DPage 491
- English Word Dripping Definition of Drip
- English Word Dripping Definition A falling in drops, or the sound so made.
- English Word Dripping Definition That which falls in drops, as fat from meat in roasting.
- English Word Dripple Definition Weak or rare.
- English Word Dripstone Definition A drip, when made of stone. See Drip, 2.
- English Word Dript Definition of Drip
- English Word Drith Definition Drought.
- English Word Drive Definition To impel or urge onward by force in a direction away from one, or along before one; to push forward; to compel to move on; to communicate motion to; as, to drive cattle; to drive a nail; smoke drives persons from a room.
- English Word Drive Definition To urge on and direct the motions of, as the beasts which draw a vehicle, or the vehicle borne by them; hence, also, to take in a carriage; to convey in a vehicle drawn by beasts; as, to drive a pair of horses or a stage; to drive a person to his own door.
- English Word Drive Definition To urge, impel, or hurry forward; to force; to constrain; to urge, press, or bring to a point or state; as, to drive a person by necessity, by persuasion, by force of circumstances, by argument, and the like.
- English Word Drive Definition To carry or; to keep in motion; to conduct; to prosecute.
- English Word Drive Definition To clear, by forcing away what is contained.
- English Word Drive Definition To dig Horizontally; to cut a horizontal gallery or tunnel.
- English Word Drive Definition To pass away; -- said of time.
- English Word Drive Definition To rush and press with violence; to move furiously.
- English Word Drive Definition To be forced along; to be impelled; to be moved by any physical force or agent; to be driven.
- English Word Drive Definition To go by carriage; to pass in a carriage; to proceed by directing or urging on a vehicle or the animals that draw it; as, the coachman drove to my door.
- English Word Drive Definition To press forward; to aim, or tend, to a point; to make an effort; to strive; -- usually with at.
- English Word Drive Definition To distrain for rent.
- English Word Drive Definition Driven.