<B>driveline, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the universal joint, drive shaft, and other parts connecting the transmission of an automobile with the driving axle. </DL>
<B>driven, </B>verb, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>verb </I> past participle of <B>drive.</B> <BR> <I>Ex. The milkman has just driven past our house.</I> <DD><I>adj. </I> <B>1. </B>urged onward; impelled. <BR> <I>Ex. The creative individual is a driven man. He has an inner compulsion to bring something new into the world (Atlantic).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>carried along and gathered into heaps by the wind; drifted. <BR> <I>Ex. driven snow.</I> noun <B>drivenness.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="driveon">
<B>drive-on, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>onto which an automobile or other vehicle can be driven. <BR> <I>Ex. a drive-on ferry.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>having to do with drive-on ferries or the vehicles using them. <BR> <I>Ex. drive-on traffic.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="driver">
<B>driver, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a person who drives. <BR> <I>Ex. A cowboy who rounds up cattle is a driver.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>a person who drives an automobile, horses, or a carriage. <BR> <I>Ex. The driver of the truck admitted that the accident was his fault (Time).</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>(British.) the engineer of a locomotive. <DD><B> 4. </B>(Figurative.) a person who makes the people under him work very hard. <DD><B> 5. </B>a golf club with a wooden head. It is used in hitting the ball off the tee. <DD><B> 6. </B>a part of a machine, such as a gear or wheel, that transmits motion to another part or parts. <DD><B> 7. </B>a tool for driving, such as a mallet or drift. <BR><I>expr. <B>in the driver's seat,</B> </I>in full control; in a commanding position. <BR> <I>Ex. In that business, the owner is really in the driver's seat.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="driverant">
<B>driver ant,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> any one of a group of African, European, and Asian army ants, that travel in great swarms and eat other insects and animals. </DL>
<A NAME="driverless">
<B>driverless, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> without a driver. <BR> <I>Ex. a driverless car.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="driveshaft">
<B>drive shaft,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a shaft that transmits power from an engine to the various working parts of a machine, especially such a device in an automobile connecting the transmission and the rear axle. </DL>
<A NAME="driveupwindow">
<B>drive-up window,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (U.S.) a window through which patrons can be served while seated in their cars. </DL>
<A NAME="driveway">
<B>driveway, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a road to drive on; drive. A driveway often leads from a house or other building to the public street or road. <DD><B> 2. </B>a road or way along which vehicles or animals are driven. </DL>
<A NAME="driving">
<B>driving, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>setting in motion; moving. <BR> <I>Ex. The chief driving power in the rise of production has not been consumer spending but capital investment (Manchester Guardian Weekly).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>moving or falling rapidly; very hard; severe. <BR> <I>Ex. a driving wind, a driving rain.</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>of or having to do with motor vehicle driving or drivers. <BR> <I>Ex. a driving examiner, a driving test.</I> adv. <B>drivingly.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="drivingclock">
<B>driving clock,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a clock used to drive an apparatus at a rate which is proportional to the passage of time. A driving clock attached to an equatorial telescope directs it continuously towards the same point in the sky. </DL>
<A NAME="drivingiron">
<B>driving iron,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a golf club with a steel head, and a face with almost no pitch. </DL>
<A NAME="drivingrange">
<B>driving range,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a field for practicing golf shots and drives, usually equipped with distance markers. </DL>
<A NAME="drivingwheel">
<B>driving wheel,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a main wheel which transmits motion to another or other wheels or which produces motion by friction against a stationary surface, such as the main wheel of a locomotive or bicycle. </DL>
<A NAME="drizzle">
<B>drizzle, </B>verb, <B>-zled,</B> <B>-zling,</B> noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>v.i. </I> <B>1. </B>to rain very gently or in very small drops like mist. <DD><B> 2. </B>to fall in fine drops. <BR> <I>Ex. As the farmer sprayed his orchard the insecticide drizzled over the plants.</I> <DD><I>v.t. </I> <B>1. </B>to shed or let fall in fine drops. <BR> <I>Ex. The air doth drizzle dew (Shakespeare).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>to sprinkle or wet with fine drops. <BR> <I>Ex. ... drizzled by the ceaseless spray (Scott).</I> <DD><I>noun </I> very small drops of rain like mist. <BR> <I>Ex. A steady drizzle made it hard to see across the field.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="drizzly">
<B>drizzly, </B>adjective, <B>-zlier,</B> <B>-zliest.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> having a light rain; drizzling. <BR> <I>Ex. a cold, drizzly afternoon.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="drogher">
<B>drogher, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a slow, clumsy sailing boat of the West Indies. </DL>
<A NAME="drogue">
<B>drogue, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a parachute for decelerating or stabilizing an aircraft while in flight. <DD><B> 2. </B>a device shaped like a large funnel at the end of the hose used to refuel planes in flight. <BR> <I>Ex. The pilot guided the nose of his plane up to the drogue.</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>a type of small sea anchor. </DL>
<A NAME="droid">
<B>droid, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Informal.) android. <BR> <I>Ex. The Nader droids are reading through the real-life Nader's Raiders files looking for "anything of social significance" (Maclean's).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="droit">
<B>droit, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a legal right or claim. <DD><B> 2. </B>something that a person has a legal right or claim to; a due. <BR><I>expr. <B>droits,</B> </I>dues; customs; duties. <BR> <I>Ex. The pilferings of the orchard and garden I confiscated as droits (Frederick Marryat).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="droitautravail">
<B>droit au travail,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (French.) the right to labor or to employment. </DL>
<A NAME="droitdaubaine">
<B>droit d'aubaine,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (French.) <DD><B> 1. </B>right of escheat. <DD><B> 2. </B>the right formerly exercised by sovereigns of France to take over the property of a resident alien at his death. </DL>
<A NAME="droitdesgens">
<B>droit des gens,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (French.) law of nations; international law. </DL>
<A NAME="droitduseigneur">
<B>droit du seigneur,<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. </B>the supposed right of a feudal lord to have sexual intercourse with a vassal's bride on her wedding night. <DD><B> 2. </B>(Figurative.) any lordly or arrogant claim. <BR> <I>Ex. My stepfather seemed to think that he had a sort of droit du seigneur over all cheese in the house (Oliver Woods).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="droitural">
<B>droitural, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Law.) having to do with the right of property, as distinguished from the right of possession. </DL>
<A NAME="drole">
<B>drole, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (French.) a rogue; amusing rascal. </DL>
<A NAME="droll">
<B>droll, </B>adjective, noun, verb.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>adj. </I> odd and amusing; quaint and laughable. <BR> <I>Ex. We smiled at the monkey's droll tricks.</I> (SYN) comical. <DD><I>noun </I> a funny person; jester; buffoon. <DD><I>v.i. </I> to joke; jest. noun <B>drollness.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="drollery">
<B>drollery, </B>noun, pl. <B>-eries.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>something odd and amusing; a laughable trick. <DD><B> 2. </B>quaint humor. <BR> <I>Ex. the rich drollery of "She Stoops to Conquer" (Macaulay).</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>a jesting; joking. <DD><B> 4. </B>(Obsolete.) a comic play, farce, or puppet show. </DL>
<A NAME="drolly">
<B>drolly, </B>adverb.<DL COMPACT><DD> in a droll manner; amusingly. </DL>
<A NAME="drome">
<B>-drome,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (combining form.) <DD><B> 1. </B>a large space or area, as in <I>airdrome, cosmodrome.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>a race course or track, as in <I>motordrome.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="dromedary">
<B>dromedary, </B>noun, pl. <B>-daries.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a swift camel with one hump and short hair, found in parts of India, Arabia, and northern Africa and used for riding; Arabian camel. <BR> <I>Ex. The troops included cavalry on Australian Walers and camel troops on big dun dromedaries (New Yorker).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="dromoi">
<B>dromoi, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a plural of <B>dromos.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="dromomania">
<B>dromomania, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> an exaggerated urge to travel. <BR> <I>Ex. Partly it was a dromomania I have--I even have it when I drive a car (Edward R. Murrow).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="dromon">
<B>dromon, </B>noun. =dromond.</DL>
<A NAME="dromond">
<B>dromond, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a large, fast sailing ship of the Middle Ages. </DL>
<A NAME="dromos">
<B>dromos, </B>noun, pl. <B>-moi.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (Archaeology.) a passage, often between rows of columns or statues, leading to a temple, or to an underground tomb. <BR> <I>Ex. Each of the four chamber tombs was accessible through a long dromos which had burial niches hewn on both sides (London Times).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="drone">
<B>drone</B> (1), noun, verb, <B>droned,</B> <B>droning.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>a male bee, especially a male honeybee. Drones do not sting and do not work. <BR> <I>Ex. A typical beehive will contain a single queen, several hundred drones, and many thousand workers (A. M. Winchester).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>(Figurative.) a person not willing to work; idler; loafer. (SYN) sluggard. <DD><B> 3. </B>a pilotless aircraft or vessel directed by remote control. <DD><I>v.t., v.i. </I> to spend (time) idly; loaf (away). </DL>
