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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

DAP'PLE, a. Marked with spots; spotted; variegated with spots of different colors or shades of color, as a dapple-bay or dapple-gray; applied to a horse or other beast. It may sometimes express streaked, but this is not its true signification.
DAP'PLE, v.t. To spot; to variegate with spots.
The gentle day dapples the drowsy east with spots
of gray. Shak.
The dapples pink, and blushing rose. Prior.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: 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] v
1: colour with streaks or blotches of different shades [syn: mottle, dapple, cloud]

Merriam Webster's

I. noun Etymology: Middle English dappel-gray, adjective, gray marked with spots of another color Date: 1580 1. any of numerous usually cloudy and rounded spots or patches of a color or shade different from their background 2. the quality or state of being dappled 3. a dappled animal II. verb (dappled; dappling) Date: 1599 transitive verb to mark with dapples intransitive verb to produce a dappled pattern <sun dappling through trees>

Oxford Reference Dictionary

v. & n. --v. 1 tr. mark with spots or rounded patches of colour or shade. 2 intr. become marked in this way. --n. 1 a dappled effect. 2 a dappled animal, esp. a horse. Phrases and idioms: dapple grey 1 (of an animal's coat) grey or white with darker spots. 2 a horse of this colour. Etymology: ME dappled, dappeld, (adj.), of unkn. orig.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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. He has . . . as many eyes on his body as my gray mare hath dapples. --Sir P. Sidney.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Dapple 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.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Dapple 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.

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

I. a. Variegated, spotted, dappled. II. v. a. Variegate, spot, diversify.

Moby Thesaurus

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