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's army was led by the general; . . . in the body was the king and the prince. Clarendon. Rivers that run up into the body of Italy. Addison.

A pole with a conspicuous top, set up to mark the channel in a river or harbor. [Obs.]

A tidal flood which regularly or occasionally rushes into certain rivers of peculiar configuration or location, in one or more waves which present a very abrupt front of considerable height, dangerous to shipping, as at the mouth of the Amazon, in South America, the Hoogly and Indus, in India, and the Tsien-tang, in Ch…

The bed of a body of water, as of a river, lake, sea.

A mullet (Mugil capito) found in the rivers of Southern Europe and in Africa.

The driver's seat on a carriage or coach.

ing; ramification; as, the branch of an antler; the branch of a chandelier; a branch of a river; a branch of a railway. Most of the branches , or streams, were dried up. W. Irving.

A large four-wheeled carriage, having a straight body and calash top, with the driver's seat in front and the footman's behind.

A structure, usually of wood, stone, brick, or iron, erected over a river or other water course, or over a chasm, railroad, etc., to make a passageway from one bank to the other.

The edge, margin, or border of a steep place, as of a precipice; a bank or edge, as of a river or pit; a verge; a border; as, the brink of a chasm. Also Fig. "The brink of vice." Bp. Porteus. "The brink of ruin." Burke. The plashy brink of weedy lake. Bryant.

The spread of a river into a sheet of water; a flooded fen. [Local, Eng.] Southey.

A natural stream of water smaller than a river or creek. The Lord thy God bringeth thee into a good land, a land of brooks of water. Deut. viii. 7. Empires itself, as doth an inland brook Into the main of waters. Shak.

n film of liquid inflated with air or gas; as, a soap bubble; bubbles on the surface of a river. Beads of sweat have stood upon thy brow, Like bubbles in a late disturbed stream. Shak.

A fish of the Ohio river; -- so called from the noise it makes.

tinent. It is larger and less docile than the common ox, and is fond of marshy places and rivers.

with or without a calash top. [U.S.] Buggy cultivator, a cultivator with a seat for the driver. -- Buggy plow, a plow, or set of plows, having a seat for the driver; -- called also sulky plow.

A driver or a brassy with a convex face.

, a large salmon trout of several species, as Salmo trutta and S. Cambricus, which ascend rivers; -- called also sea trout.

A small weir or dam in a river to direct the stream to gaps where fish traps are placed. Knight.

The driver of a cab.