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legal process; as, an absconding debtor. That very homesickness which, in regular armies, drives so many recruits to abscond. Macaulay.

To associate in a company; to keep company. [Obs.] Bacon. Men say that they will drive away one another, . . . and not accompany together. Holland.

To compel; to drive. [Obs.] Fotherby.

A power-driven, heavier-than-air flying machine.

To, in, or on the field. "We drove afield." Milton. How jocund did they drive their team afield! Gray.

A drill driven by the elastic pressure of condensed air; a pneumatic drill. Knight.

An engine driven by heated or by compressed air. Knight.

Serving to drive off fever; antifebrile. -- n.

Astray; faultily; improperly; wrongly; ill. What error drives our eyes and ears amiss Shak. Ye ask and receive not, because ye ask amiss. James iv. 3. To take (an act, thing) amiss, to impute a wrong motive to (an act or thing); to take offense at' to take unkindly; as, you must not take these questions amiss.…

To drive or scare off by some exclamation. [R.] "Whiskered cats arointed flee." Mrs. Browning.

engine and an auxiliary reversible dynamo. When there is an excess of power the dynamo is driven by the engine so as to charge a small storage battery; when there is a deficiency of power the dynamo reverses and acts as an auxiliary motor. Sometimes called Pieper system. -- Automixte car, etc.

To drive or force backward; to cause to retreat or recede; as, to back oxen.

cylinder of a gas or oil engine during the exhaust or the compression stroke, tending to drive the piston in a direction reverse to that in which it should travel; also, an explosion in the exhaust passages of such ah engine.

an oblong board, having, at one end, cups or arches into or through which balls are to be driven by a rod held in the hand of the player.

To bandy; to drive away. [Obs.]

To content, as at some game in which each strives to drive the ball his own way. Fit to bandy with thy lawless sons. Shak.

To drive out, as from a home or familiar place; -- used with from and out of. How the ancient Celtic tongue came to be banished from the Low Countries in Scotland. Blair.

A four-wheeled carriage, with a falling top, a seat on the outside for the driver, and two double seats on the inside arranged so that the sitters on the front seat face those on the back seat.

A fabulous serpent, or dragon. The ancients alleged that its hissing would drive away all other serpents, and that its breath, and even its look, was fatal. See Cockatrice. Make me not sighted like the basilisk. Shak.

Act of taking a bath or baths. Bathing machine, a small room on wheels, to be driven into the water, for the convenience of bathers, who undress and dress therein.