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rom a vessel, reservoir, or fountain; specifically, any course of running water; as, many streams are blended in the Mississippi; gas and steam came from the earth in streams; a stream of molten lead from a furnace; a stream of lava from a volcano.

An instrument for ascertaining the velocity of the blood in a vessel.

Gold in alluvial deposits; placer gold.

The path of a constituent particle of a flowing fluid undisturbed by eddies or the like.

A wheel used for measuring, by its motion when submerged, the velocity of flowing water; a current wheel.

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

Abounding in streams, or in water. "The streamful tide." Drayton.

The state of being streamy; a trailing. R. A. Proctor.

Sending forth streams.

Destitute of streams, or of a stream, as a region of country, or a dry channel.

A small stream; a rivulet; a rill.

Of or pert. to a stream line; designating a motion or flow that is free from turbulence, like that of a particle in a streamline; hence, designating a surface, body, etc., that is designed so as to afford an unbroken flow of a fluid about it, esp. when the resistance to flow is the least possible; as, a streamline body…

Abounding with streams, or with running water; streamful. Arcadia However streamy now, adust and dry, Denied the goddess water. Prior.

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

Down the stream; as, floating downstream.

Toward the higher part of a stream; against the current.

Forsaken, deserted. "Your abandoned streams." Thomson.

A stream or river flowing into a larger river or into a lake; a tributary stream.

To bring, or tend to bring, to a uniform grade, or slope, by addition of material; as, streams aggrade their beds by depositing sediment.

common into something precious. Kissing with golden face the meadows green, Gilding pale streams with heavenly alchemy. Shak.