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A driving; a violent movement. The dragon drew him [self] away with drift of his wings. King Alisaunder (1332).

Anything that drifts.

A bolt for driving out other bolts.

Having no drift or direction; without aim; purposeless.

An upright or curved piece of timber connecting the plank sheer with the gunwale; also, a scroll terminating a rail.

A smooth drift. See Drift, n., 9.

Same as Drift, 11.

Seaweed drifted to the shore by the wind. Darwin.

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

Wood drifted or floated by water.

Full of drifts; tending to form drifts, as snow, and the like.

Floating at random; in a drifting condition; at the mercy of wind and waves. Also fig. So on the sea shall be set adrift. Dryden. Were from their daily labor turned adrift. Wordsworth.

A bank of drifted snow.

Same as Spoondrift.

ops waves during a gale at sea; also, snow driven in the wind at sea; -- written also spindrift.

Similar and probably related motion of the stars of an asterism, as distinguished from apparent change of place due to solar motion.-- ## = star streaming --

g by which a mine is entered, or by which water and ores are carried away; -- called also drift and tunnel.

Unfixed; moving without guide or control; adrift; as, our affairs are all afloat.

angles to the arms. -- The anchor comes home, when it drags over the bottom as the ship drifts. -- Foul anchor, the anchor when it hooks, or is entangled with, another anchor, or with a cable or wreck, or when the slack cable entangled. -- The anchor is acockbill, when it is suspended perpendicularly from the cathe…

Without an anchor or stay. Hence: Drifting; unsettled.