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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Nile \Nile\ (n[imac]l), n. [L. Nilus, Gr. Nei^los.]
     The great river of Egypt.
     [1913 Webster]
  
     {Nile bird}. (Zool.)
     (a) The wryneck. [Prov. Eng.]


     (b) The crocodile bird.
  
     {Nile goose} (Zool.), the Egyptian goose. See Note under
        {Goose}, 2.
        [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  Nile
       n : the world's longest river (4180 miles); flows northward
           through eastern Africa into the Mediterranean; the Nile
           River valley in Egypt was the site of the world's first
           great civilization [syn: {Nile River}]

From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:

  Nile
     dark; blue, not found in Scripture, but frequently referred to
     in the Old Testament under the name of Sihor, i.e., "the black
     stream" (Isa. 23:3; Jer. 2:18) or simply "the river" (Gen. 41:1;
     Ex. 1:22, etc.) and the "flood of Egypt" (Amos 8:8). It consists
     of two rivers, the White Nile, which takes its rise in the
     Victoria Nyanza, and the Blue Nile, which rises in the
     Abyssinian Mountains. These unite at the town of Khartoum,
     whence it pursues its course for 1,800 miles, and falls into the
     Mediterranean through its two branches, into which it is divided
     a few miles north of Cairo, the Rosetta and the Damietta branch.
     (See {EGYPT}.)
     

















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