Of a tawny or brownish colour, marked with bars or streaks of a different hue; also gen. streaked, spotted; brindled.

Streaked, striped.

Brindled.

(a) Arranged in or formed into flakes or layers. (b) Marked with flakes or streaks.

Inscribed or decorated with, or as with, a pencil (in various senses); delicately marked, streaked, or striped with thin lines (as opposed to…

Marked with streaks; striped, striate. Often in specific names of animals and plants.

= branded, adj.3

In scientific use: Marked or characterized by striae, furrowed, streaked; = striate, adj. Also figurative.

Streaky.

Of a brownish, tawny, or grey colour, marked with darker parallel stripes or streaks; brindled: primarily and especially in tabby cat or tabby-cat…

Confectionery, etc. Beaten into a froth: see whip, v. 7. Hence in figurative expressions denoting something ‘frothy’, flimsy, or unsubstantial.

= brinded, adj., brindled, adj.

‘Streaked, tabby, marked with streaks’ (Johnson).

Marked or scored with striæ, showing narrow structural bands, striped, streaked, furrowed.

Striped, streaked; streaky. Now rare (British regional in later use).

Marked with streaks; streaked.

Streaked, striped.

Of bacon: consisting of alternate layers of lean meat and fat; streaky.

= fibrillose, adj. b.

Of wood (esp. mahogany): having an arrangement of markings in the grain which give a striped or streaky appearance to the surface when cut; (of…

Having a wavy or streaky appearance.

Of bacon: streaky; = roded, adj.