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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.
v. t.
To drive into heaps; as, a current of wind drifts snow or sand.
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.
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.
imp. & p. p.
of Drift
n.
Anything that drifts.
a.
Having no drift or direction; without aim; purposeless.
n.
A passage driven or cut between shaft and shaft; a driftway; a small subterranean gallery; an adit or tunnel.
a.
That causes drifting or that is drifted; movable by wind or currents; as, drift currents; drift ice; drift mud.
n.
A smooth drift. See Drift, n., 9.
n.
Wood drifted or floated by water.
n.
Same as Drift, 11.
a.
Full of drifts; tending to form drifts, as snow, and the like.
n.
Fig.: Whatever is drifting or floating as on water.
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of Drift
v. i.
To accumulate in heaps by the force of wind; to be driven into heaps; as, snow or sand drifts.
n.
The angle which the line of a ship's motion makes with the meridian, in drifting.
n.
The place in a deep-waisted vessel where the sheer is raised and the rail is cut off, and usually terminated with a scroll, or driftpiece.
v. t.
To enlarge or shape, as a hole, with a drift.
n.
Seaweed drifted to the shore by the wind.
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