| Drive |
v. t. |
To impel or urge onward by force in a direction away from one, or along before one; to push forward; to compel to move on; to communicate motion to; as, to drive cattle; to drive a nail; smoke drives persons from a room. |
| Drive |
v. t. |
To urge on and direct the motions of, as the beasts which draw a vehicle, or the vehicle borne by them; hence, also, to take in a carriage; to convey in a vehicle drawn by beasts; as, to drive a pair of horses or a stage; to drive a person to his own door. |
| Drive |
v. t. |
To urge, impel, or hurry forward; to force; to constrain; to urge, press, or bring to a point or state; as, to drive a person by necessity, by persuasion, by force of circumstances, by argument, and the like. |
| Drive |
v. t. |
To carry or; to keep in motion; to conduct; to prosecute. |
| Drive |
v. t. |
To clear, by forcing away what is contained. |
| Drive |
v. t. |
To dig Horizontally; to cut a horizontal gallery or tunnel. |
| Drive |
v. t. |
To pass away;
said of time. |
| Drive |
v. i. |
To rush and press with violence; to move furiously. |
| Drive |
v. i. |
To be forced along; to be impelled; to be moved by any physical force or agent; to be driven. |
| Drive |
v. i. |
To go by carriage; to pass in a carriage; to proceed by directing or urging on a vehicle or the animals that draw it; as, the coachman drove to my door. |
| Drive |
v. i. |
To press forward; to aim, or tend, to a point; to make an effort; to strive;
usually with at. |
| Drive |
v. i. |
To distrain for rent. |
| Drive |
p. p. |
Driven. |
| Drive |
n. |
The act of driving; a trip or an excursion in a carriage, as for exercise or pleasure;
distinguished from a ride taken on horseback. |
| Drive |
n. |
A place suitable or agreeable for driving; a road prepared for driving. |
| Drive |
n. |
Violent or rapid motion; a rushing onward or away; esp., a forced or hurried dispatch of business. |
| Drive |
n. |
In type founding and forging, an impression or matrix, formed by a punch drift. |
| Drive |
n. |
A collection of objects that are driven; a mass of logs to be floated down a river. |
| Drive |
v. i. |
To make a drive, or stroke from the tee. |
| Drive |
v. t. |
Specif., in various games, as tennis, baseball, etc., to propel (the ball) swiftly by a direct stroke or forcible throw. |
| Drive |
n. |
In various games, as tennis, cricket, etc., the act of player who drives the ball; the stroke or blow; the flight of the ball, etc., so driven. |
| Drive |
n. |
A stroke from the tee, generally a full shot made with a driver; also, the distance covered by such a stroke. |
| Drive |
n. |
An implement used for driving; |
| Drive |
n. |
A mallet. |
| Drive |
n. |
A tamping iron. |
| Drive |
n. |
A cooper's hammer for driving on barrel hoops. |
| Drive |
n. |
A wooden-headed golf club with a long shaft, for playing the longest strokes. |
| Drivebolt |
n. |
A drift; a tool for setting bolts home. |
| Drivel |
v. i. |
To slaver; to let spittle drop or flow from the mouth, like a child, idiot, or dotard. |
| Drivel |
v. i. |
To be weak or foolish; to dote; as, a driveling hero; driveling love. |
| Drivel |
n. |
Slaver; saliva flowing from the mouth. |
| Drivel |
n. |
Inarticulate or unmeaning utterance; foolish talk; babble. |
| Drivel |
n. |
A driveler; a fool; an idiot. |
| Drivel |
n. |
A servant; a drudge. |
| Driveled |
imp. & p. p. |
of Drivel |
| Driveler |
n. |
A slaverer; a slabberer; an idiot; a fool. |
| Driveling |
p. pr. & vb. n. |
of Drivel |
| Drivelled |
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of Drivel |
| Drivelling |
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of Drivel |
| Driven |
p. p. |
of Drive |
| Driven |
p. p. |
of Drive. Also adj. |
| Drivepipe |
n. |
A pipe for forcing into the earth. |
| Driver |
n. |
One who, or that which, drives; the person or thing that urges or compels anything else to move onward. |
| Driver |
n. |
The person who drives beasts or a carriage; a coachman; a charioteer, etc.; hence, also, one who controls the movements of a locomotive. |
| Driver |
n. |
An overseer of a gang of slaves or gang of convicts at their work. |
| Driver |
n. |
A part that transmits motion to another part by contact with it, or through an intermediate relatively movable part, as a gear which drives another, or a lever which moves another through a link, etc. Specifically: |
| Driver |
n. |
The driving wheel of a locomotive. |
| Driver |
n. |
An attachment to a lathe, spindle, or face plate to turn a carrier. |
| Driver |
n. |
A crossbar on a grinding mill spindle to drive the upper stone. |
| Driver |
n. |
The after sail in a ship or bark, being a fore-and-aft sail attached to a gaff; a spanker. |
| Driveway |
n. |
A passage or way along or through which a carriage may be driven. |
