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• Cherry

  ·noun A peculiar shade of red, like that of a cherry. II. Cherry ·noun The fruit of the cherry tree...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• cherry, native

  n. an Australian tree, Exocarpus cupressiformis, R. Br., N.O. Santalaceae. 1801. `History of New S...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• cherry

  A species of smelt or spurling, taken in the Frith of Tay. ...

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• River

  ·noun One who rives or splits. II. River ·vi To hawk by the side of a river; to fly hawks at river ...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• River

  1) Heb. aphik, properly the channel or ravine that holds water (2 Sam. 22:16), translated "brook," "...

  Easton's Bible Dictionary

• river

  Mr. Pickering observes that the Americans, in speaking of rivers, commonly put the name before the w...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• River

  In the sense in which we employ the word viz. for a perennial stream of considerable size, a river i...

  William Smith's Bible Dictionary

• Bird cherry

  ·- A shrub (Prunus Padus ) found in Northern and Central Europe. It bears small black cherries. ...

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• Bob-cherry

  ·noun A play among children, in which a cherry, hung so as to bob against the mouth, is to be caught...

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• Cherry, Andrew

  (1762-1812) Dramatist, s. of a bookseller at Limerick, was a successful actor, and managed theatres...

  Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin

• Herbert, George

  (1593-1633) Poet, brother of above, was ed. at Westminster School and Trinity Coll., Camb., where h...

  Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin

• Knowles, Herbert

  (1798-1817) Poet, author of the well-known Stanzas written in Richmond Churchyard, which gave promi...

  Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin

• Marsh, Herbert

  (1757-1839) Theologian and controversialist, s. of a clergyman, ed. at Canterbury, Cambridge, and L...

  Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin

• Spencer, Herbert

  (1820-1903) Philosopher, b. at Derby, the s. of a teacher, from whom, and from his uncle, mentioned...

  Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin

• Fisher, Herbert Albert Laurens

  (b. 1865) Historian. The Mediæval Empire (1898), Studies in Napoleonic Statesmanship (1903), A Poli...

  Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin

• Trench, Herbert

  (b. 1865) Poet, etc. Deirdre Wedded (1901), Apollo and the Seaman, The Questioners (1907), etc. ...

  Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin

• brush-cherry

  n. an Australian tree, Trochocarpa laurina, R. Br., and Eugeniamyrtifolia, Simms. Called also Brush...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• cherry-picker

  n. bird-name. See quotation. 1848. J. Gould, `Birds of Australia,' vol. iv. p. 70: « Melithreptus...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• native cherry

  n. See cherry. ...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• winter cherry

  n. See balloon vine. ...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• choke-cherry

  The popular name of the prunus Virginiana, so called from its astringent properties. ...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• Cappadox River

  CAPPADOX RIVER[CAPPADOCIA] ...

  Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography

• river-oak

  See oak. ...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• river driver

  A term used by lumbermen in Maine, for a man whose business it is to conduct logs down rilnuing stre...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• river-boats

  Wherries, and the like, which ply in harbours and rivers for the conveyance of passengers. ...

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• river-harbour

  That which is situated in the channel of a river, especially such as are at the embouchure with a ba...

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• river-lakes

  Large pools of water occupying a portion of the valleys or hollows through which the courses of rive...

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• river-risk

  A policy of insurance from the docks to the sea, at any port. ...

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• Herbert, of Cherbury, Edward, 1st lord

  (1583-1648) Philosopher and historian, was the eldest s. of Richard H., of Montgomery Castle, and w...

  Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin

• Herbert, Sir Thomas

  (1606-1682) Traveller and historian, belonged to an old Yorkshire family, studied at Oxf. and Camb....

  Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin

• Bradley, Francis Herbert

  (b. 1846) Philosopher. The Presuppositions of Critical History (1874), Ethical Studies (1876), The ...

  Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin

• Paul, Herbert Woodfield

  (b. 1853) Historian and biographer. Men and Letters (1901), History of Modern England, Stray Leaves...

  Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin

• Wells, Herbert George

  B.Sc., etc. (b. 1866) Novelist. Select Conversations with an Uncle (1895), The Time Machine (1895)...

  Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin

• cherry-coloured cat

  A black cat, there being black cherries as well as red. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• River of Egypt

  1) Heb. nahar mitsraim, denotes in Gen. 15:18 the Nile, or its eastern branch (2 Chr. 9:26). 2) In ...

  Easton's Bible Dictionary

• River of Gad

  Probably the Arno (2 Sam. 24:5). ...

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• River of God

  (Ps. 65:9), as opposed to earthly streams, denoting that the divine resources are inexhaustible, or ...

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• River of Wells

  This is the name adopted by Stow as the translation of the" rivulum foncium " of the charter of Will...

  A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.

• swan-river daisy

  n. a pretty annual plant, Brachycome iberidifolia, Benth., N.O. Compositae,of Western Australia. Th...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• River Of Egypt

  The Nile. (Genesis 15:18) [Nile]• • A desert stream on the border of Egypt, still occasionally flow...

  William Smith's Bible Dictionary

• Maxwell, Sir Herbert Eustace

  F.R.S., LL.D., etc. (b. 1845) Novelist, essayist, etc. Novels, Sir Lucian Elphin (1889), The Lette...

  Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin

• to row up salt river

  is a common phrase, used generally to signify political defeat. The distance to which a party is row...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• drop down a river

  Synonymous with falling (which see). ...

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• New River Office and Yard

  Between Pigs Quay and Dorset Wharf on the Thames, at the southern end of Dorset Street (Horwood, 179...

  A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.