FLECK

n. v.

3 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

1.
n.

A flake; also, a lock, as of wool. [Obs.] J. Martin.

2.
n.

A spot; a streak; a speckle. "A sunny fleck." Longfellow. Life is dashed with flecks of sin. tennyson.

3.
v.

To spot; to streak or stripe; to variegate; to dapple. Both flecked with white, the true Arcadian strain. Dryden. A bird, a cloud, flecking the sunny air. Trench.

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