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Mottle

To mark with spots of different color, or shades of color, as if stained; to spot; to maculate.

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Color 76% connected

A property depending on the relations of light to the eye, by which individual and specific differences in the hues and tints of objects are apprehen…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Coloring 76% connected

of Color

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Colour 76% connected

See Color.

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Colouring 76% connected

a digestible substance used to give color to food; "food color made from vegetable dyes"

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Spot 76% connected

A mark on a substance or body made by foreign matter; a blot; a place discolored.

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Harlequin 76% connected

A buffoon, dressed in party-colored clothes, who plays tricks, often without speaking, to divert the bystanders or an audience; a merry-andrew; origi…

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Speckle 76% connected

A little or spot in or anything, of a different substance or color from that of the thing itself.

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Stipple 76% connected

To engrave by means of dots, in distinction from engraving in lines.

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Blotch 74% connected

A blot or spot, as of color or of ink; especially a large or irregular spot. Also Fig.; as, a moral blotch.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Blotch 74% connected

A blot or spot, as of color or of ink; especially a large or irregular spot. Also Fig.; as, a moral blotch.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Synonym 4

Blotch 92% connected

A blot or spot, as of color or of ink; especially a large or irregular spot. Also Fig.; as, a moral blotch.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Cloud 92% connected

A collection of visible vapor, or watery particles, suspended in the upper atmosphere.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Dapple 92% connected

One of the spots on a dappled animal.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Streak 92% connected

To stretch; to extend; hence, to lay out, as a dead body.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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