Dappled

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Dapple \Dap"ple\, Dappled \Dap"pled\, a.
     Marked with spots of different shades of color; spotted;
     variegated; as, a dapple horse.
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           Some dapple mists still floated along the peaks. --Sir


                                                    W. Scott.
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     Note: The word is used in composition to denote that some
           color is variegated or marked with spots; as,
           dapple-bay; dapple-gray.
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                 His steed was all dapple-gray.     --Chaucer.
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                 O, swiftly can speed my dapple-gray steed. --Sir
                                                    W. Scott.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Dapple \Dap"ple\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Dappled}; p. pr. & vb. n.
     {Dappling}.]
     To variegate with spots; to spot.
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           The gentle day, . . .
           Dapples the drowsy east with spots of gray. --Shak.
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           The dappled pink and blushing rose.      --Prior.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  dappled
       adj : having spots or patches of color [syn: {mottled}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  112 Moby Thesaurus words for "dappled":
     Quaker-colored, acier, amalgamated, ambiguous, ambivalent,
     amphibious, ashen, ashy, blended, calico, canescent, cinereous,
     cinerous, clouded, combined, complex, composite, compound,
     compounded, conglomerate, dapple, dapple-gray, dappled-gray, dingy,
     discolor, dismal, dove-colored, dove-gray, dreary, dull, dusty,
     eclectic, equivocal, fifty-fifty, glaucescent, glaucous, gray,
     gray-black, gray-brown, gray-colored, gray-drab, gray-green,
     gray-spotted, gray-toned, gray-white, grayed, grayish, griseous,
     grizzle, grizzled, grizzly, half-and-half, heterogeneous,
     indiscriminate, intricate, iron-gray, ironic, jumbled, lead-gray,
     leaden, livid, many-sided, marbled, medley, mingled, miscellaneous,
     mixed, motley, mottled, mouse-colored, mouse-gray, mousy,
     multicolor, multicolored, multifaceted, multihued, multinational,
     multiracial, parti-colored, patchy, pearl, pearl-gray, pearly,
     pepper-and-salt, piebald, pied, pinto, pluralistic, promiscuous,
     sad, scrambled, silver, silver-gray, silvered, silvery, skewbald,
     slate-colored, slaty, smoke-gray, smoky, sober, somber, steel-gray,
     steely, stone-colored, syncretic, taupe, thrown together,
     varicolored, varied, versicolor, versicolored