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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Stream :: Streaky (a.) Same as Streaked, 1..
Ring-streaked :: Ring-streaked (a.) Having circular streaks or lines on the body; as, ring-streaked goats..
Blanket :: Blanket (a.) A streak or layer of blubber in whales.
Show :: Show (n.) A discharge, from the vagina, of mucus streaked with blood, occuring a short time before labor..
Ray :: Ray (n.) To mark with long lines; to streak.
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..
Streel :: Streek (v. t.) To stretch; also, to lay out, as a dead body. See Streak..
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..
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..
Variegate :: Variegate (v. t.) To diversify in external appearance; to mark with different colors; to dapple; to streak; as, to variegate a floor with marble of different colors..
Clinker-built :: Clinker-built (a.) Having the side planks (af a boat) so arranged that the lower edge of each overlaps the upper edge of the plank next below it like clapboards on a house. See Lapstreak.
Streaking :: Streaked (imp. & p. p.) of Strea.
Virgated :: Virgated (a.) Striped; streaked.
Vein :: Vein (n.) A streak or wave of different color, appearing in wood, and in marble and other stones; variegation..
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..
Blue-veined :: Blue-veined (a.) Having blue veins or blue streaks.
Fleck :: Fleck (n.) To spot; to streak or stripe; to variegate; to dapple.
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.
Lapstreak :: Lapstreak (a.) Alt. of Lapstrak.
Streaked :: Streak (n.) The rung or round of a ladder.
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