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fferent substance or color from that of the thing itself. An huge great serpent, all with speckles pied. Spebser.

or variegated with small spots of a different color from that of the rest of the surface. Speckled Indians (Ethnol.), the Pintos. -- Speckled trout. (Zoöl.) (a) The common American brook trout. See Trout. (b) The rainbow trout.

The gadwall. [Local, U.S.]

The American white-fronted goose (Anser albifrons).

The quality of being speckled.

To mark with speckles or spots. Milton.

Having so marked an appearance as easily to be recognized. [Scot.]

Having bad or speckled eyes. "A buck-eyed horse." James White.

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

ve and diuretic. See Digitalis. Pan through the pastures oftentimes hath run To pluck the speckled foxgloves from their stem. W. Browne.

A small South African antelope (Neotragus melanotis). It is speckled with gray and chestnut, above; the under parts are reddish fawn.

Spotted; speckled.

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

Speckled; spotted. [Obs.]

markable for having the dark skin of the face irregularly spotted with white. Called also speckled Indians.

er percoid fish of the United States (Aphredoderus Sayanus). It is of a dark olive color, speckled with blackish spots.

Ring-streaked. Cattle ringstraked, speckled, and spotted. Gen. xxx. 39.

Marked with small spots; variegated with spots; speckled; of a sandy color, as a hound. Shak.

Variegated; spotted; speckled; piebald. [Prov. Eng.]

nce of specks upon or in, especially specks regarded as defects or blemishes; to spot; to speckle; as, paper specked by impurities in the water used in its manufacture. Carnation, purple, azure, or specked with gold. Milton.