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n.; pl. Creameries [ CF. F. cr&unr_;meric. ] 1. A place where butter and cheese are made, or where milk and cream are put up in cans for market. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A place or apparatus in which milk is set for raising cream. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. An establishment where cream is sold. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One given to daydreams. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who dreams. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A visionary; one lost in wild imaginations or vain schemes of some anticipated good; as, a political dreamer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. limier, OF. liemier, fr. L. ligamen band, bandage. See Lien. ] A dog held by a leam. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who, or that which, reams; specifically, an instrument with cutting or scraping edges, used, with a twisting motion, for enlarging a round hole, as the bore of a cannon, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) Any one of three species of South American birds constituting the family Anhimidae, and the suborder Palamedeae. They have two spines on each wing, and the head is either crested or horned. They are easily tamed, and then serve as guardians for other poultry. The crested screamers, or chajas, belong to the genus Chauna. The horned screamer, or kamichi, is Palamedea cornuta. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Something so remarkable as to provoke a scream, as of joy. [ Slang ] [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

3. An exclamation mark. [ Printer's Slang ] [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. 1. A vessel propelled by steam; a steamship or steamboat. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A steam fire engine. See under Steam. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A road locomotive for use on common roads, as in agricultural operations. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. A vessel in which articles are subjected to the action of steam, as in washing, in cookery, and in various processes of manufacture. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. (Zool.) The steamer duck. [ 1913 Webster ]

Steamer duck (Zool.), a sea duck (Tachyeres cinereus), native of Patagonia and Terra del Fuego, which swims and dives with great agility, but which, when full grown, is incapable of flight, owing to its very small wings. Called also loggerhead, race horse, and side-wheel duck. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. An ensign, flag, or pennant, which floats in the wind; specifically, a long, narrow, ribbonlike flag. [ 1913 Webster ]

Brave Rupert from afar appears,
Whose waving streamers the glad general knows. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A stream or column of light shooting upward from the horizon, constituting one of the forms of the aurora borealis. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

While overhead the North's dumb streamers shoot. Lowell. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Mining) A searcher for stream tin. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Journalism) a banner. [ PJC ]

. A freight steamer having a high hatch coaming extending almost continuously fore and aft, but not of whaleback form at the sides. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]