mackle
\ MAK-uhl \, verb;
1.to blur, as from a double impression in printing.
noun:
1.a blur in printing, as from a double impression.
Quotes:
Her arms were mackled red like a measles sufferer from being pricked and scraped with the cut grass ends, and she had a big blood-filled blister in the web of skin between her thumb and forefinger.
-- Charles Frazier, Cold Mountain , 1997
Who can peruse, with satisfaction, a letter written in villainous, unreadable characters, or a book with many of its pages torn out and others mutilated, or a newspaper with its columns mackled , monked, and friared?
-- Samuel Kirkham, An Essay on Elocution , 1834
Origin:
Mackle is a variant of the Latin word macula meaning "spot, blemish."
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