Befleck

Quick meaning: Befleck is a verb meaning (poetic) to cover with small spots or flecks.

Meaning

(poetic) to cover with small spots or flecks.

Example Sentences

The world is filled with changeful light, The clouds befleck the sky, And o’er the fields, to harvest white, The trooping shadows fly.

I am not of those Fairies seen Tripping by moonlight on the green, Whose dewdrop bumpers, nightly poured, Befleck the mushroom’s virgin board, […]

The buttercups befleck the hills with gold, The bluejay calls, the lusty robin sings; I look across the landscape and, behold! The birds have brought the Southland on their wings.

Soon the heaps of rags become transformed into dark shapeless masses, patches of black which befleck the rosy gray of the enchanted city; but ever and anon a cough or a groan may be heard, and sometimes a leg or an arm protrudes from the ragged heap and stretches itself quiveringly into the air.

Word Forms

• beflecks
• beflecking
• beflecked

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include flecker, flyspeck, speckle, speck, bespot, beflake.

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