streaked, streaky
(adjective) marked with or as if with stripes or linear discolorations; “streaked hair”; “fat legs and dirty streaky faces”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
streaked (comparative more streaked, superlative most streaked)
Bearing streaks.
Marred with streaks.
(US, dialect, dated) uncomfortable; out of sorts.
streaked
simple past tense and past participle of streak
• restaked, retasked
Source: Wiktionary
Streaked, a.
1. Marked or variegated with stripes.
2. Uncomfortable; out of sorts. [Local, U.S.]
Streak, v. t. Etym: [Cf. Stretch, Streek.]
Definition: To stretch; to extend; hence, to lay out, as a dead body. [Obs. or Prov. Eng. & Scot.]
Streak, n. Etym: [OE. streke; akin to D. streek a line, stroke, G. strich, AS. strica, Sw. strek, Dan. streg, Goth. stricks, and E. strike, stroke. See Strike, Stroke, n., and cf. Strake.]
1. A line or long mark of a different color from the ground; a stripe; a vein. What mean those colored streaks in heaven Milton.
2. (Shipbuilding)
Definition: A strake.
3. (Min.)
Definition: 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.
4. The rung or round of a ladder. [Obs.]
Streak, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Streaked; p. pr. & vb. n. 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. Sandys. Now streaked and glowing with the morning red. Prior.
2. With it as an object: To run swiftly. [Colloq.]
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
25 November 2024
(noun) infestation with slender threadlike roundworms (filaria) deposited under the skin by the bite of black fleas; when the eyes are involved it can result in blindness; common in Africa and tropical America
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