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Streaked   /strikt/   Listen
verb
Streak  v. t.  To stretch; to extend; hence, to lay out, as a dead body. (Obs. or Prov. Eng. & Scot.)


Streak  v. t.  (past & past part. streaked; pres. part. streaking)  
1.
To form streaks or stripes in or on; to stripe; to variegate with lines of a different color, or of different colors. "A mule... streaked and dappled with white and black." "Now streaked and glowing with the morning red."
2.
With it as an object: To run swiftly. (Colloq.)


adjective
Streaked  adj.  
1.
Marked or variegated with stripes.
2.
Uncomfortable; out of sorts. (Local, U.S.)





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"Streaked" Quotes from Famous Books



... grotesque, as evil-looking as the tortured idols of the Chinese; like theirs his eyes were beadlike, expressionless, dull; such are the eyes of dead seal. His face was brown and cracked like old leather, and was covered with a crust of dirt; his gray-streaked hair was matted and straggled over his face; it teemed with lice. He held his knotty hands motionless over the flame of his lamp. His nails were long and curled like sharp talons. As Maisanguaq saw him he could not repress ...
— The Eternal Maiden • T. Everett Harre
... daylong I dream, swung swooningly, swooningly, In an old-time tulip of flaming gold, red-flaunted and streaked with green, While song of the birds, of water and bees comes crooningly, crooningly, And Summer brings me her swift mad months with scent and colour and sheen. Winter is gone, I ween, ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 152, April 25, 1917 • Various
... saffron streaked the east next morning, the reef of the Cruz del Padre hove in sight dead ahead. The third lieutenant presented me at my departure with a set of charts, a spy-glass, a quadrant, and a large bag of clothes; while, in the breast of a rich silk waistcoat, ...
— Captain Canot - or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver • Brantz Mayer
... be divided in the same way. Some one of the wagons would have to be left for lack of animals to draw it. Our animals were so poor that one would not last long as food. No fat could be found on the entire carcass, and the marrow of the great bones was a thick liquid, streaked ...
— Death Valley in '49 • William Lewis Manly
... wild-eyed giant whom she recognized as the man who was to be her husband. He was swinging a great club, and fighting furiously and calmly with a shaggy monster that was bigger than any bear she had ever seen. One rip of the beast's claws had dragged away Ward's pajama-coat and streaked his flesh ...
— The Night-Born • Jack London


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