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stipple: produce a mottled effect; "The sunlight stippled the trees"; apply (paint) in small touches; make by small short touches that together produce an even or softly graded shadow, as in paint or ink; engrave by means of dots and flicks

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marbleize collapse: make something look like marble; "marbleize the fireplace"

glass cutting collapse

tessellate collapse: tile with tesserae; "tessellate the kitchen floor"

bespeckle collapse

tooling collapse

variegate collapse: change the appearance of, especially by marking with different colors

crosshatch collapse: shade with multiple crossing lines; "the draftsman crosshatched the area"

bespangle collapse: dot or sprinkle with sparkling or glittering objects

lithograph collapse: duplicator that prints by lithography; a flat surface (of stone or metal) is treated to absorb or repel ink in the desired pattern; a print produced by lithography; make by lithography

chiseling collapse

calcimine collapse: a water-base paint containing zinc oxide and glue and coloring; used as a wash for walls and ceilings; cover with calcimine; "calcimine the walls"

begild collapse

parget collapse: plaster used to coat outer walls and line chimneys; apply ornamental plaster to

checker collapse: one of the flat round pieces used in playing the game of checkers; one who checks the correctness of something; an attendant who checks coats or baggage; variegate with different colors, shades, or patterns

lacquer collapse: a hard glossy coating; a black resinous substance obtained from certain trees and used as a natural varnish; coat with lacquer; "A lacquered box from China"

enamel collapse: any smooth glossy coating that resembles ceramic glaze; a paint that dries to a hard glossy finish; hard white substance covering the crown of a tooth; a colored glassy compound (opaque or partially opaque) that is fused to the surface of metal or glass or pottery for decoration or protection; coat, inlay, or surface with enamel

shellac collapse: a thin varnish made by dissolving lac in ethanol; used to finish wood; lac purified by heating and filtering; usually in thin orange or yellow flakes but sometimes bleached white; cover with shellac; "She wanted to shellac the desk to protect it from water spots"

slashing collapse: as if striking with slashing blows; "his slashing demon-ridden cadenza"

spangle collapse: decorate with spangles; "the star-spangled banner"; glitter as if covered with spangles

crease collapse

glyptic collapse

ingrain collapse: thoroughly work in; "His hands were grained with dirt"

besmear collapse

bedaub collapse: spread or daub (a surface)

polka dot collapse: design consisting of a pattern of regularly spaced circular spots

bedizen collapse: dress up garishly and tastelessly; decorate tastelessly

etching collapse: an etched plate made with the use of acid; an impression made from an etched plate

cross hatching collapse

fresco collapse: a durable method of painting on a wall by using watercolors on wet plaster; a mural done with watercolors on wet plaster; paint onto wet plaster on a wall

lining collapse: the act of attaching an inside lining (to a garment or curtain etc.); providing something with a surface of a different material; a protective covering that protects an inside surface

striate collapse: marked with stria or striations; mark with striae or striations

gild collapse: decorate with, or as if with, gold leaf or liquid gold

iris collapse: diaphragm consisting of thin overlapping plates that can be adjusted to change the diameter of a central opening; muscular diaphragm that controls the size of the pupil; it forms the colored portion of the eye; plants with sword-shaped leaves and erect stalks bearing bright-colored flowers composed of three petals and three drooping sepals

dye collapse: a usually soluble substance for staining or coloring e.g. fabrics or hair; color with dye; "Please dye these shoes"

sprinkle collapse: the act of sprinkling or splashing water; "baptized with a sprinkling of holy water"; "a sparge of warm water over the malt"; scatter with liquid; wet lightly; "Sprinkle the lawn"; cause (a liquid) to spatter about, especially with force; "She splashed the water around her"; rain gently; "It has only sprinkled, but the roads are slick"

burr collapse: rough projection left on a workpiece after drilling or cutting; rotary file for smoothing rough edges left on a workpiece; United States politician who served as vice president under Jefferson; he mortally wounded his political rival Alexander Hamilton in a duel and fled south (1756-1836)

mottle collapse: an irregular arrangement of patches of color; "it was not dull grey as distance had suggested, but a mottle of khaki and black and olive-green"; colour with streaks or blotches of different shades; mark with spots or blotches of different color or shades of color as if stained

hue collapse: the quality of a color as determined by its dominant wavelength; take on color or become colored; "In highlights it hued to a dull silver-grey"

imbue collapse: suffuse with color

sculpture collapse: creating figures or designs in three dimensions; a three-dimensional work of plastic art

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