noun.
A speck or small spot, as a natural dot of color on skin, plumage, or foliage.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
noun.
A little speck or spot; a speckled marking; the state of being speckled: as, yellow with patches of speckle.
noun.
Color; hence, kind; sort.
To mark with specks or spots; fleck; speck; spot.
the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
noun.
A little or spot in or anything, of a different substance or color from that of the thing itself.
transitive verb.
To mark with small spots of a different color from that of the rest of the surface; to variegate with spots of a different color from the ground or surface.