stipple
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1. stipple - Noun
2. stipple - Verb
Meaning
To engrave by means of dots, in distinction from engraving in lines.
To paint, as in water colors, by small, short touches which together produce an even or softly graded surface.
Alt. of Stippling
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Glory be to God for dappled things- For skies of couple-colour as a brinded cow; For rose-moles all in stipple upon trout that swim.
The country habit has me by the heart, For he's bewitched for ever who has seen, Not with his eyes but with his vision, Spring Flow down the woods and stipple leaves with sun, As each man knows the life that fits him best, The shape it makes in his soul, the tune, the tone.
The sunlight stippled the trees