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That which floats on the sea or in rivers. [Written also floatage.]

among the particles or parts, as a fluid; to change place or circulate, as a liquid; as, rivers flow from springs and lakes; tears flow from the eyes.

Pertaining to rivers; abounding in streama.

Belonging to rivers; growing or living in streams or ponds; as, a fluvial plant.

Belonging to rivers or streams; fluviatile. Johnson.

Belonging to rivers or streams; existing in or about rivers; produced by river action; fluvial; as, fluviatile starta, plants. Lyell.

Formed by the joint action of a river and the sea, as deposits at the mouths of rivers.

An instrument for measuring and recording automatically the rise and fall of a river.

An instrument for measuring the height of water in a river; a river gauge.

The driver of a fly, or light public carriage.

The part of a machine that receives motion from another part. See Driver.

To oppose, hinder, or prevent, as if by an effectual command; as, an impassable river forbids the approach of the army. A blaze of glory that forbids the sight. Dryden.

A waterfall; a cascade. [Prov. Eng.] To see the falls for force of the river Kent. T. Gray.

A place in a river, or other water, where it may passed by man or beast on foot, by wading. He swam the Esk river where ford there was none. Sir W. Scott.

Without a ford. A deep and fordless river. Mallock.

or a union occurs; the angle or opening between two branches or limbs; as, the fork of a river, a tree, or a road.

The mingling of fresh water with salt in rivers or bays, as by means of a flood of fresh water flowing toward or into the sea. Beverly.

eam caused by heavy rains or melted snow; a sudden inundation. Cracked the sky, as ice in rivers When the freshet is at highest. Longfellow.

The worn sides of river banks, where ores, or stones containing them, accumulate by being washed down from the hills, and thus indicate to the miners the locality of the veins.

The worn side of the bank of a river. See 4th Fret, n., 4.