单词 | rivered |
释义 | riveredadj. Having a river or rivers; watered by rivers.Frequently the second element in parasynthetic compounds, as many-rivered, slow-rivered, well-rivered, wide-rivered, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > water > rivers and streams > [adjective] > furnished with or watered by rivered1633 1633 C. Farewell East-India Colation 50 Villages; Townes and Cities, pleasant, great, and populous: River'd, Walled, Castled, and munitioned. 1673 E. Browne Brief Acct. Trav. Hvngaria 1 Hungaria..is..the best Rivered Country in Europe. 1796 W. Marshall Rural Econ. W. Eng. I. 279 The ground is..strongly featured; being there divided by deep rivered vallies. 1828 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Apr. 409/2 Are not many of her rivered valleys not unadorned with woods,—her braes beautiful with their birken shaws? 1865 Emigration to Natal 32 Where the Draken[s]berg ledge is bent back upon itself,..the watershed is divided and many-rivered. 1892 Ld. Lytton King Poppy iv. 74 On either side The river'd glen..rear'd Steep crags abrupt. 1899 Echo 20 Feb. 1/7 Russia being flat, windy, and slow-rivered. 1910 M. J. Cawein House of Fear iii, in Shadow Garden ii. 95 There is no darkness now, but rivered light, Flowing from out the source of boundless day. 1950 W. Durant Age of Faith ii. xiv. 315 Well-rivered fields flowered into vineyards, olive orchards, and orange groves. 1995 E. A. Davis Fallen Guidon i. 4 The heavily rivered and mountainous northern two-thirds of the Trans-Mississippi Department. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1633 |
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