| Verb | 1. | stipple - engrave by means of dots and flicksartistic creation, artistic production, art - the creation of beautiful or significant things; "art does not need to be innovative to be good"; "I was never any good at art"; "he said that architecture is the art of wasting space beautifully" engrave - carve, cut, or etch into a block used for printing or print from such a block; "engrave a letter" | |
| 2. | stipple - make by small short touches that together produce an even or softly graded shadow, as in paint or inkartistic creation, artistic production, art - the creation of beautiful or significant things; "art does not need to be innovative to be good"; "I was never any good at art"; "he said that architecture is the art of wasting space beautifully" paint - make a painting; "he painted all day in the garden"; "He painted a painting of the garden" | |
| 3. | stipple - apply (paint) in small touchespaint - make a painting; "he painted all day in the garden"; "He painted a painting of the garden" | |
| 4. | stipple - produce a mottled effect; "The sunlight stippled the trees" | |