fleck : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: fleck	by the DICT Development Group
4 results for fleck
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
fleck n a small fragment of something broken off from the whole; "a bit of rock caught him in the eye" Synonym(s): bit, chip, flake, fleck, scrap 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 make a spot or mark onto; "The wine spotted the tablecloth" Synonym(s): spot, fleck, blob, blot
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Fleck \Fleck\, n. A flake; also, a lock, as of wool. [Obs.] --J. Martin.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Fleck \Fleck\, n. [Cf. Icel. flekkr; akin to Sw. fl[84]ck, D. vlek, G. fleck, and perh. to E. flitch.] A spot; a streak; a speckle. [bd]A sunny fleck.[b8] --Longfellow. Life is dashed with flecks of sin. --tennyson.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Fleck \Fleck\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Flecked}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Flecking}.] [Cf. Icel. flekka, Sw. fl[84]cka, D. vlekken, vlakken, G. flecken. See {Fleck}, n.] To spot; to streak or stripe; to variegate; to dapple. Both flecked with white, the true Arcadian strain. --Dryden. A bird, a cloud, flecking the sunny air. --Trench.