Definition of Dappling

1. Verb. (present participle of dapple) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Dappling

1. dapple [v] - See also: dapple

Lexicographical Neighbors of Dappling

dapperest
dapperling
dapperlings
dapperly
dapperness
dappernesses
dappers
dapping
dapple
dapple-gray
dapple-grey
dappled
dappled-gray
dappled-grey
dapples
dappling (current term)
daps
dapsone
dapsone neuropathy
dapsones
daptomycin
daqingshanite
daquiri
daquiris
daraf
darafs
darapiosite
darapskite
darb
darbar

Literary usage of Dappling

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The New-England Magazine by Joseph Tinker Buckingham, Edwin Buckingham, Samuel Gridley Howe, John Osborne Sargent, Park Benjamin (1831)
"A heap of dense masses are dappling the long vista of glory beyond, while their fringed edges are lighted into transparent fire by the sea of flame ..."

2. The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication by Charles Darwin (1892)
"... cubs of thé uniformly-coloured lion being spotted with dark marks on a lighter ground—we may suspect that the dappling of the horse, which has been 42. ..."

3. Studies in the Evolution of Animals by Emanuel Bonavia (1895)
"I am informed that the dappling, when it does come, begins to appear when the foal is a few years old. This is rather curious, for in the case of some Deer ..."

4. The Penycuik Experiments by James Cossar Ewart (1899)
"When dappling co-exists with more or less distinct stripes it is at once evident from the relation of the dappling to the stripes that the one has not been ..."

5. The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals by Charles Darwin (1896)
"453, 455) vations made during several years on there are some gool remarks on th i the colours of horses. I have seen dappling of horses; and likewise in ..."

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