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Rive  v. t.  (past rived; past part. rived; pres. part. riving)  To rend asunder by force; to split; to cleave; as, to rive timber for rails or shingles. "I shall ryve him through the sides twain." "The scolding winds have rived the knotty oaks." "Brutus hath rived my heart."



Rive  v. i.  (past rived; past part. rived; pres. part. riving)  To be split or rent asunder. "Freestone rives, splits, and breaks in any direction."



noun
Rive  n.  A place torn; a rent; a rift. (Prov. Eng.)






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"Rive" Quotes from Famous Books



... Interpreters Drewyer and Sharbono and Sergt. Gass who by an accedental fall had so disabled himself that it was with much pain he could work in the canoes tho he could march with convenience. the rout we took lay over a rough high range of mountains on the North side of the river. the rive entered these mountains a few miles above where we left it. Capt Clark recommended this rout to me from a belief that the river as soon as it past the mountains boar to the N. of W. he having a few days before ascended these ...
— The Journals of Lewis and Clark • Meriwether Lewis et al

... and he drove them like—like pigs at Brightling Fair. He called us English all pigs. We suffered it because he was a master in his craft. If he misliked any work that a man had done, with his own great hands he'd rive it out, and tear it down before us all. "Ah, you pig—you English pig!" he'd scream in the dumb wretch's face. "You answer me? You look at me? You think at me? Come out with me into the cloisters. I will teach you carving myself. I will gild you all over!" But when his passion ...
— Rewards and Fairies • Rudyard Kipling

... weep; and she my cheek, Soft sighing, with her own fair hand will dry; And, gently chiding, speak In tones of power to rive hard rocks in twain; Then vanishing, sleep follows ...
— The Sonnets, Triumphs, and Other Poems of Petrarch • Petrarch

... ci-devant Belgique, et sur la Rive Gauche du Rhin. Par Briton, et Brun pere et fils. Paris, 1802. 2 vols. 8vo.—Commerce, manufactures, arts, manners, and mineralogy, enter into these volumes. Sometimes, however, rather in ...
— Robert Kerr's General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume 18 • William Stevenson

... On winged feet, Lo! it rushes thee to meet; And all that Nature made thy own, Floating in air or pent in stone, Will rive the hills and swim the sea And, like thy shadow, ...
— Polly Oliver's Problem • Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin


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