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To contract into wrinkles; to shrivel; to shrink; as, riveled fruit; riveled flowers. [Obs.] Pope. "Riveled parchments." Walpole.

Land adjoining a road or highway; the part of a road or highway that borders the traveled part. Also used ajectively.

A road; especially, the part traveled by carriages. Shak.

The course or way which is traveled or passed, or is to be passed; a passing; a course; a road or path; a march. Wide through the furzy field their route they take. Gay.

A convoy or guard to protect a traveler or property.

The velella; -- called also saleeman.

n; shelter; refuge; protection. These laws, whoever made them, bestowed on temples the privelege of sanctuary. Milton . These admirable works of painting were made fuel for the fire; but some relics of it took sanctuary under ground, and escaped the common destiny. Dryden. Wildlife sanctuary, a tract of land set aside…

A loose sleeveless vestment falling in front and behind, worn by certain religious orders and devout persons.

se of pursuit; track of discovery. He gained the observations of innumerable ages, and traveled upon the same scent into Ethiopia. Sir W. Temple.

werful beam of light of approximately parallel rays, usually devised so that it can be swiveled about.

A palace; a seraglio; also, in the East, a place for the accommodation of travelers; a caravansary, or rest house.

Having a broad, flat nose; as, the shovel-nosed duck, or shoveler.

Shoveler. [Prov. Eng.]

The shoveler.

To draw, or be drawn, into wrinkles; to shrink, and form corrugations; as, a leaf shriveles in the hot sun; the skin shrivels with age; -- often with up.

A driveler; an idiot.

A temporary residence, as that of a traveler in a foreign land. Though long detained In that obscure sojourn. Milton.

Temporary residence, as that of a stranger or a traveler. [R.]

of being solved; as, a soluble algebraic problem; susceptible of being disentangled, unraveled, or explained; as, the mystery is perhaps soluble. "More soluble is this knot." Tennyson.

The shoveler. See Shoveler, 2.