*river*

n. One who contrives, devises, plans, or schemas. Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

prop. n. a tributary of the Ohio River.
Syn. -- . [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. One who, or that which, deprives. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who derives. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From Drive. ] 1. One who, or that which, drives; the person or thing that urges or compels anything else to move onward. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The person who drives beasts or a carriage; a coachman; a charioteer, etc.; hence, also, one who controls the movements of a any vehicle. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

3. An overseer of a gang of slaves or gang of convicts at their work. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Mach.) A part that transmits motion to another part by contact with it, or through an intermediate relatively movable part, as a gear which drives another, or a lever which moves another through a link, etc. Specifically:

(a) The driving wheel of a locomotive. (b) An attachment to a lathe, spindle, or face plate to turn a carrier. (c) A crossbar on a grinding mill spindle to drive the upper stone. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. (Naut.) The after sail in a ship or bark, being a fore-and-aft sail attached to a gaff; a spanker. Totten. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. An implement used for driving; as: (a) A mallet. (b) A tamping iron. (c) A cooper's hammer for driving on barrel hoops. (d) A wooden-headed golf club with a long shaft, for playing the longest strokes. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

Driver ant (Zool.), a species of African stinging ant; one of the visiting ants (Anomma arcens); -- so called because they move about in vast armies, and drive away or devour all insects and other small animals. [ 1913 Webster ]

prop. n. A river flowing from Lake Erie into Lake Ontario, which forms the boundary between Ontario and New York. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. a motorist who owns the vehicle that he/she drives. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. (Anat.) Surrounding the vertebræ. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who rives or splits. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. rivère a river, LL. riparia river, bank of a river, fr. L. riparius belonging to a bank or shore, fr. ripa a bank or shore; of uncertain origin. Cf. Arrive, Riparian. ] 1. 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

Transparent and sparkling rivers, from which it is delightful to drink as they flow. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Fig.: A large stream; copious flow; abundance; as, rivers of blood; rivers of oil. [ 1913 Webster ]

River chub (Zool.), the hornyhead and allied species of fresh-water fishes. --
River crab (Zool.), any species of fresh-water crabs of the genus Thelphusa, as Thelphusa depressa of Southern Europe. --
River dragon, a crocodile; -- applied by Milton to the king of Egypt. --
River driver, a lumberman who drives or conducts logs down rivers. Bartlett. --
River duck (Zool.), any species of duck belonging to Anas, Spatula, and allied genera, in which the hind toe is destitute of a membranous lobe, as in the mallard and pintail; -- opposed to sea duck. --
River god, a deity supposed to preside over a river as its tutelary divinity. --
River herring (Zool.), an alewife. --
River hog. (Zool.) (a) Any species of African wild hogs of the genus Potamochœrus. They frequent wet places along the rivers. (b) The capybara. --
River horse (Zool.), the hippopotamus. --
River jack (Zool.), an African puff adder (Clotho nasicornis) having a spine on the nose. --
River limpet (Zool.), a fresh-water, air-breathing mollusk of the genus Ancylus, having a limpet-shaped shell. --
River pirate (Zool.), the pike. --
River snail (Zool.), any species of fresh-water gastropods of Paludina, Melontho, and allied genera. See Pond snail, under Pond. --
River tortoise (Zool.), any one of numerous fresh-water tortoises inhabiting rivers, especially those of the genus Trionyx and allied genera. See Trionyx. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To hawk by the side of a river; to fly hawks at river fowl. [ Obs. ] Halliwell. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Supplied with rivers; as, a well rivered country. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A rivulet. [ Obs. ] Drayton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality or state of being a river. “Useful riverhood.” H. Miller. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A rivulet. [ R. ] Sylvester. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The side or bank of a river. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having rivers; as, a rivery country. Drayton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A tool for turning screws so as to drive them into their place. It has a thin end which enters the nick in the head of the screw. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who shrives; a confessor. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) The common American bittern (Botaurus lentiginosus); -- so called because one of its notes resembles the sound made in driving a stake into the mud. Called also meadow hen, and Indian hen. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who strives. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who thrives, or prospers. [ 1913 Webster ]