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Drift
- noun - a force that moves something along
- a general tendency to change (as of opinion); "not openly liberal but that is the trend of the book"; "a broad movement of the electorate to the right"
- a horizontal (or nearly horizontal) passageway in a mine; "they dug a drift parallel with the vein"
- a large mass of material that is heaped up by the wind or by water currents
- a process of linguistic change over a period of time
- be in motion due to some air or water current; "The leaves were blowing in the wind"; "the boat drifted on the lake"; "The sailboat was adrift on the open sea"; "the shipwrecked boat drifted away from the shore"
- be piled up in banks or heaps by the force of wind or a current; "snow drifting several feet high"; "sand drifting like snow"
- be subject to fluctuation; "The stock market drifted upward"
- cause to be carried by a current; "drift the boats downstream"
- drive slowly and far afield for
Droit
- - A right; law in its aspect of the foundation of rights; also, in old law, the writ of right.
Dropt
- - imp. & p. p. of Drop, v.
Erect
- adjective - cause to rise up
- construct, build, or erect; "Raise a barn"
- of sexual organs; stiff and rigid
- upright in position or posture; "an erect stature"; "erect flower stalks"; "for a dog, an erect tail indicates aggression"; "a column still vertical amid the ruins"; "he sat bolt upright"
Ergat
- - To deduce logically, as conclusions.
Ergot
- noun - a fungus that infects various cereal plants forming compact black masses of branching filaments that replace many grains of the plant; source of medicinally important alkaloids and of lysergic acid
- a plant disease caused by the ergot fungus
Ernst
- noun - painter (born in Germany, resident of France and the United States) who was a cofounder of dadaism; developed the technique of collage (1891-1976)
Eruct
- verb - eject or send out in large quantities, also metaphorical; "the volcano spews out molten rocks every day"; "The editors of the paper spew out hostile articles about the Presidential candidate"
- expel gas from the stomach; "In China it is polite to burp at the table"
Erupt
- verb - appear on the skin; "A rash erupted on her arms after she had touched the exotic plant"
- become active and spew forth lava and rocks; "Vesuvius erupts once in a while"
- become raw or open; "He broke out in hives"; "My skin breaks out when I eat strawberries"; "Such boils tend to recrudesce"
- break out; "The tooth erupted and had to be extracted"
- erupt or intensify suddenly; "Unrest erupted in the country"; "Tempers flared at the meeting"; "The crowd irrupted into a burst of patriotism"
- force out or release suddenly and often violently something pent up; "break into tears"; "erupt in anger"
- start abruptly; "After 1989, peace broke out in the former East Bloc"
- start to burn or burst into flames; "Marsh gases ignited suddenly"; "The oily rags combusted spontaneously"