Water
.(See Dancing Water.)
The Father of Waters. The Mississippi (Indian, Miche Sepe), the chief river of North America. The Missouri is its child. The Irrawaddy is so called also.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.