Properly, of a gray or tawny color marked with bars or streaks of a darker hue; brindled: applied more loosely to any animal having a hide variegated by streaks or spots, and by Milton to the lioness, whose hide is of a nearly uniform hue: as, “the brinded cat,”

“three brinded cows,”

In heraldry, spotted: said of a beast used as a bearing.

adjective. Of a gray or tawny color with streaks of darker hue; streaked; brindled.

adjective. brindled; having a streaky or patchy pattern, usually grey or brown in colour; used especially to describe the skin or fur of animals.

adjective. having a grey or brown streak or a pattern or a patchy coloring; used especially of the patterned fur of cats

"One witch said, “Thrice the brinded cat hath mewed.”"

patterned  

brindled  mottled  streaked  tabby