Word Meanings - FLEME - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To banish; to drive out; to expel. "Appetite flemeth discretion." Chaucer.

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• 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
• 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.
• DISCRETION
  difference, discernment, fr. discernere, discretum. See Discreet, 1. Disjunction; separation. Mede. 2. The quality of being discreet; wise conduct and management; cautious discernment, especially as to matters of propriety and self- control;
• DRIVEWAY
  A passage or way along or through which a carriage may be driven.
• EXPELLER
  One who. or that which, expels.
• DRIVEBOLT
  A drift; a tool for setting bolts home.
• BANISHMENT
  The act of banishing, or the state of being banished. He secured himself by the banishment of his enemies. Johnson. Round the wide world in banishment we roam. Dryden. Syn. -- Expatriation; ostracism; expulsion; proscription; exile; outlawry.
• EXPELLABLE
  Capable of being expelled or driven out. "Expellable by heat." Kirwan.
• 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.
• DISCRETIONAL; DISCRETIONARY
  Left to discretion; unrestrained except by discretion or judgment; as, an ambassador with discretionary powers.
• BANISHER
  One who banishes.
• DRIVEPIPE
  A pipe for forcing into the earth.
• BANISH
  1. To condemn to exile, or compel to leave one's country, by authority of the ruling power. "We banish you our territories." Shak. 2. To drive out, as from a home or familiar place; -- used with from and out of. How the ancient Celtic tongue came
• EXPEL
  1. To drive or force out from that within which anything is contained, inclosed, or situated; to eject; as to expel air from a bellows. Did not ye . . . expel me out of my father's house Judg. Xi. 7. 2. To drive away from one's country; to banish.
• DISCRETIONALLY; DISCRETIONARILY
  At discretion; according to one's discretion or judgment.
• APPETITE
  appetere to strive after, long for; ad + petere to seek. See 1. The desire for some personal gratification, either of the body or of the mind. The object of appetite it whatsoever sensible good may be wished for; the object of will is that good
• FORDRIVE
  To drive about; to drive here and there. Rom. of R.
• REBANISH
  To banish again.
• FULL-DRIVE
  With full speed.
• 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.
• 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.
• MOTOR-DRIVEN
  Driven or actuated by a motor, esp. by an individual electric motor. An electric motor forms an integral part of many machine tools in numerous modern machine shops.
• OVERDRIVE
  To drive too hard, or far, or beyond strength.
• REEXPEL
  To expel again.