Speckle
['spek(ə)l] or ['spɛkl]
Definition
(verb.) mark with small spots; 'speckle the wall with tiny yellow spots'.
Typed by Barnaby--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) A little or spot in or anything, of a different substance or color from that of the thing itself.
(v. t.) To mark with small spots of a different color from that of the rest of the surface; to variegate with spots of a different color from the ground or surface.
Checked by Douglas
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. Mark with spots (of a different color from that of the ground).
Inputed by Franklin
Definition
n. a little speck or spot in anything different in substance or colour from the thing itself: (Scot.) kind sort.—v.t. to mark with speckles.—adj. Speck′led variegated piebald.—n. Speck′ledness.—adjs. Speck′less spotless perfectly clean; Speck′y partially spotted.
Editor: Luke
Examples
- No, said the smith, turn on, we shall have it bright by-and-by; as yet 'tis only speckled. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- The park was speckled by tents, whose flaunting colours and gaudy flags, waving in the sunshine, added to the gaiety of the scene. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Yes, said the man, but _I think I like a speckled axe best_. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- It was a chance to fight, an opportunity to loot, and they rose to the bait as a speckled trout to a fly. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- The dark bean-shaped cells are the normal blood corpuscles, and the few speckled cells are those infested with the malarial parasites. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- She could climb a tree to rob the nests of the feathered songsters of their speckled spoils. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Mr. Pickwick called attention to his speckled silk stockings, and smartly tied pumps. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Round his brow he had a peculiar yellow band, with brownish speckles, which seemed to be bound tightly round his head. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
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