riveryadj.

1612 M. Drayton Poly-olbion x. 159 Thy full and youthfull breasts, which..Are brancht with riuery veines.

1844 T. Hawkins Wars Jehovah viii. 428 Oh what a burst was then! from all the store Of heaven like silver streak'd with rivery gold.

1899 F. L. Stanton Comes One with Song 94 And winds went over, cool and sweet, With rivery ripples in the wheat.

1916 A. Huxley Burning Wheel 13 Lorelei, Combing the silken mystery, The glaucous gold of her rivery tresses.

1977 Rolling Stone 19 May 86/3 ‘The Wheel’ is..a brilliant, rivery thing that makes it easy to understand why Charlie Parker liked jamming with Ray Price's band.

1985 B. Neil As we Forgive vi. 87 The frost on the windows was dividing into rivery strips.

2003 N. Trott in S. C. Gill Cambr. Compan. Wordsworth i. 14 The rivery process of existence, flowing from birth to death.

1663 E. Waterhouse Fortescutus Illustratus xxix. 379 God when he planted Eden, made it Rivery, it had limpid streams issuing from it in abundance.

1828 J. Wilson in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 24 302 As woody, as lochy, and as rivery a parish.

1859 All Year Round 5 Nov. 29 Upon the artificial peninsula,..transport a bit of rivery Orientalism.

1889 W. B. Yeats Wanderings of Oisin 78 From rolling valley and rivery glen, With horsemen hurrying near and far, I drew at evening my mailed men.

1973 P. Lively Ghost of Thomas Kempe ii. 17 Green, rivery, elm-scattered Oxfordshire.

2006 R. Blythe Year at Bottongoms Farm 58 Once having got to a rivery town there is no reason on earth why one should go anywhere else.