To diversify with a different colour or shade; to variegate, mottle.

transitive. To spot, streak or stripe; to dapple, variegate.

? To variegate, adorn with mixture of colours.

transitive. To variegate by admixture of different coloured threads in the woof. Hence, in wider sense, to variegate (an expanse of colour) by…

transitive. To variegate with colours, whether by way of adornment or of disfigurement.

To intersperse (a thing) with some other element; †to variegate.

transferred and figurative. To adorn or variegate with figures resembling engraving.

transferred and figurative. To adorn with diversely coloured details; to variegate.

transitive. To run through, tie together, cover over with, or as with, sinews. rare.

transitive. To impart or give to (something) a particoloured or patchwork appearance; to make diverse in character; to mix incongruously. Chiefly in…

transitive. To intersperse with colours.

transferred and figurative. To ornament with or as with a variegated pattern or design; to diaper.

transitive. To make particoloured.

transitive. To shade; to tint or vary one colour with another.

transferred. To variegate, chequer, form a pattern upon.

transferred. To variegate like enamelled work; to adorn or beautify (any surface) with rich and varied colours.

transitive. To make of different colours; to adorn with various colours, variegate. Cf. discoloured, adj. 2. Obsolete.

esp. To render varied in colour or appearance; to mark or cover with patches of different colours or objects.

transitive. To variegate with different colours; to marble, to speckle.

transitive. To shoot or dart between or among; to variegate at intervals (chiefly in past participle intershot, const. with: cf. shot, adj.).

transitive. To adorn or variegate (a landscape, etc.) with areas of contrasting colour or appearance. Only in passive.

transitive. To embellish or decorate with a pattern or artistic design, esp. a repeated one. In extended use: to adorn naturally or by chance as if…

To insert a strand or filament in (a texture). Also figurative.

transitive. To colour, decorate with contrasting colours.