Word Meanings - SHELD - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Variegated; spotted; speckled; piebald.

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• VARIEGATE
  To diversify in external appearance; to mark with different colors; to dapple; to streak; as, to variegate a floor with marble of different colors. The shells are filled with a white spar, which variegates and adds to the beauty of the
• SPECKLED-BILL
  The American white-fronted goose .
• SPECKLEDNESS
  The quality of being speckled.
• SPOTTEDNESS
  State or quality of being spotted.
• SPECKLE
  A little or spot in or anything, of a different substance or color from that of the thing itself. An huge great serpent, all with speckles pied. Spebser.
• SPOTTED
  Marked with spots; as, a spotted garment or character. "The spotted panther." Spenser. Spotted fever , a name applied to various eruptive fevers, esp. to typhus fever and cerebro-spinal meningitis. -- Spotted tree , an Australian tree ; -- so
• VARIEGATION
  The act of variegating or diversifying, or the state of being diversified, by different colors; diversity of colors.
• SPOTTER
  One who spots.
• SPECKLED
  Marked or variegated with small spots of a different color from that of the rest of the surface. Speckled Indians , the Pintos. -- Speckled trout. The common American brook trout. See Trout. The rainbow trout.
• PIEBALD
  1. Having spots and patches of black and white, or other colors; mottled; pied. "A piebald steed of Thracian strain." Dryden. 2. Fig.: Mixed. "Piebald languages." Hudibras.
• SPOTTINESS
  The state or quality of being spotty.
• SPECKLED-BELLY
  The gadwall.
• VARIEGATED
  Having marks or patches of different colors; as, variegated leaves, or flowers. Ladies like variegated tulips show. Pope.
• SPOTTY
  Full of spots; marked with spots.
• KENSPECKLE
  Having so marked an appearance as easily to be recognized.
• EYESPOTTED; EYE-SPOTTED
  Marked with spots like eyes. Junno's bird, in her eye-spotted train. Spenser.
• UNSPOTTED
  Not spotted; free from spot or stain; especially, free from moral stain; unblemished; immaculate; as, an unspotted reputation. -- Un*spot"ted*ness, n.
• CINQUE-SPOTTED
  Five-spotted. Shak.
• BESPECKLE
  To mark with speckles or spots. Milton.