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noun

Alluvion n.

Wash or flow of water against the shore or bank.

An overflowing; an inundation; a flood.

Matter deposited by an inundation or the action of flowing water; alluvium. "The golden alluvions are there (in California and Australia) spread over a far wider space: they are found not only on the banks of rivers, and in their beds, but are scattered over the surface of vast plains."

(Law) An accession of land gradually washed to the shore or bank by the flowing of water. See Accretion.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Alluvion" Quotes from Famous Books

... of this alluvion is illustrated by the very slight descent of the Jhelam. From Ismailabad, near the head of the valley, and fifty-four hundred feet above the level of the sea, the fall to Srinagar, thirty miles, is seventy-five feet; and from the capital to Lake Wular, twenty-four miles below, ...

— Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, September, 1878 • Various

... this alluvion is illustrated by the very slight descent of the Jhelam. From Ismailabad, near the head of the valley, and fifty-four hundred feet above the level of the sea, the fall to Srinagar, thirty miles, is ...

— Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, September, 1878 • Various

... are made to land, bordering upon rivers, follow the land, say the civilians, provided it be made by what they call alluvion, that is, insensibly and imperceptibly; which are circumstances, that assist the imagination ...

— An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals • David Hume

... contents with great care and found a few grains of gold in the alluvion! This was joy indeed, and mentally I bade goodbye to the life of a planter (although I had not yet begun it) and there on the spot decided to dedicate my time and energy to the gathering of gold which would be far the quickest way ...

— My Friends the Savages - Notes and Observations of a Perak settler (Malay Peninsula) • Giovanni Battista Cerruti

... famed river of the plains. How changed the aspect of thy shores! I no longer look upon bold bluffs and beetling cliffs. Thou hast broken from the hills that enchained thee, and now rollest far and free, cleaving a wide way through thine own alluvion. Thy very banks are the creation of thine own fancy—the slime thou hast flung from thee in thy moments of wanton play—and thou canst break through their barriers at will. Forests again fringe thee— forests of giant trees—the spreading platanus, the tall tulip-tree, ...

— The Quadroon - Adventures in the Far West • Mayne Reid