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.
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He has . . . as many eyes on his body as my gray mare
hath dapples. --Sir P.
Sidney.
Dapple
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Dapple \Dap"ple\, Dappled \Dap"pled\, a.
Marked with spots of different shades of color; spotted;
variegated; as, a dapple horse.
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Some dapple mists still floated along the peaks. --Sir
W. Scott.
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Note: The word is used in composition to denote that some
color is variegated or marked with spots; as,
dapple-bay; dapple-gray.
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His steed was all dapple-gray. --Chaucer.
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O, swiftly can speed my dapple-gray steed. --Sir
W. Scott.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Dapple \Dap"ple\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Dappled; p. pr. & vb. n.
Dappling.]
To variegate with spots; to spot.
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The gentle day, . . .
Dapples the drowsy east with spots of gray. --Shak.
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The dappled pink and blushing rose. --Prior.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
dapple
n : 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" [syn: spot, speckle, patch,
fleck, maculation]
v : colour with streaks or blotches of different shades [syn: mottle,
cloud]
WordNet (r) 2.0
202 Moby Thesaurus words for "dapple":
Quaker-colored, acier, ashen, ashy, band, bar, bespangle,
bespeckle, bespot, birthmark, blaze, blaze a trail, blemish,
blotch, brand, brindled, calico, canescent, caste mark, chalk,
chalk up, check, check off, checker, checkmark, cicatrix,
cicatrize, cinereous, cinerous, clouded, cut, dapple-gray, dappled,
dappled-gray, dappledness, dappleness, dash, define, delimit,
demarcate, dingy, discolor, discoloration, dismal, dot, dotted,
dottedness, dove-colored, dove-gray, dreary, dull, dusty, earmark,
engrave, engraving, flake, flea-bitten, fleck, flecked, flick,
freckle, freckliness, gash, glaucescent, glaucous, graving, gray,
gray-black, gray-brown, gray-colored, gray-drab, gray-green,
gray-spotted, gray-toned, gray-white, grayed, grayish, griseous,
grizzle, grizzled, grizzly, hack, harlequin, hatch, impress,
imprint, iris, iron-gray, jot, lead-gray, leaden, lentigo, line,
livid, macula, maculate, maculation, macule, make a mark, marble,
marbled, marbleize, mark, mark off, mark out, marking, mole,
motley, mottle, mottled, mottledness, mouse-colored, mouse-gray,
mousy, nevus, nick, notch, paint, patch, pearl, pearl-gray, pearly,
pencil, pepper, pepper-and-salt, piebald, pied, pinto, point,
pointillage, pointillism, polka dot, polychrome, polychromize,
prick, print, punch, punctuate, puncture, rainbow, riddle, sad,
scar, scarification, scarify, score, scotch, scratch, scratching,
seal, seam, silver, silver-gray, silvered, silvery, skewbald,
slate-colored, slaty, smoke-gray, smoky, sober, somber, spangle,
speck, speckle, speckled, speckliness, splash, splotch, spot,
spotted, spottedness, spottiness, sprinkle, stain, stamp,
steel-gray, steely, stigma, stigmatize, stipple, stippledness,
stippling, stone-colored, strawberry mark, streak, striate, stripe,
stud, tattoo, tattoo mark, taupe, tessellate, tick, tick off,
tittle, trace, underline, underscore, variegate, vein, watermark
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
cloud, dapple-gray, dapple-grey, double dapple, fleck, maculation, mottle, patch, silver dapple gene, speckle, spot
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