drip-pipe 
drip-pipe (drip'pip), n. A small pipe used to 
convey away the water of condensation from a 
steam-pipe. 
dripple (drip'l), a. [E. dial., prob. < drift or 
itr<ip.~\ Weak; rare. HalliwcU. [Prov. Enj,'.] 
drip-pump (drip 'pump), . A pump used by 
plumbers to remove urip, or water which col- 
lects when pipes are out of order. 
drip-Stick (drip'stik), . In stone-natcin;/, a 
stick with an iron hook or a blade at the end, 
serving as a spout to conduct water slowly from 
a barrel to the stone to keep the kerf wet. 
dripstone (drip'ston), n. 1. In arch., a pro- 
Dripstone Termina. 
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To 
Gate of Close, Salisbury Cathedral, England. 
A A dripstone. (Right-hand figure shows a section of the gateway.) 
jecting molding or cornice over a doorway, win- 
dow, etc., to prevent rain-water from trickling 
down. It is of various forms, and 
terminates at each end in a head or 
other sculptured device serving for 
support or merely for ornament, or 
sometimes in a simple molding. Also 
called tceather-molding, or hood-mold- 
ing, and, when returned square, label. 
2. A filtering-stone: so called 
by seamen. 
dritt, . [< ME. drit, drift, 
dritte (= MD. drijt, T>. drcet = 
Icel. dritr, excrement; from 
the verb : see drite. Hence-by 
transposition, dirt, q. v.] Ex- 
crement; dung; dirt. Wyclif. 
dritet, v. i. [< ME. dritan, 
gedritan = D. drijten = Icel. 
drita, void excrement. See drit, dirt, n.] 
void excrement. 
drive (driv), v. ; pret. drove (formerly drave), pp. 
driven, ppr. driving. [< ME. driven, earlier 
drifen (pret. drof, drove, pi. driven, pp. driven), 
drive (a ship, a plow, a vehicle, cattle), hunt, 
chase (deer, etc.), compel to go, drive (a nail), 
pursue (business), intr. go forward, press on, 
rush on with violence, ride, etc., < AS. drifan 
(pret. draf, pi. drifon, pp. drifen), drive (in 
nearly all the ME. uses), = OS. dribhan = 
OFries. driva = LG. driben = D. drijven = 
OHG. triban, MHG. tribcn, G. treiben = Icel. 
drifa = Sw. drifca = Dan. drive = Goth, drei- 
ban, drive. Hence drift, drove 2 , driveP, etc.] 
I. trans. 1. To compel or urge to move ; impel 
or constrain to go in some direction or manner, 
(a) To compel (an animal or a human being, and, by figur- 
ative extension, inanimate things), by commands, cries, 
or threats, or by gestures, blows, or other physical means, 
to move in a desired direction : as, to drive a Hock of sheep ; 
to drive slaves ; to drive away a fear. 
" Vnkynde and vnknowing I " quath Crist ; and with a rop 
smote hem, . . . 
And drof hem out alle that ther Iwwten and solde. 
Piers Plowman (C), xix. 159. 
They vse also to drive them into some narrow poynt of 
land, when they find that advantage. 
Capt. John Smith, True Travels, I. 133. 
Afterwards we met some of his [the aga's] men driving 
off the people's cattle. 
Pococke, Description of the East, II. i. 179. 
Specifically (1) To impel to motion and quicken : applied 
to draft-animals, as a horse or an ox ; also, by extension, 
to the vehicle drawn, and in recent figurative use to a 
locomotive or other engine. 
Day drove his courser with the shining mane. 
M. Arnold, Balder Dead, ii. 
Stage-conches were generally driven at a rapid rate down 
long inclines. The Century, XXXV. 2. 
(2) To chase (game) ; hunt ; especially, to chase (game) into 
a snare or corral, or toward a hunter. 
To drive, the deer with hound and horn, 
Earl Percy took his way. Chevy Cha.tr. 
He's ower to Tividale to drier a prey. 
Jamie Telfer (Child's Ballads, VI. 106). 
Driving is now quite a recognized branch of grouse- 
shooting. Enci/c. ISrit., XXI. 834. 
(f>) To cause to move by the direct application of a physi- 
cal force : us, clouds or a ship driven by the wind ; to drive 
a nail with a hammer. 
There sprang a fountaine which watercth their Coun- 
trey, and driueth their Mils. Purchas, Pilgrimage, p. 71. 
1773 
Swift as the whirlwind drive* Arabia's scattcr'd Sands. 
Prior, Ode to the Queen, st. 7. 
(c) In bate-ball, also in la ten-tennis, etc., to knock or throw 
(the ball) very swiftly, (dt) To cause to pass ; pass away : 
said of time. 
Thus that day they driven to an ende. 
Chaucer, Good Women, 1. 2621. 
Thus sho drof forth hir dayes in hir dcpc tboght, 
With wcping and wo all the woke [week| oner. 
I ' i faction of Troy (E. E. T. .), 1. 498. 
2. To compel or incite to action of any kind ; 
lead or impel to a certain course or result: 
used in a variety of figurative senses : as, the 
smoke drove the firemen from the building; 
despair drove him to suicide ; oppression drove 
them into open rebellion. 
What nede dryveth the to grene wode? 
Lytell Gesteo/Robyn Ilode (Child's Ballads, V. 90). 
Such is the rarenesse of the situation of Venice, that it 
doth even amaze and drive into admiration all strangers. 
Coryat, Crudities, I. 199. 
We ourselves can neither dance a hornpipe nor whistle 
Jim Crow without driving the whole musical world Into 
black despair. De Quincey, Herodotus. 
3. To urge; press; carry forward or effect by 
urgency or the presentation of motives: as, to 
drive home an argument ; to drive business ; to 
drive a bargain. 
They . . . injoyned him not to conduct absolntly till 
they knew y termes, and had well considered of them ; 
but to drive it to as good an issew as he could. 
Bradford, Plymouth Plantation, p. 210. 
Drive a Trade, do, with your Three penny-worth of small 
Ware. Conyreve, Way of the World, v. 1. 
Drive thy business ; let not thy business drive thee. 
Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanac. 
You drive a queer bargain with your friends and are 
found out, and imagine the world will punish you. 
Thackeray. 
4. To force, in general; push vigorously, in a 
figurative sense. 
You must not labour to drive into their heads new and 
strange informations, which you know well shall be no- 
thing regarded with them that be of clean contrary minds. 
Sir T. More, Utopia (tr. by Kobinson), i. 
We drove on the war at a prodigious disadvantage. 
Svrift, Conduct of Allies. 
5. To convey in a carriage or other vehicle: 
as, to drive a friend in the park. 6f. To over- 
run and devastate ; harry. 
We come not with design of wasteful prey, 
To drive the country, force the swains away. 
Dryden. 
7. In mining, to excavate in a nearly horizon- 
tal direction. See drift and level. 
A Theban king on ascending the throne began at once 
to drite the tunnel which was to form his final resting 
place, and persevered with the work until death. 
Encyc. Brit., XXIII. 622. 
8t. To endure. 
Bettyr they were to be oute off lyve 
Than soche payne for to dryve. 
Hymns to Virgin, etc. (E. E. T. S.), p. 120. 
To drive a nail in one's coffin. See coffin To drive 
a ship, to make it carry a great press of sail. To drive 
feathers or down, to place feathers or down in a ma- 
chine which, by a current of air, drives off the lightest 
to one end, and collects them by themselves. 
My thrice-dricen bed of down. Shak., Othello, i. 3. 
To drive over or out, in type-setting, to carry from one 
line into another, or extend beyond its proper length for 
the matter contained, by unusually wide spacing : as to 
drive over or out a word or syllable ; to drive out a line or 
a paragraph. To drive the back wood up. See back- 
wood. To drive the cross, in target-skonting, to hit the 
target at the intersection of two straight lines ; make the 
best shot possible. To drive the nail, in target-shooting, 
to stake the head of a nail with the bullet and thus drive 
it into the wood ; hence, to make a good shot ; make a good 
hit, as in an argument. 
A shot which comes very close to the nail is considered 
that of an indifferent marksman ; the tending of the nail 
is, of course, somewhat better ; but nothing less than hit- 
ting it right on the head is satisfactory. . . . Those who 
drive the nail have a further trial among themselves. 
Audubon, Ornith. Biog., I. 293. 
To drive to one's Wit's end, to perplex utterly ; non- 
plus. 
Then the text that disturbed him came again into his 
mind : and he knowing not what to say nor how to answer, 
was "driven to Mtmts end, little deeming," he says, " that 
Satan had thus assaulted him, but that it was his own 
prudence which had started the question." 
Southey, Bunyan, p. 21. 
To drive to the wall, to force to accept unapproved 
terms or circumstances ; push to extremity ; crush. 
There was a disposition in Congress to keep no terms 
with the President to drive him completely to the wall. 
O. S. Merriam, S. Bowles, II. S3. 
= Syn. 1 and 2. See thrust. 
II. in trans. 1. To go along before an im- 
pelling force ; be impelled ; be moved by any 
physical force or agent : as, the ship drove be- 
fore the wind. 
A Spanish Oarauell comming to water at Dominica, one of 
the Caniball Hands, the Sauages cut her Cable in the night, 
and so she draite on shore, and all her companie was sur- 
prised and eaten by them. Purchas, Pilgrimage, p. 902. 
drive 
Lying with the helm a-weather, we made no way but 
as the ship drove. Winthrap, Hist New England, I. 21. 
Seven days I drove, along the dreary deep, 
And with me drove the moon and all the stars. 
/' unyson, Holy Grail. 
2. To act or move with force, violence, or 
impetuosity: as, the storm drove against the 
house ; he drove at the work night and day. 
Fierce Boreas drove against his flying sails. Dryden. 
He flew where'er the horses drove, nor knew 
Whither the horses drove, or where he flew. 
Addison, tr. of Ovid's Metamorph., il. 
Heapt In mounds and ridges all the sea 
Drove like a cataract. Tennyson, Holy Grail. 
Heroes madly drave and dashed their hosts 
Against each other. Bryant, Earth. 
3. To ride on horseback. [Now only provin- 
cial.] 
He cam driuende upon a stede. Havelok, 1. 2702. 
Whan thel hadde thus rested a-whlle thel saugh her 
meyne come full harde drititinge, ffor the sarazins re- 
couered a-noon as the knyghtes of the rounde table lefte 
the standard. Merlin (E. E. T. S.), ii. 335. 
4. To be conveyed in a carriage; travel in a 
vehicle drawn by one or more horses or other 
animals. 6. To aim or tend ; make an effort 
to reach or obtain : with at: as, the end he was 
driving at. 
They are very religious & honest gentle-men, yet they 
had an end y* they drove at & laboured to accomplish. 
Sherley, quoted in Bradford's Plymouth Plantation, p. 401. 
I don't know what you mean, Brother What do you 
drive at, Brother? Steele, Tender Husband, T. 1. 
6. To aim a blow ; strike with force : with at. 
At Anxur's shield he drove, and at the blow 
Both shield and arm to ground together go. 
Dryden, JEneM. 
7. To work with energy ; labor actively: often 
with away. 
She had been kneeling, trowel In hand, driving away 
vigorously at the loamy earth. The Century, XXXV. 947. 
8f. To take the property of another ; distrain 
for rent ; drive cattle into a pound as security 
for rent. 
His landlord, who, he fears, hath sent 
His water-bailiff thus to drive for rent. 
Cleaveland. 
The term driving was applied to a summary process for 
recovering rent which the law In these days conferred up- 
on the landlord, whereby he could drive to the pound the 
cattle of any tenant who owed any rent whatever, without 
previous notice to the tenant orany statement of the land- 
lord's demand having been furnished to him, and the cat- 
tle so impounded might be kept In durance until the rent 
was paid. Trench, Realities of Irish Life. 
To drive out, in type-setting, to space out lines so as to 
make the matter flll a larger or the desired amount of 
space. To let drive, to aim a blow ; strike. 
Four rogues in buckram let drive at me. 
Shak., 1 Hen. IV., ii. 4. 
drive (driv), n. [< drive, v.'] 1. The act or re- 
sult of driving ; something done by means of 
driving, (a) An urging or impelling forward of an as- 
semblage of animals, of a collection of logs in a stream, 
etc. : as, a drive of cattle on the plains for the purpose of 
branding or sorting them ; a drive of game for the con- 
venience of sportsmen. 
Sometimes an animal usually a cow or steer, but, 
strangely enough, very rarely a bull will get fighting 
mad, and turn on the men. If on the drive, such a beast 
usually is simply dropped out. 
T. Roosevelt, The Century, XXXV. 861. 
(6) A strong or sweeping blow or impulsion, (c) In type- 
founding, the deep Impress of the steel punch or model- 
letter in a bar of copper. Also known as a strike or t/n- 
jmtified matrix. It is usually made by a quick and strong 
blow in cold-rolled copper. The drive, when fitted to the 
mold, is called & justified matrix. 
When the letter is perfect, it is driven into a piece of 
polished copper, called the drive or strike. This passes to 
the justifler, who makes the width and depth of the faces 
uniform throughout the fount. Encyc. Brit. , XXIII. 699. 
(d) In base-ball, also in laim-tennis, etc., the knocking or 
throwing of a ball very swiftly, (e) Conveyance In a 
vehicle; an excursion or airing in a carriage: as, to take 
a drive. 
2. That which is driven; cattle, game, etc., 
driven together or alone. 
In each of these tributaries (of St. Croix river] lay last 
spring what is termed a heavy drive of logs. 
Sri. Amer., N. 8., LV. 101. 
3. The state of being driven or hurried ; ex- 
treme haste or pressure : as, a drive of business. 
[Colloq.] 
Many collieries are now turning out 1500 tons a day, re- 
quiring one incessant drive. The Engineer, LXV. 248. 
4. A course upon which carriages are driven ; 
a road prepared for driving: as, the drives in a 
park. 5. The course or country over which 
game is driven. 6. The selling of a particular 
kind of goods, as gloves, below the usual price, 
in order to draw customers. [Trade cant.] 
7. A jest or satirical remark directed at a per- 
son or thing. [Colloq., U. S.] 
