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Rifting
(gcide) | Rift \Rift\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Rifted; p. pr. & vb. n.
Rifting.]
To cleave; to rive; to split; as, to rift an oak or a rock;
to rift the clouds. --Longfellow.
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To dwell these rifted rocks between. --Wordsworth.
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drifting
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Drifting
(gcide) | Drift \Drift\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Drifted; p. pr. & vb. n.
Drifting.]
1. To float or be driven along by, or as by, a current of
water or air; as, the ship drifted astern; a raft drifted
ashore; the balloon drifts slowly east.
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We drifted o'er the harbor bar. -- Coleridge.
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2. To accumulate in heaps by the force of wind; to be driven
into heaps; as, snow or sand drifts.
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3. (mining) to make a drift; to examine a vein or ledge for
the purpose of ascertaining the presence of metals or
ores; to follow a vein; to prospect. [U.S.]
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drifting
(wn) | drifting
adj 1: continually changing especially as from one abode or
occupation to another; "a drifting double-dealer"; "the
floating population"; "vagrant hippies of the sixties"
[syn: aimless, drifting, floating, vagabond,
vagrant]
n 1: aimless wandering from place to place |
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