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They are communistic, opposed to any violence, and unwilling to use the labor of animals. Driven out of Russia proper, many have emigrated to Cyprus and Canada. See Raskolnik, below.

To expel; to dismiss; to cast forth; to thrust or drive out; to discharge; as, to eject a person from a room; to eject a traitor from the country; to eject words from the language. "Eyes ejecting flame." H. Brooke.

hey are ours. It was difficult in such a country to track the enemy. It was impossible to drive him to bay. Macaulay.

To put in motion or action by violence; to drive. As swift as stones Enforced from the old Assyrian slings. Shak.

machine by which any physical power is applied to produce a given physical effect. Engine driver, one who manages an engine; specifically, the engineer of a locomotive. -- Engine lathe. (Mach.) See under Lathe. -- Engine tool, a machine tool. J. Whitworth. -- Engine turning (Fine Arts), a method of ornamentation by…

One who manages as engine, particularly a steam engine; an engine driver.

Any clear, level space used for public walks or drives; esp., a terrace by the seaside.

To banish or expel from one's own country or home; to drive away. "Exiled from eternal God." Tennyson. Calling home our exiled friends abroad. Shak.

To banish; to drive or force (a person) from his own country; to make an exile of. The expatriated landed interest of France. Burke.

To drive or force out from that within which anything is contained, inclosed, or situated; to eject; as to expel air from a bellows. Did not ye . . . expel me out of my father's house Judg. Xi. 7.

Capable of being expelled or driven out. "Expellable by heat." Kirwan.

To drive from the stage by noisy expressions of disapprobation; to hoot off; to drive away or reject noisily; as, to explode a play. [Obs.] Him old and young Exploded, and seized with violent hands. Milton.

A person employed in the express business; also, the driver of a job wagon. W. D. Howells.

To drive out; to expel. [Obs.] If charity be thus excluded and expulsed. Milton.

The state of being expelled or driven out.

To drive out or away; to expel. They deposed, exterminated, and deprived him of communion. Barrow.

To thrust out; to force, press, or push out; to expel; to drive off or away. "Parentheses thrown into notes or extruded to the margin." Coleridge.

ng, to come among accidentally or unexpectedly. -- To fall astern (Naut.), to move or be driven backward; to be left behind; as, a ship falls astern by the force of a current, or when outsailed by another. -- To fall away. (a) To lose flesh; to become lean or emaciated; to pine. (b) To renounce or desert allegiance;…

To winnow; to separate chaff from, and drive it away by a current of air; as, to fan wheat. Jer. li. 2.

sons passing it. (b) An opening in the door of a street car for purchasing tickets of the driver or passing fares to the conductor. Knight.