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To banish or drive from a country. [Obs.] Howell.

In pile driving, a block interposed between the head of the pile and the ram of the driver.

Foolish utterance; drivel. The sapless dotages of old Paris and Salamanca. Milton.

to have the intellect impaired, especially by age, so that the mind wanders or wavers; to drivel. Time has made you dote, and vainly tell Of arms imagined in your lonely cell. Dryden. He survived the use of his reason, grew infatuated, and doted long before he died. South.

The acts or speech of a dotard; drivel. [R.]

A piece of wood driven into a wall, so that other pieces may be nailed to it. Dowel joint, a joint secured by a dowel or dowels. -- Dowel pin, a dowel. See Dowel, n.,

, old imp. of Drive. [Obs.]

o the edge or abutment against which the shoulder is to rest, so that a pin or bolt, when driven into it, will draw these parts together. Weale.

ame or battle, one in which neither party wins; one equally contested. -- Drawn fox, one driven from cover. Shak. -- Drawn work, ornamental work made by drawing out threads from fine cloth, and uniting the cross threads, to form a pattern.

A fool; a drudge. See Drivel.

To appropriate unlawfully; to filch; to defalcate. He who drives their bargain dribs a part. Dryden.

To slaver, as a child or an idiot; to drivel.

The act or motion of drifting; the force which impels or drives; an overpowering influence or impulse. A bad man, being under the drift of any passion, will follow the impulse of it till something interpose. South.

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

comotive to which the connecting rods of the engine are attached; -- called also, simply, driver. See Illust. of Locomotive.

esp. of the honeybee. It gathers no honey. See Honeybee. All with united force combine to drive The lazy drones from the laborious hive. Dryden.

To drivel, or drop saliva; as, the child drools. His mouth drooling with texts. T. Parker.

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One who drives cattle or sheep to market; one who makes it his business to purchase cattle, and drive them to market. Why, that's spoken like an honest drover; so they sell bullocks. Shak.