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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..

Band :: Band (v. t.) A stripe, streak, or other mark transverse to the axis of the body..

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 form streaks or stripes in or on; to stripe; to variegate with lines of a different color, or of different colors..

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

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

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.

Ray :: Ray (n.) To mark with long lines; to streak.

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

Curl :: Curl (v.) An undulating or waving line or streak in any substance, as wood, glass, etc.; flexure; sinuosity..

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..

Redstreak :: Redstreak (n.) A kind of apple having the skin streaked with red and yellow, -- a favorite English cider apple..

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..

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

Blue-veined :: Blue-veined (a.) Having blue veins or blue streaks.

Wale :: Wale (n.) A ridge or streak rising above the surface, as of cloth; hence, the texture of cloth..

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..

Streak :: Streak (n.) A strake.

Druxy :: Druxy (a.) Having decayed spots or streaks of a whitish color; -- said of timber.

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.

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