Word Meanings - FINCHBACKED - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Streaked or spotted on the back; -- said of cattle.
Related words: (words related to FINCHBACKED)
- STREAKY
See COWPER - SPOTTEDNESS
State or quality of being spotted. - STREAKED
1. Marked or variegated with stripes. 2. Uncomfortable; out of sorts. - SPOTTED
Marked with spots; as, a spotted garment or character. "The spotted panther." Spenser. Spotted fever , a name applied to various eruptive fevers, esp. to typhus fever and cerebro-spinal meningitis. -- Spotted tree , an Australian tree ; -- so - SPOTTER
One who spots. - SPOTTINESS
The state or quality of being spotty. - CATTLE
Quadrupeds of the Bovine family; sometimes, also, including all domestic quadrupeds, as sheep, goats, horses, mules, asses, and swine. Belted cattle, Black cattle. See under Belted, Black. -- Cattle guard, a trench under a railroad track - SPOTTY
Full of spots; marked with spots. - BESTREAK
To streak. - ANT-CATTLE
Various kinds of plant lice or aphids tended by ants for the sake of the honeydew which they secrete. See Aphips. - PAY STREAK
1. The zone, parallel to the walls of a vein, in which the ore is concentrated, or any narrow streak of paying ore in less valuable material. 2. A stratum of oil sand thick enough to make a well pay. - LAPSTREAK; LAPSTRAKE
Made with boards whose edges lap one over another; clinker- built; -- said of boats. - EYESPOTTED; EYE-SPOTTED
Marked with spots like eyes. Junno's bird, in her eye-spotted train. Spenser. - UNSPOTTED
Not spotted; free from spot or stain; especially, free from moral stain; unblemished; immaculate; as, an unspotted reputation. -- Un*spot"ted*ness, n. - HAIRSTREAK
A butterfly of the genus Thecla; as, the green hairstreak (T. rubi). - CINQUE-SPOTTED
Five-spotted. Shak. - REDSTREAK
1. A kind of apple having the skin streaked with red and yellow, -- a favorite English cider apple. Mortimer. 2. Cider pressed from redstreak apples. - RING-STREAKED
Having circular streaks or lines on the body; as, ring-streaked goats.