"befleck" meaning in English

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      "form": "beflecking",
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          "ref": "1854, Jonathan Freke Slingsby, “A Slingsby Wedding, and the Doings Thereat”, in The Dublin University Magazine, A Literary and Political Journal, volume 44",
          "text": "The world is filled with changeful light,\nThe clouds befleck the sky,\nAnd o’er the fields, to harvest white,\nThe trooping shadows fly.",
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          "ref": "1867, James Russell Lowell, “Hob Gobbling’s Song”, in Our Young Folks, volume 3",
          "text": "I am not of those Fairies seen\nTripping by moonlight on the green,\nWhose dewdrop bumpers, nightly poured,\nBefleck the mushroom’s virgin board,\n[…]",
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          "ref": "1903, Pierre Loti, India",
          "text": "Soon the heaps of rags become transformed into dark shapeless masses, patches of black which befleck the rosy gray of the enchanted city; but ever and anon a cough or a groan may be heard, and sometimes a leg or an arm protrudes from the ragged heap and stretches itself quiveringly into the air.",
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          "ref": "1906, Nixon Waterman, “The Year’s Procession”, in Appleton’s Magazine, volume 8",
          "text": "The buttercups befleck the hills with gold,\nThe bluejay calls, the lusty robin sings;\nI look across the landscape and, behold!\nThe birds have brought the Southland on their wings.",
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        "to cover with small spots or flecks"
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        "(poetic) to cover with small spots or flecks"
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