adrift

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

ADRIFT', adjective or adverb [See Drive. adrift is the participle of the verb.] Literally, driven; floating; floating at random; impelled or moving without direction. As an adjective, it always follows its noun; as, the boat was adrift
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