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To rend asunder by force; to split; to cleave; as, to rive timber for rails or shingles. I shall ryve him through the sides twain. Chaucer. The scolding winds have rived the knotty oaks. Shak. Brutus hath rived my heart. Shak.

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

p. p. & a. from Rive.

One who rives or splits.

Supplied with rivers; as, a well rivered country.

A rivulet. [Obs.] Drayton.

The quality or state of being a river. "Useful riverhood." H. Miller.

A rivulet. [R.] Sylvester.

The side or bank of a river.

Having rivers; as, a rivery country. Drayton.

m a second head; a pin or bolt headed or clinched at both ends. With busy hammers closing rivets up. Shak. Rivet joint, or Riveted joint, a joint between two or more pieces secured by rivets.

One who rivets.

The act of joining with rivets; the act of spreading out and clinching the end, as of a rivet, by beating or pressing.

y water or by land; -- followed by at (formerly sometimes by to), also by in and from. "Arrived in Padua." Shak. [Æneas] sailing with a fleet from Sicily, arrived . . . and landed in the country of Laurentum. Holland. There was no outbreak till the regiment arrived at Ipswich. Macaulay.

One who arrives.

A transmission arrangement in which the longitudinal crank shaft drives the rear wheels through a clutch, change-speed gear, countershaft, and two parallel side chains, in order.

exercise of ingenuity; to devise; to invent; to design; to plan. What more likely to contrive this admirable frame of the universe than infinite wisdom. Tillotson. neither do thou imagine that I shall contrive aught against his life. Hawthorne.

Contrivance; invention; arrangement; design; plan. [Obs.] Consider the admirable contrivement and artifice of this great fabric. Glanvill. Active to meet their contrivements. Sir G. Buck.

One who contrives, devises, plans, or schemas. Swift.

To take away; to put an end; to destroy. [Obs.] 'Tis honor to deprive dishonored life. Shak.