Meaning of DAPPLE
| Pronunciation: | | 'dapul
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- [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"
- [v] colour with streaks or blotches of different shades
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| | Synonyms: | | cloud, fleck, maculation, mottle, patch, speckle, spot |
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| | See Also: | | harlequin, macula, macule, marking, nebula, pinpoint, plaque, speck, speckle, spot, stipple | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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\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.
He has . . . as many eyes on his body as my gray mare
hath dapples. --Sir P.
Sidney.
\Dap"ple\, Dappled \Dap"pled\, a.
Marked with spots of different shades of color; spotted;
variegated; as, a dapple horse.
Some dapple mists still floated along the peaks. --Sir
W. Scott.
Note: The word is used in composition to denote that some
color is variegated or marked with spots; as,
dapple-bay; dapple-gray.
His steed was all dapple-gray. --Chaucer.
O, swiftly can speed my dapple-gray steed. --Sir
W. Scott.
\Dap"ple\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Dappled}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Dappling}.]
To variegate with spots; to spot.
The gentle day, . . . Dapples the drowsy east with
spots of gray. --Shak.
The dappled pink and blushing rose. --Prior.
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