v. [f. BE- 1 + SPECKLE v.] To speckle over, to variegate with specks or spots. Hence Bespeckled ppl. a., Bespecklement.
1607. Topsell, Four-f. Beasts, 340. The colour yellowish, but bespeckled on the sides with blew spots.
1641. Milton, Ch. Discip., I. Wks. (1851), 23. They … bespecckl’d her with all the gaudy allurements of a Whore.
1655. Fuller, Ch. Hist., IX. vi. § 15. V. 76. A Translation … everywhere bespeckled with hard words.
1860. Encycl. Brit., XXI. 976/2. Minute black points … bespeckle the anterior extremity.
1883. G. M. Fenn, in Chamb. Jrnl., 631. [They] threw the white foam from their well-champed, brightly polished bits, to the bespecklement of the smart groom’s hat and coat.
