Dapple /(?)/

1. One of the spots on a dappled animal.

   He has . . . as many eyes on his body as my gray mare hath dapples.

1. Marked with spots of different shades of color; spotted; variegated; as, a dapple horse.

   Some dapple mists still floated along the peaks.

   His steed was all dapple-gray.

   O, swiftly can speed my dapple-gray steed.

imp. & p. p. Dappled; p. pr. & vb. n. Dappling

1. To variegate with spots; to spot.

   The gentle day, . . . Dapples the drowsy east with spots of gray.

   The dappled pink and blushing rose.