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mot·tle    Audio Help   [mot-l] Pronunciation Key verb, -tled, -tling, noun
–verb (used with object)
1.to mark or diversify with spots or blotches of a different color or shade.
–noun
2.a diversifying spot or blotch of color.
3.mottled coloring or pattern.

[Origin: 1670–80; prob. back formation from motley]

mot·tle·ment, noun
mottler, noun
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mot·tle    Audio Help   (mŏt'l)  Pronunciation Key 
tr.v.   mot·tled, mot·tling, mot·tles
To mark with spots or blotches of different shades or colors.

n.  
  1. A spot or blotch of color.
  2. A variegated pattern, as on marble.


[Probably back-formation from motley.]

mot'tler n.
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mottle 
1676, probably a back-formation from motley.

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mottle

noun
1. 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" 

verb
1. mark with spots or blotches of different color or shades of color as if stained 
2. colour with streaks or blotches of different shades 

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Mottle

Mot"ley\, a. [OE. mottelee, motle; cf. OF. mattel['e] clotted, curdled, OF, ciel mattonn['e] a mottled sky, mate, maton, curdled milk, Prov. G. matte curd. Cf. Mottle.]

1. Variegated in color; consisting of different colors; dappled; party-colored; as, a motley coat.

2. Wearing motley or party-colored clothing. See Motley, n., 1. "A motley fool." --Shak.

3. Composed of different or various parts; heterogeneously made or mixed up; discordantly composite; as, motley style. --Byron.
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Mottle

Mot"tle\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Mottled; p. pr. & vb. n. Mottling.] [From Mottled.] To mark with spots of different color, or shades of color, as if stained; to spot; to maculate.
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