stipple
- v engrave by means of dots and flicks
- v make by small short touches that together produce an even or softly graded shadow, as in paint or ink
- v apply (paint) in small dots or strokes
- v produce a mottled effect
The sunlight stippled the trees
- For jaded music lovers, looking for relief from the cultivated festivals that stipple the map of Europe, the Swiss National Yodel Festival last week was just the right rustic .
- A new method of stipple engraving had made possible excellent prints in color.
- They were achieved with a meticulousness that required as many as 50 sittings for a portrait, demanded thousands of stipple or hatch brush strokes so infinitesimal that they can .