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stippled

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stip·ple  (stpl)
tr.v. stip·pled, stip·pling, stip·ples
1. To draw, engrave, or paint in dots or short strokes.
2. To apply (paint, for example) in dots or short strokes.
3. To dot, fleck, or speckle: "They crossed a field stippled with purple weeds" (Flannery O'Connor).
n.
1. A method of drawing, engraving, or painting using dots or short strokes.
2. The effect produced by stippling.
[Dutch stippelen, frequentative of stippen, to speckle, from stip, dot, from Middle Dutch.]
stippler n.
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Adj.1.stippled - having a pattern of dots
dotted, flecked, specked, speckled
patterned - having patterns (especially colorful patterns)


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If one could have hung that June morning in a balloon in the blazing blue above London every northward and eastward road running out of the tangled maze of streets would have seemed stippled black with the streaming fugitives, each dot a human agony of terror and physical distress.
The War Of The Worlds by Wells, H.G. View in context
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