Drive

·vi To distrain for rent.

II. Drive ·p.p. Driven.

III. Drive ·add. ·noun A tamping iron.

IV. Drive ·vt To pass away;

— said of time.

V. Drive ·vt To clear, by forcing away what is contained.

VI. Drive ·add. ·noun A Mallet.

VII. Drive ·add. ·noun An implement used for driving;.

VIII. Drive ·vi To rush and press with violence; to move furiously.

IX. Drive ·add. ·vi To make a drive, or stroke from the tee.

X. Drive ·vt To dig Horizontally; to cut a horizontal gallery or tunnel.

XI. Drive ·add. ·noun A cooper's hammer for driving on barrel hoops.

XII. Drive ·noun A place suitable or agreeable for driving; a road prepared for driving.

XIII. Drive ·noun In type founding and forging, an impression or matrix, formed by a punch drift.

XIV. Drive ·noun A collection of objects that are driven; a mass of logs to be floated down a river.

XV. Drive ·add. ·noun A wooden-headed golf club with a long shaft, for playing the longest strokes.

XVI. Drive ·vi To be forced along; to be impelled; to be moved by any physical force or agent; to be driven.

XVII. Drive ·noun Violent or rapid motion; a rushing onward or away; ·esp., a forced or hurried dispatch of business.

XVIII. Drive ·vt To carry or; to keep in motion; to Conduct; to Prosecute.

XIX. Drive ·vi To press forward; to aim, or tend, to a point; to make an effort; to Strive;

— usually with at.

XX. Drive ·add. ·noun A stroke from the tee, generally a full shot made with a driver; also, the distance covered by such a stroke.

XXI. Drive ·noun The act of driving; a trip or an excursion in a carriage, as for exercise or pleasure;

— distinguished from a ride taken on horseback.

XXII. Drive ·add. ·vt Specif., in various games, as tennis, baseball, ·etc., to propel (the ball) swiftly by a direct stroke or forcible throw.

XXIII. Drive ·vi To go by carriage; to pass in a carriage; to proceed by directing or urging on a vehicle or the animals that draw it; as, the coachman drove to my door.

XXIV. Drive ·add. ·noun In various games, as tennis, cricket, ·etc., the act of player who drives the ball; the stroke or blow; the flight of the ball, ·etc., so driven.

XXV. Drive ·vt 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, to drive cattle; to drive a nail; smoke drives persons from a room.

XXVI. Drive ·vt To urge, impel, or hurry forward; to Force; to Constrain; to urge, press, or bring to a point or state; as, to drive a person by necessity, by persuasion, by force of circumstances, by argument, and the like.

XXVII. Drive ·vt 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, to drive a pair of horses or a stage; to drive a person to his own door.