dapple : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: dapple	by the DICT Development Group
4 results for dapple
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
dapple 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" Synonym(s): spot, speckle, dapple, patch, fleck, maculation v colour with streaks or blotches of different shades [syn: mottle, dapple, cloud]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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.