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We come not with defign of wafteful prey, 
To drive the country, force the fwains away. Drydcn. 
To force; to compel.—For the metre fake, fome words 
in him fometime be driven awry, which require ftraighter 
placing in plain profe. Afcham. —To hurry on inconfide- 
rately—Mod miferable, if fuch unfkilfulnefs make them 
drive on their time by the periods of fin and death. Taylor. 
—He was driven by the neceliities of times, more than 
led by his own difpofition, to rigour. King Charles. —To 
diftrefs; to ftraighten.—This kind of fpeech is in the 
manner of defperate men far driven. Spcnfer. —To urge by 
violence, not kindnefs : 
He taught the gofpel rather than the law, 
And forc’d himfelf to drive, but lov’d to draw. Dryden. 
To impel by influence of pafiion.—It is better to marry 
than to burn, fays St. Paul; where we may fee what 
drives men into a conjugal life : a little burning ptifhes us 
more powerfully than greater pleafures in profpeCt. Locke. 
—To urge; to prefs to a conclufion.—To drive the ar¬ 
gument farther, let us inquire into the obvious defigns 
of this divine architect. Ckeyne. —To carry on; to keep 
in motion.—As a farmer cannot luifband his ground fo 
well, if he fit at a great rent; fo the merchant cannot 
drive his trade fo well, if he fit at a great ufury. Bacon. 
Your Pafimond a lavvlefs bargain drove. 
The parent could not fell the daughter’s love. Drydcn. 
To purify\>y motion: fo we fay to drive feathers.—-His 
thrice-r/nberc bed of down. Shakefpeare. —The one’s in the 
plot, let him be never fo innocent; and the other is as 
white as the driven fnow, let him be never fo criminal. 
L’ EJlrange. 
To Drive out. To expel.—Tumults and their exciters 
drave myfelf and many of both houfes out of their places. 
King Charles. 
To DRIVE, v. n. To go as impelled by any external 
agent: 
I.ove, fixt to one, fill fafe at anchor rides. 
And dares the fury of the winds and tides ; 
But lofing once that hold, to the wide ocean born, 
It drives away at will, to every wave a fcorn. Dryden. 
To rufh with violence.—The wolves fcampered away as 
hard as they could drive. VEJlrange. 
As a (hip which winds and waves aflail, 
Now with the current drives, now with the gale; 
She feels a double force, by turns obeys 
Th’ imperious temped, and th’ impetuous feas. Dryden. 
To pafs in a carriage ; to regulate the courfe of a/carriage : 
Thy flaming chariot-wheels, that (hook 
Hea.v’.n’s everlafing frame, while o’er the necks 
Thou drov'Jl of warring angels di(array'd. Milton. 
To tend to ; to confider as the fcope and ultimate defign. 
—Authors drive at thefe, as the highefi elegancies, which 
are but the frigidities of wit. Brown. —We cannot widely 
miflake his diicourfe, when we have found out the point 
he drives at. Locke. —To aim; to frike at with fury.— 
Four rogues in buckram let drive at me. Shakefpeare. 
At Atixur’s Afield lie drove , and at the blow 
Both Afield and arm to ground together go. Dryden. 
To 'drive, in all its fenfes, whether active or neuter, may 
be Oblerved to retain a l'enfe compounded of violence and 
progreflion. 
DRIVE BAY, a bay of the river St. Lawrence, on 
the fouth coaf of Canada. Lat.4S.52.lSt. Ion. 68. ao.W. 
Greenwich. 
DRIVE-BOLT,/. A particular kind of bolt ufed in 
flip-building. 
To DRI'VEL, v. n. [from drip, dripplc, dribble, drivel.] 
To (laver; to let the (pittle fall in drops, like a child, 
an idiot, or a dotard..— A driveling old fellow, lean, 
flaking both of head and hands, already half earth, and 
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yet then mefl greedy of earth. Sidney. —To be weak or 
foolilh ; to dote : 
I hate to fee a brave bold fellow fotted, 
Made four and fenfelefs, turn’d to whey, by love ; 
A driveling hero, (it for a romance. Drydcn. 
DRI'VEL,/; Slaver; moifture (hed from the mouth, 
— A fool; an idiot; a driveller: 
Befides th’ eternal drivel, that fupplies 
The dropping beard, from noftrils, mouth, and eyes. 
Dryden. 
DRI'VELLER, f. A fool; an idiot; a Aaverer.—I 
have heard the arranteft drivellers commended for their 
flirewdnels, even by men of tolerable judgment. Swift. 
DRI'VEN, part, of drive. —They were driven forth 
from among men. Job, xxx. 5. 
DRI'VER,/! The perfon or inflrument who gives any 
motion by violence. One who drives beads—The multi¬ 
tude or common rout, like a drove of fneep, or an herd 
of oxen, may be managed by any noife or cry which their 
driver fiall accuftom them to. South. 
He from the mar.y-peopled city flies. 
Contemns their labours, and the driver's, cries. Sandys. 
One who drives a carriage : 
Not the fierce driver with more fury lends 
The founding lafli, and, ere the ftroke defeends, 
Low to the wheels his pliant body bends. Dryden. 
To DRIZ'ZLE, v. a. \_drifelen, Germ, to (lied dew.] 
To (lied in fmall flow drops, as winter rains.—When the 
fun fets, the air doth drizzle dew. Shakfpeare. 
Though now this face of mine be bid 
In fap-confuming winter’s drizzled fnow, 
And all the conduits of my blood froze up. 
Yet hath my night of life fome memory. Shakefpeare. 
To DRIZ'ZLE, v. n. To fall in flow drops.—The 
neighbouring mountains, by reafon of their height, are 
more expofed to the dews and drizzling rains than any of 
the adjacent parts. Addifon. 
DRIZ'ZLY, adj. Shedding fmall rain : 
This during winter’s drizzly reign be done. 
Till the new ram receives th’ exalted fun. Dryden. 
DRO'CI, a town of Italy, in the kingdom of Naples, 
and province of Calabria Ultra : nine miles fouth-fouth- 
eafi of Nicotera. 
DROCK, f. in hufbandry, the upright piece of tim¬ 
ber in a plough, to which the earth-board is fixed. 
DROF'LAND, or Dryfland,/! [Saxon.] A tribute 
or yearly payment formerly made by fome tenants to the 
king, or their landlords, for driving their cattle through 
a manor to fairs or markets. Cozvel. 
DROG'HEDA, a fea-port town of Ireland, in the 
county of Louth, (ituated on the Boyne, on the borders 
of the county of Meath, (near which the prince of Orange 
obtained a complete victory over the army of James II. 
called the battle of the Boyne,) and a county of itfelf, 
hoi ding its own afiizes. It is a well-built town on both 
(ides of the river Boyne, and increafes in wealth and 
commerce, and the number of its inhabitants, which 
amount to more than ten thoufand. This port fupplies 
the neighbouring country, for many miles round, with 
Etagli(h coals, and other heavy goods; and exports very 
confiderable quantities of corn, the produce of the adja¬ 
cent and of (everal of the inland counties. Here is alfo a 
celebrated fchooj, with a good endowment. It is twenty- 
three miles north of Dublin. Lat. 53. 43. N. Ion. 6. 22. 
W. Greenwich. 
DROGIE'ZYN, a town of Poland, in the palatinate 
of BieKk : thirty-fix miles fouth-wefl: of Bielk. 
DROGO'NE, a river of Italy, in the kingdom of Na¬ 
ples, which runs into the bay of Squillace. 
DROIL, J'. [by Junius, underftood a contraction of 
drivel. ] A drone; a (luggard. 
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