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streamy, a.|ˈstriːmɪ|
[f. stream n. + -y1.]
1. Abounding in or full of running streams.
†a. of the bottom of the sea. Obs.
14..Sailing Directions (Hakl. Soc. 1889) 21 Betwene Cille and Huschant there is grete stremy grounde with white shellis. 1574W. Bourne Regim. Sea 60 You shall finde streamie ground, and dentes in the talow. 1625Purchas Pilgrims I. v. vii. 647 From Linga vnto this place we had..twentie fathom, as wee supposed, streamy ground.
b. of a district, country.
a1718Prior 1st Hymn of Callimachus 23 Arcadia, (However streamy now) adust and dry, Deny'd the Goddess Water. 1799Campbell Pleas. Hope ii. 103 His path shall be where streamy mountains swell Their shadowy grandeur o'er the narrow dell. 1806J. Grahame Birds Scot. 1 Fair Scotia's streamy vales. 1833Blackw. Mag. XXXIII. 689 Beauty..holds her court in the streamy wilderness.
2. Of water, etc.: Flowing in a stream, running.
c1586C'tess Pembroke Ps. xcviii. iii, You streamy rivers clapp your swymming hands. 1825Brockett N.C. Gloss., Slack, a long pool in a streamy river.
fig.1731A. Hill Advice to Poets iii, No—like thy own Ulysses, make no Stay: Shun Monsters—and pursue thy streamy Way. 1804Coleridge Anima Poetae (1895) 65 The streamy nature of the associative faculty.
b. Of hair, etc.: Flowing.
1813W. Taylor in Monthly Mag. XXXVI. 332 With streamy golden hair. 1817Keats Sleep & Poetry 127 A car And steeds with streamy manes.
3. Of the nature of, having the appearance of, or issuing in, a stream. Also, emitting streams (of light).
1718Pope Iliad xiii. 1014 His nodding Helm emits a streamy Ray. a1720J. Hughes Poems, Ecstasy ix, The nightly-wakeful swain..marks no stars, but o'er his head Beholds the streamy twilight spread, Like distant morning in the skies. a1814Gonzanga iv. vi. in New Brit. Theatre III. 139 Blaze on, ye streamy flames of vivid glare! 1842Penny Cycl. XXIII. 106/1 The result is a streamy or imperfectly concentric stratification. 1869Proctor Ess. Astron. xxv. (1872) 320 On a closer inspection, however, we recognise in the northern cluster [of nebulæ] a decidedly streamy character.
Hence ˈstreaminess.
1869Proctor Ess. Astron. xxv. (1872) 319 The northern map accords better with this view than the southern; but even in the former there is an irregularity in the clustering, an occasional evidence of streaminess, [etc.]. |