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   Stream , n. [AS. streám; akin to OFries. strām, OS. strōm, D. stroom, G. strom, OHG. stroum, strūm, Dan. & Sw. ström, Icel. straumr, Ir. sroth, Lith. srove, Russ. struia, Gr. ῥύσις a flowing, ῥεῖν to flow, Skr. sru. √174. Cf. Catarrh, Diarrhea, Rheum, Rhythm.]
   A current of water or other fluid; a liquid flowing continuously in a line or course, either on the earth, as a river, brook, etc., or from 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.
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   A beam or ray of light. “Sun streams.” 
   Chaucer.
   
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   Anything issuing or moving with continued succession of parts; as, a stream of words; a stream of sand. “The stream of beneficence.” Atterbury. “The stream of emigration.” Macaulay.
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   A continued current or course; as, a stream of weather. “The very stream of his life.” 
   Shak.
   
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   Current; drift; tendency; series of tending or moving causes; as, the stream of opinions or manners.
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   Gulf stream. See under Gulf. -- Stream anchor, Stream cable. (Naut.) See under Anchor, and Cable. -- Stream ice, blocks of ice floating in a mass together in some definite direction. -- Stream tin, particles or masses of tin ore found in alluvial ground; -- so called because a stream of water is the principal agent used in separating the ore from the sand and gravel. -- Stream works (Cornish Mining), a place where an alluvial deposit of tin ore is worked. Ure. -- To float with the stream, figuratively, to drift with the current of opinion, custom, etc., so as not to oppose or check it. 
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   Syn. -- Current; flow; rush; tide; course. -- Stream, Current. These words are often properly interchangeable; but stream is the broader word, denoting a prevailing onward course. The stream of the Mississippi rolls steadily on to the Gulf of Mexico, but there are reflex currents in it which run for a while in a contrary direction.
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   Stream, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Streamed ; p. pr. & vb. n. Streaming.]
   To issue or flow in a stream; to flow freely or in a current, as a fluid or whatever is likened to fluids; as, tears streamed from her eyes.
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   Beneath those banks where rivers stream.
   Milton.
   
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   To pour out, or emit, a stream or streams.
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   A thousand suns will stream on thee.
   Tennyson.
   
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   To issue in a stream of light; to radiate.
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   To extend; to stretch out with a wavy motion; to float in the wind; as, a flag streams in the wind.
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   Stream, v. t. To send forth in a current or stream; to cause to flow; to pour; as, his eyes streamed tears.
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   It may so please that she at length will stream
   Some dew of grace into my withered heart.
   Spenser.
   
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   To mark with colors or embroidery in long tracts.
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   The herald's mantle is streamed with gold.
   Bacon.
   
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   To unfurl.
   Shak.
   
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   To stream the buoy. (Naut.) See under Buoy.
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