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Webster's Dictionary (1865)

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Fleck

Fleck, n.

noun

n. A spot; a streak; a speckle; a dapple. “Flecks of sin.” Tennyson.

Fleck, v. t.

verbtransitive

[imp. & p. p. FLECKED (flĕkt); p. pr. & vb. n. FLECKING.] [Ger. fleck, spot, D. flek, flāk, Sw. fläck, D. vlek, vlak: Ger. flecken, to spot, Dan. flekke, fläkke, Sw. fläcka, D. vlekken, vlakken.] To spot; to streak or stripe; to variegate; to dapple.

Both flecked with white, the true Arcadian strain. Dryden.

A bird, a cloud, flecking the sunny air. Trench.