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Definition of Streaking
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Streaking
Literary usage of Streaking
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Lives of the Scotish Poets: With Preliminary Dissertations on the by David Irving (1804)
"... Streaking his wingi up to the lift; Then, then, my soul was in a low That gart
my numbers safely row : But ..."
2. Bookbinding for Beginners by Florence Ordway Bean, John C. Brodhead (1914)
"so that any streaking along the edge may be cut off. To mix a wash of the color
selected, put two or three tablespoonfuls of water in the water-cup and add ..."
3. Tailhook 91: Events At The 35th Annual Tailhook SymposiumLaw (1993)
"This behavior falls into three general categories of "streaking," "mooning," and
... A. Streaking One form of indecent exposure that occurred at Tailhook 91 ..."
4. The Works of Charlotte, Emily, and Anne Brontë by Charlotte Brontë, Patrick Branwell Brontë, Emily Brontë, Anne Brontë (1896)
"streaking his forehead : it appears that he spends but little time at his toilette,
or he would arrange it with more taste. He seems unconscious that his ..."
5. Passages from the French and Italian Note-books of Nathaniel Hawthorne by Nathaniel Hawthorne (1873)
"... on their summits and streaking their sides a good way down. They looked bold,
and barren, and brown, except where the snow whitened them. ..."
6. A Manual of the Diseases of the Human Eye: Intended for Surgeons Commencing by Carl Heinrich Weller, George Cunningham Monteath (1821)
"... the callous swelling of the lachrymal sac is rather to be diminished by rubbing
Mercurial ointment upon it, and by streaking into the internal canthus, ..."
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