Hypertext Webster Gateway: "fleck"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Fleck \Fleck\, n.
A flake; also, a lock, as of wool. [Obs.] --J. Martin.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Fleck \Fleck\, n. [Cf. Icel. flekkr; akin to Sw. fl["a]ck, D.
vlek, G. fleck, and perh. to E. flitch.]
A spot; a streak; a speckle. ``A sunny fleck.'' --Longfellow.
Life is dashed with flecks of sin. --tennyson.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Fleck \Fleck\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Flecked}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Flecking}.] [Cf. Icel. flekka, Sw. fl["a]cka, D. vlekken,
vlakken, G. flecken. See {Fleck}, n.]
To spot; to streak or stripe; to variegate; to dapple.
Both flecked with white, the true Arcadian strain.
--Dryden.
A bird, a cloud, flecking the sunny air. --Trench.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
fleck
n 1: a small fragment of something broken off from the whole; "a
bit of rock caught him in the eye" [syn: {bit}, {chip},
{flake}, {scrap}]
2: a small contrasting part of something; "a bald spot"; "a
leopard's spots"; "a patch of clouds"; "patches of thin
ice": "a fleck of red" [syn: {spot}, {speckle}, {dapple},
{patch}, {maculation}]
v : make a spot or mark onto; "The wine spotted the tablecloth"
[syn: {spot}, {blob}, {blot}]
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