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Pronunciation : Dap"ple
Part of Speech : n.
Etymology : [Cf. Icel. depill a spot, a dot, a dog with spots over the eyes, dapi a pool, and E. dimple.]
Definition : Defn: 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.
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913

Pronunciation : Dap"ple, Dap"pled
Part of Speech : a.
Definition : Defn: 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.
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913

Pronunciation : Dap"ple
Part of Speech : v.
Definition : Defn: 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.

t. [imp. & p. p. Dappled; p. pr. & vb. n. Dappling.]
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913