'Dapple' definitions:
Definition of 'dapple'
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Definition of 'Dapple'
From: GCIDE
- 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
Definition of 'Dapple'
From: GCIDE
- 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]
Definition of 'Dapple'
From: GCIDE
Synonyms of 'dapple'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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,
- Quaker-colored,
- 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