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. [Obs.] "The dribbling dart of love." -- Shak. (Meas. for Meas., i. 3, 2). [Perhaps an error for dribbing.]
Dribble (v. i.) In basketball, football and similar games, to dribble [2] the ball.
Dribble (v. i.) To live or pass one's time in a trivial fashion.
Dribble (v. t.) To let fall in drops.
Let the cook . . . dribble it all the way upstairs. -- Swift.
Dribble (v. t.) In basketball and various other games, to propel (the ball) by successive slight hits or kicks so as to keep it always in control.
Dribble (n.) A drizzling shower; a falling or leaking in drops. [Colloq.]
Dribble (n.) An act of dribbling [2] a ball.
Dribble (n.) Flowing in drops; the formation and falling of drops of liquid; "there's a drip through the roof" [syn: drip, trickle, dribble].
Dribble (n.) Saliva spilling from the mouth [syn: drool, dribble, drivel, slobber].
Dribble (n.) The propulsion of a ball by repeated taps or kicks [syn: dribble, dribbling].
Dribble (v.) Run or flow slowly, as in drops or in an unsteady stream; "water trickled onto the lawn from the broken hose"; "reports began to dribble in" [syn: trickle, dribble, filter].
Dribble (v.) Let or cause to fall in drops; "dribble oil into the mixture" [syn: dribble, drip, drop].
Dribble (v.) Propel, "Carry the ball"; "dribble the ball" [syn: dribble, carry].
Dribble (v.) Let saliva drivel from the mouth; "The baby drooled" [syn: drivel, drool, slabber, slaver, slobber, dribble].
Dribbler (n.) One who dribbles. Dribblet
Dribbler (n.) A basketball player who is dribbling the ball to advance it.
Dribbler (n.) A person who dribbles; "that baby is a dribbler; he needs a bib" [syn: dribbler, driveller, slobberer, drooler].
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. [Obs.]
So causeless such drede for to drie. -- Chaucer.
Dried (imp. & p. p.) of Day. Also adj.; as, dried apples.
Dried (a.) Not still wet; "the ink has dried"; "a face marked with dried tears."
Dried (a.) Preserved by removing natural moisture; "dried beef"; "dried fruit"; "dehydrated eggs"; "shredded and desiccated coconut meat" [syn: dried, dehydrated, desiccated].
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
Drier, compar., Driest, superl., of Dry, a.
Drier (n.) A substance that promotes drying (e.g., calcium oxide absorbs water and is used to remove moisture) [syn: desiccant, drying agent, drier, siccative].
Drier (n.) An appliance that removes moisture [syn: dryer, drier].
Compare: Adit
Adit (n.) 入口；【礦】平坑 An entrance or passage. Specifically: The nearly horizontal opening by which a mine is entered, or by which water and ores are carried away; -- called also drift and tunnel.
Adit (n.) Admission; approach; access. [R.]
Yourself and yours shall have Free adit. -- Tennyson.
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; as:
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.
Drift (n.) (Phys. Geog.) One of the slower movements of oceanic circulation; a general tendency of the water, subject to occasional or frequent diversion or reversal by the wind; as, the easterly drift of the North Pacific.
Drift (n.) (A["e]ronautics) The horizontal component of the pressure of the air on the sustaining surfaces of a flying machine. The lift is the corresponding vertical component, which sustains the machine in the air.
Note: Drift is used also either adjectively or as the first part of a compound. See Drift, a.
Drift of the forest (O. Eng. Law), An examination or view of the cattle in a forest, in order to see whose they are,
whether they are commonable, and to determine whether or not the forest is surcharged. --Burrill. [1913 Webster] continental drift (Geology), the very slow (ca. 1-5 cm per year) movement of the continents and parts of continents relative to each other and to the points of upwelling of magma in the viscous layers beneath the continents; -- causing, for example, the opening of the South Atlantic Ocean by the movement of Africa and South America away from each other. See also plate tectonics.
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. -- J. H. Newman.
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}] Drift (n.) 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.
Driftage (n.) The deviation (by a vessel or aircraft) from its intended course due to drifting.
Driftbolt (n.) A bolt for driving out other bolts.
Driftless (a.) Having no drift or direction; without aim; purposeless.
Driftpiece (n.) (Shipbuilding) An upright or curved piece of timber connecting the plank sheer with the gunwale; also, a scroll terminating a rail.
Driftpin (n.) (Mech.) A smooth drift. See Drift, n., 9.
Driftway (n.) 牧路；趕牲畜的路 A common way, road, or path, for driving cattle.
Driftway (n.) (Mining) Same as Drift, 11.
Driftway (n.) A road or way over which cattle are driven. 1 Taunt. R. 279; Selw. N. P. 1037; Wool. on Ways, 1.
Driftweed (n.) 漂浮海藻 Seaweed drifted to the shore by the wind. -- Darwin.
Driftwind (n.) A driving wind; a wind that drives snow, sand, etc., into heaps. -- Beau. & Fl.
Driftwood (n.) Wood drifted or floated by water.
Driftwood (n.) Fig.: Whatever is drifting or floating as on water.
The current of humanity, with its heavy proportion of very useless driftwood. -- New Your Times.
Driftwood (n.) Wood that is floating or that has been washed ashore.
Driftwood, PA -- U.S. borough in Pennsylvania
Population (2000): 103
Housing Units (2000): 88
Land area (2000): 1.791692 sq. miles (4.640462 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.092487 sq. miles (0.239539 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1.884179 sq. miles (4.880001 sq. km)
FIPS code: 19976
Located within: Pennsylvania (PA), FIPS 42
Location: 41.338836 N, 78.135535 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 15832
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Driftwood, PA
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Drifty (a.) Full of drifts; tending to form drifts, as snow, and the like.
Drill (v. i.) To trickle. [Obs. or R.] -- Sandys.
Drill (v. i.) To sow in drills.
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.
He [Frederic the Great] drilled his people, as he drilled his grenadiers. -- Macaulay.
Drill (n.) A small trickling stream; a rill. [Obs.]
Springs through the pleasant meadows pour their drills. -- Sandys.
Drill (n.) (Agr.) 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.) (Agr.) A light furrow or channel made to put seed into sowing.
Drill (n.) (Agr.) A row of seed sown in a furrow.
Note: Drill is used adjectively, or as the first part of a compound; as, drill barrow or drill-barrow; drill husbandry; drill plow or drill-plow.
Drill barrow, A wheeled implement for planting seed in drills.
Drill bow, A small bow used for the purpose of rapidly turning a drill around which the bowstring takes a turn.
Drill harrow, A harrow used for stirring the ground between rows, or drills.
Drill plow, or Drill plough, A sort plow for sowing grain in drills.
Drill (v. i.) To practice an exercise or exercises; to train one's self.
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. [R.] -- Thomson.
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. [Obs.]
See drilled him on to five-fifty. -- Addison.
Drill (v. t.) To cause to slip or waste away by degrees. [Obs.]
This accident hath drilled away the whole summer. -- Swift.
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.) (Mil.) 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.) (Zool.) 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.
Bow drill, Breast drill. See under Bow, Breast.
Cotter drill, or Traverse drill, A machine tool for drilling slots.
Diamond drill. See under Diamond.
Drill jig. See under Jig.
Drill pin, The pin in a lock which enters the hollow stem of the key.
Drill sergeant (Mil.), A noncommissioned officer whose office it is to instruct soldiers as to their duties, and to train them to military exercises and evolutions.
Vertical drill, A drill press.
Drill (n.) (Zool.) A large African baboon ({Cynocephalus leucophaeus).
Drill (n.) (Manuf.) Same as Drilling.
Imperial drill, A linen fabric having two threads in the warp and three in the filling.
Drill (n.) A tool with a sharp point and cutting edges for making holes in hard materials (usually rotating rapidly or by repeated blows).
Drill (n.) Similar to the mandrill but smaller and less brightly colored [syn: drill, Mandrillus leucophaeus].
Drill (n.) Systematic training by multiple repetitions; "practice makes perfect" [syn: exercise, practice, drill, practice session, recitation].
Drill (n.) (Military) The training of soldiers to march (as in ceremonial parades) or to perform the manual of arms.
Drill (v.) Make a hole, especially with a pointed power or hand tool; "don't drill here, there's a gas pipe"; "drill a hole into the wall"; "drill for oil"; "carpenter bees are boring holes into the wall" [syn: bore, drill].
Drill (v.) Train in the military, e.g., in the use of weapons.
Drill (v.) Learn by repetition; "We drilled French verbs every day"; "Pianists practice scales" [syn: drill, exercise, practice, practise].
Drill (v.) Teach by repetition
Drill (v.) Undergo military training or do military exercises
Driller (n.) One who, or that which, drills.
Drilling (n.) (Manuf.) A heavy, twilled fabric of linen or cotton.
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.) The act of drilling [syn: drilling, boring].
Drilling (n.) The act of drilling a hole in the earth in the hope of producing petroleum [syn: boring, drilling, oil production].
Drillmaster (n.) One who teaches drill, especially in the way of gymnastics. --Macaulay.
Drill press () A machine for drilling holes in metal, the drill being pressed to the metal by the action of a screw.
Drill press (n.) A machine tool with a separate, upright stand; an electric drill is pressed into the work automatically or with a hand lever.
Drillstock (n.) (Mech.) A contrivance for holding and turning a drill. -- Knight.
Drily
(adv.)
See Dryly. -- Thackeray.
Drily (adv.) In a dry laconic manner; "I know that,"
he said dryly [syn: laconically, dryly, drily].
Drimys (n.) (Bot.) A genus of magnoliaceous trees. Drimys aromatica furnishes Winter's bark.
Drimys (n.) Shrubs and trees of southern hemisphere having aromatic foliage [syn: Drimys, genus Drimys].
Drake (n.) Wild oats, brome grass, or darnel grass; -- called also drawk, dravick, and drank. [Prov. Eng.] -- Dr. Prior.
Drank (n.) Wild oats, or darnel grass. See Drake a plant. [Prov. Eng.] -- Halliwell.
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.
Gird thyself, and serve me, till have eaten and drunken; and afterward thou shalt eat and drink. -- Luke xvii. 8.
He shall drink of the wrath the Almighty. -- Job xxi. 20.
Drink of the cup that can not cloy. -- Keble.
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. -- Pope.
And they drank, and were merry with him. -- Gem. xliii. 34.
Bolingbroke always spoke freely when he had drunk freely. -- Thackeray.
To drink to, to salute in drinking; to wish well to, in the act of taking the cup; to pledge in drinking.
I drink to the general joy of the whole table, And to our dear friend Banquo. -- Shak.