Part 3485

<h1>Driver</h1> <Xpage=455>

<hw>Driv"er</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[From <er>Drive</er>.]</ety>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>One who, or that which, drives; the person or thing that urges or compels anything else to move onward.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>The person who drives beasts or a carriage; a coachman; a charioteer, etc.; hence, also, one who controls the movements of a locomotive.</def>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>An overseer of a gang of slaves or gang of convicts at their work.</def>

<p><b>4.</b> <fld>(Mach.)</fld> <def>A part that transmits motion to another part by contact with it, or through an intermediate relatively movable part, as a gear which drives another, or a lever which moves another through a link, etc. Specifically:</def>

<sd>(a)</sd> <def>The driving wheel of a locomotive</def>. <sd>(b)</sd> <def>An attachment to a lathe, spindle, or face plate to turn a carrier</def>. <sd>(c)</sd> <def>A crossbar on a grinding mill spindle to drive the upper stone</def>.

<p><b>5.</b> <fld>(Naut.)</fld> <def>The after sail in a ship or bark, being a fore-and-aft sail attached to a gaff; a spanker.</def>

<i>Totten.</i>

<cs><col>Driver ant</col> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld>, <cd>a species of African stinging ant; one of the visiting ants (<spn>Anomma arcens</spn>); -- so called because they move about in vast armies, and drive away or devour all insects and other small animals.</cd></cs>

<h1>Driveway</h1> <Xpage=455>

<hw>Drive"way`</hw> <tt>(<?/)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>A passage or way along or through which a carriage may be driven.</def>

<h1>Driving</h1> <Xpage=455>

<hw>Driv"ing</hw>, <tt>a.</tt>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>Having great force of impulse; <as>as, a <ex>driving</ex> wind or storm</as>.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Communicating force; impelling; <as>as, a <ex>driving</ex> shaft</as>.</def>

<cs><col>Driving axle</col>, <cd>the axle of a driving wheel, as in a locomotive.</cd> -- <col>Driving box</col> <fld>(Locomotive)</fld>, <cd>the journal box of a driving axle. See <i>Illust<i>. of <er>Locomotive</er>.</cd> -- <col>Driving note</col> <fld>(Mus.)</fld>, <cd>a syncopated note; a tone begun on a weak part of a measure and held through the next accented part, thus anticipating the accent and <i>driving<i> it through.</cd> -- <col>Driving spring</col>, <cd>a spring fixed upon the box of the driving axle of a locomotive engine to support the weight and deaden shocks. <mark>[Eng.]</mark> <i>Weale</i>.</cd> -- <col>Driving wheel</col> <fld>(Mach.)</fld>, <cd>a wheel that communicates motion; one of the large wheels of a locomotive to which the connecting rods of the engine are attached; -- called also, simply, <i>driver<i>. See <i>Illust<i>. of <er>Locomotive</er>.</cd></cs>

<h1>Driving</h1> <Xpage=455>

<hw>Driv"ing</hw>, <tt>n.</tt>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>The act of forcing or urging something along; the act of pressing or moving on furiously.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Tendency; drift.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark>

<h1>Drizzle</h1> <Xpage=455>

<hw>Driz"zle</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Drizzled</er> <tt>(?)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Drizzling</er> <tt>(?)</tt>.]</wordforms> <ety>[Prop. freq. of AS. <ets>dre\'a2san</ets> to fall. See <er>Dreary</er>.]</ety> <def>To rain slightly in very small drops; to fall, as water from the clouds, slowly and in fine particles; <as>as, it <ex>drizzles</ex>; <ex>drizzling</ex> drops or rain.</as></def> "<i>Drizzling</i> tears."

<i>Spenser.</i>

<h1>Drizzle</h1> <Xpage=455>

<hw>Driz"zle</hw>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <def>To shed slowly in minute drops or particles.</def> "The air doth <i>drizzle</i> dew."

<i>Shak.</i>

<h1>Drizzle</h1> <Xpage=455>