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To deprive of his privileges. Mozley & W. (more info) 1. To drive from a bench or seat. Shak.

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  • DEPRIVEMENT
    Deprivation.
  • DRIVEL
    To be weak or foolish; to dote; as, a driveling hero; driveling love. Shak. Dryden. (more info) 1. To slaver; to let spittle drop or flow from the mouth, like a child, idiot, or dotard. 2. Etym:
  • DRIVE
    To dig Horizontally; to cut a horizontal gallery or tunnel. Tomlinson. 7. To pass away; -- said of time. Chaucer. Note: 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
  • BENCH
    1. A long seat, differing from a stool in its greater length. Mossy benches supplied the place of chairs. Sir W. Scott. 2. A long table at which mechanics and other work; as, a carpenter's bench. 3. The seat where judges sit in court. To pluck
  • BENCHER
    One of the senior and governing members of an Inn of Court. 2. An alderman of a corporation. Ashmole. 3. A member of a court or council. Shak. 4. One who frequents the benches of a tavern; an idler.
  • DRIVER
    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: The driving wheel of a locomotive.
  • DRIVEWAY
    A passage or way along or through which a carriage may be driven.
  • DRIVEBOLT
    A drift; a tool for setting bolts home.
  • DRIVEN
    of Drive. Also adj. Driven well, a well made by driving a tube into the earth to an aqueous stratum; -- called also drive well.
  • DEPRIVER
    One who, or that which, deprives.
  • DEPRIVE
    1. To take away; to put an end; to destroy. 'Tis honor to deprive dishonored life. Shak. 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. God hath
  • DRIVEPIPE
    A pipe for forcing into the earth.
  • BENCH WARRANT
    A process issued by a presiding judge or by a court against a person guilty of some contempt, or indicted for some crime; -- so called in distinction from a justice's warrant.
  • BENCH MARK
    Any permanent mark to which other levels may be referred. Specif. : A horizontal mark at the water's edge with reference to which the height of tides and floods may be measured.
  • DISBENCH
    To deprive of his privileges. Mozley & W. (more info) 1. To drive from a bench or seat. Shak.
  • CHURCH-BENCH
    A seat in the porch of a church. Shak.
  • WORKBENCH
    A bench on which work is performed, as in a carpenter's shop.
  • FORDRIVE
    To drive about; to drive here and there. Rom. of R.
  • FULL-DRIVE
    With full speed.
  • ALEBENCH
    A bench in or before an alehouse. Bunyan.
  • HOME-DRIVEN
    Driven to the end, as a nail; driven close.
  • CONTINENTAL DRIVE
    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.
  • KING'S BENCH
    Formerly, the highest court of common law in England; -- so called because the king used to sit there in person. It consisted of a chief justice and four puisne, or junior, justices. During the reign of a queen it was called the Queen's Bench. Its
  • SCREW-DRIVER
    A tool for turning screws so as to drive them into their place. It has a thin end which enters the nick in the head of the screw.

 

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