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Bespeckle

Bespeckle \Be*spec"kle\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Bespeckled; p. pr. & vb. n. Bespeckling.] To mark with speckles or spots.
--Milton.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
bespeckle

c.1600, from be- + speckle. Related: Bespeckled; bespeckling.

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bespeckle

vb. To add speckles.

WordNet
bespeckle

v. mark with small spots; "speckle the wall with tiny yellow spots" [syn: speckle]

Usage examples of "bespeckle".

American hero, all those cowboys, frontiersmen, and half-outlaws who bespeckle our popular mythology.

The unkempt, bespeckled individual sitting in the chair in the corner with his shoulders hunched was gnawing on his index finger cuticle as though it were going to be his last meal.

He had a pockmarked, florid face, a drooping gray mustache and a bespeckled, balding head.

I love illuminating the wings of angels, the lips of maidens, the death wounds of corpses and severed heads bespeckled with blood.

Within 24 hours this rash is spread over the body and the child looks very much bespeckled and swollen.

His shirt and arms were bespeckled with red, but to her he looked as resplendent as a knight in shining armor.

Fifty Cities that bespeckled the breast of the Mount, Amblemorn was the oldest.

The bespeckled, pimply-faced, overweight, underweight, dateless, womanless, goofiest of the goofy, were the undisputed, unchallenged kings of the entire freaking Valley!

Ruth had told her it was light yellow and bespeckled with bright white suns.

NOT STOPPING to figure out Tina's cryptic remarks, Kate went into her office with the nerd image still in her mind--short, skinny and bespeckled.

Thus they fought still two hours and more, and never would have rest, and Sir Turquine gave Sir Launcelot many wounds that all the ground thereas they fought was all bespeckled with blood.

Abernathy's furry, bespeckled face peered at him through a gathering of shadows.

The coffee was cold by now, the surface bespeckled with little clots of powdered milk.

Shards of eel flew like a volley of arrows, bespeckling the necromancer's robes with glowing green.