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stip·ple

(st

l) KEY

TRANSITIVE VERB:
stip·pled, stip·pling, stip·ples

To draw, engrave, or paint in dots or short strokes.
To apply (paint, for example) in dots or short strokes.
To dot, fleck, or speckle: "They crossed a field stippled with purple weeds" (Flannery O'Connor).

NOUN:

A method of drawing, engraving, or painting using dots or short strokes.
The effect produced by stippling.

ETYMOLOGY:
Dutch stippelen, frequentative of stippen, to speckle, from stip, dot, from Middle Dutch

OTHER FORMS:
stippler(Noun)

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