(a) A river; also, the bank of a river; also, a body of water; to the ~ ward, toward the river; (b) in names of rivers: ~ gion (hermus, etc.); ~ of danube (nilus, temes, etc.); leire the ~; rodamus ~; (c) fig.; (d) a copious stream of oil, blood, tears, gold; (e) in cpds.: ~ brimme (side), the bank of a river; ~ crabbe, a freshwater crab; ?a crayfish; ~ fish, a freshwater fish; -- also coll.; ~ foul, a water bird; ~ snail, a snail that lives in rivers; ~ water, water from a river.

(a) A river or the banks of a river where the sport of hawking or the practice of fowling is carried out; also, the sport of hawking by a river; (b) foul ~, coll. game birds; de (of) ~, of birds: wild, game.

In surname.