Definition of "rivers" []

• Plural form of river. (noun)
• Third-person singular simple present indicative form of river. (verb)

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• "It was well known that rivers did fall into the St. Lawrence and into the Atlantic, that these rivers would run _down_ and not _up_, and it was consequently inferred that the _land_ from whence these _rivers_ flowed must of necessity be _high_, and unless there are to be found in that region"
• "Australia is not so fine a land as Europe, because it has not so many fine rivers; and it is fine _rivers_ that make a fine _land_."
• "A communication is made between these rivers by an inland channel, which goes out of White river about three miles above its mouth, and about twenty miles up the Arkansas, connecting the waters of the two rivers*"