dapple
Noun · VerbWordNet 3.0
Noun (1)
- a small contrasting part of something“a bald spot”“a leopard's spots”“a patch of clouds”“patches of thin ice”“a fleck of red”Synonyms: spotspecklepatchfleckmaculation
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Dapple \Dap"ple\, n. [Cf. Icel. depill a spot, a dot, a dog with spots over the eyes, dapi a pool, and E. dimple.] One of the spots on a dappled animal. [1913 Webster]
He has . . . as many eyes on his body as my gray mare hath dapples. --Sir P. Sidney. Dapple
Dapple \Dap"ple\, Dappled \Dap"pled\, a. Marked with spots of different shades of color; spotted; variegated; as, a dapple horse. [1913 Webster]
Some dapple mists still floated along the peaks. --Sir W. Scott. [1913 Webster]
Note: The word is used in composition to denote that some color is variegated or marked with spots; as, dapple-bay; dapple-gray. [1913 Webster]
His steed was all dapple-gray.— Chaucer.[1913 Webster]
O, swiftly can speed my dapple-gray steed.— Sir W. Scott.[1913 Webster]
Dapple \Dap"ple\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Dappled; p. pr. & vb. n. Dappling.] To variegate with spots; to spot. [1913 Webster]
The gentle day, . . . Dapples the drowsy east with spots of gray. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
The dappled pink and blushing rose. --Prior. [1913 Webster]