Part 3477

<p><b>1.</b> <def>A common way, road, or path, for driving cattle.</def>

<i>Cowell. Burrill.</i>

<p><b>2.</b> <fld>(Mining)</fld> <def>Same as <er>Drift</er>, <er>11</er>.</def>

<h1>Driftweed</h1> <Xpage=454>

<hw>Drift"weed`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>Seaweed drifted to the shore by the wind.</def>

<i>Darwin.</i>

<h1>Driftwind</h1> <Xpage=454>

<hw>Drift"wind`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>A driving wind; a wind that drives snow, sand, etc., into heaps.</def>

<i>Beau. & Fl.</i>

<h1>Driftwood</h1> <Xpage=454>

<hw>Drift"wood`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>Wood drifted or floated by water.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Fig.: Whatever is drifting or floating as on water.</def>

<blockquote>The current of humanity, with its heavy proportion of very useless <b>driftwood</b>. <i> New Your Times.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Drifty</h1> <Xpage=454>

<hw>Drift"y</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Full of drifts; tending to form drifts, as snow, and the like.</def>

<h1>Drill</h1> <Xpage=454>

<hw>Drill</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Drilled</er> <tt>(?)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Drilling</er>.]</wordforms> <ety>[D. <ets>drillen</ets> to bore, drill (soldiers); probably akin to AS. <ets>pyrlian</ets>, <ets>pyrelian</ets>, to pierce. See <er>Thrill</er>.]</ety>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>To pierce or bore with a drill, or a with a drill; to perforate; <as>as, to <ex>drill</ex> a hole into a rock; to <ex>drill</ex> a piece of metal.</as></def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To train in the military art; to exercise diligently, as soldiers, in military evolutions and exercises; hence, to instruct thoroughly in the rudiments of any art or branch of knowledge; to discipline.</def>

<blockquote>He [Frederic the Great] <b>drilled</b> his people, as he <b>drilled</b> his grenadiers. <i> Macaulay.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Drill</h1> <Xpage=454>

<hw>Drill</hw>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <def>To practice an exercise or exercises; to train one's self.</def>

<h1>Drill</h1> <Xpage=454>

<hw>Drill</hw>, <tt>n.</tt>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>An instrument with an edged or pointed end used for making holes in hard substances; strictly, a tool that cuts with its end, by revolving, as in drilling metals, or by a succession of blows, as in drilling stone; also, a drill press.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <fld>(Mil.)</fld> <def>The act or exercise of training soldiers in the military art, as in the manual of arms, in the execution of evolutions, and the like; hence, diligent and strict instruction and exercise in the rudiments and methods of any business; a kind or method of military exercises; <as>as, infantry <ex>drill</ex>; battalion <ex>drill</ex>; artillery <ex>drill</ex>.</as></def>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>Any exercise, physical or mental, enforced with regularity and by constant repetition; <as>as, a severe <ex>drill</ex> in Latin grammar</as>.</def>