streamy (stremi)

[Early mod. E. also stremy; Arcadia (However streamy ), now adust and dry, Deny'd the Godde Water. Prior, First Hymn of Call i mach us. (b) Full of or emitting streaming rays of light. In streamy sparkles, kindling all the skies, From pole to pole the trail of glory flies. Pope , Iliad, xiii. 321. 2. Having the form of a beam or stream of light. streatt, n. An obsolete form of street. Str eat field's operation. See operation. streberyt, n. An obsolete form of strawberry. Strebla (streb'lä), n. [NL. (Wiedemann, 1824), streate; straza, MHG. straze, G. stra e = Icel. stræti = Sw. stråt = Dan. sträde (= It. strad a = Sp. Pg. Pr. estrada = OF. estree, stree, strae, F. étrée = W. ystrad, ystrid = OIr. srath = Ir. Gael. sraid = NGr. στράτα), is one of the very few words regarded as re ceived in England from the Roman invaders, others being chester (Chester), port, wall, and -coln in Lincoln. Cf. stray1, stray2.] 1. A paved road; a highway. This grand-child, great as he [Mulmutius), those four proud Streets begun That each way cro this Isle, and bounds did them allow. Drayton, Polyolbion, viii. 74. There were at that time [fifth year after the Conquest] in England four great roads, of which two ran lengthways through the island, and two cro ed it,.. Watlinge- strete, Fo e, Hikenilde- strete, and Erming- strete. Guest, Origines Celticæ, II. 218. 2. A public way or road, whether paved or unpaved, in a village, town, or city, ordinarily including a sidewalk or sidewalks and a roadway, and having houses or town lots on one or both sides; a main way, in distinction from a lane or alley: as, a fashionable street; a street of shops. Abbreviated St., st. Compare road, 3. Strictly, the word excludes the houses, which are on the street; but in a very common use it includes the land and houses, which are then in the street: as, a house in High Street. In law, street sometimes includes as much of the surface, and as much of the space above and of the soil or depth beneath, as may be needed for the ordinary works which the local authorities may decide to execute on or in a street, including sidewalks. Up Fish Street! down Saint Magnus' Corner! Shak., 2 Hen. VI., iv. 8. 1. 3. The way for vehicles, between the curbs, as distinguished from the sidewalks: as, to walk in the street. -4. Hence, a path or pa ageway inclosed between continuous lines of objects; a track; a lane. It seemed to bee, as it were, a continued street of shippes. Purchas , Pilgrimage, p. 435. I was ushered through an actual street of servitors. Disraeli , Vivian Grey, iii. 8. 51. A path; a way. Than makest thou his pees with his sovereyn, And bring est him out of the croked streete . Chaucer, A. В. С., 1. 70. While I ran by the most secret streets, Eschewing still the common haunted track. Surrey, Æneid, ii. 975. 6. The inhabitants of a street collectively. [Colloq.] All the whole street will hate us, and the world Point me out cruel. Middle ton, Chaste Maid, v. 2. Grub Street. See Grub-street. - Lombard Street. See Lombard2 , 1. - Queer Street. See queerl . - Street Arab. See Arab , 2. - Street broker. See broker . The street, a street (as Wall Street in New York) or locality where merchants or stock-brokers congregate for busine ; the commercial exchange: as, it is rumored on the street. Common places whyther marchauntes resort as to the burse or streate. Peter Martyr (tr. in Eden's First Books [on America, ed. Arber, p. 186). To have the key of the street. See keyl. To spin street-yarn. See spin. =Syn. 2. Road, etc. See way.