Fleck
[flek] or [flɛk]
Definition
(n.) A flake; also, a lock, as of wool.
(n.) A spot; a streak; a speckle.
(n.) To spot; to streak or stripe; to variegate; to dapple.
Typed by Hector
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. Spot, streak, dapple, speckle, variegate.
Checker: Prudence
Definition
n. a spot or speckle: a little bit of a thing.—vs.t. Fleck Fleck′er to spot: to streak.—adjs. Flecked spotted dappled; Fleck′less without spot.
Checked by Francis
Examples
- Down into the bosom of a stony shepherdess there steals a fleck of light and warmth that would have done it good a hundred years ago. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- But Galileo’s course was no less flecked with light and shade than were the sun and moon he studied. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Opposite him across the little clearing stood Horta, the boar, with lowered head and foam flecked tusks, ready to charge. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- It was an ideal spring day, a light blue sky, flecked with little fleecy white clouds drifting across from west to east. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- The site of the fire was now merely a circle of ashes flecked with red embers and sparks, the furze having burnt completely away. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Foam flecked her lips. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- Their leaps and bounds increased, their bared fangs dripped saliva, and their lips and breasts were flecked with foam. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- Red suns and tufts of fire one by one began to arise, flecking the whole country round. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
Editor: Lorna