2. To mark with colors or embroidery in long tracts.
The herald's mantle is streamed with gold.
Bacon. 3. To unfurl. Shak.
To stream the buoy.
(Naut.) See under Buoy.
Streamer
(Stream"er) n.
1. An ensign, flag, or pennant, which floats in the wind; specifically, a long, narrow, ribbonlike flag.
Brave Rupert from afar appears,
Whose waving streamers the glad general knows.
Dryden. 3. A stream or column of light shooting upward from the horizon, constituting one of the forms of the
aurora borealis. Macaulay.
While overhead the North's dumb streamers shoot.
Lowell. 3. (Mining) A searcher for stream tin.
Streamful
(Stream"ful) a. Abounding in streams, or in water. "The streamful tide." Drayton.
Streaminess
(Stream"i*ness) n. The state of being streamy; a trailing. R. A. Proctor.
Streaming
(Stream"ing), a. Sending forth streams.
Streaming
(Stream"ing), n.
1. The act or operation of that which streams; the act of that which sends forth, or which runs in, streams.
2. (Mining) The reduction of stream tin; also, the search for stream tin.
Streamless
(Stream"less), a. Destitute of streams, or of a stream, as a region of country, or a dry channel.
Streamlet
(Stream"let) n. A small stream; a rivulet; a rill.
Streamy
(Stream"y) a.
1. Abounding with streams, or with running water; streamful.
Arcadia
However streamy now, adust and dry,
Denied the goddess water.
Prior. 2. Resembling a stream; issuing in a stream.
His nodding helm emits a streamy ray.
Pope. Stree
(Stree) n. Straw. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Streek
(Streek) v. t. To stretch; also, to lay out, as a dead body. See Streak. [Obs. or Prov. Eng. &
Scot.]
Streel
(Streel) v. i. [Cf. Stroll.] To trail along; to saunter or be drawn along, carelessly, swaying in a
kind of zigzag motion. [Colloq.] Thackeray.
Streen
(Streen) n. See Strene. [Obs.] Chaucer.