| gleam | noun (n.) A shoot of light; a small stream of light; a beam; a ray; a glimpse. |
| | noun (n.) Brightness; splendor. |
| | verb (v. i.) To disgorge filth, as a hawk. |
| | verb (v. t.) To shoot, or dart, as rays of light; as, at the dawn, light gleams in the east. |
| | verb (v. t.) To shine; to cast light; to glitter. |
| | verb (v. t.) To shoot out (flashes of light, etc.). |
| beam | noun (n.) Any large piece of timber or iron long in proportion to its thickness, and prepared for use. |
| | noun (n.) One of the principal horizontal timbers of a building or ship. |
| | noun (n.) The width of a vessel; as, one vessel is said to have more beam than another. |
| | noun (n.) The bar of a balance, from the ends of which the scales are suspended. |
| | noun (n.) The principal stem or horn of a stag or other deer, which bears the antlers, or branches. |
| | noun (n.) The pole of a carriage. |
| | noun (n.) A cylinder of wood, making part of a loom, on which weavers wind the warp before weaving; also, the cylinder on which the cloth is rolled, as it is woven; one being called the fore beam, the other the back beam. |
| | noun (n.) The straight part or shank of an anchor. |
| | noun (n.) The main part of a plow, to which the handles and colter are secured, and to the end of which are attached the oxen or horses that draw it. |
| | noun (n.) A heavy iron lever having an oscillating motion on a central axis, one end of which is connected with the piston rod from which it receives motion, and the other with the crank of the wheel shaft; -- called also working beam or walking beam. |
| | noun (n.) A ray or collection of parallel rays emitted from the sun or other luminous body; as, a beam of light, or of heat. |
| | noun (n.) Fig.: A ray; a gleam; as, a beam of comfort. |
| | noun (n.) One of the long feathers in the wing of a hawk; -- called also beam feather. |
| | verb (v. t.) To send forth; to emit; -- followed ordinarily by forth; as, to beam forth light. |
| | verb (v. i.) To emit beams of light. |
| bream | noun (n.) A European fresh-water cyprinoid fish of the genus Abramis, little valued as food. Several species are known. |
| | noun (n.) An American fresh-water fish, of various species of Pomotis and allied genera, which are also called sunfishes and pondfishes. See Pondfish. |
| | noun (n.) A marine sparoid fish of the genus Pagellus, and allied genera. See Sea Bream. |
| | verb (v. t.) To clean, as a ship's bottom of adherent shells, seaweed, etc., by the application of fire and scraping. |
| cream | noun (n.) The rich, oily, and yellowish part of milk, which, when the milk stands unagitated, rises, and collects on the surface. It is the part of milk from which butter is obtained. |
| | noun (n.) The part of any liquor that rises, and collects on the surface. |
| | noun (n.) A delicacy of several kinds prepared for the table from cream, etc., or so as to resemble cream. |
| | noun (n.) A cosmetic; a creamlike medicinal preparation. |
| | noun (n.) The best or choicest part of a thing; the quintessence; as, the cream of a jest or story; the cream of a collection of books or pictures. |
| | verb (v. t.) To skim, or take off by skimming, as cream. |
| | verb (v. t.) To take off the best or choicest part of. |
| | verb (v. t.) To furnish with, or as with, cream. |
| | verb (v. i.) To form or become covered with cream; to become thick like cream; to assume the appearance of cream; hence, to grow stiff or formal; to mantle. |
| dream | noun (n.) The thoughts, or series of thoughts, or imaginary transactions, which occupy the mind during sleep; a sleeping vision. |
| | noun (n.) A visionary scheme; a wild conceit; an idle fancy; a vagary; a revery; -- in this sense, applied to an imaginary or anticipated state of happiness; as, a dream of bliss; the dream of his youth. |
| | noun (n.) To have ideas or images in the mind while in the state of sleep; to experience sleeping visions; -- often with of; as, to dream of a battle, or of an absent friend. |
| | noun (n.) To let the mind run on in idle revery or vagary; to anticipate vaguely as a coming and happy reality; to have a visionary notion or idea; to imagine. |
| | verb (v. t.) To have a dream of; to see, or have a vision of, in sleep, or in idle fancy; -- often followed by an objective clause. |
| ream | noun (n.) Cream; also, the cream or froth on ale. |
| | noun (n.) A bundle, package, or quantity of paper, usually consisting of twenty quires or 480 sheets. |
| | verb (v. i.) To cream; to mantle. |
| | verb (v. t.) To stretch out; to draw out into thongs, threads, or filaments. |
| | verb (v. t.) To bevel out, as the mouth of a hole in wood or metal; in modern usage, to enlarge or dress out, as a hole, with a reamer. |
| seam | noun (n.) Grease; tallow; lard. |
| | noun (n.) The fold or line formed by sewing together two pieces of cloth or leather. |
| | noun (n.) Hence, a line of junction; a joint; a suture, as on a ship, a floor, or other structure; the line of union, or joint, of two boards, planks, metal plates, etc. |
| | noun (n.) A thin layer or stratum; a narrow vein between two thicker strata; as, a seam of coal. |
| | noun (n.) A line or depression left by a cut or wound; a scar; a cicatrix. |
| | noun (n.) A denomination of weight or measure. |
| | noun (n.) The quantity of eight bushels of grain. |
| | noun (n.) The quantity of 120 pounds of glass. |
| | verb (v. t.) To form a seam upon or of; to join by sewing together; to unite. |
| | verb (v. t.) To mark with something resembling a seam; to line; to scar. |
| | verb (v. t.) To make the appearance of a seam in, as in knitting a stocking; hence, to knit with a certain stitch, like that in such knitting. |
| | verb (v. i.) To become ridgy; to crack open. |
| steam | noun (n.) The elastic, aeriform fluid into which water is converted when heated to the boiling points; water in the state of vapor. |
| | noun (n.) The mist formed by condensed vapor; visible vapor; -- so called in popular usage. |
| | noun (n.) Any exhalation. |
| | verb (v. i.) To emit steam or vapor. |
| | verb (v. i.) To rise in vapor; to issue, or pass off, as vapor. |
| | verb (v. i.) To move or travel by the agency of steam. |
| | verb (v. i.) To generate steam; as, the boiler steams well. |
| | verb (v. t.) To exhale. |
| | verb (v. t.) To expose to the action of steam; to apply steam to for softening, dressing, or preparing; as, to steam wood; to steamcloth; to steam food, etc. |
| stream | noun (n.) A current of water or other fluid; a liquid flowing continuously in a line or course, either on the earth, as a river, brook, etc., or from a vessel, reservoir, or fountain; specifically, any course of running water; as, many streams are blended in the Mississippi; gas and steam came from the earth in streams; a stream of molten lead from a furnace; a stream of lava from a volcano. |
| | noun (n.) A beam or ray of light. |
| | noun (n.) Anything issuing or moving with continued succession of parts; as, a stream of words; a stream of sand. |
| | noun (n.) A continued current or course; as, a stream of weather. |
| | noun (n.) Current; drift; tendency; series of tending or moving causes; as, the stream of opinions or manners. |
| | verb (v. i.) To issue or flow in a stream; to flow freely or in a current, as a fluid or whatever is likened to fluids; as, tears streamed from her eyes. |
| | verb (v. i.) To pour out, or emit, a stream or streams. |
| | verb (v. i.) To issue in a stream of light; to radiate. |
| | verb (v. i.) To extend; to stretch out with a wavy motion; to float in the wind; as, a flag streams in the wind. |
| | verb (v. t.) To send forth in a current or stream; to cause to flow; to pour; as, his eyes streamed tears. |
| | verb (v. t.) To mark with colors or embroidery in long tracts. |
| | verb (v. t.) To unfurl. |
| team | noun (n.) A group of young animals, especially of young ducks; a brood; a litter. |
| | noun (n.) Hence, a number of animals moving together. |
| | noun (n.) Two or more horses, oxen, or other beasts harnessed to the same vehicle for drawing, as to a coach, wagon, sled, or the like. |
| | noun (n.) A number of persons associated together in any work; a gang; especially, a number of persons selected to contend on one side in a match, or a series of matches, in a cricket, football, rowing, etc. |
| | noun (n.) A flock of wild ducks. |
| | noun (n.) A royalty or privilege granted by royal charter to a lord of a manor, of having, keeping, and judging in his court, his bondmen, neifes, and villains, and their offspring, or suit, that is, goods and chattels, and appurtenances thereto. |
| | verb (v. i.) To engage in the occupation of driving a team of horses, cattle, or the like, as in conveying or hauling lumber, goods, etc.; to be a teamster. |
| | verb (v. t.) To convey or haul with a team; as, to team lumber. |
