drift wind

A driving wind; a wind which drifts things into heaps. IMG:content-0530.png:[blocks in formation] (2) To float or be carried along by a current of water. "She drifted a dreary wreck." Long fellow : Wreck of the Hesperus. 2. Fig .: To be carried along by circumstances; undecided or unsettled in opinion. II. Mining: To make a drift; to drive a headway. B. Transitive: I. Literally: 1. To drive, carry, or urge along. "Snow, no larger than so many grains of sand, drifted with the wind in clouds from every plain."- Ellis : Voy. 2. To drive into heaps; to accumulate in drifts. "He wanders on From hill to dale, still more and more astray, Impatient flouncing through the drifted heaps." Thomson: Winter , 283-85. II. Fig .: Τo delay, to put off; to drive off. "I see here, that the Lord, suppose hee drifted and delayed the effect of his prayer, & graunteth not his desire at the first, yit he heareth him."- Bruce : Eleven Sermons, v. 7.