stipple

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"You'll remember, Mis 'Braown, that I only bought him on conditions, and stipple-lated I wuz to be satisfied when I come to look him over.

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  1. transitive verb To draw, engrave, or paint in dots or short strokes.
  2. transitive verb To apply (paint, for example) in dots or short strokes.
  3. transitive verb To dot, fleck, or speckle: "They crossed a field stippled with purple weeds” (Flannery O'Connor).
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  • I'll take a dry stipple sponge and dip it into a base color a shade lighter or darker in color than what I've just applied. —  Epinions Recent Content for Home
  • Paleolithic artists sometimes applied them by brush, sometimes by chewing and spitting in a fine, dry spray, producing a stipple. —  The Chicago Blog
  • Contour and stipple drawing with archival ink pens, establishing the composition and depths of the "dark darks". —  Recently Uploaded Slideshows
  • Each piece upon completion has about 50 layers of pastel and ink, stipple and chalk scribbles. —  Recently Uploaded Slideshows
  • The ivory around each star has tiny stipple stitching; —  We Blog A Lot
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Etymologies (3)

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  1. Dutch stippelen, frequentative of stippen, to speckle, from stip, dot, from Middle Dutch.

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  1. from Dutch stippelen, speckle, dot over (cf. stippel, a speckle, diminutive of stip, a point), freq. of stippen (later G. stippen), prick, dot, speckle, from stip, Middle Dutch stip, stup, a point, dot.
  2. from stipple, v.
 

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