drift (1 once; 2 the usual S. sense)
1.
shower (of
bullets) John II. i. 412.
2.
what one is driving
at, aim, tendency
Tp. V. i. 29
“ of my
purpose,”
Wiv. II. ii. 256
“understand my ,”
Troil. III. iii. 113
“the author's ,”
Rom. II. iii. 55,
Ham. II. i. 10
“ of
question,”
III. i. 1
“ of
circumstance”
* (Qq
“ of conference”),
IV. vii. 151.
3.
scheme, plot, design
Gent. II. vi. 43, &c.
