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dreif, drifu; dríf; drifi; drifinn: [ dreiban = εκβάλλειν; drîfan; drive; triban; treiben; drifva; drive, all in a transitive sense—to drive.]
I. to drive like spray, either or , with or even ; þá kemr áfall mikit … ok dreif yfir búlkann, i. 422; lauðri dreif á lypting útan, the spray drove over the poop, vi. (in a verse); hence phrases, láta yfir d., to let drift before wind and wave, Ísl. ii. 461: or even , láta yfir (fyrir) drífask, to let drive or drift away, let go, give in; rán ok útlegðir þeirra manna er eigi létu fyrir drífask, i. 70; þat dugir á enga leið, at menn láti yfir drífask, ii. 51; ok er þó þat ráð, at láta eigi fyrir drífask, 386, 452: phrase, drífa á dagana, mart hefir drifit á dagana, many things (splashes) have happened; drifinn döggu, besprent with dew, 5: , róa drífanda, to pull so that the spray splashes about, pull hard, viii. 263, 431: to drift, of a snow storm or the like, tré með drífandum kvistum, a tree with the branches full of snow. 49; veðr var drífanda, it snowed, iii. 50, 85; þegar dreif í Löginn krömmu, there fell soft snow in the Lake, it began to sleet, v. 196; þá drífr snær ór öllum áttum, 40: of missiles, to shower as flakes of snow, borgarmena láta þegar d. skot á þá, 11; lata þeir d. vápn á þá, i. 135.II. to crowd, throng; þá drífr ofan mannfjöldi mikill til strandar, a great crowd rushed down to the shore, 76; tóku menn þá at d. brott frá hertoganum, the men began to desert (run away) from the duke, ix. 531, dreif allt fólk á hans fund, all people rushed to see him, i. 21, iv. 105; d. á dyrr, to rush to the door, 19.III. to perform; eiga e-t at d., to have a thing to perform, 15, 16; en í annan stað á ek at d. mikinn vanda, I am in a hard strait, i. 221; d. leik, to play, i. 37: the sense to drive out, expel, so common in all other dialects, hardly occurs in old writers, and sounds foreign even now; the proverb, með íllu skal illt út drífa; d. sig, to exert oneself, , (cant phrases.)
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