DAPPLING

Verb

dappling

present participle of dapple

Noun

dappling (plural dapplings)

A dappled pattern.

Source: Wiktionary

DAPPLE

Dap"ple, n. Etym: [Cf. Icel. depill a spot, a dot, a dog with spots over the eyes, dapi a pool, and E. dimple.]

Definition: One of the spots on a dappled animal. He has . . . as many eyes on his body as my gray mare hath dapples. Sir P. Sidney.

Dap"ple, Dap"pled, a.

Definition: Marked with spots of different shades of color; spotted; variegated; as, a dapple horse. Some dapple mists still floated along the peaks. Sir W. Scott.

Note: The word is used in composition to denote that some color is variegated or marked with spots; as, dapple-bay; dapple-gray. His steed was all dapple-gray. Chaucer. O, swiftly can speed my dapple-gray steed. Sir W. Scott.

Dap"ple, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Dappled; p. pr. & vb. n. Dappling.]

Definition: To variegate with spots; to spot. The gentle day, . . . Dapples the drowsy east with spots of gray. Shak. The dappled pink and blushing rose. Prior.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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