astream

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   Streaming, flowing (of a liquid, object blown by wind, light, sound).

   • The biker sped by, hair astream from under her helmet.
   • Glorious the northern lights astream;
   • […] as a finger of smoke / Astream over woodland
2. 2

   Having something flowing from, down or along it

   Having something flowing from, down or along it; covered (with something flowing).

   • Past the finish line, she doubled over panting, her hair astream with sweat.
   • There the swishing tailed cows stand with mouths all astream,
   • 1958, Samuel Beckett (translator), “Morning” by José Manuel Martínez Navarrete, in Octavio Paz (ed.), An Anthology of Mexican Poetry, Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, p. 92, In an instant / the world entire is astream with joy.
3. 3

   In, into, on, onto or along a stream (or other watercourse).

   • I prefer to clean the fish I catch right away, while I’m astream.
   • And pushed the laden raft astream
   • […] always he appeared at right or left, sometimes even on a log astream,
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   1. 4

      In line with the stream.

      • The ship was pitching with an unsteadiness which meant they were now well astream; their charges could not get away.

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