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To steal; to carry off by theft (esp. cattle); as, to lift a drove of cattle.

A drove of mules. [Southwest. U.S.]

ring, hoping, etc. I. Watts. The guiltiness of my mind, the sudden surprise of my powers, drove the grossness . . . into a received belief. Shak.

ed only in composition, as in potsherd. See Shard. The thigh . . . which all in sherds it drove. Chapman.

The refuse of cattle taken from a drove. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

two stars or two hills; the sound was heard for the space of a mile. Put a space betwixt drove and drove. Gen. xxxii. 16.

To run away in a panic; -- said droves of cattle, horses, etc., also of armies.

swoop. The bird of Jove, stooped from his aëry tour, Two birds of gayest plume before him drove. Milton.

A team of horses harnessed one before the other. "He drove tandems." Thackeray. Tandem engine, a compound steam engine having two or more steam cylinders in the same axis, close to one another. -- Tandem bicycle or tricycle, one for two persons in which one rider sits before the other.

or strike dumb, as with something terrible; -- rarely used except in the past participle. drove before him, thunderstruck. Milton.

The chief drover of those who drive a herd of cattle. P. Cyc.

ding under foot; also, the sound produced by trampling. Milton. The huddling trample of a drove of sheep. Lowell.

To act on the defensive with a weapon. She redoubling her blows drove the stranger to no other shift than to ward and go back. Sir P. Sidney.