| Pronunciation: | | 'mâtul
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| Matching Terms: | | mottled, mottles, mottling
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- [v] colour with streaks or blotches of different shades
- [v] mark with spots or blotches of different color or shades of color as if stained
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| | Synonyms: | | blotch, cloud, dapple, streak |
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| | See Also: | | color, color in, colorise, colorize, colour, colour in, colourise, colourize, harlequin, speckle, spot, stipple |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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\Mot"tle\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Mottled}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Mottling}.] [From {Mottled}.]
To mark with spots of different color, or shades of color, as
if stained; to spot; to maculate.
\Mot"tle\, n.
A mottled appearance.
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| | Related Terms: | | band, bar, bespangle, bespeckle, bespot, birthmark, blaze, blaze a trail, blemish, blotch, brand, caste mark, chalk, chalk up, check, check off, checker, checkmark, cicatrix, cicatrize, cut, dapple, dappledness, dappleness, dash, define, delimit, demarcate, discolor, discoloration, dot, dottedness, earmark, engrave, engraving, flake, fleck, flick, freckle, freckliness, gash, graving, hack, harlequin, hatch, impress, imprint, iris, jot, lentigo, line, macula, maculate, maculation, macule, make a mark, marble, marbleize, mark, mark off, mark out, marking, mole, motley, mottledness, nevus, nick, notch, patch, pencil, pepper, point, pointillage, pointillism, polka dot, polychrome, polychromize, prick, print, punch, punctuate, puncture, rainbow, riddle, scar, scarification, scarify, score, scotch, scratch, scratching, seal, seam, spangle, speck, speckle, speckliness, splash, splotch, spot, spottedness, spottiness, sprinkle, stain, stamp, stigma, stigmatize, stipple, stippledness, stippling, strawberry mark, streak, striate, stripe, stud, tattoo, tattoo mark, tessellate, tick, tick off, tittle, trace, underline, underscore, variegate, vein, watermark |
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