river
/ˈɹɪvɚ/ noun A1- A large and often winding stream which drains a land mass, carrying water down from higher areas to a lower point, oftentimes ending in another body of water, such as an ocean or in an inland sea. · Occasionally rivers overflow their banks and cause floods.
- Any large flow of a liquid in a single body. · a river of blood
- The last card dealt in a hand.
- A visually undesirable effect of white space running down a page, caused by spaces between words on consecutive lines happening to coincide.
Plural rivers
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## The Rivers and the Sea
THE RIVERS joined together to complain to the Sea, saying, “Why is it that when we flow into your tides so potable and sweet, you work in us such a change, and make us salty and unfit to drink?” The Sea, perceiving that they intended to throw the blame on him, said, “Pray cease to flow into me, and then you will not be made briny.”
A RIVER carried down in its stream two Pots, one made of earthenware and the other of brass.
This entertaining sight brought the people in crowds to laugh at it, till the Ass, not liking the noise nor the strange handling that he was subject to, broke the cords that bound him and, tumbling off the pole, fell into the river.
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