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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A speck or small spot, as a natural dot of color on skin, plumage, or foliage.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A little speck or spot; a speckled marking; the state of being speckled: as, yellow with patches of speckle.
  2. n. Color; hence, kind; sort.
  3. To mark with specks or spots; fleck; speck; spot.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A small spot or speck on the skin, plumage or foliage.
  2. n. physics The random distribution of light when it is scattered by a rough surface.
  3. v. To mark with speckles.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. A little or spot in or anything, of a different substance or color from that of the thing itself.
  2. v. To mark with small spots of a different color from that of the rest of the surface; to variegate with spots of a different color from the ground or surface.

WordNet 3.0

  1. v. mark with small spots
  2. v. produce a mottled effect
  3. n. a small contrasting part of something

Etymologies

  1. The noun is from Middle Dutch spekkel; the verb was later coined from the noun, in the late 16th century. (Wiktionary)
  2. Middle English spakle. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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