Word Meanings - STREAMLET - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A small stream; a rivulet; a rill.

STREAMLET
A small stream; a rivulet; a rill.
CREEKS
A tribe or confederacy of North American Indians, including the Muskogees, Seminoles, Uchees, and other subordinate tribes. They formerly inhabited Georgia, Florida, and Alabama.
BROOK
A natural stream of water smaller than a river or creek. The Lord thy God bringeth thee into a good land, a land of brooks of water. Deut. viii. 7. Empires itself, as doth an inland brook Into the main of waters. Shak. (more info) LG. brok, marshy
BROOKITE
A mineral consisting of titanic oxide, and hence identical with rutile and octahedrite in composition, but crystallizing in the orthorhombic system.
CREEK
crack, nook; cf. W. crig crack, crigyll ravine, creek. Cf. Crick, 1. A small inlet or bay, narrower and extending further into the land than a cove; a recess in the shore of the sea, or of a river. Each creek and cavern of the dangerous shore.
BROOK MINT
See MINT
CREEKY
Containing, or abounding in, creeks; characterized by creeks; like a creek; winding. "The creeky shore." Spenser.
CREEKFISH
The chub sucker.
BROOKSIDE
The bank of a brook.
BROOKWEED
A small white-flowered herb found usually in wet places; water pimpernel.
BROOKLIME
A plant , with flowers, usually blue, in
BROOKLET
A small brook.
RIVULET
A small stream or brook; a streamlet. By fountain or by shady rivulet He sought them. Milton.
ABROOK
To brook; to endure. Shak.