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A very intense light, produced by turning two streams of gas, one oxygen and the other hydrogen, or coal gas, in a state of ignition, upon a ball of lime; or a stream of oxygen gas through a flame of alcohol upon a ball or disk of lime; -- called also oxycalcium light, or lime light.

To make to cease, as a stream of talk. Their sources of revenue were dried up. Jowett (Thucyd. ) -- To dry, or dry up, a cow, to cause a cow to cease secreting milk. Tylor.

Sweet to the taste; luscious. [Obs.] She tempers dulcet creams. Milton.

r globular, and eight or ten inches long. It has a hard prickly rind, containing a soft, cream-colored pulp, of a most delicious flavor and a very offensive odor. The seeds are roasted and eaten like chestnuts.

A kind of frosted cake, containing flavored cream.

An efferent duct or stream.

A stream that flows out of another stream or lake.

To pour out like a stream or freely; to cause to exude; to shed. [R.] With gushing blood effused. Milton.

clock. See under Clock, and see Electro-chronograph. -- Electric current, a current or stream of electricity traversing a closed circuit formed of conducting substances, or passing by means of conductors from one body to another which is in a different electrical state. -- Electric, or Electrical, eel (Zoöl.), a Sout…

orn with armorial figures; to blazon, or emblazon. [Archaic] The imperial ensign, . . . streaming to the wind, With gems and golden luster rich emblazed. Milton.

s; to inclose. Low at his feet a spacious plain is placed, Between the mountain and the stream embraced. Denham.

Destitute of reality, or real existence; unsubstantial; as, empty dreams.

d of books or science. [Written also enamour.] Passionately enamored of this shadow of a dream. W. Irving.

ing with knowledge. Seeing, Lord, your great mercy Us hath enriched so openly. Chaucer's Dream.

The act or state of vanishing away; disappearance; as, the evanescence of vapor, of a dream, of earthly plants or hopes. Rambler.

e usual or expected manner, or to be altogether cut off from supply; to be lacking; as, streams fail; crops fail. As the waters fail from the sea. Job xiv. 11. Till Lionel's issue fails, his should not reign. Shak.

Extent of descent; the distance which anything falls; as, the water of a stream has a fall of five feet.

and fearful name, The Lord thy God. Deut. xxviii. 58. Death is a fearful thing. Shak. In dreams they fearful precipices tread. Dryden.

when poured into another liquid, and float about in little flakes or "feathers;" as, the cream feathers [Colloq.]

A stream that flows into another body of water; a tributary; specifically (Hydraulic Engin.), a water course which supplies a canal or reservoir by gravitation or natural flow.