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%vere depofited in this pariflt-church, they deputed two 
of that learnecUbody, accompanied by fome other gentle¬ 
men, to take up and examine the fame. After digging 
fome time, they found a done coffin, containing the entire 
Skeleton of that great and pious prince, together with the 
greateb part of his dee! armour, the remainder of which 
had probably been corroded by the length of time. Af¬ 
ter fatisfying their curiofity, the coffin and grave were 
again carefully clofed. It appears that king Alfred, 
being wounded in the battle of Stamford Briggs, returned 
to Driffield, where he languiffied of his wounds twenty 
days, and then expired, and was interred in the parilh 
church thereof; during his dcknefs he chartered the 
four fairs above-mentioned. 
DRIFT, f. Force impellent; impulfe ; overbearing 
influence .—-A man being under the drift of any paffion, 
■will dill follow the impulfe of it till fomething interpofe, 
and, by a dronger impulfe, turn him another'way. South. 
—Violence; courfe: 
The mighty trunk, half rent with rugged rift, 
Doth roll adown the rocks, and fall with fearful drift. 
Spenfer. 
Any thing driven at random : 
Some log, perhaps, upon the waters fwam. 
An ufelefs drift, which rudely cut within, 
And hollow’d, firb a floating trough became, 
And crofs fome riv’let pallage did begin. Drydcn. 
Any thing driven or borne along in a body s 
The ready racers Aand; 
Swift as on wings of wind upborne they fly, 
And drifts of rifing dud involve the Iky. Pope. 
A dorm; a fhower: 
Our thunder from the fouth 
Shall rain their drift of bullets on this town. Skakefpeare. 
A heap or dratum of any matter thrown together by the 
wind: as, afnowdrift, a deep body of fnow. Tendency 
or aim of adtion.—The particular drift of every adt, pro¬ 
ceeding eternally from God, we are not able to difcern ; 
and therefore cannot always give the proper and certain 
reafon of his works. Hooker. 
Their drift comes known, and they difcover’d are ; 
For fome, of many, will be falfe of courfe. Daniel. 
Scope of a difcourfe.—The main drift of his book being 
to prove, that what is true is impoffible to be falfe, he 
oppofes nobody. Tillotfon. 
This, by the dile, the manner, and the drift, 
’Twas thought could be the work of none but Swift. Swift. 
In mining, a Ihaft or paflage cut from one mine or draft 
to another. 
To DRIFT, v. a. To drive; to urge along.—Snow, 
no larger than fo many grains of fand, drifted with the 
wind in clouds from every plain. Ellis .—To throw toge¬ 
ther in heaps. Not authorifed: 
He wanders on 
'From hill to dale, dill more and more afiray. 
Impatient flouncing through the drifted heaps. Thomfon. 
DRIFT o? the FOREST, f in law, a view or exa¬ 
mination of what cattle are in a fored, chafe, &c. that it 
may be known whether it be furcharged or not; and 
whofe the beads are, and whether they are commonable, 
Thefe drifts are made at certain times in the year by the 
officers of the fored; when all the cattle of the fored are 
driven into fome pound or place inclofed, for the pur. 
pofes above-mentioned 5 and in order to difeover whether 
any cattle of diangers be there, which ought not to com¬ 
mon. 33 Hen. VIII. c. 13. See the article Forest. 
DRIFT-LAND, f. in old writings, an early rent paid 
by fome tenants for driving cattle through a manor. 
DRIFT-SAIL,/. A fail ufed under water to guide 
ihe head of a drip in a dorm. 
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DRIFT-WAY, f A fea term, the lee-way. 
To DRILL, v. a. \_drillen, Dut. Sicilian, Sax. from' 
Sujijh, through.] To pierce any thing wit^i a drill.—— 
The drill-plate is only a piece of flat iron, fixed upon a 
flat board, which iron hath an hole punched a little way 
into it, to fet the blunt end of the fliank of the drill in, 
when you drill a hole. Moxon. —To perforate; to bore $ 
to pierce: 
Tell, what could drill and perforate the poles, 
And to th’ attractive rays adapt their holes. Blackmore. 
To make a hole.—When a hole is drilled in a piece of 
metal, they bold the drill-bow in their right hand ; but, 
when they turn fmall work, they hold the drill-bow in 
their left hand. Moxon. —To delay; to put off: in low 
phrafe; corrupted from drawled. —She has bubbled him 
out of his youth : fire hath drilled him on to five-and-fifty, 
and fhe will drop him in his old age. Addifon. —To draw 
from dep to dep. A low phrafe. —When by fuch infinua- 
tions they have once got within him, and are able to drill 
him on from one lewdnefs to another, by the fame arts 
they corrupt and fqueeze him. South. —To drain ; to 
draw flowly : 
Drill’d through the fandy dratum every way. 
The waters with the fandy dratum rife. Thomfon 
To form to arms; to teach the military exercife: 
The foe appear’'awn up and drill'd, 
Ready to chargeThem in the field. Hudibras. 
DR ILL, f. An indrument with which holes are bored. 
It is a point preffed hard againd the thing bored, and 
turned round with a bow and bring.— Drills are ufed for 
the making fuch holes as punches will not ferve for; as 
a piece of work that hath already its ffiape, and mud 
have an hole made in it. Moxon. —An ape; a baboon.— 
Shall the difference of hair be a mark of a diderent inter¬ 
nal fpecific conditution between a changeling and a drill, 
when they agree in ffiape and want of reafon f Locke * 
A fmall dribbling brook; properly a rill: 
Springs through the pleafant meadows pour their drills. 
Which fnake -1 ike glide between the bordering hills. Sandys. 
DRILL-BOW, f. A bow ufed by watchmakers in turn- 
ing the drill; the bring is fome times neceffarily fo fmall 
as to be made of a human hair. 
DRILL-BOX, f. A name given to an indrument for 
fowing land in the new method of horfe-hceing hufbandry. 
See Husbandry. 
DRIL'LO, a river of Sicily, in the valley of Noto, 
which runs into the Mediterranean: fix miles fouth-eab 
from Terra Nuova. 
DRIMA'NA POINT, a cape of Ireland, on the north 
coad of the Bay of Donegal: three miles fouth of Killibegs. 
DRIN, a river which rifes in the fouth-wed part of 
Servia, and runs into the Save thirty-two miles wed of 
Sabatz. 
DRIN'GENBERG, a town of Germany, in the circle 
of Wedphalia, and bidiopric of Paderburn : fix miles 
ead-fouth-ead of Paderburn. 
To DRINK, v. n. preter. drank , or drunk -, part, paid, 
drunk, or drunken, [bpuncan, Sax. ] To fwallow liquors ; 
to quench third.—She faid, drink, and I will give thy 
camels drink alfo; fo I drank, and Ihe made the camels 
drink alfo. Gen. xxiv. 46. 
Here, between the armies, 
Let’s drink together friendly, and embrace. Skakefpeare. 
To feab; to be entertained with liquors.—We came to 
fight you.--For my part, I am lorry it is turned to a 
drinking. Skakefpeare. —To drink to excefs; to be an ha¬ 
bitual drunkard ; 
Firft for his fon a gay commiffion buys; 
Who drinks, whores, fights, and in a duel dies. Pope. 
To Drink to.. To falute in drinking ; to ipvite to drink 
by drinking fird 3 
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