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er, or suborder, including the kamichi, and allied South American birds; -- called also screamers. In many anatomical characters they are allied to the Anseres, but they externally resemble the wading birds.

sh or vessel, usually of metal, employed for many domestic uses, as for setting milk for cream, for frying or baking food, etc.; also employed for various uses in manufacturing. "A bowl or a pan." Chaucer.

through, or the like; to proceed from one side to the other of; as, to pass a house, a stream, a boundary, etc.

led, navigated, traversed, penetrated, or the like; as, the roads are not passable; the stream is passablein boats. His body's a passable carcass if it be not hurt; it is a throughfare for steel. Shak.

ent; clear; limpid; translucent; not opaque. "Pellucid crystal." Dr. H. More. "Pellucid streams." Wordsworth.

A small, narrow flag or streamer borne at the top of a lance; - - called also pennoncel. [Obs.] Piers Plowman. Chaucer.

A pennant; a flag or streamer. Longfellow.

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

of the wings is black, with orange-red spots and marginal crescents, and several rows of cream-colored spots; -- called also Baltimore.

or material; a shadowy or airy appearance; sometimes, an optical illusion; a phantom; a dream. They be but phantasms or apparitions. Sir W. Raleigh.

The salt-water bream (Diplodus Holbrooki).

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

ure of this with butter, water, and salt is called Plasmon butter, and resembles clotted cream in appearance.

A boiler in which clay is beaten by a wheel to a creamy consistence. Knight.

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.

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

To foretell; to predict; to foreshow; to indicate. My dreams presage some joyful news at hand. Shak.

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