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Bacon.

3. To unfurl. Shak.

To stream the buoy. (Naut.) See under Buoy.

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.

Stream"ful (?), a. Abounding in streams, or in water. "The streamful tide." Drayton.

Stream"i*ness (?), n. The state of being streamy; a trailing. R. A. Proctor.

Stream"ing, a. Sending forth streams.

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.

Stream"less, a. Destitute of streams, or of a stream, as a region of country, or a dry channel.

Stream"let (?), n. A small stream; a rivulet; a rill.

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 (?), n. Straw. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Streek (?), v. t. To stretch; also, to lay out, as a dead body. See Streak. [Obs. or Prov. Eng. & Scot.]

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 (?), n. See Strene. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Street (strt), n. [OE. strete, AS. strt, fr. L. strata (sc. via) a paved way, properly fem. p. p. of sternere, stratum, to spread; akin to E. strew. See Strew, and cf. Stratum, Stray, v. & a.] Originally, a paved way or road; a public highway; now commonly, a thoroughfare in a city or village, bordered by dwellings or business houses.