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.
He has . . . as many eyes on his body as my gray mare
hath dapples.
Sir P. Sidney.
{ Dap"ple (?), Dap"pled (?) },
a. Marked with spots of different shades of
color; spotted; variegated; as, a dapple horse.
Some dapple mists still floated along the
peaks.
Sir W. Scott.
&fist; The word is used in composition to denote that some color
is variegated or marked with spots; as, dapple-bay;
dapple-gray.
His steed was all dapple-gray.
Chaucer.
O, swiftly can speed my dapple-gray
steed.
Sir W. Scott.
Dap"ple, v. t. [imp. & p.
p. Dappled (?); p. pr. & vb. n.
Dappling.] To variegate with spots; to spot.
The gentle day, . . .
Dapples the drowsy east with spots of gray.
Shak.
The dappled pink and blushing
rose.
Prior.
