Word Meanings - LANDFLOOD - Book Publishers vocabulary database

An overflowing of land by river; an inundation; a freshet. Clarendon.

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• OVERFLOWINGLY
  In great abundance; exuberantly. Boyle.
• FRESHET
  1. A stream of fresh water. Milton. 2. A flood or overflowing of a stream caused by heavy rains or melted snow; a sudden inundation. Cracked the sky, as ice in rivers When the freshet is at highest. Longfellow.
• RIVER
  One who rives or splits.
• OVERFLOWING
  An overflow; that which overflows; exuberance; copiousness. He was ready to bestow the overflowings of his full mind on anybody who would start a subject. Macaulay.
• RIVERLING
  A rivulet. Sylvester.
• RIVERY
  Having rivers; as, a rivery country. Drayton.
• RIVERET
  A rivulet. Drayton.
• RIVERSIDE
  The side or bank of a river.
• INUNDATION
  1. The act of inundating, or the state of being inundated; an overflow; a flood; a rising and spreading of water over grounds. With inundation wide the deluge reigns, Drowns the deep valleys, and o'erspreads the plains. Wilkie. 2. An overspreading
• RIVERED
  Supplied with rivers; as, a well rivered country.
• OVERFLOW
  1. To flow over; to cover woth, or as with, water or other fluid; to spread over; to inundate; to overwhelm. The northern nations overflowed all Christendom. Spenser. 2. To flow over the brim of; to fill more than full.
• RIVERHOOD
  The quality or state of being a river. "Useful riverhood." H. Miller.
• CLARENDON
  A style of type having a narrow and heave face. It is made in all sizes. Note: This line is in nonpareil Clarendon.
• DRIVER
  A part that transmits motion to another part by contact with it, or through an intermediate relatively movable part, as a gear which drives another, or a lever which moves another through a link, etc. Specifically: The driving wheel of a locomotive.
• SCREW-DRIVER
  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.
• CONTRIVER
  One who contrives, devises, plans, or schemas. Swift.
• PERIVERTEBRAL
  Surrounding the vertebræ.
• ARRIVER
  One who arrives.
• DEPRIVER
  One who, or that which, deprives.
• DERIVER
  One who derives.
• SHRIVER
  One who shrives; a confessor.