Word Meanings - DRIFTWIND - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A driving wind; a wind that drives snow, sand, etc., into heaps. Beau. & Fl.

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• DRIVEL
  To be weak or foolish; to dote; as, a driveling hero; driveling love. Shak. Dryden. (more info) 1. To slaver; to let spittle drop or flow from the mouth, like a child, idiot, or dotard. 2. Etym:
• DRIVE
  To dig Horizontally; to cut a horizontal gallery or tunnel. Tomlinson. 7. To pass away; -- said of time. Chaucer. Note: Drive, in all its senses, implies forcible or violent action. It is the reverse of to lead. To drive a body is to move it by
• DRIVER
  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: The driving wheel of a locomotive.
• DRIVEWAY
  A passage or way along or through which a carriage may be driven.
• DRIVEBOLT
  A drift; a tool for setting bolts home.
• DRIVEN
  of Drive. Also adj. Driven well, a well made by driving a tube into the earth to an aqueous stratum; -- called also drive well.
• DRIVING
  1. Having great force of impulse; as, a driving wind or storm. 2. Communicating force; impelling; as, a driving shaft. Driving axle, the axle of a driving wheel, as in a locomotive. -- Driving box , the journal box of a driving axle. See Illust.
• DRIVEPIPE
  A pipe for forcing into the earth.
• FORDRIVE
  To drive about; to drive here and there. Rom. of R.
• FULL-DRIVE
  With full speed.
• HOME-DRIVEN
  Driven to the end, as a nail; driven close.
• CONTINENTAL DRIVE
  A transmission arrangement in which the longitudinal crank shaft drives the rear wheels through a clutch, change-speed gear, countershaft, and two parallel side chains, in order.
• SCREW-DRIVER
  A tool for turning screws so as to drive them into their place. It has a thin end which enters the nick in the head of the screw.
• QUADRIVALVULAR
  Having four valves; quadrivalve.
• QUADRIVIAL
  Having four ways meeting in a point. B. Jonson.
• MOTOR-DRIVEN
  Driven or actuated by a motor, esp. by an individual electric motor. An electric motor forms an integral part of many machine tools in numerous modern machine shops.
• QUADRIVALENCE
  The quality or state of being quadrivalent; tetravalence.
• OVERDRIVE
  To drive too hard, or far, or beyond strength.
• QUADRIVALENT
  Having a valence of four; capable of combining with, being replaced by, or compared with, four monad atoms; tetravalent; -- said of certain atoms and radicals; thus, carbon and silicon are quadrivalent elements.
• WEATHER-DRIVEN
  Driven by winds or storms; forced by stress of weather. Carew.