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ke, or another stream; a stream larger than a rivulet or brook. Transparent and sparkling rivers, from which it is delightful to drink as they flow. Macaulay.

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.

One who arrives.

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

One who, or that which, deprives.

One who derives.

sail in a ship or bark, being a fore-and-aft sail attached to a gaff; a spanker. Totten. Driver ant (Zoöl.), a species of African stinging ant; one of the visiting ants (Anomma arcens); -- so called because they move about in vast armies, and drive away or devour all insects and other small animals.…

Surrounding the vertebræ.

A tool for turning screws so as to drive them into their place. It has a thin end which enters the nick in the head of the screw.

One who shrives; a confessor.

The common American bittern (Botaurus lentiginosus); -- so called because one of its notes resembles the sound made in driving a stake into the mud. Called also meadow hen, and Indian hen.

One who strives.

One who thrives, or prospers.

Pertaining to, or designating, certain days allowed to the pretor for hearing causes, when be might speak the three characteristic words of his office, do, dico, addico. They were called dies fasti.

nating the position of an army with the wings separated by some line of demarcation, as a river or road.