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Webster's Dictionary (1865)

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Stipple

Stīp'ple, v. t.

verbtransitive

(stĭp'pl), v. t. [imp. & p. p. STIPPLED; p. pr. & vb. n. STIPPLING.] [D. stippelen, to make points, to spot, dot, dim. of D. & L. Ger. stippen, to dip, point, dot; D. stip, stippel, L. Ger. stippe, stippel, a dot, spot.] To engrave by means of dots, in distinction from engraving in lines.

The interlaying of small pieces can not altogether avoid a broken, stippled, spotty effect. Milman.

Stĭp'ple, n.

noun

n. A mode of engraving in imitation of chalk drawings, in which the effect is produced by dots instead of lines, each dot being often a group of smaller dots. Fairholt.