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Gold-bearing; containing or producing gold. Whence many a bursting stream auriferous plays. Thomson. ~= pyrites, iron pyrites (iron disulphide), containing some gold disseminated through it.

ight, and supposed to be of electrical origin. This species of light usually appears in streams, ascending toward the zenith from a dusky line or bank, a few degrees above the northern horizon; when reaching south beyond the zenith, it forms what is called the corona, about a spot in the heavens toward which the dippin…

A system of natural drainage developed by the constituent streams through headwater erosion.

A system of land forms produced by the free action of rain and streams on rocks of uniform texture.

Ah! alas! "Ay me! I fondly dream `Had ye been there.'" Milton.

onstant or confused murmur. The babble of our young children. Darwin. The babble of the stream. Tennyson.

il.), the retrograde movement of a man or body of men, without changing front. -- Back stream, a current running against the main current of a stream; an eddy. -- To take the back track, to retrace one's steps; to retreat. [Colloq.]

enemies." Shak. Four infernal rivers that disgorge Into the burning lake their baleful streams. Milton.

A little banner, flag, or streamer. [Written also bannerol.] From the extremity of which fluttered a small banderole or streamer bearing a cross. Sir W. Scott.

A native or an inhabitant of Bavaria. Bavarian cream. See under Cream.

A rich, white sauce, prepared with butter and cream.

A European fish (Pagellus centrodontus); the sea bream or braise.

an agreeable flavor; as, an intoxicating beverage. He knew no beverage but the flowing stream. Thomson.

nd unsteadily, or with a pattering noise; to quiver; to be tremulous, like flame. They [streamlets] bickered through the sunny shade. Thomson.

s; full of billows or surges; resembling billows. And whitening down the many-tinctured stream, Descends the billowy foam. Thomson.

of any kind; as, attraction binds the planets to the sun; frost binds the earth, or the streams. He bindeth the floods from overflowing. Job xxviii. 11. Whom Satan hath bound, lo, these eighteen years. Luke xiii. 16.

artaric acid in which the base replaces but half the acid hydrogen; an acid tartrate, as cream of tartar.

A forcible stream of air from an orifice, as from a bellows, the mouth, etc. Hence: The continuous blowing to which one charge of ore or metal is subjected in a furnace; as, to melt so many tons of iron at a blast.

A stream of gas or vapor emitting light and heat in the process of combustion; a bright flame. "To heaven the blaze uprolled." Croly.

as falling fast, the stars began to blink. Wordsworth. The sun blinked fair on pool and stream . Sir W. Scott.