Definition of drift

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

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Drift :: Drift (n.) Course or direction along which anything is driven; setting.
Drove :: Drove (n.) A road for driving cattle; a driftway.
Drifty :: Drifty (a.) Full of drifts; tending to form drifts, as snow, and the like..
Driftage :: Driftage (n.) Deviation from a ship's course due to leeway.
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..
Drift :: Drift (v. t.) To drive or carry, as currents do a floating body..
Driftwood :: Driftwood (n.) Fig.: Whatever is drifting or floating as on water.
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. 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.
Derelict :: Derelict (a.) Lost; adrift; hence, wanting; careless; neglectful; unfaithful..
Driftway :: Driftway (n.) A common way, road, or path, for driving cattle..
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..
Tone :: Tone (n.) Tenor; character; spirit; drift; as, the tone of his remarks was commendatory..
Drift :: Drift (v. i.) To accumulate in heaps by the force of wind; to be driven into heaps; as, snow or sand drifts..
Jet :: "Jet (n.) Drift; scope; range, as of an argument..
Drift :: Drift (v. t.) To drive into heaps; as, a current of wind drifts snow or sand..
Driftweed :: Driftweed (n.) Seaweed drifted to the shore by the wind.
Anchorless :: Anchorless (a.) Without an anchor or stay. Hence: Drifting; unsettled.
Drift :: Drift (n.) Anything driven at random.
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