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, 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.

A blending of one color into another; the spreading of one color over another, as on the feathers of birds.

Orig., a rock composed of quartz, hornblende, and feldspar, anciently quarried at Syene, in Upper Egypt, and now called granite.

Uniting and blending together different systems, as of philosophy, morals, or religion. Smart.

Having the two main flexor tendons of the toes blended together.

A pale or faint tinge of any color. Or blend in beauteous tints the colored mass. Pope. Their vigor sickens, and their tints decline. Harte.

. [Harmony divine] smooths her charming tones. Milton. Tones that with seraph hymns might blend. Keble.

aking with a rough surface. It consists chiefly of orthoclase feldspar with sometimes hornblende and mica.

A kind of drama representing some action in which serious and comic scenes are blended; a composition partaking of the nature both of tragedy and comedy. The noble tragi-comedy of "Measure for Measure." Macaulay.

A white variety of amphibole, or hornblende, occurring in long, bladelike crystals, and coarsely fibrous masses.

orium, etc., occurring in black octahedrons, also in masses with a pitchlike luster; pitchblende.

An element of the chromium group, found in certain rare minerals, as pitchblende, uranite, etc., and reduced as a heavy, hard, nickel-white metal which is quite permanent. Its yellow oxide is used to impart to glass a delicate greenish-yellow tint which is accompanied by a strong fluorescence, and its black oxide is us…

th and water seem to strive again. Pope. Woodlands and cultivated fields are harmoniously blended. Bancroft.

dant element of the magnesium-cadmium group, extracted principally from the minerals zinc blende, smithsonite, calamine, and franklinite, as an easily fusible bluish white metal, which is malleable, especially when heated. It is not easily oxidized in moist air, and hence is used for sheeting, coating galvanized iron,…