A current of water or other fluid; a liquid substance flowing in a line or course, either on the earth, as a river or brook, or from a vessel or other reservoir or fountain. Hence,

Ariver, brook or rivulet.

A current of water in the ocean; as the gulf stream.

Acurrent of melted metal or other substance; as a stream of lead or iron flowing from a furnace; a stream of lava from a volcano.

Any thing issuing from a source and moving with a continued succession of parts; as a stream of words; a stream of sand. A stream of beneficence.

A continued current of course; as a stream of weather. The stream of his life.

A current of air or gas, or of light.

Current; drift; as of opinions or manners. It is difficult to oppose the stream of public opinion.

Water.

To flow; to move or run in a continuous current. Blood streams from a vein. Beneath the banks where rivers stream.

To emit; to pour out in abundance. His eyes streamed with tears.

To issue with continuance, not by fits. From opning skies my streaming glories shine.

To issue or shoot in streaks; as light streaming from the east.

To extend; to stretch in a long line; as a flag streaming in the wind.

To mark with colors or embroidery in long tracts. The heralds mantle is streamed with gold.