mackle

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  1. noun A blurred or double impression in printing.
  2. transitive verb To blur or double (a printed impression).
  3. intransitive verb To become blurred.

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  1. Middle English macule, spot, from Old French, from Latin macula.

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  1. Early modern English macull; from French macle, a spot: see macle, macule.
  2. from French maculer = Provencal Spanish Portuguese macular = Italian maculare, from Latin maculare, spot, stain: see the noun.
 

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