midstream



beck, branch, brook, burn, channel, creek, fresh, gill, kill, millstream, race, river, rivulet, run, runnel,

   good-luck charm - amulet, charm, fetish, hoodoo, lucky piece, mascot, mumbo jumbo, phylactery, scarab, swastika, talisman, voodoo, whammy ,

   cease-fire - abeyance, armistice, break, caesura, day off, drop, hesitation, holiday, interim, interlude, intermezzo, intermission, interruption, interval, lapse,

   watch and ward - administration, auspices, care, charge, cure, custody, eagle eye, government, guard, guardianship, guidance, hand, jurisdiction, keeping, lookout,

   apostrophe - address, affirmation, allegation, answer, assertion, comma, comment, crack, declaration, dictum, digression, exclamation, expression, figure of speech, greeting,

   laugh to scorn - deride, despise, disdain, disregard, flout, laugh at, make fun of, pan, pillory, point at, rag, ride, ridicule, roast, scoff at,

   do a mischief - abuse, afflict, aggrieve, befoul, bewitch, blight, corrupt, crucify, curse, damage, defile, deprave, despoil, destroy, disadvantage,

   confirmed - accepted, accustomed, acknowledged, actual, admitted, affirmed, allowed, approved, ascertained, attested, authenticated, avowed, borne out, categorically true, certain,

   get shut of - abandon, abstract, cast, cast away, cast off, cast out, chuck, clear, clear away, clear out, clear the decks, cut out, deep six, deport, discard,

   materially - conspicuously, eminently, essence, essentially, fundamentally, grandly, greatly, markedly, notably, per se, primarily, prominently, remarkably, substantially ,

   unwatchful - inattentive, incautious, neglectful, non-restrictive, skimping, unobservant, unprepared ,