dapple

A mottled marking, usually in clusters.

An animal with a mottled or spotted skin or coat.

• “My brother,” said he, “do not ride to–day / The dapple, as you’re wont; but mount the horse / Which I have chosen for thee.

Having a mottled or spotted skin or coat, dappled.

• Some dapple mists still floated along the peaks.
• I was on a running Morgan that could leave anything in six counties behind, and all she had was that short-hocked dapple pony.

To mark or become marked with mottling or spots.

• Jt ſeemes it is in faſhion vvith you to ſugar your papers vvith Carnation phraſes, and dapple your ſpeeches vvith nevv quodled vvords.
• dappling black on white with uneven strokes