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hat which is enameled; also, any smooth, glossy surface, resembling enamel, especially if variegated.

Coated or adorned with enamel; having a glossy or variegated surface; glazed. [Written also enamelled.]

To variegate or spot, as with hail. A caldron new engrailed with twenty hues. Chapman.

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.

To variegate; to checker; to streak. [R.] Freaked with many a mingled hue. Thomson.

To ornament with raised work; to variegate; to diversify. Whose skirt with gold was fretted all about. Spenser. Yon gray lines, That fret the clouds, are messengers of day. Shak.

Ornamented with fretwork; furnished with frets; variegated; made rough on the surface.

eagris), has a colored fleshy horn on each aide of the head, and is of a dark gray color, variegated with small white spots. The crested Guinea fowl (N. cristata) is a finer species.-- Guinea grains (Bot.), grains of Paradise, or amomum. See Amomum. -- Guinea grass (Bot.), a tall strong forage grass (Panicum jumentoru…

theaters. Johnson. Harlequin bat (Zoöl.), an Indian bat (Scotophilus ornatus), curiously variegated with white spots. -- Harlequin beetle (Zoöl.), a very large South American beetle (Acrocinus longimanus) having very long legs and antennæ. The elytra are curiously marked with red, black, and gray. -- Harlequin cabba…

f Brazil (Bothrops jararaca), about eighteen inches long, and of a dusky, brownish color, variegated with red and black spots.

Of, pertaining to, or formed by, a kaleidoscope; variegated.

ncluding but a single species (Leipoa ocellata), about the size of a turkey. Its color is variegated, drown, black, white, and gray. Called also native pheasant.

To stain or vein like marble; to variegate in color; as, to marble the edges of a book, or the surface of paper.

Variegated like marble; covered or overlaid with marble. [R.]

Covered with spots; speckled; variegated. [Obs.]

a purpurea) having handsome, funnel- shaped flowers, usually red, pink, purple, white, or variegated, sometimes pale blue. See Dextrorsal.

taining to the style of work called mosaic; formed by uniting pieces of different colors; variegated; tessellated; also, composed of various materials or ingredients. A very beautiful mosaic pavement. Addison. Florentine mosaic. See under Florentine. -- Mosaic gold. (a) See Ormolu. -- (b) Stannic sulphide, SnS2, obta…

Variegated in color; consisting of different colors; dappled; party-colored; as, a motley coat.

Marked with spots of different colors; variegated; spotted; as, mottled wood. "The mottled meadows." Drayton.

A species of ichneumon (Herpestes nyula). Its fur is beautifully variegated by closely set zigzag markings.