ppl. a. [f. prec. + -ED1.]

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  1.  Painted, engraved, etc., with dots: see the verb.

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1811.  Self Instructor, 525. They produce the appearance of an elegantly finished stippled engraving.

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1849.  H. Miller, Footpr. Creator, x. 199. Dots that somewhat resemble the stippled markings of the miniature painter.

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1884.  A. F. Oakey, in Harper’s Mag., March, 583/2. A stippled painted wall.

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  2.  transf. Of natural objects: Having a dotted or minutely spotted appearance like stippled painting or engraving.

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1876.  J. G. Jeffreys, in Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist., Ser. IV. XVIII. 496. Inside glossy and stippled, showing under the microscope traces of longitudinal striæ.

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1876.  T. Hardy, Ethelberta, xli. II. 152. Unexpected breezes … rasped the smooth bay in evanescent patches of stippled shade.

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1899.  Cagney, trans. Jaksch’s Clin. Diagn., ii. (ed. 4), 104. Varieties of coating [of the tongue] distinguished as ‘stippled,’ ‘coated,’ ‘plastered,’ ‘furred,’ and ‘encrusted.’

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