1. To apply in small touches, of paint.
2. To engrave by means of dots and flicks.
3. To make by small short touches that together produce an even or softly graded shadow, as in paint or ink.
4. To produce a mottled effect; SYN. speckle.

Production of gradation of light and shade in graphic art by stippling small points, larger dots, or longer strokes; also; an effect produced in this way