drive (driv)

[ semblage of animals, of a collection of logs in a stream, etc.: as, a drive of cattle on the plains for the purpose of branding or sorting them; a drive of game for the convenience of sportsmen. Sometimes an animal-usually a cow or steer, but, strangely enough, very rarely a bull-will get fighting mad, and turn on the men. If on the drive , such a beast usually is simply dropped out. T. Roosevelt, The Century, XXXV. 861. (b) A strong or sweeping blow or impulsion. (c) In type founding, the deep impre of the steel punch or model letter in a bar of copper. Also known as a strike or un justified matrix. It is usually made by a quick and strong blow in cold-rolled copper. The drive, when fitted to the mold, is called a justified matrix. When the letter is perfect, it is driven into a piece of polished copper, called the drive or strike. This pa es to the justifier, who makes the width and depth of the faces uniform throughout the fount. Encyc . Brit ., XXIII. 699. ( d ) In base - ball , also in lawn - tennis , etc., the knocking or throwing of a ball very swiftly. (e) Conveyance in a vehicle; an excursion or airing in a carriage: as, to take a drive. 2. That which is driven; cattle, game, etc., driven together or alone. In each of these tributaries [of St. Croix river] lay last spring what is termed a heavy drive of logs. Sci . Amer ., N. S., LV. 101. 3. The state of being driven or hurried; extreme haste or pre ure: as, a drive of busine . [Colloq.] Many collieries are now turning out 1500 tons a day, requiring one ince ant drive . The Engineer , LXV. 248. 4. A course upon which carriages are driven; a road prepared for driving: as, the drives in a park.-5. The course or country over which game is driven.-6. The selling of a particular kind of goods, as gloves, below the usual price, in order to draw customers. [Trade cant.] 7. A jest or satirical remark directed at a person or thing. [Colloq., U. S.] thir IMG:content-3170.png:[blocks in formation] driver-boom (driver-böm), n. Naut., an old term for spanker - boom . spanker - boom . driveway (driv'wa), a drive; specifically, a private road, as from a house to the street entrance. drive-wheel (driv'hwēl), n. Same as driving- But when he spied her his saint, He wipte his greasie shoes, And clear'd the driuell from his beard, And thus the shepheard wooes. Hali Meidenhed (ed. Cockayne), p. 29. Spenser, F. Q., IV. ii. 3. Am phial us having persuaded Clinias to write a bold an- swer to Dametas, calling him a "filthy drivel ," Dametas, who was as great a coward as Clinias, would have drawn back. Sir P. Sidney , Arcadia, iii. driveler, driveller (driv'l-ėr), n. One who driv- els; an idiot; a fool. From Marl borough's eyes the streams of dotage flow, And Swift expires a driv'ler and a show. Due mirth he loved, yet was his sway severe; No blear-eyed driveller got his stagger here. managed by any noise or cry which their drivers shall ac- custom them to. South , Works, II. ix. driving-axle (driving-ak"sl), n. See axle . driving-band (driving-band), n. The band or strap which communicates motion from one machine to another, or from one part of the same machine to another. driving-bolt (driving-bolt), n. A tool used by wheelwrights for driving in nave-boxes. driving-box (driving-boks), n. 1. The journal- box of a driving-axle.-2. The driver's seat on a coach. driving-cap (drī'ving-kap), n. A cap of iron, fitted to the top of a pipe, as in an oil-well, to receive the blow when driven and thus to pro- tect the pipe. driving-chisel (driving-chiz"el), n. See chisel2. driving-gear (drī'ving-ger), n . See gear . driving-notest (driving-nots), n. pl . In mu- sic, syncopated notes-that is, notes driven through an accent without repetition. See syn- copation. driving-shaft (driving-shaft), n. In mach ., a shaft from the driving-wheel communicating motion to machinery. driving-spring (driving-spring), n. In rail ., the spring fixed upon the box of the driving- axle of a locomotive engine, to support the weight and to deaden shocks. driving-wheel (driving-hwel), n. 1. In mach ., a main wheel that communicates motion to an- other or to others.-2. In rail . , one of the large wheels (commonly four, though occasionally as many as ten, in number) in a locomotive en- gine which are fixed upon the crank-axles or main shafts. drixy (drik'si), a. var. of druxy , q. v.] timber. [Formerly also dricksie ; 1t. Decayed, as a tree or childe to a greene twigge which ye may easilie bende euery way ye list; or an old man who labour eth with con- tinuall infirmities, to a drie and dricksie oke. drock (drok), v. t. [E. dial., drock , n.] To drain with underground underground stone gutters. Halli- well . [Prov. Eng.] droflandt, n. [An old law term, drof , drove , drove, + land ; also called drift - land and drifland ( dryfland ): see drift - land .] Same as drift-land. droger, drogher (drō'ger), n . [Prob. of West Indian origin.] 1. A small West Indian coast- ing craft, having long light masts and lateen sails.-2. Any slow, clumsy coasting craft. Drudge in the world, and for their living droyle . Spenser, Mother Hub. Tale, 1. 157. The soul forgot her heavenly flight, and left the dull and droyling carcas to plod on in the old rode and drudg- ing Trade of outward conformity. Milton , Reformation in Eng., i. Putten ham , Arte of Eng. Poesie (ed. Arber), p. 251. 2. Dwarfish; stunted. [Scotch.] drizzlel (driz'l), v .; pret. and pp. drizzled , ppr. drizzling . [Early mod. E. drizle , drisel ; prob. 2. A drudge. dreselen , an unrecorded freq. of dresen (pp. ydroren ; rare), fall, dreósan (pret. dreás , pl. druron , pp. droren ), fall (as rain, snow, dew, fruit, the slain, etc.), = OS. driosan = Norw. drjosa = Goth. driusan , fall: an orig. Teut. verb, found otherwise only in the causa- tive, OHG. troran, MHG. troren , cause to drop, let fall in drops, pour, shed, throw away (= Icel. dreyra , intr. ooze, bleed), and in other sec- ondary forms: AS. drūsian , sink, become slug- gish (see drowse ); E. dial. drose , droze , freq. drosle , drip or gutter, as a candle; LG. drusen , also drusken , fall with a noise, make a noise, 2. In finance , duty; custom. = MD. druyschen , make a noise; LG. dröschen , dreschen = G. dial. dräuschen, dreuschen , for- merly dreu en, rain heavily, shower; Norw. a noise, tr. scatter, spread, or drop in small particles, tr. sprinkle; and in the derivatives dro and dreary , and their kin- dred: see dro and dreary.] I. in trans. To fall, as water from the clouds, in very fine par- ticles; rain in small drops: as, it drizzles ; driz- zling drops; drizzling rain. Drizzling tears did shed for pure affection. Spenser . Sometimes, though but seldom, when these Winds blow the Sky is over-cast with small Clouds, which afford some drizling small Rain. Dampier , Voyages, II. iii. 45. A silver car, air-borne, Whose silent wheels, fresh wet from clouds of morn, Spun off a drizzling dew. Keats , Endymion, ii. II. trans . To shed in small drops or particles. The earth doth drizzle dew. Shak., R. and J., iii. 5. drizzlel (driz'l), n. rain; mizzle; mist. drizzle2 (driz'l), n. zling; consisting of or characterized by drizzle. Winter's drizzly reign. Dryden , tr. of Virgil's Georgics. But the shapes of air have begun their work, And a drizzly mist is around him cast. J. R. Drake , Culprit Fay, p. 47. drock (drok), n . [E. dial.] A watercourse. Hal- liwell . [Prov. 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