1. 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,
2. A river, brook or rivulet.
3. A current of water in the ocean; as the gulf stream.
4. A current of melted metal or other substance; as a stream of lead or iron flowing from a furnace; a stream of lava from a volcano.
5. 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.
6. A continued current of course; as a stream of weather.
The stream of his life.
7. A current of air or gas, or of light.
8. Current; drift; as of opinions or manners. It is difficult to oppose the stream of public opinion.
9. Water.
, v.t. To mark with colors or embroidery in long tracts.
The heralds mantle is streamed with gold.