Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter D - Page 98
Drib (v. t. & i.) (Archery) To shoot (a shaft) so as to pierce on the descent. [Obs.] -- Sir P. Sidney.
Drib (n.) A drop. [Obs.] -- Swift.
Drib (n.) A small portion or small amount of anything; -- used mostly in the phrase dribs and drabs.
Drib (n.) A small indefinite quantity (especially of a liquid); "he had a drop too much to drink"; "a drop of each sample was analyzed"; "there is not a drop of pity in that man"; "years afterward, they would pay the blood-money, driblet by driblet"--Kipling [syn: drop, drib, driblet].
Dribber (n.) One who dribs; one who shoots weakly or badly. [Obs.] -- Ascham.
Dribbled (imp. & p. p.) of Dribble.
Dribbing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dribble.
Dribble (v. i.) To fall in drops or small drops, or in a quick succession of drops; as, water dribbles from the eaves.
Dribble (v. i.) To slaver, as a child or an idiot; to drivel.
Dribble (v. i.) To fall weakly and slowly.
Dribble (v. t.) To let fall in drops.
Dribble (n.) A drizzling shower; a falling or leaking in drops.
Dribbler (n.) One who dribbles.
Dribblet (n.) Alt. of Driblet.
Driblet (n.) 一滴；少量 A small piece or part; a small sum; a small quantity of money in making up a sum; as, the money was paid in dribblets.
When made up in dribblets, as they could, their best securities were at an interest of twelve per cent. -- Burke.
Driblet (n.) A small indefinite quantity (especially of a liquid); "he had a drop too much to drink"; "a drop of each sample was analyzed"; "there is not a drop of pity in that man"; "years afterward, they would pay the blood-money, driblet by driblet"--Kipling [syn: {drop}, {drib}, {driblet}].
Drie (v. t.) To endure.
Dried (imp. & p. p.) of Day. Also adj.; as, dried apples.
Drier (n.) One who, or that which, dries; that which may expel or absorb moisture; a desiccative; as, the sun and a northwesterly wind are great driers of the earth.
Drier (n.) (Paint.) Drying oil; a substance mingled with the oil used in oil painting to make it dry quickly.
Drier (a.) Alt. of {Driest}
Driest (a.) of {Dry}, a.
Drift (n.) 漂流；漂移 [C] [U]；漂流物；堆積物 [C] A driving; a violent movement.
The dragon drew him [self] away with drift of his wings. -- King Alisaunder (1332).
Drift (n.) [U] 漂流；[C] 漂流物 The act or motion of drifting; the force which impels or drives; an overpowering influence or impulse.
A bad man, being under the drift of any passion, will follow the impulse of it till something interpose. -- South.
Drift (n.) Course or direction along which anything is driven; setting. "Our drift was south." -- Hakluyt.
Drift (n.) The tendency of an act, argument, course of conduct, or the like; object aimed at or intended; intention; hence, also, import or meaning of a sentence or discourse; aim.
He has made the drift of the whole poem a compliment on his country in general -- Addison.
Now thou knowest my drift. -- Sir W. Scott.
Drift (n.) That which is driven, forced, or urged along.
Drift (n.) Anything driven at random. "Some log . . . a useless drift." -- Dryden.
Drift (n.) A mass of matter which has been driven or forced onward together in a body, or thrown together in a heap, etc., esp. by wind or water; as, a drift of snow, of ice, of sand, and the like.
Drifts of rising dust involve the sky. -- Pope.
We got the brig a good bed in the rushing drift [of ice]. -- Kane.
Drift (n.) A drove or flock, as of cattle, sheep, birds. [Obs.]
Cattle coming over the bridge (with their great drift doing much damage to the high ways). -- Fuller.
Drift (n.) (Arch.) The horizontal thrust or pressure of an arch or vault upon the abutments. [R.] -- Knight.
Drift (n.) (Geol.) A collection of loose earth and rocks, or boulders, which have been distributed over large portions of the earth's surface, especially in latitudes north of forty degrees, by the agency of ice.
Drift (n.) In South Africa, a ford in a river.
Drift (n.) (Mech.) A slightly tapered tool of steel for enlarging or shaping a hole in metal, by being forced or driven into or through it; a broach.
Drift (n.) (Mil.) A tool used in driving down compactly the composition contained in a rocket, or like firework.
Drift (n.) (Mil.) A deviation from the line of fire, peculiar to oblong projectiles.
Drift (n.) (Mining) A passage driven or cut between shaft and shaft; a driftway; a small subterranean gallery; an adit or tunnel.
Drift (n.) (Natu.) The distance through which a current flows in a given time.
Drift (n.) (Natu.) The angle which the line of a ship's motion makes with the meridian, in drifting.
Drift (n.) (Natu.) The distance to which a vessel is carried off from her desired course by the wind, currents, or other causes.
Drift (n.) (Natu.) The place in a deep-waisted vessel where the sheer is raised and the rail is cut off, and usually terminated with a scroll, or driftpiece.
Drift (n.) (Natu.) The distance between the two blocks of a tackle.
Drift (n.) The difference between the size of a bolt and the hole into which it is driven, or between the circumference of a hoop and that of the mast on which it is to be driven.
Drifted (imp. & p. p.) of Drift.
Drifting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Drift.
Drift (v. i.) 漂，漂流；漂泊，遊蕩 To float or be driven along by, or as by, a current of water or air; as, the ship drifted astern; a raft drifted ashore; the balloon drifts slowly east.
We drifted o'er the harbor bar. -- Coleridge.
Drift (v. i.) To accumulate in heaps by the force of wind; to be driven into heaps; as, snow or sand drifts.
Drift (v. i.) (Mining) To make a drift; to examine a vein or ledge for the purpose of ascertaining the presence of metals or ores; to follow a vein; to prospect. [U. S.]
Drift (v. t.) 使漂流；使吹積成堆 To drive or carry, as currents do a floating body.
Drift (v. t.) To drive into heaps; as, a current of wind drifts snow or sand.
Drift (v. t.) (Mach.) To enlarge or shape, as a hole, with a drift.
Drift (a.) That causes drifting or that is drifted; movable by wind or currents; as, drift currents; drift ice; drift mud. -- Kane.
{Drift anchor}. See {Sea anchor}, and also {Drag sail}, under {Drag}, n.
{Drift epoch} (Geol.), The glacial epoch.
{Drift net}, A kind of fishing net.
{Drift sail}. Same as {Drag sail}. See under {Drag}, n.
Drift (n.) A force that moves something along [syn: {drift}, {impetus}, {impulsion}].
Drift (n.) The gradual departure from an intended course due to external influences (as a ship or plane)
Drift (n.) A process of linguistic change over a period of time.
Drift (n.) A large mass of material that is heaped up by the wind or by water currents.
Drift (n.) A general tendency to change (as of opinion); "not openly liberal but that is the trend of the book"; "a broad movement of the electorate to the right" [syn: {drift}, {trend}, {movement}].
Drift (n.) The pervading meaning or tenor; "caught the general drift of the conversation" [syn: {drift}, {purport}] 7: a horizontal (or nearly horizontal) passageway in a mine; "they dug a drift parallel with the vein" [syn: {drift}, {heading}, {gallery}].
Drift (v.) Be in motion due to some air or water current; "The leaves were blowing in the wind"; "the boat drifted on the lake"; "The sailboat was adrift on the open sea"; "the shipwrecked Boat drifted away from the shore" [syn: {float}, {drift}, {be adrift}, {blow}]
Drift (v.) Wander from a direct course or at random; "The child strayed from the path and her parents lost sight of her"; "don't drift from the set course" [syn: {stray}, {err}, {drift}]
Drift (v.) Move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment; "The gypsies roamed the woods"; "roving vagabonds"; "the wandering Jew"; "The cattle roam across the prairie"; "the laborers drift from one town to the next"; "They rolled from town to town" [syn: {roll}, {wander}, {swan}, {stray}, {tramp}, {roam}, {cast}, {ramble}, {rove}, {range}, {drift}, {vagabond}].
Drift (v.) Vary or move from a fixed point or course; "stock prices are drifting higher".
Drift (v.) Live unhurriedly, irresponsibly, or freely; "My son drifted around for years in California before going to law school" [syn: {freewheel}, {drift}].
Drift (v.) Move in an unhurried fashion; "The unknown young man drifted among the invited guests".
Drift (v.) Cause to be carried by a current; "drift the boats downstream".
Drift (v.) Drive slowly and far afield for grazing; "drift the cattle herds westwards".
Drift (v.) Be subject to fluctuation; "The stock market drifted upward".
Drift (v.) Be piled up in banks or heaps by the force of wind or a current; "snow drifting several feet high"; "sand drifting like snow".
Drift off (Phrasal verb with drift) (v.) [ usually + adv/ prep ] (C2) 漸漸入睡 To gradually start to sleep.
// I couldn't help drifting off in the middle of that lecture - it was so boring!
Drift out (Idiom) 走開，離開，散開；慢吞吞（或不經意）地走出去；緩慢地移動；（被水流等）漂走；沖出 To slowly leave one place or thing.
// Because it was a rainy Monday morning, the students just drifted out of the room after the bell rang.
Drift out (Idiom and Phrasal Verbs) To Move out of a place slowly.
// After there was no more food, the people drifted out, one by one.
// The boat drifted out and almost got away.
Driftage (n.) Deviation from a ship's course due to leeway.
Driftage (n.) Anything that drifts.
Driftbolt (n.) A bolt for driving out other bolts.
Driftless (a.) Having no drift or direction; without aim; purposeless.
Driftpiece (n.) An upright or curved piece of timber connecting the plank sheer with the gunwale; also, a scroll terminating a rail.
Driftpin (n.) A smooth drift. See Drift, n., 9.
Driftway (n.) A common way, road, or path, for driving cattle.
Driftway (n.) Same as Drift, 11.
Driftweed (n.) Seaweed drifted to the shore by the wind.
Driftwind (n.) A driving wind; a wind that drives snow, sand, etc., into heaps.
Driftwood (n.) Wood drifted or floated by water.
Driftwood (n.) Fig.: Whatever is drifting or floating as on water.
Drifty (a.) Full of drifts; tending to form drifts, as snow, and the like.
Drilled (imp. & p. p.) of Drill.
Drilling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Drill.
Drill (v. t.) To pierce or bore with a drill, or a with a drill; to perforate; as, to drill a hole into a rock; to drill a piece of metal.
Drill (v. t.) To train in the military art; to exercise diligently, as soldiers, in military evolutions and exercises; hence, to instruct thoroughly in the rudiments of any art or branch of knowledge; to discipline.
Drill (v. i.) To practice an exercise or exercises; to train one's self.
Drill (n.) An instrument with an edged or pointed end used for making holes in hard substances; strictly, a tool that cuts with its end, by revolving, as in drilling metals, or by a succession of blows, as in drilling stone; also, a drill press.
Drill (n.) The act or exercise of training soldiers in the military art, as in the manual of arms, in the execution of evolutions, and the like; hence, diligent and strict instruction and exercise in the rudiments and methods of any business; a kind or method of military exercises; as, infantry drill; battalion drill; artillery drill.
Drill (n.) Any exercise, physical or mental, enforced with regularity and by constant repetition; as, a severe drill in Latin grammar.
Drill (n.) A marine gastropod, of several species, which kills oysters and other bivalves by drilling holes through the shell. The most destructive kind is Urosalpinx cinerea.
Drill (v. t.) To cause to flow in drills or rills or by trickling; to drain by trickling; as, waters drilled through a sandy stratum.
Drill (v. t.) To sow, as seeds, by dribbling them along a furrow or in a row, like a trickling rill of water.
Drill (v. t.) To entice; to allure from step; to decoy; -- with on.
Drill (v. t.) To cause to slip or waste away by degrees.
Drill (v. i.) To trickle.
Drill (v. i.) To sow in drills.
Drill (n.) A small trickling stream; a rill.
Drill (n.) An implement for making holes for sowing seed, and sometimes so formed as to contain seeds and drop them into the hole made.
Drill (n.) A light furrow or channel made to put seed into sowing.
Drill (n.) A row of seed sown in a furrow.
Drill (n.) A large African baboon (Cynocephalus leucophaeus).
Drill (n.) Same as Drilling.
Driller (n.) One who, or that which, drills.
Drilling (n.) The act of piercing with a drill.
Drilling (n.) A training by repeated exercises.
Drilling (n.) The act of using a drill in sowing seeds.
Drilling (n.) A heavy, twilled fabric of linen or cotton.
Drillmaster (n.) One who teaches drill, especially in the way of gymnastics.
Drill press () A machine for drilling holes in metal, the drill being pressed to the metal by the action of a screw.
Drillstock (n.) A contrivance for holding and turning a drill.
Drily (adv.) See Dryly.
Drimys (n.) A genus of magnoliaceous trees. Drimys aromatica furnishes Winter's bark.
Drank (imp.) of Drink.
Drunk () of Drink.
Drunk (p. p.) of Drink.
Drunken () of Drink.
Drinking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Drink.
Drink (v. i.) To swallow anything liquid, for quenching thirst or other purpose; to imbibe; to receive or partake of, as if in satisfaction of thirst; as, to drink from a spring.
Drink (v. i.) To quaff exhilarating or intoxicating liquors, in merriment or feasting; to carouse; to revel; hence, to lake alcoholic liquors to excess; to be intemperate in the use of intoxicating or spirituous liquors; to tipple.