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eir beauty blazed the lurid flame. Thomson. Wrapped in drifts of lurid smoke On the misty river tide. Tennyson.

The keeper and driver of an elephant. [East Indies]

A contriver; an intriguer. Shak.

Border; margin; edge; verge. [Poetic] Tennyson. Along the river's stony marge. Wordsworth.

A border; edge; brink; verge; as, the margin of a river or lake.

The bearded tortoise (Chelys fimbriata) of South American rivers.

The American bittern. See Stake-driver. (b) The American coot (Fulica). (c) The clapper rail. -- Meadow lark (Zoöl.), any species of Sturnella, a genus of American birds allied to the starlings. The common species (S. magna) has a yellow breast with a black crescent. -- Meadow mouse (Zoöl.), any mouse of the genus Ar…

involved course; as, the meanders of the veins and arteries. Sir M. Hale. While lingering rivers in meanders glide. Sir R. Blackmore.

A junction, crossing, or union; as, the meeting of the roads or of two rivers.

A tribe of Indians that formerly occupied the country between the Wabash and Maumee rivers.

lothful to the destruction of the miscreants, but to constrain them to obey our Lord God. Rivers.

ans who formed part of the Five Nations. They formerly inhabited the valley of the Mohawk River.

The weight or hammer of a pile driver, that is, a very heavy mass of iron, which, being raised on high, falls on the head of the pile, and drives it into the earth; the falling weight of a drop hammer used in forging.

moonstruck; to wander or gaze about in an abstracted manner. Elsley was mooning down the river by himself. C. Kingsley.

A light wine, usually white, produced in the vicinity of the river Moselle.

The hard pearly internal layer of several kinds of shells, esp. of pearl oysters, river mussels, and the abalone shells; nacre. See Pearl.

former times, extensive mounds of earth, esp. in the valleys of the Mississippi and Ohio Rivers. Formerly they were supposed to have preceded the Indians, but later investigations go to show that they were, in general, identical with the tribes that occupied the country when discovered by Europeans. -- Mound maker (Z…

The opening through which the waters of a river or any stream are discharged.

ox nobilitor) found in the Great Lakes, and other Northern lakes, and in the St. Lawrence River. It is valued as a food fish. [Written also maskallonge, maskinonge, muskallonge, muskellonge, and muskelunjeh.]

Any one of numerous species of Unio, and related fresh-water genera; -- called also river mussel. See Naiad, and Unio. Mussel digger (Zoöl.), the grayback whale. See Gray whale, under Gray.