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Not bountiful or liberal; scanty. Here creeps along a poor, penurious stream. C. Pitt.

To make a pattering sound; to murmur; as, pittering streams. [Obs.] R. Greene.

on of (usually) fresh water, as one supplied by a spring, or occurring in the course of a stream; a reservoir for water; as, the pools of Solomon. Wyclif. Charity will hardly water the ground where it must first fill a pool. Bacon. The sleepy pool above the dam. Tennyson.

To cause to flow in a stream, as a liquid or anything flowing like a liquid, either out of a vessel or into it; as, to pour water from a pail; to pour wine into a decanter; to pour oil upon the waters; to pour out sand or dust.

A long boat hook by which barges are propelled against the stream. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

fficacy of an oral repetition of all the prayers on the wheel. Sometimes it is moved by a stream.

remptory order; to dictate; to appoint; to direct. Prescribe not us our duties. Shak. Let streams prescribe their fountains where to run. Dryden.

A stream. [Obs.] Davies (Microcosmos).

al privileges as such. -- Water privilege, the advantage of having machinery driven by a stream, or a place affording such advantage. [ U. S.] -- Writ of privilege (Law), a writ to deliver a privileged person from custody when arrested in a civil suit. Blackstone.

Flowing forward, [R.] "In the profluent stream." Milton.

A well; a small stream; a fountain; a spring. [Obs.] The puits flowing from the fountain of life. Jer. Taylor.

Large and rounded. [Obs.] A gentle stream, whose murmuring wave did play Amongst the pumy stones. Spenser.

To run swiftly round, as a small stream flowing among stones or other obstructions; to eddy; also, to make a murmuring sound, as water does in running over or through obstructions. Swift o'er the rolling pebbles, down the hills, Louder and louder purl the falling rills. Pope.

The motion of a small stream running among obstructions; also, the murmur it makes in so doing.

A medusa, or jellyfish. [R.] The jellied quarl that flings At once a thousand streaming stings. J. R. Drake.

ally, that part of a heating apparatus from which the heat is radiated or diffused; as, a stream radiator.

To flow forth; to roll out; to course. [Obs.] Streams of tears from her fair eyes forth railing. Spenser.

Very swift or quick; moving with celerity; fast; as, a rapid stream; a rapid flight; a rapid motion. Ascend my chariot; guide the rapid wheels. Milton.

A deep and narrow hollow, usually worn by a stream or torrent of water; a gorge; a mountain cleft.

An extended portion of land or water; a stretch; a straight portion of a stream or river, as from one turn to another; a level stretch, as between locks in a canal; an arm of the sea extending up into the land. "The river's wooded reach." Tennyson. The coast . . . is very full of creeks and reaches. Holland.…