1. (n.) One who rives or splits.

2. (n.) A large stream of water flowing in a bed or channel and emptying into the ocean, a sea, a lake, or another stream; a stream larger than a rivulet or brook.

3. (n.) Fig.: A large stream; copious flow; abundance; as, rivers of blood; rivers of oil.

4. (v. i.) To hawk by the side of a river; to fly hawks at river fowl.

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