v. [f. BE- 1 + STREAK v.] trans. To overspread with streaks, to streak.
Hence Bestreaked ppl. a.
a. 1600. Burel, in Watson, Coll. Scot. P., II. 12 (Jam.). Thair girtens wer of gold bestreik.
1659. Cleveland, Sing-song, ix. Her Cheeks bestreak’d with white and red.
1725. Pope, Odyss., XV. 65. When the dawn bestreak’d the east.
1849. W. Irving, Capt. Bonneville, 86. The animal is bestreaked with vermilion, or with white clay.
