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A bar in a river; as, the overslaugh in the Hudson River. [Local, U. S.] Bartlett.

upper ends passing through the bar of the yoke; also, anything so shaped, as a bend in a river.

fixed objects in shallow water along the seacoasts, or in brackish water in the mouth of rivers. The common European oyster (Ostrea edulis), and the American oyster (Ostrea Virginiana), are the most important species.

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

A large ganoid fish (Polyodon spathula) found in the rivers of the Mississippi Valley. It has a long spatula-shaped snout. Called also duck-billed cat, and spoonbill sturgeon.

orbiaceous tree Hevea brasiliensis, hence called the Pará rubber tree, from the Brazilian river and seaport named Pará; also, the similar product of other species of Hevea. It is usually exported in flat round cakes, and is a chief variety of commercial India rubber.

ion passes off. -- To pass over, to go from one side or end to the other; to cross, as a river, road, or bridge.

A large flat-bottomed trading boat peculiar to the river Ganges; -- called also puteli.

A tribe of Indians (called also Loups) who formerly occupied the region of the Platte river, but now live mostly in the Indian Territory. The term is often used in a wider sense to include also the related tribes of Rickarees and Wichitas. Called also Pani.

en the mantle and shell, of certain bivalve mollusks, especially in the pearl oysters and river mussels, and sometimes in certain univalves. It is usually due to a secretion of shelly substance around some irritating foreign particle. Its substance is the same as nacre, or mother-of-pearl. Pearls which are round, or ne…

To form into a peninsula. South River . . . peninsulates Castle Hill farm. W. Bentley.

To crowd together in an annoying way; to overcrowd; to infest. [Obs.] Milton. All rivers and pools . . . pestered full with fishes. Holland.

boat, sharp at both ends, originally of the Baltic Sea, but now common in certain English rivers. -- Peter Funk, the auctioneer in a mock auction. [Cant, U.S.] -- Peter pence, or Peter's pence. (a) An annual tax or tribute, formerly paid by the English people to the pope, being a penny for every house, payable on Lamm…

To convert, as any animal or vegetable matter, into stone or stony substance. A river that petrifies any sort of wood or leaves. Kirwan.

fire, had he not been struck with a thunderbolt by Jupiter, and hurled headlong into the river Po.

One of the principal rivers of Hades, in the channel of which fire flowed instead of water.

The sauger of the St.Lawrence River.

large stake, or piece of timber, pointed and driven into the earth, as at the bottom of a river, or in a harbor where the ground is soft, for the support of a building, a pier, or other superstructure, or to form a cofferdam, etc.

A long, flat-bottomed canoe, used for the navigation of rivers and lagoons in Central America. Squier.

h, sand, or gravel, containing valuable mineral in particles, especially by the side of a river, or in the bed of a mountain torrent. [U.S.]