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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.)





Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48


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"Streaked" Quotes from Famous Books



... you would read the Evangelists severally, then you must keepe still from section to section in the same letter with which you begin, reading both context and supplement, that is the Roman letter and the Inglish letter annexed. Where you find any one word or more streaked under, you are to omit it in the reading of the context to make the clearer sence; but it is necessarily left remaining for the reading of the ...
— Little Gidding and its inmates in the Time of King Charles I. - with an account of the Harmonies • J. E. Acland
... thunder-clouds Hurled on each other by the tempest-blast, Flashing forth lightnings, while the welkin thrills As clash the clouds and hollow roar the winds; So 'neath the hard hide-gauntlets clashed their jaws. Down streamed the blood, and from their brows the sweat Blood-streaked made on the flushed cheeks crimson bars. Fierce without pause they fought, and never flagged Epeius, but threw all his stormy strength Into his onrush. Yet did Theseus' son Never lose heart, but baffled the straight blows Of those strong hands, and by his fighting-craft ...
— The Fall of Troy • Smyrnaeus Quintus
... later flame streaked down from the sphere toward the parking lot. There was a roar as a gasoline tank exploded and flame ...
— The Whispering Spheres • Russell Robert Winterbotham
... fire, as she was constantly tempted to do, met his look, and laid a soot-streaked hand ...
— Sisters • Kathleen Norris
... details of the apartment were insignificant, and seemed to throw the figure of the seated woman into strong relief. She had been beautiful, and was beautiful still, though now in her fifty-second year. Her features were high and noble, and her rich dark hair was only lightly streaked with gray. Her eyes were brown, but of that brown which easily looks black when not exposed directly to the light. Her face was now very pale, but there was a slight flush upon her cheeks, which for a ...
— Paul Patoff • F. Marion Crawford


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