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ht or privilege with another; a partner. [Obs.] If you do meet Horatio and Marcellus, The rivals of my watch, bid them make haste. Shak.

A female rival. [Obs.] Richardson.

Rivalry; competition. [Obs.]

The act of rivaling, or the state of being a rival; a competition. "Keen contention and eager rivalries." Jeffrey.

Rivalry. [R.] B. Jonson.

al sense) or by land. Our watchmen from the towers, with longing eyes, Expect his swift arrival. Dryden.

A rival; a corrival.

Joint rivalry.

A fellow rival; a competitor; a rival; also, a companion. [R.] Shak.

Corivalry. [R.]

Corivalry. [R.] By the corrivalship of Shager his false friend. Sir T. Herbert.

Derivation. [R.] The derival of e from a. Earle.

Failure to arrive.

To surpass in a rivalry.

The quality or state of being quadrivalent; tetravalence.

oms; tetravalent; -- said of certain atoms and radicals; thus, carbon and silicon are quadrivalent elements.

Dehiscent into four similar parts; four-valved; as, a quadrivalve pericarp.

Having four valves; quadrivalve.

Shrievalty. Johnson.

The quality or state of being trivalent.