Drive

driv, v. t. [imp. drove (drov); p. p. driven (driv'n); driving.] To push forward, compel move on: to chase, hunt; to urge on and guide, beasts drawing a vehicle: to take in a carriage. (Mfc ing.) To dig horizontally. To urge, impel, hurry for i. To ward, rush force, and constrain; pre with "to carry violence; on, to prosecute. be impelled; — to proceed by urging on a vehicle or the animals drawing it; to aim or tend to a point.— n. An cursi on in a carriage, — disting. tr. a ride, which taken on horseback; a road for driving; a direct blow given to a cricket ball. — Driv'er, n. One who or that which, etc.; esp. one who drives horses, runs a locomotive, oversees slaves, etc. (Mach.) That which communicates motion to something else. (Xan.t.) The after-sail in a ship, etc.; spanker: Sail. — Drift, n. That which is driven; a ma matter iorced into its present position; a drove flock, as of cuttle, birds, etc.: act or motion of drifting, iorce which impels; course along which anything^ is driven; tendency of an act, argument, etc.; object aimed at; import of words. {Arch.) The horizontal force which an arch exerts. (Geol.) A collection of earth and rocks distributed ovir portions of the..arth's surface. (Mech.) A conical hand tool for shaping a hole in metal. (Mil.) A tool driving down the composition in a firework. (Mining.) A pa age under ground. (Ncrnt.) Direction of a current; distance to which a ve el is drawn from her desired course: a piece in the sheer-draught, where the rail is cut off. — v. i. To be driven along by a current of water; to be driven into heaps. (Mining.) To follow a vein, prospect. — r. t. To drive into heaps. — Drove, drov, n. A collection of cr-.ttle, etc., for driving or in motion: a moving crowd people. (Agr.) A drain or channel for irrigating land. — Drov'er, n. A driver of sheep, cattle, etc.