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To feast together; to be convivial. [Obs.] "There, in the full, convive we." Shak.

jaws. The name is also sometimes applied to the species of other related genera, as the gavial and the alligator.

An order of reptiles including the crocodiles, gavials, alligators, and many extinct kinds.

That which is deposited; matter laid or thrown down; sediment; alluvial matter; as, banks are sometimes depositions of alluvial matter.

ubstances worn off from solid bodies by attrition, and reduced to small portions; as, diluvial detritus.

Of or pertaining to a deluge, esp. to the Noachian deluge; diluvial; as, of diluvian origin. Buckland.

Rejection; a setting aside as trivial, invalid, or unworthy of consideration.

rative duty. Hallam. Duty is a graver term than obligation. A duty hardly exists to do trivial things; but there may be an obligation to do them. C. J. Smith.

That which is extracted; extract; essence. They [books] do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them. Milton. The extraction of roots. (Math.) (a) The operation of finding the root of a given number or quantity. (b) The method or rule by which the operation is perf…

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

Trifling; valued by folly; trivial. [Obs.] Shak.

Show without substance; empty, outside appearance; vain, trivial, or conventional ceremony; conventionality; formality; as, a matter of mere form. Though well we may not pass upon his life Without the form of justice. Shak.

designated with reference to their origin; as, the siliceous formation about geysers; alluvial formations; marine formations.

Talking much, especially about commonplace or trivial things; talkative; loquacious. The most garrulous people on earth. De Quincey.

Alluvial matter on the surface of land, not of recent origin. R. Jameson.

o, and sympathizing with, the enjoyment of life; sympathetically cheerful and cheering; jovial and inspiring joy or happiness; exciting pleasure and sympathy; enlivening; kindly; as, she was of a cheerful and genial disposition. So much I feel my genial spirits droop. Milton.

A trivial mechanism; a device; a toy; a pretty thing. Arbuthnot.

m. -- Gingerbread work, ornamentation, in architecture or decoration, of a fantastic, trivial, or tawdry character.

eral species of plovers, of the genus Charadrius, esp. the European (C. apricarius, or pluvialis; -- called also yellow, black-breasted hill, and whistling, plover. The common American species (C. dominicus) is also called frostbird, and bullhead. -- Golden robin. (Zoöl.) See Baltimore oriole, in Vocab. -- Golden ros…

Making excessively nice or trivial distinctions in reasoning; subtle. -- n.