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ˈrivery, a.
[f. river n.1 + -y.]
1. Resembling a river; river-like.
1612Drayton Poly-olb. x. 94 Thy full and youthful breasts, which..Are branch'd with rivery veins. 1916A. Huxley Burning Wheel 13 Lorelei, Combing the silken mystery, The glaucous gold of her rivery tresses. 1977Rolling Stone 19 May 86/3 ‘The Wheel’ is more Western bop than swing, a brilliant, rivery thing that makes it easy to understand why Charlie Parker liked jamming with Ray Price's band.
2. Abounding in streams or rivers; pertaining to a river, etc.
1828Wilson in Blackw. Mag. XXIV. 302 As woody, as lochy, and as rivery a parish. 1859All Year Round No. 28. 29 Upon the artificial peninsula.., transport a bit of rivery Orientalism. 1889W. B. Yeats Wanderings of Oisin 78 From rolling valley and rivery glen, With horsemen hurrying near and far, I drew at evening my mailed men. 1973P. Lively Ghost of Thomas Kempe ii. 17 Green, rivery, elm-scattered Oxfordshire. |