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v. t. 1. To bring to shore. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

And made the sea-trod ship arrive them. Chapman. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To reach; to come to. [ Archaic ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Ere he arrive the happy isle. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

Ere we could arrive the point proposed. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Arrive at last the blessed goal. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Arrival. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

How should I joy of thy arrive to hear! Drayton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who arrives. [ 1913 Webster ]

. (Automobiles) A transmission arrangement in which the longitudinal crank shaft drives the rear wheels through a clutch, change-speed gear, countershaft, and two parallel side chains, in order. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Contrived p. pr. & vb. n. Contriving. ] [ OE. contriven, contreven, controven, to invent, OF. controver, contruver; con- + trouver to find. See Troubadour, trover. ] To form by an exercise of ingenuity; to devise; to invent; to design; to plan. [ 1913 Webster ]

What more likely to contrive this admirable frame of the universe than infinite wisdom. Tillotson. [ 1913 Webster ]

neither do thou imagine that I shall contrive aught against his life. Hawthorne.

Syn. -- To invent; discover; plan; design; project; plot; concert; hatch. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To make devices; to form designs; to plan; to scheme; to plot. [ 1913 Webster ]

The Fates with traitors do contrive. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Thou hast contrived against th very life
Of the defendant. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Contrivance; invention; arrangement; design; plan. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Consider the admirable contrivement and artifice of this great fabric. Glanvill. [ 1913 Webster ]

Active to meet their contrivements. Sir G. Buck. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who contrives, devises, plans, or schemas. Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

prop. n. a tributary of the Ohio River.
Syn. -- . [ WordNet 1.5 ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Deprived p. pr. & vb. n. Depriving. ] [ LL. deprivare, deprivatium, to divest of office; L. de- + privare to bereave, deprive: cf. OF. depriver. See Private. ] 1. To take away; to put an end; to destroy. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

'Tis honor to deprive dishonored life. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To dispossess; to bereave; to divest; to hinder from possessing; to debar; to shut out from; -- with a remoter object, usually preceded by of. [ 1913 Webster ]

God hath deprived her of wisdom. Job xxxix. 17. [ 1913 Webster ]

It was seldom that anger deprived him of power over himself. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To divest of office; to depose; to dispossess of dignity, especially ecclesiastical. [ 1913 Webster ]

A minister deprived for inconformity. Bacon.

Syn. -- To strip; despoil; rob; abridge. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. marked by deprivation especially of the necessities of life or healthful environmental or social influences; as, a childhood that was unhappy and deprived, the family living off charity; boys from a deprived environment, wherein the family life revealed a pattern of neglect, moral degradation, and disregard for law.
Syn. -- disadvantaged. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. Deprivation. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who, or that which, deprives. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Derived p. pr. & vb. n. Deriving. ] [ F. dériver, L. derivare; de- + rivus stream, brook. See Rival. ] 1. To turn the course of, as water; to divert and distribute into subordinate channels; to diffuse; to communicate; to transmit; -- followed by to, into, on, upon. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

For fear it [ water ] choke up the pits . . . they [ the workman ] derive it by other drains. Holland. [ 1913 Webster ]

Her due loves derived to that vile witch's share. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

Derived to us by tradition from Adam to Noah. Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To receive, as from a source or origin; to obtain by descent or by transmission; to draw; to deduce; -- followed by from. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To trace the origin, descent, or derivation of; to recognize transmission of; as, he derives this word from the Anglo-Saxon. [ 1913 Webster ]

From these two causes . . . an ancient set of physicians derived all diseases. Arbuthnot. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Chem.) To obtain one substance from another by actual or theoretical substitution; as, to derive an organic acid from its corresponding hydrocarbon.

Syn. -- To trace; deduce; infer. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To flow; to have origin; to descend; to proceed; to be deduced. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Power from heaven
Derives, and monarchs rule by gods appointed. Prior. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. That which is derived; deduction; inference. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

I offer these derivements from these subjects. W. Montagu. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who derives. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ OF. descrivre. See Describe. ] To describe. [ Obs. ] Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ OF. descrivre. See Describe. ] To describe. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. Drove formerly Drave (drāv); p. p. Driven p. pr. & vb. n. Driving. ] [ AS. drīfan; akin to OS. drīban, D. drijven, OHG. trīban, G. treiben, Icel. drīfa, Goth. dreiban. Cf. Drift, Drove. ] 1. 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

A storm came on and drove them into Pylos. Jowett (Thucyd. ). [ 1913 Webster ]

Shield pressed on shield, and man drove man along. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

Go drive the deer and drag the finny prey. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

How . . . proud he was to drive such a brother! Thackeray. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. 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. “ Enough to drive one mad.” Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

He, driven to dismount, threatened, if I did not do the like, to do as much for my horse as fortune had done for his. Sir P. Sidney. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To carry or; to keep in motion; to conduct; to prosecute. [ Now used only colloquially. ] Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

The trade of life can not be driven without partners. Collier. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. To clear, by forcing away what is contained. [ 1913 Webster ]

To drive the country, force the swains away. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. (Mining) To dig Horizontally; to cut a horizontal gallery or tunnel. Tomlinson. [ 1913 Webster ]

7. To pass away; -- said of time. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

8. Specif., in various games, as tennis, baseball, etc., to propel (the ball) swiftly by a direct stroke or forcible throw. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

9. to operate (a vehicle) while it is on motion, by manipulating the controls, such as the steering, propulsion, and braking mechanisms. [ PJC ]

n. 1. 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. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

2. (Golf) A stroke from the tee, generally a full shot made with a driver; also, the distance covered by such a stroke. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

☞ Drive, in all its senses, implies forcible or violent action. It is the reverse of to lead. To drive a body is to move it by applying a force behind; to lead is to cause to move by applying the force before, or in front. It takes a variety of meanings, according to the objects by which it is followed; as, to drive an engine, to direct and regulate its motions; to drive logs, to keep them in the current of a river and direct them in their course; to drive feathers or down, to place them in a machine, which, by a current of air, drives off the lightest to one end, and collects them by themselves. “My thrice-driven bed of down.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. 1. To rush and press with violence; to move furiously. [ 1913 Webster ]

Fierce Boreas drove against his flying sails. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

Under cover of the night and a driving tempest. Prescott. [ 1913 Webster ]

Time driveth onward fast,
And in a little while our lips are dumb. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To be forced along; to be impelled; to be moved by any physical force or agent; to be driven. [ 1913 Webster ]

The hull drives on, though mast and sail be torn. Byron. [ 1913 Webster ]

The chaise drives to Mr. Draper's chambers. Thackeray. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To press forward; to aim, or tend, to a point; to make an effort; to strive; -- usually with at. [ 1913 Webster ]

Let them therefore declare what carnal or secular interest he drove at. South. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. To distrain for rent. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

6. (Golf) To make a drive, or stroke from the tee. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

7. to go from one place to another in a vehicle, serving as the operator of the vehicle; to drive{ 9 } a vehicle from one location to another. He drove from New York to Boston in four hours. [ PJC ]

To let drive, to aim a blow; to strike with force; to attack. “Four rogues in buckram let drive at me.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

p. p. Driven. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The act of driving; a trip or an excursion in a carriage, as for exercise or pleasure; -- distinguished from a ride taken on horseback. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A place suitable or agreeable for driving; a road prepared for driving. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Violent or rapid motion; a rushing onward or away; esp., a forced or hurried dispatch of business. [ 1913 Webster ]

The Murdstonian drive in business. M. Arnold. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. In type founding and forging, an impression or matrix, formed by a punch drift. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. A collection of objects that are driven; a mass of logs to be floated down a river. [ Colloq. ]

Syn. -- See Ride. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. a private road; a driveway. [ PJC ]

7. a strong psychological motivation to perform some activity. [ PJC ]

8. (Computers) a device for reading or writing data from or to a data storage medium, as a disk drive, a tape drive, a CD drive, etc. [ PJC ]

9. an organized effort by a group to accomplish a goal within a limited period of time; as, a fund-raising drive. [ PJC ]

10. a physiological function of an organism motivating it to perform specific behaviors; as, the sex drive. [ PJC ]

11. (Football) the period during which one team sustains movement of the ball toward the opponent's goal without losing possession of the ball; as, a long drive downfield. [ PJC ]

12. an act of driving a vehicle, especially an automobile; the journey undertaken by driving an automobile; as, to go for a drive in the country. [ PJC ]

13. the mechanism which causes the moving parts of a machine to move; as, a belt drive. [ PJC ]

14. the way in which the propulsive force of a vehicle is transmitted to the road; as, a car with four-wheel drive, front-wheel drive, etc. [ PJC ]

n. A drift; a tool for setting bolts home. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. accomplished while driving past in a vehicle; as, a drive-by shooting. [ PJC ]

n. any installation designed to accommodate patrons while staying in their automobiles; especially an outdoor movie theater in which patrons park in their vehicles to watch the movie. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. arranged to allow business to be transacted while patrons remain in their vehicles; as, a drive-in window at a bank.
Syn. -- drive-through. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. a window at a business establishment, such as a bank or restaurant, where patrons may transact business or order goods while staying in their automobiles; as, to cash a check at the drive-in window of the bank. [ PJC ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Driveled r Drivelled; p. pr. & vb. n. Driveling or Drivelling. ] [ Cf. OE. dravelen, drabelen, drevelen, drivelen, to slaver, and E. drabble. Cf. Drool. ] 1. To slaver; to let spittle drop or flow from the mouth, like a child, idiot, or dotard. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. [ Perh. a different word: cf. Icel. drafa to talk thick. ] To be weak or foolish; to dote; as, a driveling hero; driveling love. Shak. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. Slaver; saliva flowing from the mouth. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Inarticulate or unmeaning utterance; foolish talk; babble. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A driveler; a fool; an idiot. [ Obs. ] Sir P. Sidney. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. A servant; a drudge. [ Obs. ] Huloet. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A slaverer; a slabberer; an idiot; a fool. [ Written also driveller. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

p. p. of Drive. Also adj. [ 1913 Webster ]

Driven well, a well made by driving a tube into the earth to an aqueous stratum; -- called also drive well. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A pipe for forcing into the earth. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From Drive. ] 1. One who, or that which, drives; the person or thing that urges or compels anything else to move onward. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The person who drives beasts or a carriage; a coachman; a charioteer, etc.; hence, also, one who controls the movements of a any vehicle. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

3. An overseer of a gang of slaves or gang of convicts at their work. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Mach.) 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:

(a) The driving wheel of a locomotive. (b) An attachment to a lathe, spindle, or face plate to turn a carrier. (c) A crossbar on a grinding mill spindle to drive the upper stone. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. (Naut.) The after sail in a ship or bark, being a fore-and-aft sail attached to a gaff; a spanker. Totten. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. An implement used for driving; as: (a) A mallet. (b) A tamping iron. (c) A cooper's hammer for driving on barrel hoops. (d) A wooden-headed golf club with a long shaft, for playing the longest strokes. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

Driver ant (Zool.), a species of African stinging ant; one of the visiting ants (Anomma arcens); -- so called because they move about in vast armies, and drive away or devour all insects and other small animals. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a rotating shaft that transmits power from the engine to the point of application. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. arranged to allow business to be transacted or sights to be seen while patrons remain in their vehicles; as, a drive-through car wash; a drive-through safari park. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. A passage or way along or through which a carriage may be driven. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To rive; to cleave. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To drive about; to drive here and there. [ Obs. ] Rom. of R. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. With full speed. [ Colloq. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. & i. [ See Again, and Strive. ] To strive or struggle against; to withstand. [ Obs. ] Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. grivet. ] (Zool.) A monkey of the upper Nile and Abyssinia (Cercopithecus griseo-viridis), having the upper parts dull green, the lower parts white, the hands, ears, and face black. It was known to the ancient Egyptians. Called also tota. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Driven to the end, as a nail; driven close. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. same as automated.
Syn. -- automated. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

v. t. 1. To turn or divert improperly; to misdirect. [ Obs. ] Bp. Hall. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To derive erroneously. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To thrive poorly; to be not thrifty or prosperous. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Mach.) Driven or actuated by a motor, esp. by an individual electric motor. An electric motor forms an integral part of many machine tools in numerous modern machine shops. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]