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various in form or quality; to give variety to; to variegate; to distinguish by numerous differences or aspects. Separated and diversified on from another. Locke. Its seven colors, that diversify all the face of nature. I. Taylor.

To render divine; to deify. [Obs.] "Blessed and divinified soul." Parth. Sacra (1633).

Shaped like the head of an ax or hatchet, as some leaves, and also certain organs of some shellfish.

Producing pain. Whitaker.

Causing pain or grief. Arbuthnot.

To divide, as the heavens, into twelve houses. See House, in astrological sense. [Obs.]

Bearing gifts. [R.]

Bearing, or producing, on the back; -- applied to ferns which produce seeds on the back of the leaf, and to certain Batrachia, the ova of which become attached to the skin of the back of the parent, where they develop; dorsiparous.

A joiner's tool having a blade with a handle at each end, used to shave off surfaces, by drawing it toward one; a shave; -- called also drawshave, and drawing shave.

A driving; a violent movement. The dragon drew him [self] away with drift of his wings. King Alisaunder (1332).

Anything that drifts.

A bolt for driving out other bolts.

Having no drift or direction; without aim; purposeless.

An upright or curved piece of timber connecting the plank sheer with the gunwale; also, a scroll terminating a rail.

A smooth drift. See Drift, n., 9.

Same as Drift, 11.

Seaweed drifted to the shore by the wind. Darwin.

A driving wind; a wind that drives snow, sand, etc., into heaps. Beau. & Fl.

Wood drifted or floated by water.

Full of drifts; tending to form drifts, as snow, and the like.