'Dapple' definitions:

Definition of 'dapple'

From: WordNet
noun
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, fleck, maculation]
verb
Colour with streaks or blotches of different shades [syn: mottle, dapple, cloud]

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
  • 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]

Synonyms of 'dapple'

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