DAP'PLE, adjective Marked with spots; spotted; variegated with spots of different colors or shades of color, as a dapple-bay or dapple-gray; applied to a horse or other beast. It may sometimes express streaked, but this is not its true signification. DAP'PLE, verb transitive To spot; to variegate with spots. The gentle day dapples the drowsy east with spots of gray. Shak. The dapples pink, and blushing rose. Prior.
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