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To bark at; hence, to follow with barking; to bring or drive to bay; as, to bay the bear. Shak.

To compel or drive by the bayonet. To bayonet us into submission. Burke.

To run or drive (as a vessel or a boat) upon a beach; to strand; as, to beach a ship.

Driven on a beach; stranded; drawn up on a beach; as, the ship is beached.

olloq.] -- To beat into, to teach or instill, by repetition. -- To beat off, to repel or drive back. -- To beat out, to extend by hammering. -- To beat out of a thing, to cause to relinquish it, or give it up. "Nor can anything beat their posterity out of it to this day." South. -- To beat the dust. (Man.) (a) To t…

A heavy mallet, used to drive wedges, beat pavements, etc.

pel his ball with his cue so that it shall either strike (carom upon) two other balls, or drive another ball into one of the pockets with which the table sometimes is furnished.

An organization composed originally of Chinese rebels that had been driven into Tonkin by the suppression of the Taiping rebellion, but later increased by bands of pirates and adventurers. It took a prominent part in fighting the French during their hostilities with Anam, 1873-85.

ded for the purpose; as, the engine or steamer is blowing off. -- To blow out. (a) To be driven out by the expansive force of a gas or vapor; as, a steam cock or valve sometimes blows out. (b) To talk violently or abusively. [Low] -- To blow over, to pass away without effect; to cease, or be dissipated; as, the storm…

To shoot; to discharge or drive forth.

in Scotland they call the boots; for they put a pair of iron boots close on the leg, and drive wedges between them and the leg. Bp. Burnet.

two pieces, together shaped like a leg, between which, when put into the boot, a wedge is driven. The pretty boots trimly stretched on boottrees. Thackeray.

To drive against anything suddenly and violently; to bump; to thump. Swift.

The driver's seat on a carriage or coach.

A large four-wheeled carriage, having a straight body and calash top, with the driver's seat in front and the footman's behind.

A kind of plow, driven by the breast of the workman; -- used to cut or pare turf.

A peculiar brad-shaped spike, to be driven alongside the end of an abutting timber to prevent its slipping.

A light one horse two-wheeled vehicle. [Eng.] Villebeck prevailed upon Flora to drive with him to the race in a buggy. Beaconsfield.

A driver or a brassy with a convex face.

The driver of a cab.