Hypertext Webster Gateway: "alluvion"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Alluvion \Al*lu"vi*on\, n. [F. alluvion, L. alluvio, fr. alluere
to wash against; ad + luere, equiv. to lavare, to wash. See
{Lave}.]
1. Wash or flow of water against the shore or bank.
2. An overflowing; an inundation; a flood. --Lyell.
3. Matter deposited by an inundation or the action of flowing
water; alluvium.
The golden alluvions are there [in California and
Australia] spread over a far wider space: they are
found not only on the banks of rivers, and in their
beds, but are scattered over the surface of vast
plains. --R. Cobden.
4. (Law) An accession of land gradually washed to the shore
or bank by the flowing of water. See {Accretion}.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
alluvion
n 1: gradual formation of new land, by recession of the sea or
deposit of sediment
2: the rising of a body of water and its overflowing onto
normally dry land [syn: {flood}, {inundation}, {deluge}]
3: clay or slit or gravel carried by rushing streams and
deposited where the stream slows down [syn: {alluvial
sediment}, {alluvial deposit}, {alluvium}]
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