rive (1), ryve (1)

t. & i. [Icel. rif a (pa. t. rif, pa. par. rifinn ); cogn. with Dan. rive: Sw. rifva; to scratch; Dut. rijven; O. H. Ger. rib an; Ger. reiben.] A. Trans.: Τo split, to cleave, to rend asunder forcibly. "A bolt that should but rive an oak." Shakesp.: Coriolanus , v. 3. B. In trans.: To be riven, split, or rent asunder; to open. IMG:content-0682.png:[blocks in formation] *rive (2), *ryve, v. i. [ARRIVE.) To sail to; to come, to arrive. rive, s. (RIVE (1), v.] A rift, a split, a rent, a tear. riv-el, v . t . [A. S. geriftian =to wrinkle, a frequent from rive (q. v.); Dut. ruifelen , ruyfelen .] To contract into wrinkles; to wrinkle, to corrugate, to pucker. *riv-el, *riv-el-ing (1), *ryv-el-ing, subst. [RIVEL, v.] A wrinkle. "It had no wem ne ryueling."-Wycliffe: Ephesians, v. *riv-el-ing (2), 8. [RIVEL, 8.] *riv-el-ing (3), s. [Eng. rive (r); dim in. suff. -ling.] A little river; a rivulet, a streamlet, a brook. (Prob. a misprint for river ling .) "Which, as maine flouds from smallest currents flow, Derives her sweets to th' rivelings below." Brathwayte: Nature's Emba ie , p. 276. *riv-el-ing (4), s. [A. S. rifting .] A rough kind of shoe, formerly worn by the Scotch, to whom, for that reason, the term itself was sometimes applied in contempt. riven, pa. par.ora. [RIVE, v.]