stipple
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Is stipple a Scrabble word?
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What is the meaning of stipple?
Definition
noun (English)
1. (painting) The use of small dots that give the appearance of shading; the dots thus used.Examples: "Glory be to God for dappled things— / For skies of couple-colour as a brinded cow; / For rose-moles all in stipple upon trout that swim: […]"countableuncountable
verb (English)
1. (transitive) To use small dots to give the appearance of shading to.Examples: "Don’t you think, Major Vampyre, that eye-brow ſtippled very prettily?"; "The worst drawings that have ever come from [ Turner’s] hands are some of this second period, on which he has spent much time and laborious thought; drawings filled with incident from one side to the other, with skies stippled into morbid blue, and warm lights set against them in violent contrast […]"; "There were no footmarks on the ground, for each wind swept like a great brush over the sand surface, stippling the traces of the last travellers till the surface was again a pattern of innumerable tiny virgin waves."transitive
Definition source: Wiktionary