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Deprivation. [R.]

One who, or that which, deprives.

, into, on, upon. [Obs.] For fear it [water] choke up the pits . . . they [the workman] derive it by other drains. Holland. Her due loves derived to that vile witch's share. Spenser. Derived to us by tradition from Adam to Noah. Jer. Taylor.

That which is derived; deduction; inference. [Obs.] I offer these derivements from these subjects. W. Montagu.

One who derives.

To describe. [Obs.] Spenser.

To describe. [Obs.] Chaucer.

long 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. A storm came on and drove them into Pylos. Jowett (Thucyd. ). Shield pressed on shield, and man drove man along. Pope. Go drive the deer and drag the finny prey. Pope…

A drift; a tool for setting bolts home.

To be weak or foolish; to dote; as, a driveling hero; driveling love. Shak. Dryden.

A slaverer; a slabberer; an idiot; a fool. [Written also driveller.]

of Drive. Also adj. Driven well, a well made by driving a tube into the earth to an aqueous stratum; -- called also drive well.

A pipe for forcing into the earth.

One who, or that which, drives; the person or thing that urges or compels anything else to move onward.

A passage or way along or through which a carriage may be driven.

To rive; to cleave. [Obs.]

To drive about; to drive here and there. [Obs.] Rom. of R.

With full speed. [Colloq.]

To strive or struggle against; to withstand. [Obs.] Spenser.

A monkey of the upper Nile and Abyssinia (Cercopithecus griseoviridis), having the upper parts dull green, the lower parts white, the hands, ears, and face black. It was known to the ancient Egyptians. Called also tota.