Fleck

4 definitions found

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

  Fleck \Fleck\, n.
     A flake; also, a lock, as of wool. [Obs.] --J. Martin.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:



  Fleck \Fleck\, n. [Cf. Icel. flekkr; akin to Sw. fl[aum]ck, D.
     vlek, G. fleck, and perh. to E. flitch.]
     A spot; a streak; a speckle. "A sunny fleck." --Longfellow.
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           Life is dashed with flecks of sin.       --tennyson.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Fleck \Fleck\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Flecked}; p. pr. & vb. n.
     {Flecking}.] [Cf. Icel. flekka, Sw. fl[aum]cka, D. vlekken,
     vlakken, G. flecken. See {Fleck}, n.]
     To spot; to streak or stripe; to variegate; to dapple.
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           Both flecked with white, the true Arcadian strain.
                                                    --Dryden.
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           A bird, a cloud, flecking the sunny air. --Trench.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  fleck
       n 1: a small fragment of something broken off from the whole; "a
            bit of rock caught him in the eye" [syn: {bit}, {chip},
            {flake}, {scrap}]
       2: 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" [syn: {spot}, {speckle}, {dapple},
          {patch}, {maculation}]
       v : make a spot or mark onto; "The wine spotted the tablecloth"
           [syn: {spot}, {blob}, {blot}]