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- English Word Drier Definition 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.
- English Word Drier Definition Drying oil; a substance mingled with the oil used in oil painting to make it dry quickly.
- English Word Drier Definition Alt. of Driest
- English Word Driest Definition of Dry, a.
- English Word Drift Definition A driving; a violent movement.
- English Word Drift Definition The act or motion of drifting; the force which impels or drives; an overpowering influence or impulse.
- English Word Drift Definition Course or direction along which anything is driven; setting.
- English Word Drift Definition 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.
- English Word Drift Definition That which is driven, forced, or urged along
- English Word Drift Definition Anything driven at random.
- English Word Drift Definition 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.
- English Word Drift Definition A drove or flock, as of cattle, sheep, birds.
- English Word Drift Definition The horizontal thrust or pressure of an arch or vault upon the abutments.
- English Word Drift Definition 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.
- English Word Drift Definition In South Africa, a ford in a river.
- English Word Drift Definition 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.
- English Word Drift Definition A tool used in driving down compactly the composition contained in a rocket, or like firework.
- English Word Drift Definition A deviation from the line of fire, peculiar to oblong projectiles.
- English Word Drift Definition A passage driven or cut between shaft and shaft; a driftway; a small subterranean gallery; an adit or tunnel.
- English Word Drift Definition The distance through which a current flows in a given time.