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Uncle. [Obs.] Spenser.

Visited by a dream; -- used in the phrase, To be adreamed, to dream. [Obs.]

Furnished with beams, as the head of a stag. Tost his beamed frontlet to the sky. Sir W. Scott.

A place where butter and cheese are made, or where milk and cream are put up in cans for market.

One given to draydreams.

Delineation; sketch. Dr. H. More.

one lost in wild imaginations or vain schemes of some anticipated good; as, a political dreamer.

A footman; a flunky. [Slang, Eng.] Thackeray.

A dog held by a leam.

figure, particularly of the face; feature; form; mark; - - usually in the plural. "The lineaments of the body." Locke. "Lineaments in the character." Swift. Man he seems In all his lineaments. Milton.

A soft ointment prepared from oil. Dunglison.

Realm. [Obs.] Chaucer.

One who, or that which, reams; specifically, an instrument with cutting or scraping edges, used, with a twisting motion, for enlarging a round hole, as a bore of a cannon, etc.

ned. They are easily tamed, and then serve as guardians for other poultry. The crested screamers, or chajas, belong to the genus Chauna. The horned screamer, or kamichi, is Palamedea cornuta.

Out of condition; not in good condition; -- said of a hawk.

The steamer duck. Steamer duck (Zoöl.), a sea duck (Tachyeres cinereus), native of Patagonia and Terra del Fuego, which swims and dives with great agility, but which, when full grown, is incapable of flight, owing to its very small wings. Called also loggerhead, race horse, and side wheel duck.

fically, a long, narrow, ribbonlike flag. Brave Rupert from afar appears, Whose waving streamers the glad general knows. Dryden.

Yoked in, or as in, a team. [Obs.] Let their teamed fishes softly swim. Spenser.

A freight steamer having a high hatch coaming extending almost continuously fore and aft, but not of whaleback form at the sides.

A whaleback steamer with a hatch coaming, usually about seven feet high, extending almost continuously fore and aft.