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A small stream of water. [Eng.]

Represented as flying or streaming in the air; as, a banner flotant.

parade, bravado, etc.; to play with fantastic and irregular motion. Impetuous spread The stream, and smoking flourished o'er his head. Pope.

A stream of water or other fluid; a current; as, a flow of water; a flow of blood.

A current of water; a stream. [Obs.]

A stream; especially, a passage channel, or conduit for the water that drives a mill wheel; or an artifical channel of water for hydraulic or placer mining; also, a chute for conveying logs or lumber down a declivity.

Pertaining to rivers; abounding in streama.

Belonging to rivers; growing or living in streams or ponds; as, a fluvial plant.

One who exlpains geological phenomena by the action of streams. [R.]

Belonging to rivers or streams; fluviatile. Johnson.

Belonging to rivers or streams; existing in or about rivers; produced by river action; fluvial; as, fluviatile starta, plants. Lyell.

The act of flowing; a continuous moving on or passing by, as of a flowing stream; constant succession; change. By the perpetual flux of the liquids, a great part of them is thrown out of the body. Arbuthnot. Her image has escaped the flux of things, And that same infant beauty that she wore Is fixed upon her now foreve…

Violent; impetuous. Like mingled streams, more forcible when joined. Prior.

A stream; a current. With water of the ford Or of the clouds. Spenser. Permit my ghost to pass the Stygford. Dryden.

To make slow; to hinder; to obstruct. [Obs.] See Forslow, v. t. No stream, no wood, no mountain could foreslow Their hasty pace. Fairfax.

One of the parts into which anything is furcated or divided; a prong; a branch of a stream, a road, etc.; a barbed point, as of an arrow. Let it fall . . . though the fork invade The region of my heart. Shak. A thunderbolt with three forks. Addison.

An artificially produced jet or stream of water; also, the structure or works in which such a jet or stream rises or flows; a basin built and constantly supplied with pure water for drinking and other useful purposes, or for ornament.

A stream or spring of fresh water. He shall drink naught but brine; for I'll not show him Where the quick freshes are. Shak.

A stream of fresh water. [Obs.] Milton.

Rushing with impetuosity; moving with violence; as, a furious stream; a furious wind or storm.