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A level passage driven across the measures, or at right angles to veins which it is desired to reach; -- distinguished from the drift, or gangway, which is led along the vein when reached by the tunnel. Tunnel head (Metal.), the top of a smelting furnace where the materials are put in. -- Tunnel kiln, a limekiln in wh…

tric generator or dynamo which is combined on one frame with a turbomotor, by which it is driven.

To cause to return or retrace one's steps; hence, to drive away; to repel. Shak. -- To turn down. (a) To fold or double down. (b) To turn over so as to conceal the face of; as, to turn down cards. (c) To lower, or reduce in size, by turning a valve, stopcock, or the like; as, turn down the lights. -- To turn in. (a)…

To drive or draw from the earth; hence, to uncover; to bring out from concealment; to bring to light; to disclose; as, to unearth a secret. To unearth the roof of an old tree. Wordsworth.

To drive from harbor or shelter.

To drive or remove from a hive.

To drive from a house or habitation; to dislodge; hence, to deprive of shelter.

Driven from a house; deprived of shelter.

To drive from a kennel or hole; as, to unkennel a fox.

To drive from the roost. Shak.

To press; to push; to drive; to impel; to force onward. Through the thick deserts headlong urged his flight. Pope.

Floating about without any certain direction; driven to and fro. To heaven their prayers Flew up, nor missed the way, by envious winds Blown vagabond or frustrate. Milton.

One who lets or drives a vettura.

f low four-wheeled pleasure carriage, with a calash top, designed for two persons and the driver who occupies a high seat in front.

owing in himself that virtue had gone out of him, turned him about. Mark v. 30. A man was driven to depend for his security against misunderstanding, upon the pure virtue of his syntax. De Quincey. The virtue of his midnight agony. Keble.

a. & vb. n. from Visit. Visiting ant. (Zoöl.) See Driver ant, under Driver. -- Visiting book, a book in which a record of visits received, made, and to be made, is kept. Thackeray. -- Visiting card. See under Card.

One who conducts a wagon; one whose business it is to drive a wagon.

d with seats extended along the sides, designed to carry six or eight persons besides the driver.

from the ecclesiastical system of the Roman Catholic Church, who in the 13th century were driven by persecution to the valleys of Piedmont, where the sect survives. They profess substantially Protestant principles.

To cause to walk; to lead, drive, or ride with a slow pace; as to walk one's horses. " I will rather trust . . . a thief to walk my ambling gelding." Shak.