Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

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.

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 : WordNet®

dappled
     adj : having spots or patches of color [syn: {mottled}]