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A kind of apple having the skin streaked with red and yellow, -- a favorite English cider apple. Mortimer.

Having circular streaks or lines on the body; as, ring-streaked goats.

To utter suddenly a sharp, shrill sound; to screech; to creak, as a door or wheel.

ng mark of a different color from the ground; a stripe; a vein. What mean those colored streaks in heaven Milton.

Marked or variegated with stripes.

Same as Streaked, 1. "The streaky west." Cowper.

To break completely; to break in pieces. [Obs.] With nose and mouth to-broke. Chaucer.

One who violates a truce, covenant, or engagement.

To break upwards; to force away or passage to the surface.

To break the wind of; to cause to lose breath; to exhaust. [R.] 'T would wind-break a mule to vie burdens with her. Ford.

To revenge; to avenge. [Archaic] He should wreake him on his foes. Chaucer. Another's wrongs to wreak upon thyself. Spenser. Come wreak his loss, whom bootless ye complain. Fairfax.

p. p. of Wreak. Chaucer.

Avenger. [Obs.] The stork, the wrekere of avouterye [adultery]. Chaucer.

Revengeful; angry; furious. [Obs.] -- Wreak"ful*ly, adv. [Obs.]

Unrevengeful; weak. [Obs.]

A narrow pass or defile; a break in a mesa; the mouth of a cañon. [Southwestern U. S.]

A sudden breaking off; a violent separation of bodies. Woodward.

Marked with fine irregular streaks as if scratched by a needle. Lindley.

The process of becoming white, or developing white patches, or streaks.