streamyadj.
/ˈstriːmi/ 1. Abounding in or full of running streams.† a. of the bottom of the sea. Obsolete.
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the world > the earth > water > rivers and streams > stream > [adjective] > full of
streamy14..
rilly1727
brooky1757
water-shot1858
well-brooked1879
the world > the earth > water > flow or flowing > current > [adjective] > having
streamy14..
streamful1605
currented1650
14.. in J. Gairdner Sailing Direct. (1889) 21 Betwene Cille and Huschant there is grete stremy grounde with white shellis.
1574 W. Bourne Regim. for Sea (1577) 60 You shall finde streamie ground, and dentes in the talow.
1625 M. Pring in S. Purchas Pilgrimes I. v. vii. 647 From Linga vnto this place we had..twentie fathom, as wee supposed, streamy ground.
b. of a district, country.
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a1718 M. Prior 1st Hymn Callimachus 23 Arcadia, (However streamy now) adust and dry, Deny'd the Goddess Water.
1799 T. Campbell Pleasures of Hope & Other Poems ii. 103 His path shall be where streamy mountains swell Their shadowy grandeur o'er the narrow dell.
1806 J. Grahame Birds Scotl. 1 Fair Scotia's streamy vales.
1833 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 33 689 Beauty..holds her court in the streamy wilderness.
2. figurative.1731 A. Hill Advice to Poets iii No—like thy own Ulysses, make no Stay: Shun Monsters—and pursue thy streamy Way.1804 S. T. Coleridge Anima Poetae (1895) 65 The streamy nature of the associative faculty.
a. Of water, etc.: Flowing in a stream, running.
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the world > the earth > water > flow or flowing > [adjective]
livingeOE
flowinga1000
runningOE
quicka1300
livish?1536
lively1548
streaming1579
streamyc1595
crystal-flowing1605
preterlabent1670
manant1727
affluent1863
c1595 Countess of Pembroke Psalme xcviii. 19 in Coll. Wks. (1998) II. 148 You streamy Riuers clapp your swymming hands.
1825 J. T. Brockett Gloss. North Country Words Slack, a long pool in a streamy river.
b. Of hair, etc.: Flowing.
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the world > space > relative position > support > hanging or suspension > [adjective] > hanging down > streaming
streaming1567
plemmirrulate1592
flowing1606
flying1607
loose1781
streamy1813
fly-away1843
flowy1925
1813 W. Taylor in Monthly Mag. 36 332 With streamy golden hair.
1817 J. Keats 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).
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the world > matter > light > [adjective] > emitting rays
beamy1398
flaming?a1400
streaminga1400
radious1417
radiantc1450
beamed1480
irradiant1526
beamish1530
beamsome1595
beamfula1631
irradiating1651
radiating1651
beaming1667
streamy1718
irradiativea1834
radiescent1863
emissive1870
the world > matter > light > [adjective] > emitting rays > of the nature of or resembling rays
radiant1509
radial1570
radious1692
streamy1718
beam-like1820
actinomorphous1879
the world > space > shape > condition of being long in relation to breadth > [adjective] > of nature of long narrow object
streaky1670
streamy1842
1718 A. Pope tr. Homer Iliad IV. xiii. 1014 His nodding Helm emits a streamy Ray.
1720 J. Hughes Ecstasy ix. 7 The nightly-wakeful swain..marks no Stars, but o'er his Head Beholds the streamy Twilight spread, Like distant Morning in the Skies.
1814 Gonzanga iv. vi, in J. Galt New Brit. Theatre III. 139 Blaze on, ye streamy flames of vivid glare!
1842 Penny Cycl. XXIII. 106/1 The result is a streamy or imperfectly concentric stratification.
1869 R. A. Proctor Ess. Astron. (1872) xxv. 320 On a closer inspection, however, we recognise in the northern cluster [of nebulæ] a decidedly streamy character.
Derivatives
ˈstreaminess n.
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the world > the earth > water > rivers and streams > stream > [noun] > state of being full of streams
streaminess1869
1869 R. A. Proctor Ess. Astron. (1872) xxv. 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.].
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