n. Straw. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. streke; akin to D. streek a line, stroke, G. strich, AS. strica, Sw. strek, Dan. streg, Goth. stricks, and E. strike, stroke. See Strike, Stroke, n., and cf. Strake. ] 1. A line or long mark of a different color from the ground; a stripe; a vein. [ 1913 Webster ]

What mean those colored streaks in heaven? Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Shipbuilding) A strake. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Min.) The fine powder or mark yielded by a mineral when scratched or rubbed against a harder surface, the color of which is sometimes a distinguishing character. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. The rung or round of a ladder. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ Cf. Stretch, Streek. ] To stretch; to extend; hence, to lay out, as a dead body. [ Obs. or Prov. Eng. & Scot. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Streaked p. pr. & vb. n. Streaking. ] 1. To form streaks or stripes in or on; to stripe; to variegate with lines of a different color, or of different colors. [ 1913 Webster ]

A mule . . . streaked and dappled with white and black. Sandys. [ 1913 Webster ]

Now streaked and glowing with the morning red. Prior. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. With it as an object: To run swiftly. [ Colloq. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Marked or variegated with stripes. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Uncomfortable; out of sorts. [ Local, U.S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Same as Streaked, 1. “The streaky west.” Cowper. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To send forth in a current or stream; to cause to flow; to pour; as, his eyes streamed tears. [ 1913 Webster ]

It may so please that she at length will stream
Some dew of grace into my withered heart. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To mark with colors or embroidery in long tracts. [ 1913 Webster ]

The herald's mantle is streamed with gold. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To unfurl. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

To stream the buoy. (Naut.) See under Buoy. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. "ry`sis a flowing, "rei^n to flow, Skr. sru. √174. Cf. Catarrh, Diarrhea, Rheum, Rhythm. ] 1. 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A beam or ray of light. “Sun streams.” Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. A continued current or course; as, a stream of weather. “The very stream of his life.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. Current; drift; tendency; series of tending or moving causes; as, the stream of opinions or manners. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Streamed p. pr. & vb. n. Streaming. ] 1. 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

Beneath those banks where rivers stream. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To pour out, or emit, a stream or streams. [ 1913 Webster ]

A thousand suns will stream on thee. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To issue in a stream of light; to radiate. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To extend; to stretch out with a wavy motion; to float in the wind; as, a flag streams in the wind. [ 1913 Webster ]

. (Physiol.) An instrument for ascertaining the velocity of the blood in a vessel. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]