Vocabulary : Drift to Driftweed

Drift : A driving; a violent movement. ;; The act or motion of drifting; the force which impels or drives; an overpowering influence or impulse. ;; Course or direction along which anything is driven; setting. ;; The tendency of an act, argument, course of conduct, or the like; object aimed at or intended; intention; hence, also, import or meaning of a sentence or discourse; aim. ;; That which is driven, forced, or urged along ;; Anything driven at random. ;; 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. ;; A drove or flock, as of cattle, sheep, birds. ;; The horizontal thrust or pressure of an arch or vault upon the abutments. ;; 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. ;; In South Africa, a ford in a river. ;; A slightly tapere
Driftage : Deviation from a ship's course due to leeway. ;; Anything that drifts.
Driftbolt : A bolt for driving out other bolts.
Drifted : of Drift
Drifting : of Drift
Driftless : Having no drift or direction; without aim; purposeless.
Driftpiece : An upright or curved piece of timber connecting the plank sheer with the gunwale; also, a scroll terminating a rail.
Driftpin : A smooth drift. See Drift, n., 9.
Driftway : A common way, road, or path, for driving cattle. ;; Same as Drift, 11.
Driftweed : Seaweed drifted to the shore by the wind.
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