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Definition of Dapple

Dapple
Dapple 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.
Dapple
Dapple Dap"ple, Dappled 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. Note: 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.
Dapple
Dapple 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.

Meaning of Dapple from wikipedia

- Look up dapple in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Dapple may refer to: Dapple, a book by Eleanor Arnason DAPPLE Project, a pollution study Dapple gray,...
- excluded the wording "double-dapple" from the standard in 2007 and now strictly uses the wording "dapple" as the double dapple gene is commonly responsible...
- the Bergamasco Shepherd. In Dachshunds, the merle pattern is known as "dapple". In Beaucerons the merle pattern is known as "harlequin". The merle allele...
- The silver or silver dapple (Z) gene is a dilution gene that affects the black base coat color and is ****ociated with Multiple Congenital Ocular Abnormalities...
- informal names, such as "rose gray," "salt and pepper," "iron gray", or "dapple gray." As the horse ages, the coat continues to lighten, often to a pure...
- Édouard Dapples (12 December 1807 in Lausanne – 30 April 1887 in Nice), member of the Dapples family, was a Swiss politician, syndic of Lausanne from...
- color and flaxen mane and tail, the result of the relatively rare silver dapple gene acting on a black coat, seen in much of the po****tion. It also exhibits...
- The Dapples family is a Vaudois family, likely originating from Apples, Vaud, Switzerland. The family is mentioned in Vufflens-le-Château at the end of...
- cream dilution. The other genetic mechanism is derived from the silver dapple gene, which lightens a black coat to dark brown, and affects the mane and...
- The dapple-throat (Arcanator orostruthus) is a species of bird in the small African family Modulatricidae. Other common names include dappled mountain...