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. [ 1913 Webster ]
He has . . . as many eyes on his body as my gray mare hath dapples. Sir P. Sidney.
v. t.
The gentle day, . . .
Dapples the drowsy east with spots of gray. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
The dappled pink and blushing rose. Prior. [ 1913 Webster ]
Some dapple mists still floated along the peaks. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]
☞ The word is used in composition to denote that some color is variegated or marked with spots; as, dapple-bay; dapple-gray. [ 1913 Webster ]
His steed was all dapple-gray. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]
O, swiftly can speed my dapple-gray steed. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]