Fleck (?), n.
A flake; also, a lock, as of wool.
[Obs.]
J. Martin.
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Fleck (?), n. [Cf. Icel. flekkr; akin to Sw. flack, D. vlek, G. fleck, and perh. to E. flitch.]
A spot; a streak; a speckle.
"A sunny
fleck."
Longfellow.
Life is dashed with flecks of sin.
tennyson.
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Fleck, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Flecked (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Flecking.] [Cf. Icel. flekka, Sw. flacka, D. vlekken, vlakken, G. flecken. See Fleck, n.]
To spot; to streak or stripe; to variegate; to dapple.
Both flecked with white, the true Arcadian strain.
Dryden.
A bird, a cloud, flecking the sunny air.
Trench.
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