Fleck \Fleck\, n.
A flake; also, a lock, as of wool. [Obs.] --J. Martin.
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Fleck \Fleck\, n. [Cf. Icel. flekkr; akin to Sw. fl[aum]ck, D.
vlek, G. fleck, and perh. to E. flitch.]
A spot; a streak; a speckle. "A sunny fleck." --Longfellow.
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Life is dashed with flecks of sin. --tennyson.
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Fleck \Fleck\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Flecked; p. pr. & vb. n.
Flecking.] [Cf. Icel. flekka, Sw. fl[aum]cka, D. vlekken,
vlakken, G. flecken. See Fleck, n.]
To spot; to streak or stripe; to variegate; to dapple.
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Both flecked with white, the true Arcadian strain.
--Dryden.
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A bird, a cloud, flecking the sunny air. --Trench.
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fleck
n 1: a small fragment of something broken off from the whole; "a
bit of rock caught him in the eye" [syn: bit, chip,
flake, scrap]
2: 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, dapple,
patch, maculation]
v : make a spot or mark onto; "The wine spotted the tablecloth"
[syn: spot, blob, blot]
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