a. Also 5 Sc. flekerit. [f. prec. + -ED1.]
1. Marked with flecks or spots; dappled, streaked, variegated.
c. 1450. Golagros & Gaw., 475.
| Ferly fayr wes the feild, flekerit and faw | |
| With gold, and goulis in greyne. |
1792. R. Cumberland, Calvary, V. 495.
| Now morning from her cloudy barrier forth | |
| Advancing, crimson’d all the flecker’d East, | |
| As blushing to lead on the guilty day. |
1823. Moor, Suffolk Words, Flecker’d. Variegated, of two or more colours, descriptive of domestic poultry.
1861. Geo. Eliot, Silas Marner, 300. Silas and Eppie were seated on the bank discoursing in the fleckered shade of the ash-tree.
2. Scattered in flecks or patches.
1823. Joanna Baillie, Poems, 292.
| What’s that like spots of flecker’d snow | |
| On the road’s margin cluster’d so? |
1851. Helps, Comp. Solit. ii. (1874), 57. They [my reveries] arrange themselves like those fleckered clouds, where all the heavens are regularly broken up in small divisions, lying evenly over each other with light between each.
