CREEK (Mid. Eng. crike or creke, common to many N. European languages)

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CREEK (Mid. Eng. crike or creke, common to many N. European languages) , a small inlet on a low

coast

COAST (from Lat. costa, a rib, side)

, an inlet in a river formed by the mouth of a small stream, a shallow narrow harbour for small vessles. In America and Australia especially there are many

long

LONG, GEORGE (1800-1879)
LONG, JOHN DAVIS (1838– )

streams which can be everywhere forded and sometimes dry up, and are navigable only at their tidal estuaries, mere

brooks

in width which are of

great

GREAT

economic importance. They form complete river-systems, and are the only

supply

SUPPLY (through Fr. from Lat. supplere, to fill up)

of surface water over many thousand square miles. They are at some seasons a mere chain of " water-holes," but occasionally they are strongly flooded. Since exploration began at the

coast

COAST (from Lat. costa, a rib, side)

and advanced inland, it is probable that the explorers, advancing up the narrow inlets or " creeks," used the same word for the streams which flowed into these as they followed their courses upward into the country. The early settlers would use the same word for that portion of the stream which flowed through their own land, and in Australia particularly the word has the same local meaning as brook in England. On a map the whole

system

SYSTEM

is called a river, e.g. the river Wakefield in

South

SOUTH
SOUTH, ROBERT (1634–1716)

Australia gives
this evil

procedure

PROCEDURE (Fr. procedure, from Lat. procedere, to go for-ward)

by the evil

procedure

PROCEDURE (Fr. procedure, from Lat. procedere, to go for-ward)

of our foes. Hence what should be matter of silent religious meditation must now needs be imperilled by exposition in words."
The province of reverent theology is to aid accurate thinking by the use' ofdmetaphysical or psychological terms. Its definitions are no more an end in themselves than an

analysis

ANALYSIS (Gr. avci and Meta, to break up into parts)

of good drinking water, which by itself leaves us thirsty but encourages us to drink. So the Nicene Creed is the

analysis

ANALYSIS (Gr. avci and Meta, to break up into parts)

of the river of the water of life of which the Sermon on the

Mount

MOUNT, WILLIAM SIDNEY (1807-1868)

is a description, flowing on from age to age, freely offered to the thirsty souls
its name to Port Wakefield, but the stream is always locally called " the creek."

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