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An artificial basin or an inclosure in connection with a harbor or river, -- used for the reception of vessels, and provided with gates for keeping in or shutting out the tide.

In pile driving, a block interposed between the head of the pile and the ram of the driver.

Hence: Towards the mouth of a river; towards the sea; as, to sail or swim down a stream; to sail down the sound. Down the country, toward the sea, or toward the part where rivers discharge their waters into the ocean. -- Down the sound, in the direction of the ebbing tide; toward the sea.

The mode in which the waters of a country pass off by its streams and rivers.

er communication at pleasure, as before the gate of a town or castle, or over a navigable river or canal.

ine (commonly on a boat) used to scoop up mud, gravel, or obstructions from the bottom of rivers, docks, etc., so as to deepen them.

In South Africa, a ford in a river.

A collection of objects that are driven; a mass of logs to be floated down a river. [Colloq.]

omotive to which the connecting rods of the engine are attached; -- called also, simply, driver. See Illust. of Locomotive.

nd and to let another pass a head. -- To drop down (Naut.), to sail, row, or move down a river, or toward the sea. -- To drop off, to fall asleep gently; also, to die. [Colloq.]

ts, but often carried far inland by the prevailing winds. [Written also dun.] Three great rivers, the Rhine, the Meuse, and the Scheldt, had deposited their slime for ages among the dunes or sand banks heaved up by the ocean around their mouths. Motley.

ree successive waves, of great height and violence, at flood tide moving up an estuary or river; -- commonly called the bore. See Bore.

Eastern, or New England, States; now, commonly, the whole region east of the Mississippi River, esp. that which is north of Maryland and the Ohio River; -- usually with the definite article; as, the commerce of the East is not independent of the agriculture of the West. East by north, East by south, according to the n…

An island in a river; an ait. [Obs.] "Osiers on their eights." Evelyn.

elbow, in a wall, building, and the like; a sudden turn in a line of coast or course of a river; also, an angular or jointed part of any structure, as the raised arm of a chair or sofa, or a short pipe fitting, turning at an angle or bent.

To disembogue; to discharge, as a river, its waters into the sea or another river. [R.]

The mouth of a river, or place where its waters are discharged. [R.]

The mouth of a river; also, the mouth of a cannon.

To discharge itself; as, a river empties into the ocean.

achine by which any physical power is applied to produce a given physical effect. Engine driver, one who manages an engine; specifically, the engineer of a locomotive. -- Engine lathe. (Mach.) See under Lathe. -- Engine tool, a machine tool. J. Whitworth. -- Engine turning (Fine Arts), a method of ornamentation by m…