vbl. sb. [f. SPECKLE v.] The action of the vb.; speckled marking or marks.

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1611.  Cotgr., Tacheture,… a spotting, speckling, marking.

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1648.  Hexham, II. Een spickelinge, a Speckling, or a Spotting.

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1872.  Coues, N. Amer. Birds, 254. More or less dusky speckling on the throat, breast and sides.

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  So Speckling ppl. a., producing speckles or blemishes. In quot. fig.

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1602.  Marston, Ant. & Mel., IV. Wks. 1856, I. 45. O, this is naught but speckling melancholie.

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