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ast of Formosa and thence flowing northeastward past Japan and merging into the easterly drift of the North Pacific; -- called also Kuro-Siwo, or Black Stream, in allusion to the deep blue of its water. It is similar in may ways to the Gulf Stream.

Drift; scope; range, as of an argument. [Obs.]

idney. Barrow. Millions in the world of this man's kidney. L'Estrange. Your poets, spendthrifts, and other fools of that kidney, pretend, forsooth, to crack their jokes on prudence. Burns.

An herb growing in dense tufts; the thrift (Armeria vulgaris).

The lateral movement of a ship to the leeward of her course; drift.

A horizontal passage, drift, or adit, in mine. Air level, a spirit level. See Spirit level (below). -- Box level, a spirit level in which a glass-covered box is used instead of a tube. -- Garpenter's level, Mason's level, either the plumb level or a straight bar of wood, in which is imbedded a small spirit level. --…

an; gloomy; dismal. Fierce o'er their beauty blazed the lurid flame. Thomson. Wrapped in drifts of lurid smoke On the misty river tide. Tennyson.

o without it. [Colloq.]. -- To make sternway, to move with the stern foremost; to go or drift backward. -- To make strange, to act in an unfriendly manner or as if surprised; to treat as strange; as, to make strange of a request or suggestion. -- To make suit to, to endeavor to gain the favor of; to court. -- To ma…

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

fficial government; also, adherence to office routine; red-tapism. Officialism may often drift into blunders. Smiles.

called from the long, tapering points of the carpels. See Alfilaria. -- Sea pink. See Thrift.

s herbs, of which plumbago is the type. The order includes also the marsh rosemary, the thrift, and a few other genera.

Prior to the glacial or drift period.

r without necessity; one that is profuse or lavish in any expenditure; a waster; a spendthrift. "Noble prodigals of life." Trench.

rom a speculation. Knighthood was not beyond the reach of any man who could by diligent thrift realize a good estate. Macaulay.

A chink; a rift. See Rift. Rom. of R.

rthly savor in the soul of Saul. Fuller. Our King Henry the Seventh quickly resented his drift. Fuller.

A place torn; a rent; a rift. [Prov. Eng.]

The horizontal distance to which a drift may be carried, either by license of the proprietor of a mine or by the nature of the formation; also, the direction which a vein of ore or other substance takes.

o sag to leeward (Naut.), to make much leeway by reason of the wind, sea, or current; to drift to leeward; -- said of a vessel. Totten.