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Cream; also, the cream or froth on ale. [Scot.]

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.

The second of two amputations performed upon the same member.

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

A marine sparoid fish of the genus Pagellus, and allied genera. See Sea Bream.

A delicacy of several kinds prepared for the table from cream, etc., or so as to resemble cream.

See under Laid.

Of the color of cream; light yellow. "Cream-colored horses." Hazlitt.

White or pale, as the effect of fear, or as the natural complexion. Thou cream-faced loon. Shak.

A plant of Sierra Leone which yields a wholesome, creamy juice.

A wooden knife with a long thin blade, used in handling cream or ice cream.

As white as cream.

A kind of cake filled with custard made of cream, eggs, etc.

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

The quality of being creamy.

Full of, or containing, cream; resembling cream, in nature, appearance, or taste; creamlike; unctuous. "Creamy bowis." Collins. "Lines of creamy spray." Tennyson. "Your creamy words but cozen." Beau & Fl.

cy speculation; a reverie; a castle in the air; unfounded hope. Mrs. Lambert's little daydream was over. Thackeray.

One given to draydreams.

To flow. [Poetic] Yet o'er that virtuous blush distreams a tear. Shenstone.