Definition of drift

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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..

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Turn :: Turn (n.) A pit sunk in some part of a drift.
Drift :: Drift (n.) A tool used in driving down compactly the composition contained in a rocket, or like firework..
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 (v. t.) To enlarge or shape, as a hole, with a drift..
Driftless :: Driftless (a.) Having no drift or direction; without aim; purposeless.
Glacialist :: Glacialist (n.) One who attributes the phenomena of the drift, in geology, to glaciers..
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..
Drift :: Drift (v. t.) To drive or carry, as currents do a floating body..
Driving :: Driving (n.) Tendency; 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..
Drifty :: Drifty (a.) Full of drifts; tending to form drifts, as snow, and the like..
Level :: Level (n.) A horizontal passage, drift, or adit, in a mine..
Score :: Score (n.) To mark with parallel lines or scratches; as, the rocks of New England and the Western States were scored in the drift epoch..
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..
Drift :: Drift (n.) The distance through which a current flows in a given time.
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..
Drift :: Drift (n.) A passage driven or cut between shaft and shaft; a driftway; a small subterranean gallery; an adit or tunnel.
Gallery :: Gallery (a.) A working drift or level.
Crab :: Crab (v. i.) To drift sidewise or to leeward, as a vessel..
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