1. Verb
To mark with spots of different color, or shades of color, as if stained; to spot; to maculate.
2. Noun
A mottled appearance.
3. Noun
an irregular arrangement of patches of color; "it was not dull grey as distance had suggested, but a mottle of khaki and black and olive-green"
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