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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.

A dreamy, imaginative habit of mind; a disposition to ignore what is real; as, a girl full of romance.

merica. called also red perch, hemdurgan, Norway haddok, and also, erroneously, snapper, bream, and bergylt.

or completeness; to complete; hence, to bring to a fit conclusion. We are such stuff As dreams are made on, and our little life Is rounded with a sleep. Shak.

ard to overcome; a pinch. Every rub is smoothed on our way. Shak. To sleep, perchance to dream; ay, there's the rub. Shak. Upon this rub, the English ambassadors thought fit to demur. Hayward. One knows not, certainly, what other rubs might have been ordained for us by a wise Providence. W. Besant.

on; -- 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.

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

onate (see under Sodium.) It is lagerly used in cooking, with sour milk (lactic acid) or cream of tartar as a substitute for yeast. It is also an ingridient of most baking powders, and is used in the preparation of effervescing drinks.

f tartar (Old Chem.), potassium carbonate; -- so called because formerly made by heating cream of tartar, or potassium tartrate. [Obs.] -- Salt of Venus (Old Chem.), blue vitriol; copper sulphate; -- the alchemical name of copper being Venus. -- Salt of wisdom. See Alembroth. -- Sedative salt (Old Med. Chem.), boric…

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.]

To utter a harsh, shrill cry; to make a sharp outcry, as in terror or acute pain; to scream; to shriek. "The screech owl, screeching loud." Shak.

first in order of place or time; hence, occuring again; another; other. And he slept and dreamed the second time. Gen. xli. 5.

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

Flowing in seven streams; septemfluous.