Emily Dickinson Lexicon

FLECK, or FLECK'ER, v.t. [G. fleck, a spot; flecken, to spot; D. vlek, vlak, vlakken; Sw. flack, fläcka; Dan. flek, flekker.]

To spot; to streak or stripe; to variegate; to dapple. Both flecked with white, the true Arcadian strain. Dryden. [These words are obsolete or used only in poetry.]