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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

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pl.

-ries

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[L.

ostium

door, entrance. See

The mouth of a river; an estuary.

[R.]

Sir T. Browne.

One who keeps the door, especially the door of a church; a porter.

N. Bacon.

Noun.

[L. ostium, mouth.] The mouth or opening by which a river discharges its waters into the sea, or into a lake.

ostiary ‎(plural ostiaries)

The mouth of a river; an estuary.
(Can we find and add a quotation of Sir Thomas Browne to this entry?)
One who keeps the door, especially the door of a church; a porter.
(Can we find and add a quotation of Francis Bacon to this entry?)
- 1987, Gene Wolfe, The Urth of the New Sun:
  So arrayed I stepped at last from my door and was saluted as before by my monstrous ostiaries.