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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Streaked :: Streak (v. t.) With it as an object: To run swiftly.
Wale :: Wale (n.) A streak or mark made on the skin by a rod or whip; a stripe; a wheal. See Wheal.
Gravenstein :: Gravenstein (n.) A kind of fall apple, marked with streaks of deep red and orange, and of excellent flavor and quality..
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..
Streaked :: Streak (n.) The rung or round of a ladder.
Streak :: Streak (n.) A line or long mark of a different color from the ground; a stripe; a vein.
Vein :: Vein (n.) A streak or wave of different color, appearing in wood, and in marble and other stones; variegation..
Marbled :: Marbled (a.) Varied with irregular markings, or witch a confused blending of irregular spots and streaks..
Blue-veined :: Blue-veined (a.) Having blue veins or blue streaks.
Blanket :: Blanket (a.) A streak or layer of blubber in whales.
Fleck :: Fleck (n.) To spot; to streak or stripe; to variegate; to dapple.
Wave :: Wave (v. i.) The undulating line or streak of luster on cloth watered, or calendered, or on damask steel..
Veined :: Veined (a.) Full of veins; streaked; variegated; as, veined marble..
Stringer :: Stringer (n.) A streak of planking carried round the inside of a vessel on the under side of the beams.
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.
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..
Ring-streaked :: Ring-streaked (a.) Having circular streaks or lines on the body; as, ring-streaked goats..
Show :: Show (n.) A discharge, from the vagina, of mucus streaked with blood, occuring a short time before labor..
Touch-needle :: Touch-needle (n.) A small bar of gold and silver, either pure, or alloyed in some known proportion with copper, for trying the purity of articles of gold or silver by comparison of the streaks made by the article and the bar on a touchstone..
Crest :: Crest (v. t.) To mark with lines or streaks, like, or regarded as like, waving plumes..
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