specklen.

/ˈspɛk(ə)l/

Forms: Also Middle English spakle, spakkyl, spackyll, specle, 1500s speccle, speckil.

Etymology: Corresponds to Middle Dutch speckel (Flemish spekel , Dutch spikkel ): see speck n.¹ and -le suffix.

a. A speck, small spot or mark, esp. one occurring on the skin, body, etc.; a natural marking of this nature; a small patch or dot of colour.

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the world > health and disease > ill health > blemish > [noun] > spot or mark > freckle

freckenc1386

frecklec1400

lentigoc1400

specklec1440

sprote?c1450

fernticle1483

mase1527

chit1552

lentils1558

summerfold1668

summer spot1685

form-speckle1702

ephelis1756

heat-spot1822

the world > matter > colour > variegation > spot of colour > [noun] > small spot or speckle

puncta1398

pointa1400

masclec1400

specklec1440

pecklec1450

sprinkle1481

spreckle1513

frecklea1549

spruttle1553

dot1596

punctum1653

pip1676

spark1686

punctal1694

mail1727

punctule1785

puncta1858

freck1866

guttula1887

c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 467/1 Spakle (S. spakkyl, P. spackyll), scutula.

1495 Trevisa's Bartholomeus De Proprietatibus Rerum (de Worde) xviii. lxxxii. sig. ffiij^v/1 Pantera..is a beest paynted wyth smalle rounde speckles [a1398 BL Add. 27944 splekkes; a1450 Bodl. speckes]: so y^t all his skynne wythout semeth ful of eyen by dyuersite of speckles blacke & white & rede.

1495 Trevisa's Bartholomeus De Proprietatibus Rerum (de Worde) xvi. xciv. sig. Miij^v/2 Salt dooth a way speckles [a1398 BL Add. 27944 splekkes; a1450 Bodl. speckkes] of y^e face yf it be tempred w^t water & Camphora.

1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 274/1 Speccle in ones face, lentylle.

1549 E. Allen tr. L. Juda Paraphr. Rev. St. John xiii Like unto a cat of the mountayne with her many speckles and spottes.

1591 E. Spenser Virgil's Gnat in Complaints sig. I^v An huge great Serpent all with speckles pide.

1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. 62 With vinegre alone, it [cumin] cureth the blacke spots and speckles appearing in any part of the bodie.

a1658 J. Cleveland Wks. (1687) 285 The monstrous Fry Like Serpents with fair Speckles strike the Eye.

1825 W. Scott Talisman iv, in Tales Crusaders IV. 53 A coat or tabard..made of dressed bull's hide, and stained in the front with many a broad spot and speckle of dull crimson.

1856 J. C. Morton Cycl. Agric. (new ed.) II. 575/2 The seeds of a grayish colour, with purple speckles.

b. A small or minute object.

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the world > space > extension in space > measurable spatial extent > smallness > [noun] > that which is small > a small thing

minutea1450

minim1590

mite1594

titmouse1596

moteling1605

atom1633

thingling1652

long-little1653

parvitude1659

bodikin1668

eschantillon1720

niff-naff1808

smolt1808

runt1819

titty-tottya1825

featherweight1838

thinglet1839

shable1842

thumb1854

nubbin1857

speckle1882

teeny-weeny1894

hickey1909

tiddler1937

pinhead1951

1882 R. D. Blackmore Christowell xvii The humours of a slippery speckle, just beginning to outgrow a tadpole.

a. Speckled colouring, speckling.

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the world > matter > colour > variegation > spot of colour > [noun] > small spot or speckle > speckled marking or effect

sprinkle1811

freckling1820

stipple1837

speckle1851

stippling1851

1851 N. Hawthorne House of Seven Gables x. 165 She curiously examined..the peculiar speckle of its plumage.

b. A granular appearance seen in images formed by originally coherent light as a result of the interference of waves that have been reflected at a rough surface or have passed through an inhomogeneous medium; also, each of the light or dark areas giving rise to this appearance. Frequently attributive.

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the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > light > diffraction > [noun] > granular appearance

speckle1965

1965 Jrnl. Optical Soc. Amer. 55 247 Exposing photographic film directly to the backscattered radiation confirms the independent existence of the speckles.

1965 Jrnl. Optical Soc. Amer. 55 252/2 Both speckle pattern and diffraction pattern were recorded (photographically) at the same distance from the aperture.

1970 A. Labeyrie in Astron. & Astrophysics VI. 85/1 ‘Speckle’ refers to the grainy structure observed when a laser beam is reflected from a diffusing surface... In large telescopes, the image of point stars also features a speckle pattern, due to seeing induced phase fluctuations on the wavefront.

1975 T. S. McKechnie in J. C. Dainty Laser Speckle & Related Phenomena iv. 126 We may reduce speckle by simply reducing the coherence of the illumination.

1976 Physics Bull. Aug. 357/2 Objects viewed in highly coherent light acquire a peculiar granular appearance. This is the laser speckle phenomenon.

1977 McGraw-Hill Encycl. Sci. & Technol. 397/1 The size of the speckles is equal to the diffraction-limited resolution limit of the telescope, regardless of the resolution limit determined by the turbulent atmosphere.

1979 Nature 5 July p. vii/2 A double laser speckle camera which is used for non-destructive stress, vibration, and flaw analysis of engineering components.

Compounds

C1. General attributive.

speckle-bellied adj.

ΚΠ

1783 F. G. Waldron Attempt to continue Sad Shepherd 71 This swoll'n and speckled-bellied toad.

speckle-coated adj.

ΚΠ

1871 R. Browning Balaustion 81 Round thy lyre, Phoibos, there danced the speckle-coated fawn.

speckle-faced adj.

ΚΠ

1885 F. H. Bowman Struct. Wool Fibre 85 The Shropshire Speckle-faced Sheep is a cross breed between the original horned sheep and the Southdown.

speckle-starred adj.

ΚΠ

1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. i. v. 150 Feast-famous Sturgeons, Lampreyes speckle-starr'd.

C2.

speckle-belly n. (slang) a Nonconformist or Dissenter; (U.S.) one or other of various birds or fishes having speckled markings on the abdomen.

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society > faith > aspects of faith > nonconformity > [noun] > person

recusant1581

disagreer1605

unconformitant1605

nonconformist1618

non-conformer1622

nonconformitan1622

nonconformitantc1630

inconformist1633

dissenter1639

unconformist1640

fanatic1644

non-conformant1654

withdrawer1677

non-consenter1680

non-con1681

meeting-house man1711

shit-sack1769

dissident1790

meetinger1802

chapel-goer1842

speckle-belly1874

the world > animals > fish > class Osteichthyes or Teleostomi > order Salmoniformes (salmon or trout) > family Salmonidae (salmon) > [noun] > genus Salvelinus > salvelinus fontinalis (brook trout)

mud trout1842

brook trout1869

speckled trout1869

speckle-belly1874

the world > animals > birds > freshwater birds > order Anseriformes (geese, etc.) > [noun] > member of subfamily Anserinea (goose) > genus Anser > anser albifrons (white-front)

laughing goose1750

whitefront1855

speckle-belly1874

tortoiseshell goose1885

the world > animals > birds > freshwater birds > order Anseriformes (geese, etc.) > subfamily Merginae (duck) > [noun] > member of genus Anas (miscellaneous) > anas strepera (gadwall)

radge1620

gadwall1666

grey1673

rodge1678

Welsh drake1844

speckle-belly1874

grey duck1885

1874 Hotten's Slang Dict. (rev. ed.) 303 Specklebellies, Dissenters. A term used in Worcester and the North, though the etymology seems unknown in either place.

1884 E. Coues Key to N. Amer. Birds (ed. 2) 684 Anser albifrons gambeli,..Speckle-belly.

1888 G. Trumbull Names & Portraits Birds 24 Gadwell,..Gray Duck,..is known..at Moriches [in Long Island] as Speckle-Belly.

1891 Cent. Dict. Speckle-belly, a trout or char, as the common brook-trout of the United States, Salvelinus fontinalis.

speckle-interferometric adj.

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the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > light > diffraction > [adjective] > connected with interference

isochromatic1829

interferential1880

photoelastic1911

speckle-interferometric1973

1973 Astrophysical Jrnl. 182 l139 Speckle interferometric techniques are an effective way of obtaining information about small solar features without the problems of lifting large telescopes above the Earth's atmosphere.

speckle interferometry n. the analysis of speckle in two or more images, differing only in the instant of exposure, as a means of obtaining information about the source of light or the agent that caused the speckle.

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the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > light > diffraction > [noun] > study of interference

interferometry1911

speckle interferometry1970

1970 A. Labeyrie in Astron. & Astrophysics VI. 85 Key words: speckle interferometry.

1972 Sci. Amer. Feb. 106 The technique, known as speckle interferometry, can also be used to map local deformations in stressed mechanical parts.

1973 Astrophysical Jrnl. 182 l139 Speckle interferometry is potentially more powerful than two-aperture Michelson stellar interferometry because the entire aperture is used.

1978 J. M. Pasachoff & M. L. Kutner University Astron. ii. vi. 148 The speckle interferometry technique involves taking photographs of the speckle pattern with very short exposures—on the order of 1/100 second—or using electronic detection devices and then using mathematical techniques and computer assistance to deduce the properties of the starlight that entered the telescope.

speckle-wood n. (see speckled adj. Compounds 1b).

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society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > wood > [noun] > woods with specific markings

speckle-wood1619

speckled wood1656

pigeon wood?1740

zebrawood1768

snake-wood1843

tiger-wood1858

tortoise-wood1866

zebrano1908

zingana1911

1619 J. Scott Hist. & Descr. Amazones (Bodl. MS Rawl. A 175) f. 370^v They Loaded the Ship with Tobacco, Anotta, and Specklewood.

1669 S. Sturmy Summary of Penalties & Forfeitures in Mariners Mag. 6 Speckle-wood, Jamaica-wood, Fustick, or any other Dying-wood.

1699 W. A. Cowley Voy. round Globe iv, in W. Hacke Coll. Orig. Voy. i. 24 The Island of Borneo..is plentifully stored with..fine Wood, as Speckle-wood and Ebony.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online December 2020).

specklev.

/ˈspɛk(ə)l/

Etymology: < speckle n. or back-formation < speckled adj. Compare Middle Dutch speckelen, spekelen (West Flemish spekelen, Dutch spikkelen).

1. transitive. To mark with, or as with, speckles; to cover or dot (a surface, etc.) after the manner of speckles.

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the world > matter > colour > variegation > spot of colour > spot [verb (transitive)] > speckle

powderc1380

besprenga1425

prick1530

sprinkle1551

peckle1570

speckle1570

speck1580

pepper?1605

pounce1610

freckle1613

freck1621

stipplea1774

punctuate1777

dot1784

puncture1848

bespeckle1860

prickle1888

tick1910

1570 P. Levens Manipulus Vocabulorum sig. Diii/2 To Peckle, maculare. To Speckle, idem.

1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Grivoler, to peckle, or speckle; to spot with diuers colours.

1648 H. Hexham Groot Woorden-boeck Spickelen, to Speckle, or to Spott.

1708 W. Sewel Large Dict. Eng. & Dutch ii Bespikkelen, to Speckle.

1780 W. Cowper Progress of Error 83 Dawn appears; the sportsman and his train Speckle the bosom of the distant plain.

1834 T. Pringle Afr. Sketches vi. 201 So numerous were those herds,..they literally speckled the face of the country.

1847 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair (1848) xli. 375 Squads of them might have been seen, speckling with black the public-house entrances.

1854 C. Dickens Hard Times iii. vi. 313 Beautiful shadows of branches flickered upon it, and speckled it.

in extended use.1862 Internat. Exhib.: Illustr. Catal. Industr. Dept. II. xxxii. §6449 One wonders how on earth needle-making came to speckle such a scene.

2. intransitive. To form speckles; to become speckled; to be dotted about like speckles. rare.

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the world > matter > colour > variegation > spot of colour > be spotted [verb (intransitive)] > appear as speckles

speckle1703

freckle1821

1703 tr. H. van Oosten Dutch Gardener iv. ix. 218 If you water them in the Heat of the Sun, the leaves will speckle, and so often lose their Spindel.

1820 J. Clare Poems Rural Life (ed. 2) 209 And moss and ivy speckling on my eye.

1821 J. Clare Village Minstrel II. 15 Every thing shines round me just as then, Mole-hills, and trees, and bushes speckling wild.

1972 R. Adams Watership Down ix. 36 As the plants moved in the breeze, the sunlight dappled and speckled back and forth over the brown soil.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	speckle
释义	specklen. /ˈspɛk(ə)l/ Forms: Also Middle English spakle, spakkyl, spackyll, specle, 1500s speccle, speckil. Etymology: Corresponds to Middle Dutch speckel (Flemish spekel , Dutch spikkel ): see speck n.¹ and -le suffix. 1. a. A speck, small spot or mark, esp. one occurring on the skin, body, etc.; a natural marking of this nature; a small patch or dot of colour. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > blemish > [noun] > spot or mark > freckle freckenc1386 frecklec1400 lentigoc1400 specklec1440 sprote?c1450 fernticle1483 mase1527 chit1552 lentils1558 summerfold1668 summer spot1685 form-speckle1702 ephelis1756 heat-spot1822 the world > matter > colour > variegation > spot of colour > [noun] > small spot or speckle puncta1398 pointa1400 masclec1400 specklec1440 pecklec1450 sprinkle1481 spreckle1513 frecklea1549 spruttle1553 dot1596 punctum1653 pip1676 spark1686 punctal1694 mail1727 punctule1785 puncta1858 freck1866 guttula1887 c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 467/1 Spakle (S. spakkyl, P. spackyll), scutula. 1495 Trevisa's Bartholomeus De Proprietatibus Rerum (de Worde) xviii. lxxxii. sig. ffiij^v/1 Pantera..is a beest paynted wyth smalle rounde speckles [a1398 BL Add. 27944 splekkes; a1450 Bodl. speckes]: so y^t all his skynne wythout semeth ful of eyen by dyuersite of speckles blacke & white & rede. 1495 Trevisa's Bartholomeus De Proprietatibus Rerum (de Worde) xvi. xciv. sig. Miij^v/2 Salt dooth a way speckles [a1398 BL Add. 27944 splekkes; a1450 Bodl. speckkes] of y^e face yf it be tempred w^t water & Camphora. 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 274/1 Speccle in ones face, lentylle. 1549 E. Allen tr. L. Juda Paraphr. Rev. St. John xiii Like unto a cat of the mountayne with her many speckles and spottes. 1591 E. Spenser Virgil's Gnat in Complaints sig. I^v An huge great Serpent all with speckles pide. 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. 62 With vinegre alone, it [cumin] cureth the blacke spots and speckles appearing in any part of the bodie. a1658 J. Cleveland Wks. (1687) 285 The monstrous Fry Like Serpents with fair Speckles strike the Eye. 1825 W. Scott Talisman iv, in Tales Crusaders IV. 53 A coat or tabard..made of dressed bull's hide, and stained in the front with many a broad spot and speckle of dull crimson. 1856 J. C. Morton Cycl. Agric. (new ed.) II. 575/2 The seeds of a grayish colour, with purple speckles. b. A small or minute object. ΘΚΠ the world > space > extension in space > measurable spatial extent > smallness > [noun] > that which is small > a small thing minutea1450 minim1590 mite1594 titmouse1596 moteling1605 atom1633 thingling1652 long-little1653 parvitude1659 bodikin1668 eschantillon1720 niff-naff1808 smolt1808 runt1819 titty-tottya1825 featherweight1838 thinglet1839 shable1842 thumb1854 nubbin1857 speckle1882 teeny-weeny1894 hickey1909 tiddler1937 pinhead1951 1882 R. D. Blackmore Christowell xvii The humours of a slippery speckle, just beginning to outgrow a tadpole. 2. a. Speckled colouring, speckling. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > variegation > spot of colour > [noun] > small spot or speckle > speckled marking or effect sprinkle1811 freckling1820 stipple1837 speckle1851 stippling1851 1851 N. Hawthorne House of Seven Gables x. 165 She curiously examined..the peculiar speckle of its plumage. b. A granular appearance seen in images formed by originally coherent light as a result of the interference of waves that have been reflected at a rough surface or have passed through an inhomogeneous medium; also, each of the light or dark areas giving rise to this appearance. Frequently attributive. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > light > diffraction > [noun] > granular appearance speckle1965 1965 Jrnl. Optical Soc. Amer. 55 247 Exposing photographic film directly to the backscattered radiation confirms the independent existence of the speckles. 1965 Jrnl. Optical Soc. Amer. 55 252/2 Both speckle pattern and diffraction pattern were recorded (photographically) at the same distance from the aperture. 1970 A. Labeyrie in Astron. & Astrophysics VI. 85/1 ‘Speckle’ refers to the grainy structure observed when a laser beam is reflected from a diffusing surface... In large telescopes, the image of point stars also features a speckle pattern, due to seeing induced phase fluctuations on the wavefront. 1975 T. S. McKechnie in J. C. Dainty Laser Speckle & Related Phenomena iv. 126 We may reduce speckle by simply reducing the coherence of the illumination. 1976 Physics Bull. Aug. 357/2 Objects viewed in highly coherent light acquire a peculiar granular appearance. This is the laser speckle phenomenon. 1977 McGraw-Hill Encycl. Sci. & Technol. 397/1 The size of the speckles is equal to the diffraction-limited resolution limit of the telescope, regardless of the resolution limit determined by the turbulent atmosphere. 1979 Nature 5 July p. vii/2 A double laser speckle camera which is used for non-destructive stress, vibration, and flaw analysis of engineering components. Compounds C1. General attributive. speckle-bellied adj. ΚΠ 1783 F. G. Waldron Attempt to continue Sad Shepherd 71 This swoll'n and speckled-bellied toad. speckle-coated adj. ΚΠ 1871 R. Browning Balaustion 81 Round thy lyre, Phoibos, there danced the speckle-coated fawn. speckle-faced adj. ΚΠ 1885 F. H. Bowman Struct. Wool Fibre 85 The Shropshire Speckle-faced Sheep is a cross breed between the original horned sheep and the Southdown. speckle-starred adj. ΚΠ 1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. i. v. 150 Feast-famous Sturgeons, Lampreyes speckle-starr'd. C2. speckle-belly n. (slang) a Nonconformist or Dissenter; (U.S.) one or other of various birds or fishes having speckled markings on the abdomen. ΘΚΠ society > faith > aspects of faith > nonconformity > [noun] > person recusant1581 disagreer1605 unconformitant1605 nonconformist1618 non-conformer1622 nonconformitan1622 nonconformitantc1630 inconformist1633 dissenter1639 unconformist1640 fanatic1644 non-conformant1654 withdrawer1677 non-consenter1680 non-con1681 meeting-house man1711 shit-sack1769 dissident1790 meetinger1802 chapel-goer1842 speckle-belly1874 the world > animals > fish > class Osteichthyes or Teleostomi > order Salmoniformes (salmon or trout) > family Salmonidae (salmon) > [noun] > genus Salvelinus > salvelinus fontinalis (brook trout) mud trout1842 brook trout1869 speckled trout1869 speckle-belly1874 the world > animals > birds > freshwater birds > order Anseriformes (geese, etc.) > [noun] > member of subfamily Anserinea (goose) > genus Anser > anser albifrons (white-front) laughing goose1750 whitefront1855 speckle-belly1874 tortoiseshell goose1885 the world > animals > birds > freshwater birds > order Anseriformes (geese, etc.) > subfamily Merginae (duck) > [noun] > member of genus Anas (miscellaneous) > anas strepera (gadwall) radge1620 gadwall1666 grey1673 rodge1678 Welsh drake1844 speckle-belly1874 grey duck1885 1874 Hotten's Slang Dict. (rev. ed.) 303 Specklebellies, Dissenters. A term used in Worcester and the North, though the etymology seems unknown in either place. 1884 E. Coues Key to N. Amer. Birds (ed. 2) 684 Anser albifrons gambeli,..Speckle-belly. 1888 G. Trumbull Names & Portraits Birds 24 Gadwell,..Gray Duck,..is known..at Moriches [in Long Island] as Speckle-Belly. 1891 Cent. Dict. Speckle-belly, a trout or char, as the common brook-trout of the United States, Salvelinus fontinalis. speckle-interferometric adj. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > light > diffraction > [adjective] > connected with interference isochromatic1829 interferential1880 photoelastic1911 speckle-interferometric1973 1973 Astrophysical Jrnl. 182 l139 Speckle interferometric techniques are an effective way of obtaining information about small solar features without the problems of lifting large telescopes above the Earth's atmosphere. speckle interferometry n. the analysis of speckle in two or more images, differing only in the instant of exposure, as a means of obtaining information about the source of light or the agent that caused the speckle. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > light > diffraction > [noun] > study of interference interferometry1911 speckle interferometry1970 1970 A. Labeyrie in Astron. & Astrophysics VI. 85 Key words: speckle interferometry. 1972 Sci. Amer. Feb. 106 The technique, known as speckle interferometry, can also be used to map local deformations in stressed mechanical parts. 1973 Astrophysical Jrnl. 182 l139 Speckle interferometry is potentially more powerful than two-aperture Michelson stellar interferometry because the entire aperture is used. 1978 J. M. Pasachoff & M. L. Kutner University Astron. ii. vi. 148 The speckle interferometry technique involves taking photographs of the speckle pattern with very short exposures—on the order of 1/100 second—or using electronic detection devices and then using mathematical techniques and computer assistance to deduce the properties of the starlight that entered the telescope. speckle-wood n. (see speckled adj. Compounds 1b). ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > wood > [noun] > woods with specific markings speckle-wood1619 speckled wood1656 pigeon wood?1740 zebrawood1768 snake-wood1843 tiger-wood1858 tortoise-wood1866 zebrano1908 zingana1911 1619 J. Scott Hist. & Descr. Amazones (Bodl. MS Rawl. A 175) f. 370^v They Loaded the Ship with Tobacco, Anotta, and Specklewood. 1669 S. Sturmy Summary of Penalties & Forfeitures in Mariners Mag. 6 Speckle-wood, Jamaica-wood, Fustick, or any other Dying-wood. 1699 W. A. Cowley Voy. round Globe iv, in W. Hacke Coll. Orig. Voy. i. 24 The Island of Borneo..is plentifully stored with..fine Wood, as Speckle-wood and Ebony. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online December 2020). † speckleadj. Obsolete rare. Speckled, dappled. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > variegation > spot of colour > [adjective] > speckling > speckled freckledc1380 specked1382 specky1382 splecked1382 peckleda1400 speckleda1400 pleckedc1410 frecknyc1440 sparkled1480 spurtled1513 sprittleda1522 spreckled1535 speckle1536 pickled1552 spink1558 bespecked1565 spanged1582 spinked1588 spangled1590 dotted1601 bespeckled1607 peppery1610 peppered1694 fleckled1700 spankled1703 speckly1705 pounced1727 punctulateda1728 dotty1795 punctulate1845 naevose1847 peckly1859 polka-dotted1872 stippled1876 oatmeal1880 guttulate1887 naevous1890 stipply1892 thrush-breast1896 skittery1955 1536 Accts. St. John's Hosp., Canterbury (Canterbury Cathedral Archives: CCA-U13/4) For a spekyll cowe, xv s. iiij d. 1538 Accts. St. John's Hosp., Canterbury (Canterbury Cathedral Archives: CCA-U13/4) For a spekyll cowe att crystenmes, xv s. iiij d. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online March 2021). specklev. /ˈspɛk(ə)l/ Etymology: < speckle n. or back-formation < speckled adj. Compare Middle Dutch speckelen, spekelen (West Flemish spekelen, Dutch spikkelen). 1. transitive. To mark with, or as with, speckles; to cover or dot (a surface, etc.) after the manner of speckles. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > variegation > spot of colour > spot [verb (transitive)] > speckle powderc1380 besprenga1425 prick1530 sprinkle1551 peckle1570 speckle1570 speck1580 pepper?1605 pounce1610 freckle1613 freck1621 stipplea1774 punctuate1777 dot1784 puncture1848 bespeckle1860 prickle1888 tick1910 1570 P. Levens Manipulus Vocabulorum sig. Diii/2 To Peckle, maculare. To Speckle, idem. 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Grivoler, to peckle, or speckle; to spot with diuers colours. 1648 H. Hexham Groot Woorden-boeck Spickelen, to Speckle, or to Spott. 1708 W. Sewel Large Dict. Eng. & Dutch ii Bespikkelen, to Speckle. 1780 W. Cowper Progress of Error 83 Dawn appears; the sportsman and his train Speckle the bosom of the distant plain. 1834 T. Pringle Afr. Sketches vi. 201 So numerous were those herds,..they literally speckled the face of the country. 1847 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair (1848) xli. 375 Squads of them might have been seen, speckling with black the public-house entrances. 1854 C. Dickens Hard Times iii. vi. 313 Beautiful shadows of branches flickered upon it, and speckled it. in extended use.1862 Internat. Exhib.: Illustr. Catal. Industr. Dept. II. xxxii. §6449 One wonders how on earth needle-making came to speckle such a scene. 2. intransitive. To form speckles; to become speckled; to be dotted about like speckles. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > variegation > spot of colour > be spotted [verb (intransitive)] > appear as speckles speckle1703 freckle1821 1703 tr. H. van Oosten Dutch Gardener iv. ix. 218 If you water them in the Heat of the Sun, the leaves will speckle, and so often lose their Spindel. 1820 J. Clare Poems Rural Life (ed. 2) 209 And moss and ivy speckling on my eye. 1821 J. Clare Village Minstrel II. 15 Every thing shines round me just as then, Mole-hills, and trees, and bushes speckling wild. 1972 R. Adams Watership Down ix. 36 As the plants moved in the breeze, the sunlight dappled and speckled back and forth over the brown soil. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.c1440adj.1536v.1570
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specklen.

Compounds

† speckleadj.

specklev.