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n. [ From Arrive. ] 1. The act of arriving, or coming; the act of reaching a place from a distance, whether by water (as in its original sense) or by land. [ 1913 Webster ]

Our watchmen from the towers, with longing eyes,
Expect his swift arrival. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The attainment or reaching of any object, by effort, or in natural course; as, our arrival at this conclusion was wholly unexpected. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The person or thing arriving or which has arrived; as, news brought by the last arrival. [ 1913 Webster ]

Another arrival still more important was speedily announced. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. An approach. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

The house has a corner arrival. H. Walpole. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Arrival. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Arrived p. pr. & vb. n. Arriving. ] [ OE. ariven to arrive, land, OF. ariver, F. arriver, fr. LL. arripare, adripare, to come to shore; L. ad + ripa the shore or sloping bank of a river. Cf. Riparian. ] 1. To come to the shore or bank. In present usage: To come in progress by water, or by traveling on land; to reach by water or by land; -- followed by at (formerly sometimes by to), also by in and from. “Arrived in Padua.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

[ Æneas ] sailing with a fleet from Sicily, arrived . . . and landed in the country of Laurentum. Holland. [ 1913 Webster ]

There was no outbreak till the regiment arrived at Ipswich. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To reach a point by progressive motion; to gain or compass an object by effort, practice, study, inquiry, reasoning, or experiment. [ 1913 Webster ]

To arrive at, or attain to. [ 1913 Webster ]

When he arrived at manhood. Rogers. [ 1913 Webster ]

We arrive at knowledge of a law of nature by the generalization of facts. McCosh. [ 1913 Webster ]

If at great things thou wouldst arrive. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To come; said of time; as, the time arrived. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To happen or occur. [ Archaic ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Happy! to whom this glorious death arrives. Waller. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. 1. To bring to shore. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

And made the sea-trod ship arrive them. Chapman. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To reach; to come to. [ Archaic ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Ere he arrive the happy isle. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

Ere we could arrive the point proposed. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Arrive at last the blessed goal. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Arrival. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

How should I joy of thy arrive to hear! Drayton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who arrives. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. prenom. directed or moving inward or toward a center; as, arriving trains.
Syn. -- inbound, inward. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. [ L. aurum gold + vorare to devour. ] Gold-devouring. [ R. ] H. Walpole. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ F. ] A mock serenade of discordant noises, made with kettles, tin horns, etc., designed to annoy and insult; -- called also shivaree.
Syn. -- shivaree, charivari, callithump, callathump. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ It was at first performed before the house of any person of advanced age who married a second time. [ 1913 Webster ]

. (Automobiles) A transmission arrangement in which the longitudinal crank shaft drives the rear wheels through a clutch, change-speed gear, countershaft, and two parallel side chains, in order. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

a. Capable of being contrived, planned, invented, or devised. [ 1913 Webster ]

A perpetual motion may seem easily contrivable. Bp. Wilkins. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The act or faculty of contriving, inventing, devising, or planning. [ 1913 Webster ]

The machine which we are inspecting demonstrates, by its construction, contrivance and design. Contrivance must have had a contriver. Paley. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The thing contrived, invented, or planned; disposition of parts or causes by design; a scheme; plan; artifice; arrangement. [ 1913 Webster ]

Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. Burke.

Syn. -- Device; plan; scheme; invention; machine; project; design; artifice; shift. See Device. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Contrived p. pr. & vb. n. Contriving. ] [ OE. contriven, contreven, controven, to invent, OF. controver, contruver; con- + trouver to find. See Troubadour, trover. ] To form by an exercise of ingenuity; to devise; to invent; to design; to plan. [ 1913 Webster ]

What more likely to contrive this admirable frame of the universe than infinite wisdom. Tillotson. [ 1913 Webster ]

neither do thou imagine that I shall contrive aught against his life. Hawthorne.

Syn. -- To invent; discover; plan; design; project; plot; concert; hatch. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To make devices; to form designs; to plan; to scheme; to plot. [ 1913 Webster ]

The Fates with traitors do contrive. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Thou hast contrived against th very life
Of the defendant. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Contrivance; invention; arrangement; design; plan. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Consider the admirable contrivement and artifice of this great fabric. Glanvill. [ 1913 Webster ]

Active to meet their contrivements. Sir G. Buck. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who contrives, devises, plans, or schemas. Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A rival; a corrival. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To rival; to pretend to equal. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ }, n. Joint rivalry. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. & t. To compete with; to rival. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A fellow rival; a competitor; a rival; also, a companion. [ R. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having rivaling claims; emulous; in rivalry. [ R. ] Bp. Fleetwood. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Corivalry. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Corivalry. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

By the corrivalship of Shager his false friend. Sir T. Herbert. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ L. corrivatus, p. p. of corrivare to corrivate. ] To cause to flow together, as water drawn from several streams. [ Obs. ] Burton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. corrivatio. ] The flowing of different streams into one. [ Obs. ] Burton. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. culter, cultri, knife + vorare to devour. ] Devouring knives; swallowing, or pretending to swallow, knives; -- applied to persons who have swallowed, or have seemed to swallow, knives with impunity. Dunglison. [ 1913 Webster ]

prop. n. a tributary of the Ohio River.
Syn. -- . [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. Capable of being, or liable to be, deprived; liable to be deposed. [ 1913 Webster ]

Kings of Spain . . . deprivable for their tyrannies. Prynne. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ LL. deprivatio. ] 1. The act of depriving, dispossessing, or bereaving; the act of deposing or divesting of some dignity. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The state of being deprived; privation; loss; want; bereavement. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Eccl. Law) the taking away from a clergyman his benefice, or other spiritual promotion or dignity. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Deprivation may be a beneficio or ab officio; the first takes away the living, the last degrades and deposes from the order. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Deprived p. pr. & vb. n. Depriving. ] [ LL. deprivare, deprivatium, to divest of office; L. de- + privare to bereave, deprive: cf. OF. depriver. See Private. ] 1. To take away; to put an end; to destroy. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

'Tis honor to deprive dishonored life. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To dispossess; to bereave; to divest; to hinder from possessing; to debar; to shut out from; -- with a remoter object, usually preceded by of. [ 1913 Webster ]

God hath deprived her of wisdom. Job xxxix. 17. [ 1913 Webster ]

It was seldom that anger deprived him of power over himself. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To divest of office; to depose; to dispossess of dignity, especially ecclesiastical. [ 1913 Webster ]

A minister deprived for inconformity. Bacon.

Syn. -- To strip; despoil; rob; abridge. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. marked by deprivation especially of the necessities of life or healthful environmental or social influences; as, a childhood that was unhappy and deprived, the family living off charity; boys from a deprived environment, wherein the family life revealed a pattern of neglect, moral degradation, and disregard for law.
Syn. -- disadvantaged. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. Deprivation. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who, or that which, deprives. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ From Derive. ] That can be derived; obtainable by transmission; capable of being known by inference, as from premises or data; capable of being traced, as from a radical; as, income is derivable from various sources. [ 1913 Webster ]

All honor derivable upon me. South. [ 1913 Webster ]

The exquisite pleasure derivable from the true and beautiful relations of domestic life. H. G. Bell. [ 1913 Webster ]

The argument derivable from the doxologies. J. H. Newman. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. By derivation. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Derivation. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

The derival of e from a. Earle. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. derivatus, p. p. of derivare. See Derive. ] Derived; derivative. [ R. ] H. Taylor. -- n. A thing derived; a derivative. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To derive. [ Obs. ] Huloet. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. derivatio: cf. F. dérivation. See Derive. ] 1. A leading or drawing off of water from a stream or source. [ Obs. ] T. Burnet. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The act of receiving anything from a source; the act of procuring an effect from a cause, means, or condition, as profits from capital, conclusions or opinions from evidence. [ 1913 Webster ]

As touching traditional communication, . . . I do not doubt but many of those truths have had the help of that derivation. Sir M. Hale. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The act of tracing origin or descent, as in grammar or genealogy; as, the derivation of a word from an Aryan root. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. The state or method of being derived; the relation of origin when established or asserted. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. That from which a thing is derived. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. That which is derived; a derivative; a deduction. [ 1913 Webster ]

From the Euphrates into an artificial derivation of that river. Gibbon. [ 1913 Webster ]

7. (Math.) The operation of deducing one function from another according to some fixed law, called the law of derivation, as the operation of differentiation or of integration. [ 1913 Webster ]

8. (Med.) A drawing of humors or fluids from one part of the body to another, to relieve or lessen a morbid process. [ 1913 Webster ]

9. The formation of a word from its more original or radical elements; also, a statement of the origin and history of a word. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

a. Relating to derivation. Earle. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. derivativus: cf. F. dérivatif. ] Obtained by derivation; derived; not radical, original, or fundamental; originating, deduced, or formed from something else; secondary; as, a derivative conveyance; a derivative word. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Hence, unoriginal (said of art or other intellectual products. [ PJC ]

Derivative circulation, a modification of the circulation found in some parts of the body, in which the arteries empty directly into the veins without the interposition of capillaries. Flint.

-- De*riv"a*tive*ly, adv. -- De*riv"a*tive*ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. That which is derived; anything obtained or deduced from another. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Gram.) A word formed from another word, by a prefix or suffix, an internal modification, or some other change; a word which takes its origin from a root. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Mus.) A chord, not fundamental, but obtained from another by inversion; or, vice versa, a ground tone or root implied in its harmonics in an actual chord. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Med.) An agent which is adapted to produce a derivation (in the medical sense). [ 1913 Webster ]

5. (Math.) A derived function; a function obtained from a given function by a certain algebraic process. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Except in the mode of derivation the derivative is the same as the differential coefficient. See Differential coefficient, under Differential. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. (Chem.) A substance so related to another substance by modification or partial substitution as to be regarded as derived from it; thus, the amido compounds are derivatives of ammonia, and the hydrocarbons are derivatives of methane, benzene, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. (Chem.) to alter the chemical composition [ of a compound ] by a chemical reaction which changes some part of the molecule, leaving most of the molecule unchanged; to prepare a derivative{ 6 } from.
Syn. -- modify. [ PJC ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Derived p. pr. & vb. n. Deriving. ] [ F. dériver, L. derivare; de- + rivus stream, brook. See Rival. ] 1. To turn the course of, as water; to divert and distribute into subordinate channels; to diffuse; to communicate; to transmit; -- followed by to, into, on, upon. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

For fear it [ water ] choke up the pits . . . they [ the workman ] derive it by other drains. Holland. [ 1913 Webster ]

Her due loves derived to that vile witch's share. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

Derived to us by tradition from Adam to Noah. Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To receive, as from a source or origin; to obtain by descent or by transmission; to draw; to deduce; -- followed by from. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To trace the origin, descent, or derivation of; to recognize transmission of; as, he derives this word from the Anglo-Saxon. [ 1913 Webster ]

From these two causes . . . an ancient set of physicians derived all diseases. Arbuthnot. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Chem.) To obtain one substance from another by actual or theoretical substitution; as, to derive an organic acid from its corresponding hydrocarbon.

Syn. -- To trace; deduce; infer. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To flow; to have origin; to descend; to proceed; to be deduced. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Power from heaven
Derives, and monarchs rule by gods appointed. Prior. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. That which is derived; deduction; inference. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

I offer these derivements from these subjects. W. Montagu. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who derives. [ 1913 Webster ]