a drift.
Driftwood :: Driftwood (n.) Fig.: Whatever is drifting or floating as on water.
Drift :: Drift (n.) A deviation from the line of fire, peculiar to oblong projectiles..
Tide :: Tide (n.) To work into or out of a river or harbor by drifting with the tide and anchoring when it becomes adverse.
Anchorless :: Anchorless (a.) Without an anchor or stay. Hence: Drifting; unsettled.
Club :: Club (v. i.) To drift in a current with an anchor out.
Drifting :: Drifting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Drif.
Drift :: Drift (n.) In South Africa, a ford in a river..
Glacialist :: Glacialist (n.) One who attributes the phenomena of the drift, in geology, to glaciers..
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..
Driftwind :: Driftwind (n.) A driving wind; a wind that drives snow, sand, etc., into heaps..
Drift :: Drift (n.) The angle which the line of a ship's motion makes with the meridian, in drifting..
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