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Definition of Bespeckle
1. Verb. Mark with small spots. "Speckle the wall with tiny yellow spots"
Definition of Bespeckle
1. v. t. To mark with speckles or spots.
Definition of Bespeckle
1. Verb. To add speckles. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bespeckle
Literary usage of Bespeckle
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Dictionary of the English Language by Samuel Johnson, John Walker, Robert S. Jameson (1828)
"Bespoke, or bespoke, or bespoken. To order beforehand ; to forebode ; to speak
to ; to address ; to betoken ; to shew. To bespeckle, (be-spek'-kl) ». a. ..."
2. The Beginnings of art by Ernst. Grosse (1897)
"... on the temples, and down to the cheek bones, and among the Dveri the mourners
bespeckle their whole bo,lies with white and red spots. ..."
3. A History of the Game Birds, Wild-fowl and Shore Birds of Massachusetts and by Edward Howe Forbush, Willey Ingraham Beecroft, Herbert Keightley Job, Massachusetts State Board of Agriculture (1912)
""Upon the return of cold weather, these [the wild-fowl] with the numerous progeny
which they have reared, return and bespeckle the harbours and bays, ..."
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