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4 definitions found 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. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: dapple n : a small contrasting part of something "a bald spot"; "a leopard's spots"; "a patch of clouds"; "a fleck of red" [syn: {spot}, {speckle}, {patch}, {fleck}, {maculation}] v : colour with streaks or blotches of different shades [syn: {mottle}, {cloud}]
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