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abuts. Specifically, the owner of a contiguous estate; as, the abutters on a street or a river.

t to another; generally, gain of land by the washing up of sand or sail from the sea or a river, or by a gradual recession of the water from the usual watermark.

A river in the Nether World or infernal regions; also, the infernal regions themselves. By some of the English poets it was supposed to be a flaming lake or gulf. Shak.

alled from the mythological account of Achilles being held by the heel when dipped in the River Styx.

rosswise, or in a direction opposed to the length; quite over; as, a bridge laid across a river. Dryden. To come across, to come upon or meet incidentally. Freeman. -- To go across the country, to go by a direct course across a region without following the roads.

A stream or river flowing into a larger river or into a lake; a tributary stream.

Abreast; opposite to; facing; towards; as, against the mouth of a river; -- in this sense often preceded by over. Jacob saw the angels of God come against him. Tyndale.

An islet, or little isle, in a river or lake; an eyot. The ait where the osiers grew. R. Hodges (1649). Among green aits and meadows. Dickens.

f North America. The name was originally applied to a group of Indian tribes north of the River St. Lawrence.

[From the Allegheny River, Pennsylvania.] (Geol.) Pertaining to or designating a subdivision of the Pennsylvanian coal measure.

nia and Australia] spread over a far wider space: they are found not only on the banks of rivers, and in their beds, but are scattered over the surface of vast plains. R. Cobden.

Deposits of earth, sand, gravel, and other transported matter, made by rivers, floods, or other causes, upon land not permanently submerged beneath the waters of lakes or seas. Lyell.

The channel of a river. Weate.

Of or pertaining to the river Amazon in South America, or to its valley.

One who lives near a river. [Obs.] Bailey.

Born or bred in, of, or near a river. [Obs.] Bailey.

A branch of a river that reënters, or anastomoses with, the main stream; also, less properly, a branch which loses itself in sandy soil. [Australia]

A large South American snake of the Boa family (Eunectes murinus), which lives near rivers, and preys on birds and small mammals. The name is also applied to a similar large serpent (Python tigris) of Ceylon.

A fish that leaves the sea and ascends rivers.

Ascending rivers from the sea, at certain seasons, for breeding, as the salmon, shad, etc.