Definition of streak

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Streak (n.) A line or long mark of a different color from the ground; a stripe; a vein.

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Stripe :: Stripe (n.) A line, or long, narrow division of anything of a different color or structure from the ground; hence, any linear variation of color or structure; as, a stripe, or streak, of red on a green ground; a raised stripe..
Strake :: Strake (n.) A streak.
Urva :: Urva (n.) The crab-eating ichneumon (Herpestes urva), native of India. The fur is black, annulated with white at the tip of each hair, and a white streak extends from the mouth to the shoulder..
Streaked :: Streak (n.) The rung or round of a ladder.
Curl :: Curl (v.) An undulating or waving line or streak in any substance, as wood, glass, etc.; flexure; sinuosity..
Brinded :: Brinded (a.) Of a gray or tawny color with streaks of darker hue; streaked; brindled.
Rosewood :: Rosewood (n.) A valuable cabinet wood of a dark red color, streaked and variegated with black, obtained from several tropical leguminous trees of the genera Dalbergia and Machaerium. The finest kind is from Brazil, and is said to be from the Dalbergia nigra..
Touchstone :: Touchstone (n.) Lydian stone; basanite; -- so called because used to test the purity of gold and silver by the streak which is left upon the stone when it is rubbed by the metal. See Basanite.
Ray :: Ray (v. t.) To mark, stain, or soil; to streak; to defile..
Wale :: Wale (n.) A streak or mark made on the skin by a rod or whip; a stripe; a wheal. See Wheal.
Multistriate :: Multistriate (a.) Having many streaks.
Whelky :: Whelky (a.) Having whelks, ridges, or protuberances; hence, streaked; striated..
Crest :: Crest (v. t.) To mark with lines or streaks, like, or regarded as like, waving plumes..
Veined :: Veined (a.) Full of veins; streaked; variegated; as, veined marble..
Show :: Show (n.) A discharge, from the vagina, of mucus streaked with blood, occuring a short time before labor..
Thecla :: Thecla (n.) Any one of many species of small delicately colored butterflies belonging to Thecla and allied genera; -- called also hairstreak, and elfin..
Grampus :: Grampus (n.) A toothed delphinoid cetacean, of the genus Grampus, esp. G. griseus of Europe and America, which is valued for its oil. It grows to be fifteen to twenty feet long; its color is gray with white streaks. Called also cowfish. The California grampus is G. Stearnsii..
Albication :: Albication (n.) The process of becoming white, or developing white patches, or streaks..
Ray :: Ray (n.) To mark with long lines; to streak.
Hairstreak :: Hairstreak (n.) A butterfly of the genus Thecla; as, the green hairstreak (T. rubi)..
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