beˈspecked, ppl. a.
[f. be- 1 + specked: cf. besmottered.]
Spotted or specked over the surface.
| 1565 Golding Ovid's Met. iv. (1593) 84 The berrie is bespect With colour tending to a blacke. 1598 Sylvester Du Bartas ii. i. ii. (1641) 90/2 A Dragons skin All brightbespect. 1745 Phil. Trans. XLIII. 296 Broad yellow spots [that] her whole body had been bespecked with. |