River
['rɪvə] or ['rɪvɚ]
Definition
(noun.) a large natural stream of water (larger than a creek); 'the river was navigable for 50 miles'.
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Definition
(n.) One who rives or splits.
(n.) A large stream of water flowing in a bed or channel and emptying into the ocean, a sea, a lake, or another stream; a stream larger than a rivulet or brook.
(n.) Fig.: A large stream; copious flow; abundance; as, rivers of blood; rivers of oil.
(v. i.) To hawk by the side of a river; to fly hawks at river fowl.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Stream.
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Definition
n. a large running stream of water.—adj. Riv′erain riparian.—ns. Riv′er-bank the bank of a river; Riv′er-bās′in the whole region drained by a river and its affluents; Riv′er-bed the channel in which a river flows; Riv′er-birch the red birch; Riv′er-bott′om the alluvial land along the margin of a river; Riv′er-carp the common carp; Riv′er-chub the horny-head or jerker; Riv′er-course the bed of a river; Riv′er-crab a fresh-water crab; Riv′er-craft small vessels which ply on rivers; Riv′er-cray′fish a crayfish proper; Riv′er-dol′phin a Gangetic dolphin; Riv′er-drag′on (Milt.) a crocodile; Riv′er-duck a fresh-water duck; Riv′eret Riv′erling a small river; Riv′er-flat alluvial land along a river; Riv′er-god the tutelary deity of a river; Riv′er-head the spring of a river; Riv′er-hog the capybara; Riv′er-horse the hippopotamus.—adj. Riv′erine pertaining to or resembling a river.—ns. Riv′er-jack the common water-snake of Europe; Riv′er-man one who makes his livelihood by dragging the river for sunken goods; River-muss′el a fresh-water mussel; Riv′er-ott′er the common European otter; Riv′er-perch a Californian surf-fish; Riv′er-pie the water-ousel; Riv′er-shore the shore or bank of a river; Riv′er-side the bank of a river; Riv′er-smelt the gudgeon; Riv′er-snail a pond snail; Riv′er-swall′ow the sand-martin; Riv′er-tide the tide from the sea rising or ebbing in a river; Riv′er-tor′toise a soft-shelled turtle; Riv′er-wall a wall made to confine the waters of a river within definite bounds.—adj. Riv′ery pertaining to rivers like rivers.
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If you see a clear, smooth, flowing river in your dream, you will soon succeed to the enjoyment of delightful pleasures, and prosperity will bear flattering promises. If the waters are muddy or tumultuous, there will be disagreeable and jealous contentions in your life. If you are water-bound by the overflowing of a river, there will be temporary embarrassments in your business, or you will suffer uneasiness lest some private escapade will reach public notice and cause your reputation harsh criticisms. If while sailing upon a clear river you see corpses in the bottom, you will find that trouble and gloom will follow swiftly upon present pleasures and fortune. To see empty rivers, denotes sickness and unusual ill-luck.
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Examples
- Thus the enemy, with a vastly superior force, was strongly fortified to the east, south, and west, and commanded the river below. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- But now, at hunting and hawking, and each idle sport of wood and river, who so prompt as the Templars in all these fond vanities? Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- Crittenden had a severe engagement with some of Hill's corps on his crossing the river, and lost heavily. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- There's ever so many people in the river. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Carr's division was deployed on our right, Lawler's brigade forming his extreme right and reaching through these woods to the river above. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Quantity of Water Furnished by a River. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- We found the ship in the river, surrounded by a crowd of boats; a favourable wind blowing; the signal for sailing at her mast-head. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Steel's Bayou empties into the Yazoo River between Haines' Bluff and its mouth. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- There were trees along both sides of the road and through the right line of trees I saw the river, the water clear, fast and shallow. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- To go thither, to escape across the Ohio river, were the first hurried outlines of her plan of escape; beyond that, she could only hope in God. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- How was it he had totally disappeared on leaving ship, 'till found in river? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- In addition to this he had far under way a steamer for plying between Chattanooga and Bridgeport whenever we might get possession of the river. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- The union of a number of springs forms a river. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- The Memphis and Charleston Railroad strikes the Tennessee at Eastport, Mississippi, and follows close to the banks of the river up to the shoals. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Fort Fisher was situated upon a low, flat peninsula north of Cape Fear River. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Rivers and pipes have their metres, so that now the velocity and volume of rivers and streams are measured and controlled, and floods prevented. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- He must have been a bad man, observed Mr. Rivers. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Mr. Rivers, I have been _so_ gay during my stay at S-. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- It was the great strategic position at the West between the Tennessee and the Mississippi rivers and between Nashville and Vicksburg. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Smith, embracing the mouths of the Tennessee and Cumberland rivers, had been added to my jurisdiction. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Wot is it, lambs, as they ketches in seas, rivers, lakes, and ponds? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Hannah entered with the intimation that a poor lad was come, at that unlikely time, to fetch Mr. Rivers to see his mother, who was drawing away. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- The name, then, of that gentleman, is Mr. St. John Rivers? Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Some of the water gradually took the form of rivers, lakes, streams, and wells, as now, and it is this original supply of water which furnishes us all that we have to-day. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Brooks and springs formed in this way are constant feeders of rivers and lakes. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- In the summer of 1911, prolonged drought in North Carolina lowered the rivers to such an extent that towns dependent upon them suffered greatly. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- He says: Are not Abana and Pharpar rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel? Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- The bends of the rivers are such at this point as to almost form an island, scarcely above water at that stage of the river. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- The rivers flowed with wine and milk: The oaks yielded honey; and nature spontaneously produced her greatest delicacies. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- If we took the other route, Brandy Station could be used as a base of supplies until another was secured on the York or James rivers. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
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