ppl. a. [f. STREAK v.2 + -ED1. Cf. STRAKED ppl. a.]
1. Marked with streaks; striped, striate. Often in specific names of animals and plants.
1596. Shaks., Merch. V., I. iii. 80. That all the eanelings which were streakt and pied Should fall as Iacobs hier. Ibid. (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’d 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. Miége, 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 intermixed 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 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 Streakedness. rare–0.
1727. Bailey, vol. II. Variegatedness, Speckledness, Streakedness.
