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Yacca :: Yacca (n.) A West Indian name for two large timber trees (Podocarpus coriaceus, and P. Purdicanus) of the Yew family. The wood, which is much used, is pale brownish with darker streaks..

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..

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..

Streak :: Streak (n.) The fine powder or mark yielded by a mineral when scratched or rubbed against a harder surface, the color of which is sometimes a distinguishing character..

Streak :: Streaking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Strea.

Stringer :: Stringer (n.) A streak of planking carried round the inside of a vessel on the under side of the beams.

Brindled :: Brindled (a.) Having dark streaks or spots on a gray or tawny ground; brinded.

Aciculated :: Aciculated (a.) Marked with fine irregular streaks as if scratched by a needle.

Freak :: Freak (v. t.) To variegate; to checker; to streak.

Streaky :: Streaked (a.) Uncomfortable; out of sorts.

Stream :: Streaky (a.) Same as Streaked, 1..

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..

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..

Streaked :: Streaked (a.) Marked or variegated with stripes.

Redstreak :: Redstreak (n.) Cider pressed from redstreak apples.

Blanket :: Blanket (a.) A streak or layer of blubber in whales.

Bestreak :: Bestreak (v. t.) To streak.

Kestrel :: Kestrel (n.) A small, slender European hawk (Falco alaudarius), allied to the sparrow hawk. Its color is reddish fawn, streaked and spotted with white and black. Also called windhover and stannel. The name is also applied to other allied species..

Thecla :: Thecla (n.) Any one of many species of small delicately colored butterflies belonging to Thecla and allied genera; -- called also hairstreak, and elfin..

Streel :: Streek (v. t.) To stretch; also, to lay out, as a dead body. See Streak..

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