v. [f. BE- 1 + STREAK v.] trans. To overspread with streaks, to streak.

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  Hence Bestreaked ppl. a.

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a. 1600.  Burel, in Watson, Coll. Scot. P., II. 12 (Jam.). Thair girtens wer of gold bestreik.

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1659.  Cleveland, Sing-song, ix. Her Cheeks bestreak’d with white and red.

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1725.  Pope, Odyss., XV. 65. When the dawn bestreak’d the east.

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1837.  W. Irving, Capt. Bonneville, I. 143. The animal is bestreaked and bespotted with vermilion, or with white clay.

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