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.