Word Meanings - DRIFTWEED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Seaweed drifted to the shore by the wind. Darwin.

Related words: (words related to DRIFTWEED)

• SHORER
  One who, or that which, shores or props; a prop; a shore.
• DRIFTBOLT
  A bolt for driving out other bolts.
• SHOREWARD
  Toward the shore.
• 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.
• DRIFTLESS
  Having no drift or direction; without aim; purposeless.
• DRIFTAGE
  1. Deviation from a ship's course due to leeway. 2. Anything that drifts.
• DRIFTWEED
  Seaweed drifted to the shore by the wind. Darwin.
• DARWINIAN
  Pertaining to Darwin; as, the Darwinian theory, a theory of the manner and cause of the supposed development of living things from certain original forms or elements. Note: This theory was put forth by Darwin in 1859 in a work entitled "The Origin
• SEAWEED
  Any marine plant of the class Algæ, as kelp, dulse, Fucus, Ulva, etc. (more info) 1. Popularly, any plant or plants growing in the sea.
• DARWINIANISM
  Darwinism.
• DRIFT
  The horizontal thrust or pressure of an arch or vault upon the abutments. Knight. (more info) drift snowdrift, Dan. drift, impulse, drove, herd, pasture, common, 1. A driving; a violent movement. The dragon drew him away with drift
• DRIFTY
  Full of drifts; tending to form drifts, as snow, and the like.
• DRIFTWAY
  See 11 (more info) 1. A common way, road, or path, for driving cattle. Cowell. Burrill.
• SHORELESS
  Having no shore or coast; of indefinite or unlimited extent; as, a shoreless ocean. Young.
• SHORE
  imp. of Shear. Chaucer.
• SHORELING
  See SHORLING
• DRIFTWIND
  A driving wind; a wind that drives snow, sand, etc., into heaps. Beau. & Fl.
• DRIFTWOOD
  1. Wood drifted or floated by water. 2. Fig.: Whatever is drifting or floating as on water. The current of humanity, with its heavy proportion of very useless driftwood. New Your Times.
• DARWINISM
  The theory or doctrines put forth by Darwin. See above. Huxley.
• SEASHORE
  All the ground between the ordinary highwater and low-water marks. (more info) 1. The coast of the sea; the land that lies adjacent to the sea or ocean.
• LONGSHORE
  Belonging to the seashore or a seaport; along and on the shore. "Longshore thieves." R. Browning.
• SPINDRIFT
  See MARR
• SNOWDRIFT
  A bank of drifted snow.
• LONGSHOREMAN
  One of a class of laborers employed about the wharves of a seaport, especially in loading and unloading vessels.
• ADRIFT
  Floating at random; in a drifting condition; at the mercy of wind and waves. Also fig. So on the sea shall be set adrift. Dryden. Were from their daily labor turned adrift. Wordsworth.
• NEO-DARWINISM
  The theory which holds natural selection, as explained by Darwin, to be the chief factor in the evolution of plants and animals, and denies the inheritance of acquired characters; -- esp. opposed to Neo-Lamarckism. Weismannism is an example