[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

dapple \dap"ple\, n. cf. icel. depill a spot, a dot, a dog with
   spots over the eyes, dapi a pool, and e. dimple.
   one of the spots on a dappled animal.
   1913 webster

         he has . . . as many eyes on his body as my gray mare
         hath dapples.                            --sir p.
                                                  sidney.
   dapple

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

dapple \dap"ple\, dappled \dap"pled\, a.
   marked with spots of different shades of color; spotted;
   variegated; as, a dapple horse.
   1913 webster

         some dapple mists still floated along the peaks. --sir
                                                  w. scott.
   1913 webster

   note: the word is used in composition to denote that some
         color is variegated or marked with spots; as,
         dapple-bay; dapple-gray.
         1913 webster

               his steed was all dapple-gray.     --chaucer.
         1913 webster

               o, swiftly can speed my dapple-gray steed. --sir
                                                  w. scott.
         1913 webster

[3] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

dapple \dap"ple\, v. t. imp.  p. p. dappled; p. pr.  vb. n.
   dappling.
   to variegate with spots; to spot.
   1913 webster

         the gentle day, . . .
         dapples the drowsy east with spots of gray. --shak.
   1913 webster

         the dappled pink and blushing rose.      --prior.
   1913 webster
see also:
dappled dappling 

[4] : WordNet (r) 2.0

dapple
     n : 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, patch,
         fleck, maculation
     v : colour with streaks or blotches of different shades syn: mottle,
          cloud
see also:
spot speckle patch fleck maculation mottle 
cloud 

[5] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

202 moby thesaurus words for "dapple":
   quaker-colored, acier, ashen, ashy, band, bar, bespangle,
   bespeckle, bespot, birthmark, blaze, blaze a trail, blemish,
   blotch, brand, brindled, calico, canescent, caste mark, chalk,
   chalk up, check, check off, checker, checkmark, cicatrix,
   cicatrize, cinereous, cinerous, clouded, cut, dapple-gray, dappled,
   dappled-gray, dappledness, dappleness, dash, define, delimit,
   demarcate, dingy, discolor, discoloration, dismal, dot, dotted,
   dottedness, dove-colored, dove-gray, dreary, dull, dusty, earmark,
   engrave, engraving, flake, flea-bitten, fleck, flecked, flick,
   freckle, freckliness, gash, glaucescent, glaucous, graving, gray,
   gray-black, gray-brown, gray-colored, gray-drab, gray-green,
   gray-spotted, gray-toned, gray-white, grayed, grayish, griseous,
   grizzle, grizzled, grizzly, hack, harlequin, hatch, impress,
   imprint, iris, iron-gray, jot, lead-gray, leaden, lentigo, line,
   livid, macula, maculate, maculation, macule, make a mark, marble,
   marbled, marbleize, mark, mark off, mark out, marking, mole,
   motley, mottle, mottled, mottledness, mouse-colored, mouse-gray,
   mousy, nevus, nick, notch, paint, patch, pearl, pearl-gray, pearly,
   pencil, pepper, pepper-and-salt, piebald, pied, pinto, point,
   pointillage, pointillism, polka dot, polychrome, polychromize,
   prick, print, punch, punctuate, puncture, rainbow, riddle, sad,
   scar, scarification, scarify, score, scotch, scratch, scratching,
   seal, seam, silver, silver-gray, silvered, silvery, skewbald,
   slate-colored, slaty, smoke-gray, smoky, sober, somber, spangle,
   speck, speckle, speckled, speckliness, splash, splotch, spot,
   spotted, spottedness, spottiness, sprinkle, stain, stamp,
   steel-gray, steely, stigma, stigmatize, stipple, stippledness,
   stippling, stone-colored, strawberry mark, streak, striate, stripe,
   stud, tattoo, tattoo mark, taupe, tessellate, tick, tick off,
   tittle, trace, underline, underscore, variegate, vein, watermark

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