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A vessel for conveying passengers, merchandise, etc., across streams and other narrow waters.

with a fatty "filling," such as oleomargarine or lard, to replace the fat removed in the cream.

ed of sand gravel. -- Filter gallery, an underground gallery or tunnel, alongside of a stream, to collect the water that filters through the intervening sand and gravel; -- called also infiltration gallery.

To try with a fishing rod; to catch fish in; as, to fish a stream. Thackeray.

A stream of burning vapor or gas, emitting light and heat; darting or streaming fire; a blaze; a fire.

A reservoir and sluiceway beside a navigable stream, just above a shoal, so that the stream may pour in water as boats pass, and thus bear them over the shoal. Flash wheel (Mech.), a paddle wheel made to revolve in a breast or curved water way, by which water is lifted from the lower to the higher level.…

A former prison in London, which originally stood near a stream, the Fleet (now filled up). Fleet parson, a clergyman of low character, in, or in the vicinity of, the Fleet prison, who was ready to unite persons in marriage (called Fleet marriage) at any hour, without public notice, witnesses, or consent of parents.…

A mass of timber or boards fastened together, and conveyed down a stream by the current; a raft.

at which is guided and impelled by means of chains which are anchored on each side of a stream, and pass over wheels on the vessel, the wheels being driven by stream power. (d) The landing platform of a ferry dock. -- Floating cartilage (Med.), a cartilage which moves freely in the cavity of a joint, and often interfe…

A great flow of water; a body of moving water; the flowing stream, as of a river; especially, a body of water, rising, swelling, and overflowing land not usually thus covered; a deluge; a freshet; an inundation. A covenant never to destroy The earth again by flood. Milton.

A small stream of water. [Eng.]

Represented as flying or streaming in the air; as, a banner flotant.

arade, bravado, etc.; to play with fantastic and irregular motion. Impetuous spread The stream, and smoking flourished o'er his head. Pope.

A stream of water or other fluid; a current; as, a flow of water; a flow of blood.

A current of water; a stream. [Obs.]

A stream; especially, a passage channel, or conduit for the water that drives a mill wheel; or an artifical channel of water for hydraulic or placer mining; also, a chute for conveying logs or lumber down a declivity.

Pertaining to rivers; abounding in streama.

Belonging to rivers; growing or living in streams or ponds; as, a fluvial plant.

One who exlpains geological phenomena by the action of streams. [R.]

Belonging to rivers or streams; fluviatile. Johnson.