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{ , n. [ See Drove. ] (Law) An ancient yearly payment made by some tenants to the king, or to their landlords, for the privilege of driving their cattle through a manor to fairs or markets. Cowell. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Chem.) A supposed compound of hydrofluoris acid and a base; a fluoride. [ Archaic ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Hydro-, 2 + fluoric. ] (Chem.) Pertaining to, or containing, hydrogen and fluorine; fluohydric; as, hydrofluoric acid. [ 1913 Webster ]

Hydrofluoric acid (Chem.), a colorless, mobile, volatile liquid, HF, very corrosive in its action, and having a strong, pungent, suffocating odor. It is produced by the action of sulphuric acid on fluorite, and is usually collected as a solution in water. It attacks all silicates, as glass or porcelain, is the agent employed in etching glass, and is preserved only in vessels of platinum, lead, caoutchouc, or gutta-percha. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Chem.) A salt of hydrofluosilic acid; a silicofluoride. See Silicofluoride. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Hydro-, 2 + fluorine + silicic. ] (Chem.) Pertaining to, or denoting, a compound consisting of a double fluoride of hydrogen and silicon; silicofluoric. See Silicofluoric. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Flexed or bent inward. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Profligate, a. ] The quality of state of being profligate; a profligate or very vicious course of life; a state of being abandoned in moral principle and in vice; dissoluteness. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. profligatus, p. p. of profligare to strike or dash to the ground, to destroy; pro before + a word akin to fligere to strike. See Afflict. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. Overthrown; beaten; conquered. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

The foe is profligate, and run. Hudibras. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Broken down in respect of rectitude, principle, virtue, or decency; openly and shamelessly immoral or vicious; dissolute; as, profligate man or wretch. [ 1913 Webster ]

A race more profligate than we. Roscommon. [ 1913 Webster ]

Made prostitute and profligate muse. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Abandoned; corrupt; dissolute; vitiated; depraved; vicious; wicked. See Abandoned. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. An abandoned person; one openly and shamelessly vicious; a dissolute person. “Such a profligate as Antony.” Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To drive away; to overcome. [ A Latinism ] [ Obs. ] Harvey. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a profligate manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality of being profligate; an abandoned course of life; profligacy. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. profligatio. ] Defeat; rout; overthrow. [ Obs. ] Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. profluentia. ] Quality of being profluent; course. [ R. ] Sir H. Wotton. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. profluens, p. pr. of profluere; pro forward + fluere to flow. ] Flowing forward, [ R. ] “In the profluent stream.” Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. [ Pref. retro- + L. flectere, flexum, to bend, to turn. ] Reflexed; bent or turned abruptly backward. [ 1913 Webster ]