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Definition of Stipple
1. Verb. Engrave by means of dots and flicks.
2. Verb. Make by small short touches that together produce an even or softly graded shadow, as in paint or ink.
Generic synonyms: Paint
Derivative terms: Stippler
3. Verb. Apply (paint) in small dots or strokes.
4. Verb. Produce a mottled effect. "The sunlight stippled the trees"
Definition of Stipple
1. v. t. To engrave by means of dots, in distinction from engraving in lines.
2. n. A mode of execution which produces the effect by dots or small points instead of lines.
Definition of Stipple
1. Noun. the use of small dots that give the appearance of shading; the dots thus used ¹
2. Verb. to use small dots to give the appearance of shading ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Stipple
1. to draw, paint, or engrave by means of dots or short touches [v -PLED, -PLING, -PLES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Stipple
Literary usage of Stipple
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Chats on Old Prints by Arthur Hayden (1906)
"CHAPTER IX stipple ENGRAVING Its technique—The practice of stipple in early
days—An adjunct to line engraving—The great eighteenth- century masters of ..."
2. English Coloured Books by Martin Hardie (1906)
"CHAPTER VII THE GOLDEN AGE OF MEZZOTINT AND stipple THE history of colour-printing
from metal after the time of Le Blon becomes rich in interest, ..."
3. Colour Printing and Colour Printers by R. M. Burch, William Gamble (1910)
"stipple engraving may be regarded as the earlier of these two methods, and like
mezzotint and aquatint is a " grain " process, the grain being formed of a ..."
4. The Connoisseur by George Colman, B. Thornton (1904)
"Their mezzotints and stipple engravings are full of sympathy and sweetness.
For the lover of colour prints nothing can surpass a fine proof of Smith's ..."
5. Concrete-steel Construction by Henry Turner Eddy, Claude Allen Porter Turner (1914)
"stipple Coat. It is found that by applying a stipple coat, either rough or ...
The stipple coat is usually applied with a broom-corn brush and consists of ..."
6. The Print-collector's Handbook by Alfred Whitman (1903)
"CHAPTER V stipple AND AQUATINT stipple engraving, or engraving by dots instead
of by lines, has been considered by some as lacking in character, ..."
7. Chambers's Encyclopaedia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge (1901)
"A sheet of copper or other metal is grained on the surface by aquatint, stipple,
or ruling-machine ; paper, coated with a white transferring ground, ..."
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