Part 3482

<p><b>1.</b> <def>A falling or letting fall in drops; a dripping; that which drips, or falls in drops.</def>

<blockquote>The light <b>drip</b> of the suspended oar. <i>Byron.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <fld>(Arch.)</fld> <def>That part of a cornice, sill course, or other horizontal member, which projects beyond the rest, and is of such section as to throw off the rain water.</def>

<cs><col>Right of drip</col> <fld>(Law)</fld>, <cd>an easement or servitude by which a man has the right to have the water flowing from his house fall on the land of his neighbor.</cd></cs>

<h1>Dripping</h1> <Xpage=455>

<hw>Drip"ping</hw>, <tt>n.</tt>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>A falling in drops, or the sound so made.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>That which falls in drops, as fat from meat in roasting.</def>

<cs><col>Dripping pan</col>, <cd>a pan for receiving the fat which drips from meat in roasting.</cd></cs>

<h1>Dripple</h1> <Xpage=455>

<hw>Drip"ple</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[From <er>Drip</er>, cf. <er>Dribble</er>.]</ety> <def>Weak or rare.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<h1>Dripstone</h1> <Xpage=455>

<hw>Drip"stone`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <fld>(Arch.)</fld> <def>A drip, when made of stone. See <er>Drip</er>, <er>2</er>.</def>

<h1>Drive</h1> <Xpage=455>

<hw>Drive</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp.</tt> <er>Drove</er> <tt>(?)</tt>, formerly <er>Drave</er> (<?/); <tt>p. p.</tt> <er>Driven</er> <tt>(?)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Driving</er>.]</wordforms> <ety>[AS. <ets>dr\'c6fan</ets>; akin to OS. <ets>dr\'c6ban</ets>, D. <ets>drijven</ets>, OHG. <ets>tr\'c6ban</ets>, G. <ets>treiben</ets>, Icel. <ets>dr\'c6fa</ets>, Goth. <ets>dreiban</ets>. Cf. <er>Drift</er>, <er>Drove</er>.]</ety>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>To impel or urge onward by force in a direction away from one, or along before one; to push forward; to compel to move on; to communicate motion to; <as>as, to <ex>drive</ex> cattle; to <ex>drive</ex> a nail; smoke <ex>drives</ex> persons from a room.</as></def>

<blockquote>A storm came on and <b>drove</b> them into Pylos. <i>Jowett (Thucyd. ).</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>Shield pressed on shield, and man <b>drove</b> man along. <i>Pope.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>Go <b>drive</b> the deer and drag the finny prey. <i>Pope.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To urge on and direct the motions of, as the beasts which draw a vehicle, or the vehicle borne by them; hence, also, to take in a carriage; to convey in a vehicle drawn by beasts; <as>as, to <ex>drive</ex> a pair of horses or a stage; to <ex>drive</ex> a person to his own door.</as></def>

<blockquote>How . . . proud he was to <b>drive</b> such a brother! <i>Thackeray.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>To urge, impel, or hurry forward; to force; to constrain; to urge, press, or bring to a point or state; <as>as, to <ex>drive</ex> person by necessity, by persuasion, by force of circumstances, by argument, and the like</as>.</def> " Enough to <i>drive</i> one mad."

<i>Tennyson.</i>

<blockquote>He, <b>driven</b> to dismount, threatened, if I did not do the like, to do as much for my horse as fortune had done for his. <i>Sir P. Sidney.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>To carry or; to keep in motion; to conduct; to prosecute. [Now used only colloquially.]</def>

<i>Bacon.</i>

<blockquote>The trade of life can not be <b>driven</b> without partners. <i>Collier.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>5.</b> <def>To clear, by forcing away what is contained.</def>