indrift

Etymology

From in + drift.

noun

  1. The act of indrifting.“Thus often does the thunder-cloud, advancing slowly towards us, seem to be propelled (apparently against the wind), so as to induce us to thing ourselves safe from its approach; but this is a deception, the current blowing from us towards it being but an indrift towards the higher temperature of the cloud, and the attraction caused by its electrical nature creating a partial or comparative vacuum.”

verb

  1. To drift in.“It was as one of the old Cinque Ports which the departing sea and the ever indrifting sand have left high and dry, unapproachable by water, a port only in name.”