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Word Meanings - SPECKLED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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.

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  • DOTTEREL
    Decayed. "Some old dotterel trees." Ascham.
  • SPECKLED-BILL
    The American white-fronted goose .
  • SPECKLEDNESS
    The quality of being speckled.
  • MACULATE
    Marked with spots or maculæ; blotched; hence, defiled; impure; as, most maculate thoughts. Shak.
  • SPOTTEDNESS
    State or quality of being spotted.
  • DOTTARD
    An old, decayed tree. Bacon.
  • MACULATION
    The act of spotting; a spot; a blemish. Shak.
  • 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.
  • DOTTREL
    See DOTTEREL
  • 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
  • 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.
  • DOTTED
    Marked with, or made of, dots or small spots; diversified with small, detached objects. Dotted note , a note followed by a dot to indicate an increase of length equal to one half of its simple value; thus, a dotted semibreve is equal
  • DOTTING PEN
    See PUN
  • MOTTLE
    To mark with spots of different color, or shades of color, as if stained; to spot; to maculate. (more info) Etym:
  • MOTTLED
    Marked with spots of different colors; variegated; spotted; as, mottled wood. "The mottled meadows." Drayton.
  • SPOTTINESS
    The state or quality of being spotty.
  • DOTTY
    1. Composed of, or characterized by, dots. 2. Unsteady in gait; hence, feeble; half-witted.
  • SPECKLED-BELLY
    The gadwall.
  • SPOTTY
    Full of spots; marked with spots.
  • BIMACULATE
    Having, or marked with, two spots.
  • IMMACULATE
    Without stain or blemish; spotless; undefiled; clear; pure. Were but my soul as pure From other guilt as that, Heaven did not hold One more immaculate. Denham. Thou sheer, immaculate and silver fountain. Shak. Immaculate conception , the doctrine
  • EMACULATE
    To clear from spots or stains, or from any imperfection. Hales.
  • RIDOTTO
    A favorite Italian public entertainment, consisting of music and dancing, -- held generally on fast eves. Brande & C. There are to be ridottos at guinea tickets. Walpole.
  • SEA DOTTEREL
    The turnstone.
  • CONDOTTIERE
    A military adventurer of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, who sold his services, and those of his followers, to any party in any contest.

 

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