Stream \Stream\, v. t. To send forth in a current or stream; to cause to flow; to pour; as, his eyes streamed tears.

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

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.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Stream \Stream\ (str[=e]m), n. [AS. stre['a]m; akin to OFries. str[=a]m, OS. str[=o]m, D. stroom, G. strom, OHG. stroum, str[=u]m, Dan. & Sw. str["o]m, Icel. straumr, Ir. sroth, Lith. srove, Russ. struia, Gr. "ry`sis a flowing, "rei^n to flow, Skr. sru. [root]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.

2. A beam or ray of light. ``Sun streams.'' --Chaucer.

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.

4. A continued current or course; as, a stream of weather. ``The very stream of his life.'' --Shak.

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

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.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Stream \Stream\, 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.

Beneath those banks where rivers stream. --Milton.

2. To pour out, or emit, a stream or streams.

A thousand suns will stream on thee. --Tennyson.

3. To issue in a stream of light; to radiate.

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

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)