Definition of streak

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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..

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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..
Albication :: Albication (n.) The process of becoming white, or developing white patches, or streaks..
Ray :: Ray (v. t.) To mark, stain, or soil; to streak; to defile..
Wave :: Wave (v. i.) The undulating line or streak of luster on cloth watered, or calendered, or on damask steel..
Band :: Band (v. t.) A stripe, streak, or other mark transverse to the axis of the body..
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..
Streak :: Streak (n.) A strake.
Fleck :: Fleck (n.) A spot; a streak; a speckle.
Brinded :: Brinded (a.) Of a gray or tawny color with streaks of darker hue; streaked; brindled.
Streak :: Streaking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Strea.
Streaked :: Streak (v. t.) With it as an object: To run swiftly.
Vein :: Vein (n.) A streak or wave of different color, appearing in wood, and in marble and other stones; variegation..
Streaky :: Streaked (a.) Uncomfortable; out of sorts.
Wale :: Wale (n.) A ridge or streak rising above the surface, as of cloth; hence, the texture of cloth..
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.
Brindled :: Brindled (a.) Having dark streaks or spots on a gray or tawny ground; brinded.
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..
Hairstreak :: Hairstreak (n.) A butterfly of the genus Thecla; as, the green hairstreak (T. rubi)..
Strip-leaf :: Striped (a.) Having stripes of different colors; streaked.
Blanket :: Blanket (a.) A streak or layer of blubber in whales.
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