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

An order of birds, including the swans, ducks, geese, flamingoes and screamers.

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

ht pastry, usually in the form of a small round cake, and with a filling, as of jelly or cream.

A vessel in which milk or cream is stirred, beaten, or otherwise agitated (as by a plunging or revolving dasher) in order to separete the oily globules from the other parts, and obtain butter.

To rail at; to scold. [Obs.] In the aforesaid preamble, the king fairly claweth the great monasteries, wherein, saith he, religion, thanks be to God, is right well kept and observed; though he claweth them soon after in another acceptation. T. Fuller Claw me, claw thee, stand by me and I will stand by you; -- an old pr…

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.

Dreamland.

To stud with nails, as a timber, or a boot sole. Clouted cream, clotted cream, i. e., cream obtained by warming new milk. A. Philips.

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.

sel, a chisel of peculiar strength and hardness, for cutting cold metal. Weale. -- Cold cream. See under Cream. -- Cold slaw. See Cole slaw. -- In cold blood, without excitement or passion; deliberately. He was slain in cold blood after thefight was over. Sir W. Scott. To give one the cold shoulder, to treat one wit…

form, or steam into water. Condensed milk, milk reduced to the consistence of very thick cream by evaporation (usually with addition of sugar) for preservation and transportation. -- Condensing engine, a steam engine in which the steam is condensed after having exerted its force on the piston.

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

.] 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.

Shak. Like one that wraps the drapery of his couch About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams. Bryant.

A stream; (Geol.)