astreamadv.adj.
/əˈstriːm/ In a stream; that streams, streaming, flowing; (also) in line with the stream.
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the world > movement > progressive motion > moving with current of air or water > motion in the air > [adverb] > in streaming manner
astream1763
the world > matter > liquid > condition of being or making wet > condition of being or making very wet > [adjective]
thorough wetOE
drunk1382
drunkenc1420
uliginosec1440
dung wetc1450
drookeda1522
wet through, to the skin1526
sogginga1552
washed1557
washy1566
muck-wet1567
wringing wet1570
drenched1589
dropsy1605
ydrenched1610
sobby1611
dropsieda1616
slocken1643
uliginous1650
dabbling1661
sodded1661
sobbing1664
sobbed1693
flashy1702
saturated1728
saturate1785
livereda1796
sappy1806
laving1812
sodden1820
sopped1822
soppy1823
soaked1829
dropsical1845
soddened1845
soaking wet1847
soggya1852
sogged1860
soaking1864
sopping1866
soaken1898
astream1929
the world > the earth > water > flow or flowing > [adverb] > in a stream
midstream1872
astream1930
1763 C. Smart Song to David st. 85 Glorious the northern lights astream.
1906 Daily Chron. 29 Aug. 6/6 The swimmer commenced to lose ground,..the bearings showed him to be astream of the Varne buoy.
1925 G. Murray tr. Aeschylus Eumenides 51 Joy be a-stream in your ways, as the fire that bloweth A-stream from beacon and brand.
1928 E. Blunden Undertones of War 299 Their rosy scarves are spied astream.
1929 C. K. Scott-Moncrieff tr. J.-R. Bloch —— & Co. (1930) i. iv. 43 Two or three marauding brigs..arrived one after another, their backs astream with water.
1930 R. Campbell Adamastor 79 Round which, astream through flowering vales.. The great Zambezis wreathe their coils.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online March 2018).
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