mackle
mackle (MAK-uhl) - n., a blur in printing, as from a double-impression or slipped paper. v., to blur in this way.
Also, obsolete (rather than merely rare printing jargon) sense of a spot, which goes to the original Latin meaning of the root, macula. Earlier form (via French) was macule, but by around 1590, it had taken on the forms macle/makle/mackle.
---L.
Also, obsolete (rather than merely rare printing jargon) sense of a spot, which goes to the original Latin meaning of the root, macula. Earlier form (via French) was macule, but by around 1590, it had taken on the forms macle/makle/mackle.
---L.