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A large, heavy antelope (Kobus ellipsiprymnus) native of Central Africa. It frequents the banks of rivers and is a good swimmer. It has a white ring around the rump. Called also photomok, water antelope, and waterbok.
A running stream of water having a bed and banks; the easement one may have in the flowing of such a stream in its accustomed course. A water course may be sometimes dry.
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To inclose or defend with a bank or banks. See Embank.
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A narrow passage between precipitous rocks or banks, which looks as if it might be crossed at a stride.
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Growing along the banks of rivers; riparian.
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Destitute of reeds; as, reedless banks.
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To increase in size or extent by any addition; to increase in volume or force; as, a river swells, and overflows its banks; sounds swell or diminish.
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Covered or adorned with osiers; as, osiered banks.
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A galley with four banks of oars or rowers.
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A galley having five benches or banks of oars; as, an Athenian quinquereme.
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Portions of small fish used for bait on the banks of Newfoundland.
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High land; ground elevated above the meadows and intervals which lie on the banks of rivers, near the sea, or between hills; land which is generally dry; -- opposed to lowland, meadow, marsh, swamp, interval, and the like.
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A tract of low ground between hills, or along the banks of a stream, usually alluvial land, enriched by the overflowings of the river, or by fertilizing deposits of earth from the adjacent hills. Cf. Bottom, n., 7.
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A deep gorge, ravine, or gulch, between high and steep banks, worn by water courses.
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One of a tribe of fresh-water crabs which live in or on the banks of rivers in tropical countries.
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A tree of the genus Carpinus (C. Americana), having a smooth gray bark and a ridged trunk, the wood being white and very hard. It is common along the banks of streams in the United States, and is also called ironwood. The English hornbeam is C. Betulus. The American is called also blue beech and water beech.
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A quaternary deposit, usually consisting of a fine yellowish earth, on the banks of the Rhine and other large rivers.
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An ancient galley or vessel with tree banks, or tiers, of oars.
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A vessel with thirty banks of oars, or, as some say, thirty ranks of rowers.
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A kind of fine sand from the banks of the Trent, used as a polishing powder.
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