Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Drive \Drive\, v. i.
   1. To rush and press with violence; to move furiously.

            Fierce Boreas drove against his flying sails.
                                                  --Dryden.

            Under cover of the night and a driving tempest.
                                                  --Prescott.

            Time driveth onward fast, And in a little while our
            lips are dumb.                        --Tennyson.

   2. To be forced along; to be impelled; to be moved by any
      physical force or agent; to be driven.

            The hull drives on, though mast and sail be torn.
                                                  --Byron.

            The chaise drives to Mr. Draper's chambers.
                                                  --Thackeray.

   3. To go by carriage; to pass in a carriage; to proceed by
      directing or urging on a vehicle or the animals that draw
      it; as, the coachman drove to my door.

   4. To press forward; to aim, or tend, to a point; to make an
      effort; to strive; -- usually with at.

            Let them therefore declare what carnal or secular
            interest he drove at.                 --South.

   5. To distrain for rent. [Obs.]

   {To let drive}, to aim a blow; to strike with force; to
      attack. ``Four rogues in buckram let drive at me.''
      --Shak.