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To become pure; to be cleared of feculent matter. So the pure, limpid stream, when foul with stains, Works itself clear, and, as it runs, refines. Addison.

Throwing back images; as, a reflective mirror. In the reflective stream the sighing bride, viewing her charms. Prior.

Stimulated by uplift to renewed erosive activity; -- said of streams.

ttering; glistening; bright; luminous; splendid. Gorgeous banners to the sun expand Their streaming volumes of relucent gold. Glover.

the contrary; to reverse. Till happy chance revert the cruel scence. Prior. The tumbling stream . . . Reverted, plays in undulating flow. Thomson.

A shallow place in a stream; a ford.

A very small brook; a streamlet.

Spring; source; origin; as, the rise of a stream. All wickednes taketh its rise from the heart. R. Nelson.

A large stream of water flowing in a bed or channel and emptying into the ocean, a sea, a lake, or another stream; a stream larger than a rivulet or brook. Transparent and sparkling rivers, from which it is delightful to drink as they flow. Macaulay.

A small stream or brook; a streamlet. By fountain or by shady rivulet He sought them. Milton.

To fall or tumble; -- with over; as, a stream rolls over a precipice.

A place prepared for rolling logs into a stream.

tion; -- said of things animate or inanimate. Hence, to flow, glide, or roll onward, as a stream, a snake, a wagon, etc.; to move by quicker action than in walking, as a person, a horse, a dog. Specifically: --

A moat with water in it; also, a small stream; a runlet. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

A little run or stream; a streamlet; a brook. To trace out to its marshy source every runlet that has cast in its tiny pitcherful with the rest. Lowell.

The channel of a stream.

olor of the stigmas of saffron flowers; deep orange-yellow; as, a saffron face; a saffron streamer.

o loiter. One could lie under elm trees in a lawn, or saunter in meadows by the side of a stream. Masson.

A tree which has fallen into a stream so that its branches project above the surface, rising and falling with a rocking or swaying motion in the current. [U.S.]

Flowing sevenfold; divided into seven streams or currents. [R.] Fuller.