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..
Virgated :: Virgated (a.) Striped; streaked.
Blanket :: Blanket (a.) A streak or layer of blubber in whales.
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..
Grampus :: Grampus (n.) A toothed delphinoid cetacean, of the genus Grampus, esp. G. griseus of Europe and America, which is valued for its oil. It grows to be fifteen to twenty feet long; its color is gray with white streaks. Called also cowfish. The California grampus is G. Stearnsii..
Ringstraked :: Ringstraked (a.) Ring-streaked.
Ray :: Ray (n.) To mark with long lines; to streak.
Redstreak :: Redstreak (n.) A kind of apple having the skin streaked with red and yellow, -- a favorite English cider apple..
Strake :: Strake (n.) One breadth of planks or plates forming a continuous range on the bottom or sides of a vessel, reaching from the stem to the stern; a streak..
Streel :: Streek (v. t.) To stretch; also, to lay out, as a dead body. See Streak..
Gravenstein :: Gravenstein (n.) A kind of fall apple, marked with streaks of deep red and orange, and of excellent flavor and quality..
Stream :: Streaky (a.) Same as Streaked, 1..
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.
Stringer :: Stringer (n.) A streak of planking carried round the inside of a vessel on the under side of the beams.
Streaking :: Streaked (imp. & p. p.) of Strea.
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.
Redstreak :: Redstreak (n.) Cider pressed from redstreak apples.
Supercilious :: Superciliary (a.) Having a distinct streak of color above the eyes; as, the superciliary woodpecker..
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..
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