Definition of drift

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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.

Lern More About Drift

Drift :: Drift (n.) A passage driven or cut between shaft and shaft; a driftway; a small subterranean gallery; an adit or tunnel.
Univocal :: Univocal (n.) Having always the same drift or tenor; uniform; certain; regular.
Drift :: Drift (n.) Course or direction along which anything is driven; setting.
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..
Club :: Club (v. i.) To drift in a current with an anchor out.
Sand :: Sand (v. t.) To bury (oysters) beneath drifting sand or mud.
Wall :: Wall (n.) The side of a level or drift.
Driftway :: Driftway (n.) A common way, road, or path, for driving cattle..
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..
Afloat :: Afloat (adv. & a.) Unfixed; moving without guide or control; adrift; as, our affairs are all afloat..
Drifted :: Drifted (imp. & p. p.) of Drif.
Derelict :: Derelict (a.) Lost; adrift; hence, wanting; careless; neglectful; unfaithful..
Drift :: Drift (n.) The distance between the two blocks of a tackle.
Drift :: Drift (v. t.) To drive into heaps; as, a current of wind drifts snow or sand..
Driftwood :: Driftwood (n.) Wood drifted or floated by water.
Preglacial :: Preglacial (a.) Prior to the glacial or drift period.
Drift :: Drift (n.) A collection of loose earth and rocks, or boulders, which have been distributed over large portions of the earth's surface, especially in latitudes north of forty degrees, by the agency of ice..
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..
Gurt :: Gurt (n.) A gutter or channel for water, hewn out of the bottom of a working drift..
Tenor :: Tenor (n.) That course of thought which holds on through a discourse; the general drift or course of thought; purport; intent; meaning; understanding.
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