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Spot on Alfalfa's cheek
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freckle
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Word definitions for freckle in dictionaries
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A small brownish or reddish pigmentation spot on the surface of the skin. 2 Any small spot or discoloration. vb. 1 (context transitive English) To cover with freckles. 2 (context intransitive English) To become covered with freckles.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Freckle \Frec"kle\ (fr[e^]k"k'l), v. i. To become covered or marked with freckles; to be spotted.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ Sarah had freckles and red hair. ▪ She had the same red hair and freckles as her mother. EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Did you spot that tiny patch of freckles on her left cheek? ▪ He had been staring up at the deep purple blanket ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a small brownish spot (of the pigment melanin) on the skin [syn: lentigo ] v. become freckled; "I freckle easily" mark with freckles
Usage examples of freckle.
Let the haughty, purse-proud American--in whose warm life current one may trace the unmistakable strains of bichloride of gold and trichinae--pause for one moment to gaze at the coarse features and bloodshot eyes of his ancestors, who sat up at nights drenching their souls in a style of nepenthe that it is said would remove moths, tan, freckles, and political disabilities.
And when morning came dull and drizzly, like an old gray widow hobbling out from the dark, her cold tears freckling the sidewalks, in all my drunkenness and disarray, I went down to Emerald Street to seek my satisfaction.
He was a mite of a boy, nothing but skin-covered bones, his burned, freckled face in a mortar of tears and dust, his clothing unspeakably dirty, one great toe in a festering mass from a broken nail, and sores all over the visible portions of the small body.
His sneering glance included Taverik, whose yellow hair and wide cheekbones proclaimed him Pakajan, and the Copper Guild man, with his light red hair and freckled face.
Balanji waited as Vitujak, his freckled face tight and inscrutable, followed Rinatto and the guards from the room.
He put his hard, freckled hand into the jaws of stallions, and cowed the wickedest mule with his spotted eye.
There, he joined up with Thum, who rode with eyes shining like stars and a big, silly grin on his freckled face.
His soft, clear voice wavered and choked, and his freckled face looked pale and weary beneath the bandage swathing his head, but he grimly went through the whole prayer.
Honey bent over the man, her freckled face intent as she examined him.
He kissed her eyes, then, slowly, the rest of her face, tasting the faint trace of almond on her freckled cheeks, as he had once fantasized.
The triumvirate of childhood plaguesa freckled carrot-top with a dimple.
It was not as if he had been searching for green eyes and freckled noses wherever he went after all.
As Father Ralph parked his car and walked across the lawn, the maid waited on the front veranda, her freckled face wreathed in smiles.
The small pointed face was all eyes staring at some dreadful prospect, the milky opaque skin which never tanned or freckled was grow ing more translucent.
The sun, the wind and the dryness had weathered their fair, freckled skins to a sort of mottled mahogany, in which their blue eyes shone pale and tranquil, with the deep creases beside them speaking of gazing into far distances and silver-beige grass.