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Clear; transparent. " Lucid streams." Milton.

The rough surface of a congealed lava stream. [Southwestern U. S.]

or authoritative command; an order or injunction; a commission; a judicial precept. This dream all-powerful Juno; I bear Her mighty mandates, and her words you hear. Dryden.

me, or take on, a covering, as froth, scum, etc. There is a sort of men whose visages Do cream and mantle like a standing pond. Shak. Nor bowl of wassail mantle warm. Tennyson.

delicate pastry made of powdered sugar and the whites of eggs whipped up, -- with jam or cream added.

of Mete, to dream. Chaucer.

To dream; also impersonally; as, me mette, I dreamed. [Obs.] "I mette of him all night." Chaucer.

of Mete, to dream. Chaucer.

gloomy; melancholy. "Every peevish, moody malcontent." Rowe. Arouse thee from thy moody dream! Sir W. Scott.

casting anchor, or by fastening with cables or chains; as, the vessel was moored in the stream; they moored the boat to the wharf.

Of or relating to Morpheus, to dreams, or to sleep. Keats.

The god of dreams.

Overgrown with moss; abounding with or edged with moss; as, mossy trees; mossy streams. Old trees are more mossy far than young. Bacon.

A frozen dessert of a frothy texture, made of sweetened and flavored whipped cream, sometimes with the addition of egg yolks and gelatin. Mousse differs from ice cream in being beaten before -- not during -- the freezing process.

The opening through which the waters of a river or any stream are discharged.

ng muddy; turbidness; foulness casued by mud, dirt, or sediment; as, the muddiness of a stream.

To make a low continued noise, like the hum of bees, a stream of water, distant waves, or the wind in a forest. They murmured as doth a swarm of bees. Chaucer.

A dreamer; an absent-minded person. [Obs.] Rom. of R.

r or specific designation. For the excellency of the soul, namely, its power of divining dreams; that several such divinations have been made, none Addison.

A narrow passage; esp., a contracted part of a stream, lake, or sea; a strait connecting two bodies of water; -- usually in the plural; as, The Narrows of New York harbor. Near the island lay on one side the jaws of a dangerous narrow. Gladstone.