[? Shortened from FRECKLE v. or var. of FREAK v.] trans. To mark with spots or freckles; to dapple.

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1621.  G. Sandys, Ovid’s Met., II. (1626), 43.

        There shee a bloodlesse Statue sate, all freckt:
Her spotted minde the Marble did infect.

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1821.  Clare, The Village Minstrel, and Other Poems, II. 3, Rosy Jane.

        The eve put on her sweetest shroud,
    The summer-dress she’s often in,
Freck’d with white and purple cloud,
    Dappled like a leopard’s skin.

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1869.  Lowell, Cathedr., Poet. Wks. (1870), 25.

        The painted windows, frecking [ed. 1890, IV. 47, freaking] gloom with glow,
Dusking the sunshine which they seem to cheer,
Meet symbol of the senses and the soul.

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