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along before one; to push forward; to compel to move on; to communicate motion to; as, to drive cattle; to drive a nail; smoke drives persons from a room. A storm came on and drove them into Pylos. Jowett (Thucyd. ). Shield pressed on shield, and man drove man along. Pope. Go drive the deer and drag the finny prey. Pop…

A drift; a tool for setting bolts home.

To be weak or foolish; to dote; as, a driveling hero; driveling love. Shak. Dryden.

A slaverer; a slabberer; an idiot; a fool. [Written also driveller.]

of Drive. Also adj. Driven well, a well made by driving a tube into the earth to an aqueous stratum; -- called also drive well.

A pipe for forcing into the earth.

One who, or that which, drives; the person or thing that urges or compels anything else to move onward.

A passage or way along or through which a carriage may be driven.

A transmission arrangement in which the longitudinal crank shaft drives the rear wheels through a clutch, change-speed gear, countershaft, and two parallel side chains, in order.

To drive about; to drive here and there. [Obs.] Rom. of R.

With full speed. [Colloq.]

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

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 drive too hard, or far, or beyond strength.

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.

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.

Driven by winds or storms; forced by stress of weather. Carew.

he mast;-said of the sails when pressed by the wind. Totten. To be taken aback. (a) To be driven backward against the mast; -- said of the sails, also of the ship when the sails are thus driven. (b) To be suddenly checked, baffled, or discomfited. Dickens.

One who steals and drives away cattle or beasts by herds or droves. [Obs.]

To cast or drive out; to banish; to expel; to reject. [Obs.] That he might . . . abandon them from him. Udall. Being all this time abandoned from your bed. Shak.