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  1. rivelverb

    To shrivel, wrinkle (up).

  2. rivelverb

    To cause to be wrinkled, to shrivel.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. To Rivelverb

    To contract into wringles and corrugations.

    Etymology: gerifled , Saxon, corrugated, rumpled.

    Then droop’d the fading flow’rs, their beauty fled,
    And clos’d their sickly eyes and hung the head,
    And rivel’d up with heat, lay dying in their bed. Dryd.

    And since that plenteous autumn now is past,
    Whose grapes and peaches have indulg’d your taste,
    Take in good part, from our poor poet’s board,
    Such rivel’d fruits as winter can afford. Dryden.

    Alum stipticks, with contracting pow’r,
    Shrink his thin essence like a rivel’d flow’r. Alexander Pope.

Wikipedia

  1. Rivel

    Rivel (French pronunciation: [ʁivɛl] (listen); Occitan: Rivèlh) is a commune in the Aude department in southern France.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Rivelverb

    to contract into wrinkles; to shrivel; to shrink; as, riveled fruit; riveled flowers

  2. Rivelnoun

    a wrinkle; a rimple

  3. Etymology: [AS. gerifled, geriflod, gerifod, wrinkled, geriflian, gerifian, to wrinkle. See Rifle a gun, Rive.]

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Rivel

    riv′el, v.t. to wrinkle. [A.S. rifian, to wrinkle.]

Anagrams for rivel »

  1. liver

  2. livre

  3. viler

  4. levir

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of rivel in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of rivel in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

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