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illage, bordered by dwellings or business houses. He removed [the body of] Amasa from the street unto the field. Coverdale. At home or through the high street passing. Milton.

A common prostitute who walks the streets to find customers.

An officer, or ward, having the care of the streets. [Obs.] Cowell.

A separate, private, or obscure street; an out of the way or cross street. He seeks by-streets, and saves the expensive coach. Gay.

A street remote from the center of a town. Johnson.

Toward the higher part of a street; as, to walk upstreet. G. W. Gable.

A street towards the southern end of the borough of Manhattan, New York City, extending from Broadway to the East River; -- so called from the old wall which extended along it when the city belonged to the Dutch. It is the chief financial center of the United States, hence the name is often used for the money market an…

that which, abuts. Specifically, the owner of a contiguous estate; as, the abutters on a street or a river.

o your decays adapts my sight. Swift. Appeals adapted to his [man's] whole nature. Angus. Streets ill adapted for the residence of wealthy persons. Macaulay.

A narrow passage or way in a city, as distinct from a public street. Gay.

stance, but within view, or at a small distance; apart; away. Our palace stood aloof from streets. Dryden.

A walk or passage; -- applied to passages of various kinds. The sides of every street were covered with fresh alures of marble. T. Warton.

One of a swarthy race occupying Arabia, and numerous in Syria, Northern Africa, etc. Street Arab, a homeless vagabond in the streets of a city, particularly and outcast boy or girl. Tylor. The ragged outcasts and street Arabs who are shivering in damp doorways. Lond. Sat. Rev.

nged for battle. So [they] came to the market place, and there he arranged his men in the streets. Berners. [They] were beginning to arrange their hampers. Boswell. A mechanism previously arranged. Paley.

To cover with asphalt; as, to asphalt a roof; asphalted streets.

An automobile vehicle or mechanism; esp., a self-propelled vehicle suitable for use on a street or roadway. Automobiles are usually propelled by internal combustion engines (using volatile inflammable liquids, as gasoline or petrol, alcohol, naphtha, etc.), steam engines, or electric motors. The power of the driving mo…

A broad street; as, the Fifth Avenue in New York.

or languages. That babel of strange heathen languages. Hammond. The grinding babel of the street. R. L. Stevenson.

will obstruct the progress or attack of an enemy. It is usually an obstruction formed in streets to block an enemy's access.

A nearly cubical block of some tough stone, esp. granite, used as a material for street pavements. Its usual diameter is 5 to 7 inches.