n. [ AS. streám; akin to OFries. strām, OS. strōm, D. stroom, G. strom, OHG. stroum, strūm, Dan. & Sw. ström, Icel. straumr, Ir. sroth, Lith. srove, Russ. struia, Gr.
Gulf stream.
Stream anchor,
Stream cable
Stream ice,
Stream tin,
Stream works (Cornish Mining),
To float with the stream,
v. t. To send forth in a current or stream; to cause to flow; to pour;
It may so please that she at length will stream
Some dew of grace into my withered heart. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]
The herald's mantle is streamed with gold. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]
To stream the buoy. (Naut.)
v. i.
Beneath those banks where rivers stream. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]
A thousand suns will stream on thee. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]
. (Physiol.) An instrument for ascertaining the velocity of the blood in a vessel. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]
n.
Brave Rupert from afar appears,
Whose waving streamers the glad general knows. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]
While overhead the North's dumb streamers shoot. Lowell. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Abounding in streams, or in water. “The streamful tide.” Drayton. [ 1913 Webster ]
. (Mining) Gold in alluvial deposits; placer gold. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]
n. The state of being streamy; a trailing. R. A. Proctor. [ 1913 Webster ]
n.
a. Sending forth streams. [ 1913 Webster ]