| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Verb | 1. To smirch.
[Eve - graph theoretic] 2. To blot, smear, soil, speckle or stain. [Eve - graph theoretic] 3. To blotch, smudge, splotch or blur. [Eve - graph theoretic] 4. To splash or plash. [Eve - graph theoretic] 5. To dapple, dot, speck or spot.[Eve - graph theoretic] 6. Present participle conjugation of the verb freckle.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Base (freckle) | 1. Become freckled; "I freckle easily".[Wordnet]. 2. Mark with freckles.[Wordnet]. 3. To spinkle or mark with freckle or small discolored spots; to spot.[Websters]. 4. To become covered or marked with freckles; to be spotted.[Websters]. 5. Base verb from the following inflections: freckling, freckled, freckles, freckler, frecklers, frecklingly and freckledly.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
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Date "FRECKLING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1894. (references) |
Specialty Definition: freckle
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Noah Webster | [Noun] A spot of a yellowish color in the skin, particularly on the face, neck and hands. Freckles may be natural or produced by the action of the sun on the skin, or from the jaundice.. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary. | ||
| Wiktionary | 1: [Noun] A small brownish or reddish pigmentation spot on the surface of the skin. (references) | 2: [Verb] (intransitive) To become covered with freckles. (references) | 3: [Verb] (transitive) To cover with freckles. (references) |
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Common Expressions: freckle
| Expressions | Definition | ||
| Freckle fetishism | Freckle fetishism is a paraphilia in which an individual is fixated on the small brownish spots, caused by the pigment melanin and called freckles, which naturally occur on human skin. (references) | ||
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Specialty Expressions: freckle
| Expressions | Domain | Definition | |
| Hutchinson's Melanotic Freckle | Health | A cellular subtype of malignant melanoma. It is a pigmented lesion composed of melanocytes occurring on sun-exposed skin, usually the face and neck. The melanocytes are commonly multinucleated with a "starburst" appearance. It is considered by many to be the in situ phase of lentigo maligna melanoma. (references) | |
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Topics by Level of Interest: freckle | ||||
| Topics sorted by level of Interest | Level (1=low, 600=high) | Topics sorted Alphabetically | Level (1=low, 600=high) | |
| Freckle | 9 | Freckle | 9 | |
| Freckle Juice | 7 | Freckle Juice | 7 | |
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