Hypertext Webster Gateway: "dappled"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Dapple \Dap"ple\, Dappled \Dap"pled\, a.
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.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

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

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

dappled
adj : having spots or patches of color [syn: {mottled}]

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