[f. SPARKLE sb. or v.1]

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  1.  Speckled, spotted. Now dial.

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1480.  Trevisa’s Higden (Caxton), I. 51 b/2. In the welmes after than ones Ben founde reed sperclid [Rolls ed. splekked] stones.

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1787.  [see SPARKY a. 1 b].

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1873.  Williams & Jones, Somerset Gloss., 35. Sparcled, Sparked,… speckled.

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  2.  Filled with sparkles. rare–1.

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a. 1547.  Surrey, Æneid, II. 220. But she gan stare with sparcled eyes of flame.

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