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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. Mottled or spotted marking, as on a horse's coat.
  2. n. An individual spot.
  3. n. An animal with a mottled or spotted skin or coat.
  4. v. To mark or mottle with spots.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A spot; a dot; one of a number of various spots, as on an animal's skin or coat.
  2. n. A dappled horse.
  3. Marked with spots; spotted; variegated with spots of different colors or shades of color: as, a dapple horse.
  4. To spot; variegate with spots.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A mottled marking, usually in clusters.
  2. n. An animal with a mottled or spotted skin or coat.
  3. adj. Having a mottled or spotted skin or coat, dappled.
  4. v. To mark or become marked with mottling or spots.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. One of the spots on a dappled animal.
  2. adj. Marked with spots of different shades of color; spotted; variegated.
  3. v. To variegate with spots; to spot.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a small contrasting part of something
  2. v. colour with streaks or blotches of different shades

Etymologies

  1. Back-formation from dappled. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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