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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..

Heading :: Heading (n.) A gallery, drift, or adit in a mine; also, the end of a drift or gallery; the vein above a drift..

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

Drove :: Drove (n.) A road for driving cattle; a driftway.

Derelict :: Derelict (a.) Lost; adrift; hence, wanting; careless; neglectful; unfaithful..

Level :: Level (n.) A horizontal passage, drift, or adit, in a mine..

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..

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.

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

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

Drivebolt :: Drivebolt (n.) A drift; a tool for setting bolts home.

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..

Drift :: Drift (n.) The difference between the size of a bolt and the hole into which it is driven, or between the circumference of a hoop and that of the mast on which it is to be driven..

Driftage :: Driftage (n.) Deviation from a ship's course due to leeway.

Drift :: Drift (n.) The distance between the two blocks of a tackle.

Anchorless :: Anchorless (a.) Without an anchor or stay. Hence: Drifting; unsettled.

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

Eschar :: Eschar (n.) In Ireland, one of the continuous mounds or ridges of gravelly and sandy drift which extend for many miles over the surface of the country. Similar ridges in Scotland are called kames or kams..

Leeway :: Leeway (n.) The lateral movement of a ship to the leeward of her course; drift.

Glacialist :: Glacialist (n.) One who attributes the phenomena of the drift, in geology, to glaciers..

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