rivulet

Definitions

1. A small stream; a streamlet; a gill
2. A small stream; a streamlet; a gill.
3. Perizoma affinitatum, a geometrid moth
4. Perizoma affinitatum, a geometrid moth.

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Examples

“A rivulet of tears ran down his face⟳.”

“Yes Madam I think⟳ you will like⟳ them—when you shall see⟳ in a beautiful Quarto Page how a neat rivulet of Text shall meander thro' a meadow of margin—'fore Gad, they will be the most elegant Things of their kind—”

“The struggle⟳ with ways and means had recommenced, more difficult now a hundredfold than it had been before, because of their increasing needs. Their income disappeared as a little rivulet that is swallowed by the thirsty ground.”

“Rills running down the steepest slopes develop⟳ into rivulets.”

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