Definition of river

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River (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..

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Jarvy :: Jarvy (n.) The driver of a hackney coach.
Sea Trout :: Sea trout () Any one of several species of true trouts which descend rivers and enter the sea after spawning, as the European bull trout and salmon trout, and the eastern American spotted trout..
Checkstring :: Checkstring (n.) A cord by which a person in a carriage or horse car may signal to the driver.
Cabman :: Cabman (n.) The driver of a cab.
Fork :: Fork (n.) The place where a division or a union occurs; the angle or opening between two branches or limbs; as, the fork of a river, a tree, or a road..
Tete-de-pont :: Tete-de-pont (n.) A work thrown up at the end of a bridge nearest the enemy, for covering the communications across a river; a bridgehead..
Wichitas :: Wichitas (n. pl.) A tribe of Indians native of the region between the Arkansas and Red rivers. They are related to the Pawnees. See Pawnees.
Wade :: Wade (v. t.) To pass or cross by wading; as, he waded /he rivers and swamps..
Roll :: Roll (n.) To drive or impel forward with an easy motion, as of rolling; as, a river rolls its waters to the ocean..
Follower :: Follower (n.) The part of a machine that receives motion from another part. See Driver.
Depriver :: Depriver (n.) One who, or that which, deprives..
Strutted :: Struse (n.) A Russian river craft used for transporting freight.
Bench :: Bench (n.) A conformation like a bench; a long stretch of flat ground, or a kind of natural terrace, near a lake or river..
Levee :: Levee (v. t.) To keep within a channel by means of levees; as, to levee a river..
Overpass :: Overpass (v. t.) To go over or beyond; to cross; as, to overpass a river; to overpass limits..
Shovelnose :: Shovelnose (n.) A ganoid fish of the Sturgeon family (Scaphirhynchus platyrhynchus) of the Mississippi and Ohio rivers; -- called also white sturgeon.
Regime :: Regime (n.) The condition of a river with respect to the rate of its flow, as measured by the volume of water passing different cross sections in a given time, uniform regime being the condition when the flow is equal and uniform at all the cross sections..
Tide :: Tide (prep.) The alternate rising and falling of the waters of the ocean, and of bays, rivers, etc., connected therewith. The tide ebbs and flows twice in each lunar day, or the space of a little more than twenty-four hours. It is occasioned by the attraction of the sun and moon (the influence of the latter being three times that of the former), acting unequally on the waters in different parts of the earth, thus disturbing their equilibrium. A high tide upon one side of the earth is accompanied
Manager :: Manager (n.) A contriver; an intriguer.
Striving :: Striver (n.) One who strives.
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