Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A blurred or double impression in printing.
- v. To blur or double (a printed impression).
- v. To become blurred.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A spot; specifically, in printing, a blemish in press-work made by a double impression, or by slipping or scraping, or by a wrinkle in the paper. Also macle, macule.
- To spot; maculate; blur; especially, in printing, to make a slipped, blurred, or double impression of. Also macule.
Wiktionary
- n. obsolete A blurred or double impression in printing.
- v. obsolete To blur, or be blurred, in printing, as if there were a double impression.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. Same as macule.
- v. To blur, or be blurred, in printing, as if there were a double impression.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a printed impression that is blurred or doubled
Etymologies
- Middle English macule, spot, from Old French, from Latin macula. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“I'd be in trouble for that! mackle says: nice to see that the site renders as intended on a PC ..”
“I've not actually seen it on one yet! mackle Looks just fine compared to how it looks on my Macs at home.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘mackle’.
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Pickle and such
Words that end like pickle. Listed here because they're funny (because they end like pickle).
pickle, sparkle, yokel, tinkle, fickle, prickle, trickle, circle, snorkel, ensnorkel, chuckle, buckle and 137 more...
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Logolepsy
"Luciferous Logolepsy is a collection of over 9,000 obscure English words. Though the definition of an 'English' word might seem to be straightforward, it is not. There exist so many adopted, deriv...
Anschauung, Areopagus, Argus, Briarean, Dei gratia, Dei judicium, Deo volente, Duecento, Foehn, Geflugelte Worte, Gegenschein, Hakenkreuz and 9230 more...
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Listless
Nowhere else to put these yet.
sibilant, cloying, pithy, apologia, odyssey, amanuensis, pleasantries, ginormous, burnish, sojourn, quonset, over-under and 217 more...
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jimmynewland's Words
steganography, incunabulum, dog days, geekhood, risorgimento, ab initio, slugabed, humanism, diddly-squat, doch-an-dorris, snickersnee, rictus and 198 more...
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words of vision
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looked up
Words I've come across while reading and looked up in the dictionary.
deesis, pendentive, revetment, aedicule, stemma, patera, ephod, entrepot, corbel, exedra, volute, archivolt and 1408 more...
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i know more than i knew before
Words learned and assimilated.
mackle, hummingbird, axenic, nacreous, atavic, suture, crepuscule, effluvium, dialectic, mythopoeia, leporine, caravansary and 13 more...
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Generally Good Words
I just like these words.
mackle, antidisestablishm..., sh, remix, wanton, dæmon, knickers, turtle, freedom biscuit
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dyvncwby's list
hexakosioihexekon..., mackle, oenopoetic, hapax legomenon, neotony
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