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long 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 streak.

A butterfly of the genus Thecla; as, the green hairstreak (T. rubi).

Made with boards whose edges lap one over another; clinker- built; -- said of boats.

(Oil Boring) A stratum of oil sand thick enough to make a well pay.

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.

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

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

A stripe, streak, or other mark transverse to the axis of the body.

A streak or layer of blubber in whales.

Hematite, an ore of iron yielding a blood red powder or "streak."

Having blue veins or blue streaks.

Of a gray or tawny color with streaks of darker hue; streaked; brindled. "Three brinded cows," Dryden. "The brinded cat." Shak.

Having dark streaks or spots on a gray or tawny ground; brinded. "With a brindled lion played." Churchill.

wn hematite or Brown iron ore (Min.), the hydrous iron oxide, limonite, which has a brown streak. See Limonite. -- Brown holland. See under Holland. -- Brown paper, dark colored paper, esp. coarse wrapping paper, made of unbleached materials. -- Brown spar (Min.), a ferruginous variety of dolomite, in part identical…

ach overlaps the upper edge of the plank next below it like clapboards on a house. See Lapstreak.

ent; to agree. [Obs.] Laban and himself were compromised That all the eanlings which were streaked and pied Should fall as Jacob's hire. Shak.