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Driven to the end, as a nail; driven close.

To derive erroneously.

To thrive poorly; to be not thrifty or prosperous. [Obs.]

Driven or actuated by a motor, esp. by an individual electric motor. An electric motor forms an integral part of many machine tools in numerous modern machine shops.

To river; to sever. [Obs.] Fairfax.

To drive too hard, or far, or beyond strength.

Surrounding the vertebræ.

To contrive or plan beforehand.

l European shrub (Ligustrum vulgare), much used in hedges; -- called also prim. Egyptian privet. See Lawsonia. -- Evergreen privet, a plant of the genus Rhamnus. See Alatern. -- Mock privet, any one of several evergreen shrubs of the genus Phillyrea. They are from the Mediterranean region, and have been much cultivat…

To take back or away. [Obs.] Spenser.

To strive anew.

A tool for turning screws so as to drive them into their place. It has a thin end which enters the nick in the head of the screw.

one whose occupation is to draw contracts or prepare writings. Shak. The writer better scrivener than clerk. Fuller.

nister confession and absolution to; -- said of a priest as the agent. That they should shrive their parishioners. Piers Plowman. Doubtless he shrives this woman, . . . Else ne'er could he so long protract his speech. Shak. Till my guilty soul be shriven. Longfellow.

To draw, or be drawn, into wrinkles; to shrink, and form corrugations; as, a leaf shriveles in the hot sun; the skin shrivels with age; -- often with up.

p. p. of Shrive.

One who shrives; a confessor.

The common American bittern (Botaurus lentiginosus); -- so called because one of its notes resembles the sound made in driving a stake into the mud. Called also meadow hen, and Indian hen.

end; to contest; -- followed by against or with before the person or thing opposed; as, strive against temptation; strive for the truth. Chaucer. My Spirit shall not always strive with man. Gen. vi. 3. Why dost thou strive against him Job xxxiii. 13. Now private pity strove with public hate, Reason with rage, and eloqu…

Striven. Yea, so have I strived to preach the gospel. Rom. xv. 20.