Definition of streak

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Streak (n.) A strake.

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Crest :: Crest (v. t.) To mark with lines or streaks, like, or regarded as like, waving plumes..
Bloodstone :: Bloodstone (n.) Hematite, an ore of iron yielding a blood red powder or streak..
Veined :: Veined (a.) Full of veins; streaked; variegated; as, veined marble..
Streaked :: Streak (v. t.) With it as an object: To run swiftly.
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..
Curl :: Curl (v.) An undulating or waving line or streak in any substance, as wood, glass, etc.; flexure; sinuosity..
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..
Rurales :: Rurales (n. pl.) The gossamer-winged butterflies; a family of small butterflies, including the hairstreaks, violets, and theclas..
Krait :: Krait (n.) A very venomous snake of India (Bungarus coeruleus), allied to the cobra. Its upper parts are bluish or brownish black, often with narrow white streaks; the belly is whitish..
Streak :: Streak (v. t.) To stretch; to extend; hence, to lay out, as a dead body..
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..
Wale :: Wale (n.) A streak or mark made on the skin by a rod or whip; a stripe; a wheal. See Wheal.
Blue-veined :: Blue-veined (a.) Having blue veins or blue streaks.
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.
Streak :: Streak (v. t.) To form streaks or stripes in or on; to stripe; to variegate with lines of a different color, or of different colors..
Band :: Band (v. t.) A stripe, streak, or other mark transverse to the axis of the body..
Hairstreak :: Hairstreak (n.) A butterfly of the genus Thecla; as, the green hairstreak (T. rubi)..
Streaking :: Streaked (imp. & p. p.) of Strea.
Redstreak :: Redstreak (n.) A kind of apple having the skin streaked with red and yellow, -- a favorite English cider apple..
Wale :: Wale (n.) A ridge or streak rising above the surface, as of cloth; hence, the texture of cloth..
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