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Any collection of irrational animals, moving or driving forward; as, a finny drove. Milton.

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business to purchase cattle, and drive them to market. Why, that's spoken like an honest drover; so they sell bullocks. Shak.

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

To, in, or on the field. "We drove afield." Milton. How jocund did they drive their team afield! Gray.

Toward one side; in a slanting direction; obliquely. [The shaft] drove through his neck aslant. Dryden.

ath chair, a kind of chair on wheels, as used by invalids at Bath. "People walked out, or drove out, or were pushed out in their Bath chairs." Dickens. -- Bath metal, an alloy consisting of four and a half ounces of zinc and one pound of copper. -- Bath note, a folded writing paper, 8 1/2 by 14 inches. -- Bath stone…

Pertaining to, or having the form, nature, or habits of, a beast. Beastly divinities and droves of gods. Prior.

A cattle herder; a drover; specifically, one of an adventurous class of herders and drovers on the plains of the Western and Southwestern United States.

A drove or herd. [Obs.] Haliwell.

To bewilder or surprise with brilliancy or display of any kind. "Dazzled and drove back his enemies." Shak.

A pretended deity of pagans; a false god. Beastly divinities, and droves of gods. Prior.

ard the earth or its center, or toward a lower level; declivous. With downward force That drove the sand along he took his way. Dryden.

A drove or flock, as of cattle, sheep, birds. [Obs.] Cattle coming over the bridge (with their great drift doing much damage to the high ways). Fuller.

, 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. Pope.

In an eccentric manner. Drove eccentrically here and there. Lew Wallace.

Furious; violent; unrestrained; impetuous; as, a fierce wind. His fierce thunder drove us to the deep. Milton.

front of, so as to hinder or stop; to oppose; hence, to check or restrain; as, to head a drove of cattle; to head a person; the wind heads a ship.

An immoral act or practice. Luxury and sloth and then a great drove of heresies and immoralities broke loose among them. Milton.

actions, and promotes quarrels or sedition; an agitator; an exciter. Several cities . . . drove them out as incendiaries. Bentley.