Dapple \Dap"ple\, Dappled \Dap"pled\, a. Marked with spots of different shades of color; spotted; variegated; as, a dapple horse.

Some dapple mists still floated along the peaks. --Sir W. Scott.

Note: The word is used in composition to denote that some color is variegated or marked with spots; as, dapple-bay; dapple-gray.

His steed was all dapple-gray. --Chaucer.

O, swiftly can speed my dapple-gray steed. --Sir W. Scott.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Dapple \Dap"ple\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Dappled; p. pr. & vb. n. Dappling.]

To variegate with spots; to spot.

The gentle day, . . . Dapples the drowsy east with spots of gray. --Shak.

The dappled pink and blushing rose. --Prior.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)