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On all sides round stream-gold(strem'g61d), n. Seethe quotation. 
Stream, the black blood. Pope, Odyssey, 111. 581. The goW of a , hlvial AMrtett> calle<1 ^. eam . ?rfd or 
2. To move or proceed continuously and uni- placer-gold, occurs, as well as alluvial tin, among the dc- 
bris of the more ancient rocks. Ure, Diet., III. 298. 
stream-ice (strem'is), i. Pieces of drift or bay 
ice forming a ridge and following the line of 
. 
formly, or in unbroken succession. 
And to imperial Love, that god most high, 
Do roy sighs stream. Shall., All's Well, ii. 3. 82. 
Streaming flies of wild ducks began to make their ap- 
pearance high in the all-. Ining, Sketch Book, p. 437. 
current. 
At 4 A. M. a seemingly close pack was seen to the east- 
3 To pour out a stream; also, to throw off a ward,butlateritdeve'io"pedintos(ream-tceof smallextent. 
stream from the surface: as, streaming eyes ; A - w - "<*'' Arctic Service, p. 7. 
a streaming umbrella. 
Then grateful Greece with streaming eyes wou'd raise 
Historic marbles, to record his praise. 
Ftntan, in Pope's Odyssey, I. 305. 
Blasts that blow the poplar white, 
And lash with storm the stre\ 
Tennyson, 
streaminess (stre'mi-nes), n. The quality or 
state of being streamy. 
I give the case of a star-group which is certainly not 
the most remarkable for streaminess. 
R. A. Proctor, Universe of Stars (2d ed., 1878), p. 22. 
.. streaming (stre'ming), H. [Verbal n. of sire am, 
am, ixxu. ( . -| j in tin-mining, the washing of tin ore from 
the detritus with which it is associated. The now 
almost entirely exhausted deposits of detrital tin ore in 
Cornwall and Devon were called streams, because they 
occur chiefly in or near the bottoms of the valleys and 
4. To move swiftly and continuously, as a ray 
of light ; streak. 
I looked up just in time to see a superb shooting star 
stream across the heavens. Mature, XXX. 455. occur chiefly in or near the bottoms of the valleys and 
adjacent to the present streams, or in the manner of de- 
5. To stretch out in a line; hang or float at posits formed by streams, analogous to the channels of 
full length : as, streaming hair. the Californian and the gutters of the Australian miners; 
, , , t , -_j ,. the miners were themselves called streamers; the local!- 
Standards and gonfalons twixt van and I i ear t , fa streaming Wa8 carried O n, stream-work, ; and 
Stream in the air. Muton, P. L., v. 590. gjare obteS,*m4fcl. 
Ribands streaming gay. Cowper, Task, iv. 541. Q In 6o/., the peculiar flowing motion of the 
II, trans. 1. To discharge in a stream ; cause particles of protoplasm in an amoeba or other 
to flow; pour out. rhizopod, by which the form of the animalcule 
Had I as many eyes as thou hast wounds, changes or pseudopods are protruded; also, 
Weeping as fast as they stream forth thy blood. the similar circulation or rotation of the proto- 
Shak., J. C., iii. l. 201. plasm of some plant-cells. See protoplasm, and 
usi, ana lou.uan e, s t ream i n g (stre'ming), p. a. In her., issuing, 
hony, wine, and oyle. Purchat, Pilgrimage, p. 45 . 8 *f* a f light . a * sfreaming from the 
dexter chief. 
streamless (strem'les), a. [< stream + -less."] 
Not traversed by streams ; unwatered. Encyc. 
Brit., XXTV. 758. 
streamlet (strem'let), n. [< stream + -let.'] A 
small stream; a rivulet; a rill. 
Unnumber'd glittering streamlets play'd, 
4 fa) In mining, to wash, as the superficial de- And hurled every where their waters sheen, 
tritus, especially that accumulated in the beds Thomson, Castle of Indolence, i. 3. 
of rivers, for the purpose of separating any stream-line (strem'lin), n. See line%, and line 
valuable ore which it may contain. See placer*, of flow (under flow 1 ) Stream-line surface. See 
2. To cause to float out ; wave. 
Many a time hath banish'd Norfolk fought, . . . 
Streaming the ensign of the Christian cross 
Against black pagans, Turks, and Saracens. 
Shak., Rich. II., iv. 1. 94. 
3f. To stripe or ray. See streaming, a. [Rare.] 
The herald's mantle is streamed with gold. Bacon. 
surface. 
. , - . Streamling (strem'ling), . [< stream + -lingi.] 
eral use in any mining regions except those in which the g ame as streamlet. 
ore of tin is mined, (ft) In dyeing, to wash in run- 
ning water, as silk, before putting in the dye. 
Workshop Receipts, 2d ser., p. 40 TO stream a 
buoy. See buoy. 
stream-anchor (strem'ang /i 'kgr), n. Naul., an an- 
chor of a size intermediate between the bower- 
A thousand Streamlings that n'er saw the Sun, 
With tribute silver to his service run. 
Sylvester, tr. of Du Bartas's Weeks, ii., The Captaines. 
Stream-tin (strem'tin), n. In mining, tin ore, 
or oxid of tin, obtained in streaming (which 
see). 
street-car 
apetalous plants, of the order Crticacem and 
tribe .Voiwc. type of the subtribr It Is 
characterized by" usually dioecious flowers, the roali- in 
clustered two-bracted headi, the female solitary on the 
peduncle, the pfri.inlh rnnsistiiiK nf lour widely overlap- 
ping segment* which closely in\ lied "vaiy. 
As In most of the subtribe, its cotyledons are very un- 
equal, and the larger, which is very lie -In. Inclom the 
smaller. The only species, S. 
the tonkhoi or paper-tiee of tliu Mam. s. . lm jn 
rl kinds of paper from its bark, including a heavy 
and a thin white paper, and a black paper for use like a 
slate, much employed In tile native law-courts. It Is a 
small tree, reaching about thirty feet in height, bearing 
dark-green oval coriaceous two-ranked leaves, and occur- 
ring from China and Manila to the Andaman Islands. 
Strecchet, '' An old spelling of sln-trli. 
street, n. A Middle English form of straw^. 
streel (strel), f. i. [Cf. xt refit.] To trail; stream. 
A yellow satin train that streeled after her like the tall 
of a comet. Thackeray, Vanity Fair, xx. 
streent, . A Middle English foim of strain*. 
streept, . A Middle English form of strip 1 . 
Street (stret), n. [Early mod. E. also streat, 
streate; < ME. streete, strete, stret, sti-ate, < AS. 
strait =OS. strata =OFries. strete = MD. straete, 
D. straat = MLG. strdte, LG. strate = OHG. 
strdza, MHG. strtize, G. strasse = Ice], strati = 
Sw. str&t = Dan. strade (= It. strada = Sp. Pg. 
Pr. estrada = OF. estree, stree, strae, F. etrec = 
W. ystrad, ystrid = Olr. srath = Ir. Gael, sraid 
= NGr. orpara), < LL. strata, a street, road, 
highway, orig. via strata, a paved way, < L. 
strata, fern, of stratus, pp. of sternere, strew, 
scatter, spread, cover, pave : see stra turn. Street 
is one of the very few words regarded as re- 
ceived in England from the Roman invaders, 
others being Chester (Chester), port, wall, and 
-coin in Lincoln. Cf. stray 1 , stray 2 .] If. A 
paved road; a highway. 
This grand-child, great as he [Mulmutius], those four 
proud Streets begun 
That each way cross this Isle, and bounds did them 
allow. Vraytm, Polyolbion, vili. 74. 
There were at that time (fifth year after the Conquest] 
to England four great roads, ... of which two ran 
lengthways through the Island, and two crossed It, ... 
Watllnge-s(re(, Fosse, Uikenilde-strete, and Erming-gfrete. 
Guest, Origines Celtics', II. 218. 
2. A public way or road, whether payed or un- . 
paved, in a village, town, or city, ordinarily in- 
cluding a sidewalk or sidewalks and a roadway, 
and having houses or town lots on one or both 
sides ; a main way, in distinction from a lane or 
alley : as, a fashionable street; a street of shops. 
Abbreviated St., St. Compare road, 3. strictly, 
the word excludes the houses, which are on the street; 
like purposes. In the United States navy stream-anchors 
weigh from 400 to 1,500 pounds, and are about one fourth 
the weight of bower-ancnors. 
stream-cable (strem'ka"bl), . The cable or 
hawser of the stream-anchor. 
stream-clock (strem'klok), n. [Tr. G. strom- 
uhr.] A physiological instrument for deter- 
mining the velocity of blood in a vessel. 
Stream-current (strem'kur"ent), n. See the 
quotation, and also drift-current. 
A current whose onward movement is sustained by the 
vis a tergo of a drift-current is called a stream-current. 
Encyc. Brit., III. 19. 
streamer (stre'mer), . [ME. stremer, stremere; 
< stream + -eri.] 1. That which streams out, 
or hangs or floats at full length: applied to 
anything long and narrow, as a ribbon. 
All twinkling with the dewdrops' sheen, 
The brier-rose fell in streamers green. 
Scott, L. of the L., 1. 11. 
(a) A long narrow flag; a pennon extended or flowing in 
the wind : same as pennant, 1 (o). 
His brave fleet 
With silken streamers the young Phoebus fanning. 
Shak., Hen. V., iii., Prol., 1. 6. 
(f>) A stream or column of light shooting upward or out- 
ward, as in some forms of the aurora borealls. 
He knew, by the streamers that shot so bright, 
That spirits were riding the northern light. 
Scott, L. of L. M., ii. 8. 
(c) A long flowing strip of ribbon, or feather, or some- 
thing similar, used in decoration, especially in dress. 
A most airy sort of blue and silver turban, with a 
streamer of plumage on one side. 
Charlotte Bronte, Villette, xx. 
(d) A long-exserted feather which streams away from the 
rest of the plumage of some birds ; a pennant or standard. 
See cuts under Semioptera and standard-bearer. 
2. In mining, a person who washes for stream- 
tin. See streaming. 3. The geometrid moth 
Anticlea derivata : an English collectors' name. 
Streamful (strem'ful), a. [< stream + -ful.] 
Full of streams or currents. 
like a ship despoiled of her sails, 
Shov'd by the wind against the Streamful tide. 
Drayton, Legend of Pierce Oaveston, st. 105. 
376 
, or current- wheel. 
stream-works (strem'werks), n. sing, and pi. 
In mining, a locality where the detrital deposits 
are washed in order to procure the valuable 
metal or ore which they may contain ; alluvial 
washings, or surface mining. The words stream- 
works and stream (v. t.) are rarely, If r 
Streamwort (strem'wert), . A plant of Lind- 
ley's order Haloragacese. [Rare.] 
Streamy (stre'mi), a. [Early mod. E. also 
strcmy; < stream + -y 1 .] 1. Abounding in 
streams, (a) Full of running water or of springs. 
Arcadia 
(However streamy), now adust and dry, 
Deny'd the Goddess Water. 
Prior, First Hymn of Callimachus. 
In streamy sparkles, kindling all the skies, 
From pole to pole the trail of glory flies. 
Pope, Iliad, xlii. 321. 
2. Having the form of a beam or stream of 
light. 
streatt, ><. An obsolete form of street. 
Streatfield's operation. See operation. 
streberyt, An obsolete form of strawberry. 
Strebla (streb'la), n. [NL. (Wiedemann, 1824), 
< Gr. arpejiMc." twisted, crooked, < orptjetv, 
twist.] A peculiar genus of pupiparous dip- 
terous insects, of the family Nycteribiidse, in- 
cluding certain so-called bat-lice or bat-ticks. 
S. vesper tilionis is a common bat-parasite oc- 
curring in South America and the West Indies. 
streblosis (streb-16'sis), n. [NL., < Gr. cTpc/3- 
/.<if, twisted: see Strebla.'] The angle through 
which it is necessary to rotate an element of a 
figure to bring it into coincidence with the cor- 
responding element of a given conformable 
figure. 
Streblus (streb'lus), . [NL. (Loureiro, 1790), 
so called in allusion to its branches, which 
form a dense mass of rigid straggling twigs ; < 
Gr. or/Df/SAdc, twisted: see Strebla.] A genus of 
In law, street sometimes includes as much of the surface, 
and as much of the space above and of the soil or depth 
beneath, as may be needed for the ordinary works which 
the local authorities may decide to execute on or in a street, 
including sidewalks. 
UD Fish Street ! down Saint Magnus' Corner ! 
Shak., 2 Hen. VI., iv. 8. 1. 
3. The way for vehicles, between the curbs, as 
distinguished from the sidewalks : as, to walk 
in the street. 4. Hence, a path or passageway 
inclosed between continuous lines of objects ; 
a track ; a lane. 
It seemed to bee, as it were, a continued street of 
shippes. Purchas, Pilgrimage, p. 485. 
I was ushered through an actual street of servitors. 
Disraeli, Vivian Grey, ill. 8. 
5t. A path ; a way. 
Than makest thou his pees with his sovereyn, 
And bringest him out of the croked streete. 
Chaucer, A. B. C., L 70. 
While I ran by the most secret streets. 
Eschewing still the common haunted track. 
Surrey, Maeid, 11. 975. 
6 The inhabitants of a street collectively. 
[Colloq.] 
All the whole street will hate us, and the world 
Point me out cruel. Midaleton, Chaste Maid, v. 2. 
Grub Street See Grub-street. Lombard Street. See 
Lombard?, 1. Queer Street. See queer\. Street Arab. 
See Arab, 2. Street broker. See broker.- The street, 
a street (as Wall Street in New York) or locality where 
merchants or stock-brokers congregate for business; the 
commercial exchange : as, it Is rumored on the street. 
Common places whyther marcbauntes resort as to the 
burse or streate. Peter Martyr (tr. In Eden's First Books 
[on America, ed. Arber, p. 186). 
To have the key of the street See kcyi.-1o spin 
street-yarn. See spin. =8yn. 2. Road, etc. See t*W- 
streetage (stre'taj), n. [< street + -one.] A 
charge made for the use of a street. [Rare.] 
street-car (stret'kar), n. A passenger-car for 
local or city travel, drawn on the surface of 
the public streets by horses, by a locomotive 
engine, or by an endless cable, or propelled by 
electricity. [U. S.] 
