Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Fleck

Fleck , noun

A flake; also, a lock, as of wool. [Obsolete] — J. Martin

Fleck , noun

[Compare Icelandic flekkr; akin to Swedish flack, Dutch vlek, German fleck, and perh. to English flitch.]

A spot; a streak; a speckle.
A sunny fleck. — Longfellow
Life is dashed with flecks of sin. — tennyson

Fleck , transitive verb

[Compare Icelandic flekka, Swedish flacka, Dutch vlekken, vlakken, German flecken. See Fleck, n.]

To spot; to streak or stripe; to variegate; to dapple.
Both flecked with white, the true Arcadian strain. — Dryden
A bird, a cloud, flecking the sunny air. — Trench