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opographical map, which exaggerates the dimensions of houses and the breadth of roads and streams, for the sake of distinctness. Brande & C.

In a calm manner. The gentle stream which calmly flows. Denham.

centric fibrous structure resembling wood (wood tin), also in rolled fragments or pebbly (Stream tin). It is the chief source of metallic tin. See Black tin, under Black.

Ascending and descending fresh streams from and to the sea, as the salmon; anadromous. [R.]

The hollow bed where a stream of water runs or may run.

remarkable check to the first progress of Christianity. Addison. No check, no stay, this streamlet fears. Wordsworth.

A continuous noise or murmur. The chide of streams. Thomson.

Free from opaqueness; transparent; bright; light; luminous; unclouded. The stream is so transparent, pure, and clear. Denham. Fair as the moon, clear as the sun. Canticles vi. 10.

ne for the promotion of some common object; to unite. Till grosser atoms, tumbling in the stream Of fancy, madly met, and clubbed into a dream. Dryden.

The act of flowing together; the meeting or junction of two or more streams; the place of meeting.

[R.] It was situated on the Ganges, at the place where this river received a contributary stream. D'Anville (Trans. ).

To erode, as the bed of a stream. See Corrosion.

The erosion of the bed of a stream by running water, principally by attrition of the detritus carried along by the stream, but also by the solvent action of the water.

To cause to flow together, as water drawn from several streams. [Obs.] Burton.

The flowing of different streams into one. [Obs.] Burton.

A stream; (Geol.)

To break into bends, turns, or angles; to crinkle. Old Veg's stream . . . drew her humid train aslope, Crankling her banks. J. Philips.

A stream of water smaller than a river and larger than a brook. Lesser streams and rivulets are denominated creeks. Goldsmith.

To pass from one side to the other of; to pass or move over; to traverse; as, to cross a stream. A hunted hare . . . crosses and confounds her former track. I. Watts.

A place where anything (as a stream) is crossed; a paved walk across a street.