Definition of drift

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Drift (n.) A drove or flock, as of cattle, sheep, birds..

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Intent :: Intent (n.) The act of turning the mind toward an object; hence, a design; a purpose; intention; meaning; drift; aim..
Drift :: Drift (v. i.) To accumulate in heaps by the force of wind; to be driven into heaps; as, snow or sand drifts..
Preglacial :: Preglacial (a.) Prior to the glacial or drift period.
Drift :: Drift (n.) The distance between the two blocks of a tackle.
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..
Driftless :: Driftless (a.) Having no drift or direction; without aim; purposeless.
Drift :: Drift (v. i.) To float or be driven along by, or as by, a current of water or air; as, the ship drifted astern; a raft drifted ashore; the balloon drifts slowly east..
Heading :: Heading (n.) A gallery, drift, or adit in a mine; also, the end of a drift or gallery; the vein above a drift..
Glacialist :: Glacialist (n.) One who attributes the phenomena of the drift, in geology, to glaciers..
Drift :: Drift (n.) Anything driven at random.
Drifting :: Drifting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Drif.
Univocal :: Univocal (n.) Having always the same drift or tenor; uniform; certain; regular.
Drift :: Drift (n.) In South Africa, a ford in a river..
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..
Drift :: Drift (v. t.) To drive or carry, as currents do a floating body..
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..
Drivebolt :: Drivebolt (n.) A drift; a tool for setting bolts home.
Drift :: Drift (n.) That which is driven, forced, or urged along.
Float :: Float (n.) To move quietly or gently on the water, as a raft; to drift along; to move or glide without effort or impulse on the surface of a fluid, or through the air..
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