2. the flow of air that is driven backwards by an aircraft propeller.
Syn. -- slipstream, race, backwash, wash [ WordNet 1.5 ]

1. (Zool.) A European fresh-water cyprinoid fish of the genus Abramis, little valued as food. Several species are known. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Zool.) An American fresh-water fish, of various species of Pomotis and allied genera, which are also called sunfishes and pondfishes. See Pondfish. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Zool.) A marine sparoid fish of the genus Pagellus, and allied genera. See Sea Bream. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The part of any liquor that rises, and collects on the surface. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A delicacy of several kinds prepared for the table from cream, etc., or so as to resemble cream. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. A cosmetic; a creamlike medicinal preparation. [ 1913 Webster ]

In vain she tries her paste and creams,
To smooth her skin or hide its seams. Goldsmith. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

Welcome, O flower and cream of knights errant. Shelton. [ 1913 Webster ]

Bavarian cream, a preparation of gelatin, cream, sugar, and eggs, whipped; -- to be eaten cold. --
Cold cream, an ointment made of white wax, almond oil, rose water, and borax, and used as a salve for the hands and lips. --
Cream cheese, a kind of cheese made from curd from which the cream has not been taken off, or to which cream has been added. --
Cream gauge, an instrument to test milk, being usually a graduated glass tube in which the milk is placed for the cream to rise. --
Cream nut, the Brazil nut. --
Cream of lime. (a) A scum of calcium carbonate which forms on a solution of milk of lime from the carbon dioxide of the air. (b) A thick creamy emulsion of lime in water. --
Cream of tartar (Chem.), purified tartar or argol; so called because of the crust of crystals which forms on the surface of the liquor in the process of purification by recrystallization. It is a white crystalline substance, with a gritty acid taste, and is used very largely as an ingredient of baking powders; -- called also potassium bitartrate, acid potassium tartrate, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To take off the best or choicest part of. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To furnish with, or as with, cream. [ 1913 Webster ]

Creaming the fragrant cups. Mrs. Whitney. [ 1913 Webster ]

To cream butter (Cooking), to rub, stir, or beat, butter till it is of a light creamy consistency. [ 1913 Webster ]

There are a sort of men whose visages
Do cream and mantle like a standing pool. Shak. [ 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 ]

Thou cream-faced loon. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Mrs. Lambert's little daydream was over. Thackeray. [ 1913 Webster ]

Yet o'er that virtuous blush distreams a tear. Shenstone. [ 1913 Webster ]

Dreams are but interludes which fancy makes. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

I had a dream which was not all a dream. Byron. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

There sober thought pursued the amusing theme,
Till Fancy colored it and formed a dream. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

It is not them a mere dream, but a very real aim which they propose. J. C. Shairp. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

Here may we sit and dream
Over the heavenly theme. Keble. [ 1913 Webster ]

They dream on in a constant course of reading, but not digesting. Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]

Your old men shall dream dreams. Acts ii. 17. [ 1913 Webster ]

At length in sleep their bodies they compose,
And dreamt the future fight. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

And still they dream that they shall still succeed. Cowper. [ 1913 Webster ]

To dream away
To dream out,
To dream through, etc., to pass in revery or inaction; to spend in idle vagaries; as, to dream away an hour; to dream through life. “ Why does Antony dream out his hours?” Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

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

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

2. soothing; restful; as, dreamy music. [ PJC ]

3. Like what one dreams of; wonderful; delightful; marvelous; ideal; as, a dreamy house and garden. [ informal ] [ PJC ]

4. Prone to indulge in fantasy or daydreaming; as, a dreamy young girl. [ PJC ]

2. A preamble. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

Simon Magus had preambulatory impieties. Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]