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One who sells wares by crying them in the street; hence, a peddler or a packman.

nal dwelling place of the soul. Man goeth to his long home, and the mourners go about the streets. Eccl. xii. 5.

n a common prison, or in a private house, or even by foreibly detaining one in the public streets. Blackstone. False imprisonment. (Law) See under False.

One who, or that which, shows or points out; as, a fare indicator in a street car.

mutual slaughter; mutually destructive. Internecine quarrels, horrible tumults, stain the streets with blood. Motley.

d, to support a royal mast, and give spread to the royal shrouds; -- called also jack crosstree. R. H. Dana, Jr.

ple or objects crowded together; also, the pressure from a crowd; a crush; as, a jam in a street; a jam of logs in a river.

To rhyme or sound with a jingling effect. "Jingling street ballads." Macaulay.

ainst each other; to encounter; to clash; to jostle. Shak. The chariots shall rage in the streets; they shall justle one against another in the broad ways. Nahum ii. 4.

The water course of a street; a little canal or channel; a gutter; also, a puddle. Bp. Hall.

A post (generally a pillar of iron) supporting a lamp or lantern for lighting a street, park, etc.

One who, or that which, lights a lamp; esp., a person who lights street lamps.

r material, having a lamp or candle within; sometimes fixed, as the glazed inclosure of a street light, or of a lighthouse light.

A rowdy street loafer; a rowdyish or noisy ill-bred fellow; -- variously applied, as to a street blackguard, a street Arab, a youth given to horse-play, etc. [Australia & Eng.] -- a.

r; to light; to illuminate; as, to lighten an apartment with lamps or gas; to lighten the streets. [In this sense less common than light.] A key of fire ran all along the shore, And lightened all the river with a blaze. Dryden.

cing; a closing of one thing upon another; a state of being fixed or immovable. Albemarle Street closed by a lock of carriages. De Quincey.

other shelter; to rest; to stay; to abide; esp., to sleep at night; as, to lodge in York Street. Chaucer. Stay and lodge by me this night. Shak. Something holy lodges in that breast. Milton .

A form of cannon formerly in use. Prescott. Lombard Street, the principal street in London for banks and the offices of note brokers; hence, the money market and interest of London.

erb. The whiles she lordeth in licentious bliss. Spenser. I see them lording it in London streets. Shak. And lorded over them whom now they serve. Milton.

To cover, as a road, or street, with small, broken stones, so as to form a smooth, hard, convex surface.