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Fleck :: Fleck (n.) A spot; a streak; a speckle.

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..

Multistriate :: Multistriate (a.) Having many streaks.

Vein :: Vein (n.) A streak or wave of different color, appearing in wood, and in marble and other stones; variegation..

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

Veined :: Veined (a.) Full of veins; streaked; variegated; as, veined marble..

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..

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..

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

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

Finchbacked :: Finchbacked (a.) Streaked or spotted on the back; -- said of cattle.

Lapstreak :: Lapstreak (a.) Alt. of Lapstrak.

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..

Mare''s-tail :: Mare's-tail (n.) A long streaky cloud, spreading out like a horse's tail, and believed to indicate rain; a cirrus cloud. See Cloud..

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

Rurales :: Rurales (n. pl.) The gossamer-winged butterflies; a family of small butterflies, including the hairstreaks, violets, and theclas..

Virgated :: Virgated (a.) Striped; streaked.

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.

Gravenstein :: Gravenstein (n.) A kind of fall apple, marked with streaks of deep red and orange, and of excellent flavor and quality..

Ring-streaked :: Ring-streaked (a.) Having circular streaks or lines on the body; as, ring-streaked goats..

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