Crossword clues for stippled
stippled
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Stipple \Stip"ple\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Stippled; p. pr. & vb. n. Stippling.] [D. stippelen to make points, to spot, dot, from stippel, dim. of stip a dot, spot.]
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To engrave by means of dots, in distinction from engraving in lines.
The interlaying of small pieces can not altogether avoid a broken, stippled, spotty effect.
--Milman. To paint, as in water colors, by small, short touches which together produce an even or softly graded surface.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: stipple)
WordNet
Usage examples of "stippled".
Lamplight stippled the battlements of the distant city walls as well as the nearer palace walls that ringed the hill on which the two palaces stood.
They only glimpsed the source: sand-colored bodies stippled with black and brown spots, longer than horses, mouths like barrels rimmed with teeth like jagged glass, each tooth wiggling like a finger, gaping mouths that could swallow them whole.
He led the way through feather grass whose golden heads were stippled with black.
The other side offered a stippled portrait with the look of stone-faced gravity that seemed the man's natural expression.
Equally pathetic were the three gross of fancily stippled cartes-de-viste, with Radley's Manchester telegraph-number arranged in the French manner, still wrapped in printer's-tissue.
Opening it, he removed a plain white card stippled with Florence Bartlett's Bow Street portrait.
A mountain crag, something indistinct beyond it, a strangely stippled sky, a scattering of stars to the left.
As we walked, the fogs thinned and took on a greenish cast—another trick of that stippled sky, I assumed.
The sky was that crazy, turning, stippled thing I remembered from last time—half-black, half-psychedelic rainbows.
He was seated on a balcony beneath a crazily stippled sky, the Shifting Mountains sliding to his left.
She climbed over a low wall, its sides stippled with small squares hewn through the barrier like arrow slits.
Blood stippled the churned snow and muck and stained the iron links of the chain.
Sweat stippled her brow but otherwise she gave no sign in her silk robes of being hot, not as Antonia was.
Big as a peck basket, turquoise in color, it was stippled with marks of black paint and its lid was tightly sealed with yellow wax.
Even non-precious items, such as a turquoise jar stippled with black marks that Amber recognized.