Spotted; variegated; marked with blotches of color, of unequal intensity, passing insensibly into one another.SpecificallyIn entomology, marked with irregular spots, generally formed of hairs of a different color from the ground; having two or more colors irregularly mingled in spots, but not running into one another.In metallurgy, an epithet noting the appearance of pig-iron when in a stage intermediate between the stages designated as the white and the gray.