streaked, ppl. a.
(striːkt)
[f. streak v.2 + -ed1. Cf. straked ppl. a.]
1. Marked with streaks; striped, striate. Often in specific names of animals and plants.
| 1596 Shakes. Merch. V. i. iii. 80 That all the eanelings which were streakt and pied Should fall as Iacobs hier. 1611 ― Wint. T. iv. iv. 82 Streak'd Gilly-vors (Which some call Natures bastards). 1656 Beale Heref. Orchards (1657) 46 For cider, the streak't must is most commended. 1665 Lovell Herbal (ed. 2) 419 Streaked grasse, see Lady lace grasse. 1681 Grew Musæum i. §v. iii. 114 The Streaked File-Fish. Capriscus striatus. 1758 Borlase Nat. Hist. Cornw. 203 The poorer sort, which is the streaked or dredged ore. 1774 Goldsm. Nat. Hist. (1776) III. 242 The true streaked tiger. 1796 Withering Brit. Plants (ed. 3) I. 85 Streaked, marked with depressed, but not always parallel lines. 1801 [C. Stewart] Elem. Nat. Hist. I. 352 Trigla lineata. Streaked Gurnard. 1855 Orr's Circ. Sci., Inorg. Nat. 207 Bath stone..is..usually of a warm cream tint, often streaked. 1868 Sir J. Richardson etc. Mus. Nat. Hist. I. 260 The Streaked Sparrow-hawk (Accipiter virgatus). |
b. Of flesh-meat, esp. bacon: = streaky 2 b.
| 1687 Miege Gt. Fr. Dict. ii. s.v., A fine streaked Bacon, du petit Lard. 1725 Bradley's Family Dict. s.v. Potage, A Border of young streak'd Bacon. 1845 D. Jerrold Time Works Wonders i. 2 I've some beautiful bacon, sir, Such pink and white! Streaked, sir, like a carnation. 1846 J. Baxter Libr. Pract. Agric. (ed. 4) II. 92 The fat is inter⁓mixed among the fibres of the muscles, giving the meat a streaked or marbled appearance. |
2. U.S. dial. Confused, ashamed, agitated; uneasy, scared, alarmed. Usually to feel streaked or look streaked.
| 1833 [Seba Smith] Lett. J. Downing ii. (1835) 29, I begun to feel pretty streaked for our folks when I see what was done on Boston Common. 1837 Haliburton Clockm. Ser. i. iv. 26 If he was in your House of Commons, I reckon he'd make some of your great folks look pretty streaked. 1848 Lowell Biglow P. Ser. i. ii. 19, I tell ye I felt streaked The fust time 't ever I found out wy baggonets wuz peaked. |
Hence ˈstreakedness. rare—0.
| 1727 Bailey vol. II, Variegatedness, Speckledness, Streakedness. |