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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Streaking :: Streaked (imp. & p. p.) of Strea.
Finchbacked :: Finchbacked (a.) Streaked or spotted on the back; -- said of cattle.
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..
Curl :: Curl (v.) An undulating or waving line or streak in any substance, as wood, glass, etc.; flexure; sinuosity..
Ringstraked :: Ringstraked (a.) Ring-streaked.
Streaked :: Streak (v. t.) With it as an object: To run swiftly.
Ray :: Ray (n.) To mark with long lines; to streak.
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..
Blue-veined :: Blue-veined (a.) Having blue veins or blue streaks.
Brinded :: Brinded (a.) Of a gray or tawny color with streaks of darker hue; streaked; brindled.
Streak :: Streak (v. t.) To stretch; to extend; hence, to lay out, as a dead body..
Show :: Show (n.) A discharge, from the vagina, of mucus streaked with blood, occuring a short time before labor..
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..
Redstreak :: Redstreak (n.) Cider pressed from redstreak apples.
Crest :: Crest (v. t.) To mark with lines or streaks, like, or regarded as like, waving plumes..
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..
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..
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..
Stream :: Streaky (a.) Same as Streaked, 1..
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