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rned. They are easily tamed, and then serve as guardians for other poultry. The crested screamers, or chajas, belong to the genus Chauna. The horned screamer, or kamichi, is Palamedea cornuta.

Uttering screams; shrieking.

mmon European species (Pagellus centrodontus), the Spanish (P. Oweni), and the black sea bream (Cantharus lineatus); -- called also old wife.

m a vessel, reservoir, or fountain; specifically, any course of running water; as, many streams are blended in the Mississippi; gas and steam came from the earth in streams; a stream of molten lead from a furnace; a stream of lava from a volcano.

An instrument for ascertaining the velocity of the blood in a vessel.

Gold in alluvial deposits; placer gold.

The path of a constituent particle of a flowing fluid undisturbed by eddies or the like.

A wheel used for measuring, by its motion when submerged, the velocity of flowing water; a current wheel.

ifically, a long, narrow, ribbonlike flag. Brave Rupert from afar appears, Whose waving streamers the glad general knows. Dryden.

Abounding in streams, or in water. "The streamful tide." Drayton.

The state of being streamy; a trailing. R. A. Proctor.

Sending forth streams.

Destitute of streams, or of a stream, as a region of country, or a dry channel.

A small stream; a rivulet; a rill.

Of or pert. to a stream line; designating a motion or flow that is free from turbulence, like that of a particle in a streamline; hence, designating a surface, body, etc., that is designed so as to afford an unbroken flow of a fluid about it, esp. when the resistance to flow is the least possible; as, a streamline body…

Abounding with streams, or with running water; streamful. Arcadia However streamy now, adust and dry, Denied the goddess water. Prior.

Not dreamed, or dreamed of; not thof. Unpathed waters, undreamed shores. Shak.

Toward the higher part of a stream; against the current.

An apparatus for the determination of the amount of urea in urine, in which the nitrogen evolved by the action of certain reagents, on a given volume of urine, is collected and measured, and the urea calculated accordingly.

Forsaken, deserted. "Your abandoned streams." Thomson.