stream-lake

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• Lake

  ·noun A kind of fine white linen, formerly in use. II. Lake ·vi To <<Play>>; to <<Sport>>. III. La...

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• lake

  1) to play ; from the Saxon LAIKAN. 2) to pour gently, to cast a little water on. Perhaps to leak. ...

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• lake

  A large inland expanse of water, with or without communication with the sea. A lake, strictly consid...

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• Stream

  ·noun A beam or ray of light. II. Stream ·vt To <<Unfurl>>. III. Stream ·vi To pour out, or emit, ...

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• stream

  Anglo-Saxon for flowing water, meaning especially the middle or most rapid part of a tide or current...

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• cable-stream, stream-cable

  A hawser or rope something smaller than the bower, used to move or hold the ship temporarily during ...

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• Capria Lake

  CAPRIA LAKE[ASPENNDUS.] ...

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• Lake-dweller

  ·noun ·see Lake dwellers, under <<Lake>>. ...

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• lake-trout

  n. a Tasmanian fish, Galaxiasauratus, family Galaxidae. See Mountain-Trout. ...

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• lake lawyer

  (Genus, amia. Linnæus.) The Western Mud-fish. It is found in Lakes Erie and Ontario, where it is kno...

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• lake-wake

  watching a dead body. N. ...

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• french lake

  A soubriquet for the Mediterranean. ...

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• lake-lawyer

  A voracious fish in the lakes of America, called also the mud-fish. ...

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• sea-lake

  Synonymous with lagoon (which see). ...

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• Stream clock

  ·add. ·- An instrument for ascertaining the velocity of the blood in a vessel. ...

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• Stream gold

  ·add. ·- Gold in alluvial deposits; placer gold. ...

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• Stream line

  ·add. ·- The path of a constituent particle of a flowing fluid undisturbed by eddies or the like. ...

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• Stream wheel

  ·add. ·- A wheel used for measuring, by its motion when submerged, the velocity of flowing water; a ...

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• gulf-stream

  Is especially referable to that of Mexico, the waters of which flow in a warm stream at various velo...

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• sea-stream

  In polar parlance, is when a collection of bay-ice is exposed on one side to the ocean, and affords ...

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• stream-anchor

  A smaller one by two-thirds than the bowers, and larger than the kedges, used to ride steady, or moo...

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• stream-cable

  A hawser smaller than the lower cables, and used with the stream-anchor to moor the ship in a shelte...

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• stream-ice

  A collection of pieces of drift or bay ice, joining each other in a ridge following in the line of c...

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• Stream of Egypt

  (Isa. 27:12), the Wady el-Arish, called also "the river of Egypt," R.V., "brook of Egypt" (Num. 34:5...

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• Stream Of Egypt

  occurs once in the Old Testament- (Isaiah 27:12) [RIVER OF EGYPT] RIVER OF EGYPT - 3664 ...

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• stream the buoy, to

  To let the buoy fall from the after-part of the ship's side into the water, preparatory to letting g...

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