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Dapple

Dapple Meaning & Definition
Dapple Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of 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"
[v] colour with streaks or blotches of different shades

Synonyms | Synonyms for Dapple: cloud | fleck | maculation | mottle | patch | speckle | spot

Related Terms | Find terms related to Dapple: 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 | dappled | dappled-gray | dappledness | dapple-gray | 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 | grayed | gray-green | grayish | gray-spotted | gray-toned | gray-white | griseous | grizzle | grizzled | grizzly | hack | harlequin | hatch | impress | imprint | iris | iron-gray | jot | leaden | lead-gray | 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 | silvered | silver-gray | 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

See Also | harlequin | macula | macule | marking | nebula | pinpoint | plaque | speck | speckle | spot | stipple

Dapple In Webster's Dictionary

\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.
\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.
\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.

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