英语 (same as 沿) to follow a course; to go along; to coast, to hand down; to continue; to conseve, along or by, as a road or a coast
緣水而下也。从水㕣聲。《春秋傳》曰:“王沿夏。”与專切
(沿)緣水而下也。禹貢。沿于江海。達于淮泗。鄭本沿作松。字之誤也。馬本作均。依今文尚書也。均者、沿之假借字。如三年問反巡過其故鄉、荀卿巡作鉛。假鉛爲巡。其理一也。从水。㕣聲。與專切。十四部。㕣古文沇。春秋傳曰。王沿夏。左傳昭十三年曰。王沿夏。將欲入鄢。