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ˈwater-stream Now rare.
[Cf. G. wasserstrom, MLG. waterstrôm.]
A stream or current of water; a river or brook; † a flood.
c1000Ags. Ps. lxxvii[i]. 44 He wæterstreamas [Vulg. flumina] wende to blode. 10..in Napier Contrib. OE. Lexicogr. 67 Ac he [Christ] wolde sylf swa ᵹehalᵹian ure fulluht mid his halᵹan lichaman & ealle wæterstreamas mid his ingange. c1200Trin. Coll. Hom. 177 Ðe water stremes [Vulg. flumina, Ps. xciii. 3] on-heueden up here undes. c1200Ormin 18092 For all all swa se waterstræm Aȝȝ fleteþþ forþ & erneþþ..all swa [etc.]. c1435Torr. Portugal 2032 He led it into his own lond, And told the quene how he it ffond By a water streme. 1535Coverdale Isa. lix. 19 He shal come as a violent waterstreame, which the wynde of the Lorde hath moued. 1596Spenser F.Q. vi. i. 21 Like as a water streame, whose swelling sourse Shall drive a Mill, within strong bancks is pent. 1625T. Godwin Moses & Aaron ii. (1641) 78 The Senate..were bound to prepare the wayes to the Cities of Refuge,..and they suffered not any hill or dale to be in the way, nor water-streames, but they made a bridge over it, that nothing might hinder him that fled thither. 1779Thicknesse Journ. France (1789) I. 351 The roaring of the water-streams was so great, that I very often thought we were upon the margin of some river. 1862Smiles Engineers III. ii. 20 Erecting Lilliputian mills in the little water-streams. |