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n. A small beam of light. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. camelot (akin to Sp. camelote, chamelote, It. cambellbito, ciambellotto, LL. camelotum, camelinum, fr. Ar. khamlat camlet, fr. kaml pile, plush. The word was early confused with camel, camel's hair also being used in making it. Cf. Calamanco ] A woven fabric originally made of camel's hair, now chiefly of goat's hair and silk, or of wool and cotton. [ Sometimes written camelot and camblet. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ They have been made plain and twilled, of single warp and weft, of double warp, and sometimes with double weft also, with thicker yarn. Beck (Draper's Dict. ) [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Wavy or undulating like camlet; veined. Sir T. Herbert. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Camlet. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. An unreal, delightful country such as in sometimes pictured in dreams; region of fancies; fairyland. [ 1913 Webster ]

[ He ] builds a bridge from dreamland for his lay. Lowell. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Free from, or without, dreams. Camden. -- Dream"less*ly, adv. [1913 Webster]

adj. resembling a dream; vague or fantastic; as, night invested the lake with a dreamlike quality.
Syn. -- surreal. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. Having no foam. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. hamelet, OF. hamelet, dim. of hamel, F. hameau, LL. hamellum, a dim. of German origin; cf. G. heim home. √220. See Home. ] A small village; a little cluster of houses in the country. [ 1913 Webster ]

The country wasted, and the hamlets burned. Dryden.

Syn. -- Village; neighborhood. See Village. [ 1913 Webster ]

p. a. Confined to a hamlet. Feltham. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. having no loam; -- of soil; as, a stony loamless yard. Contrasted with loamy. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. A line used to get a straight middle line, as on a spar, or from stem to stern in building a vessel. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. Salmonet. ] The parr. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Without a seam. [ 1913 Webster ]

Christ's seamless coat, all of a piece. Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Destitute of streams, or of a stream, as a region of country, or a dry channel. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A small stream; a rivulet; a rill. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pert. to a stream line; designating a motion or flow that is free from turbulence, like that of a particle in a streamline; hence, designating a surface, body, etc., that is designed so as to afford an unbroken flow of a fluid about it, esp. when the resistance to flow is the least possible; as, a streamline body for an automobile or airship; -- the current usuage prefers the term streamlined. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]