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Purpresture :: Purpresture (n.) Wrongful encroachment upon another's property; esp., any encroachment upon, or inclosure of, that which should be common or public, as highways, rivers, harbors, forts, etc..

Bridge :: Bridge (v. t.) To build a bridge or bridges on or over; as, to bridge a river..

Ait :: Ait (n.) An islet, or little isle, in a river or lake; an eyot..

Liman :: Liman (n.) The deposit of slime at the mouth of a river; slime.

Terrace :: Terrace (v.) A level plain, usually with a steep front, bordering a river, a lake, or sometimes the sea..

Bouri :: Bouri (n.) A mullet (Mugil capito) found in the rivers of Southern Europe and in Africa.

Delta :: Delta (n.) A tract of land shaped like the letter delta (/), especially when the land is alluvial and inclosed between two or more mouths of a river; as, the delta of the Ganges, of the Nile, or of the Mississippi..

Across :: Across (n.) From side to side; athwart; crosswise, or in a direction opposed to the length; quite over; as, a bridge laid across a river..

Pactolian :: Pactolian (a.) Pertaining to the Pactolus, a river in ancient Lydia famous for its golden sands..

Gladstone :: Gladstone (n.) A four-wheeled pleasure carriage with two inside seats, calash top, and seats for driver and footman..

Shad :: Shad (n. sing. & pl.) Any one of several species of food fishes of the Herring family. The American species (Clupea sapidissima), which is abundant on the Atlantic coast and ascends the larger rivers in spring to spawn, is an important market fish. The European allice shad, or alose (C. alosa), and the twaite shad. (C. finta), are less important species..

Anadromous :: Anadromous (a.) Ascending rivers from the sea, at certain seasons, for breeding, as the salmon, shad, etc..

Mussel :: Mussel (n.) Any one of numerous species of Unio, and related fresh-water genera; -- called also river mussel. See Naiad, and Unio..

Sleetch :: Sleetch (n.) Mud or slime, such as that at the bottom of rivers..

Bubbler :: Bubbler (n.) A fish of the Ohio river; -- so called from the noise it makes.

Undivided :: Undivided (a.) Not divided; not separated or disunited; unbroken; whole; continuous; as, plains undivided by rivers or mountains..

Pondweed :: Pondweed (n.) Any aquatic plant of the genus Potamogeton, of which many species are found in ponds or slow-moving rivers..

Strutted :: Struse (n.) A Russian river craft used for transporting freight.

Oxbow :: Oxbow (n.) A frame of wood, bent into the shape of the letter U, and embracing an ox's neck as a kind of collar, the upper ends passing through the bar of the yoke; also, anything so shaped, as a bend in a river..

Elbow :: Elbow (n.) Any turn or bend like that of the elbow, in a wall, building, and the like; a sudden turn in a line of coast or course of a river; also, an angular or jointed part of any structure, as the raised arm of a chair or sofa, or a short pipe fitting, turning at an angle or bent..

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