Of the nature of or resembling ground pepper; consisting of fine grains like pepper. Of a surface: grainy in appearance or texture.

Of engraving: executed by dots instead of lines; stippled.

Painted, engraved, etc. with dots: see the verb.

attributive and in other combinations, as stipple artist, stipple engraver, stipple engraving, stipple plate, stipple print, stipple shading; stippl…