Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A blurred or double impression in printing.
  • intransitive verb To blur or double (a printed impression).
  • intransitive verb To become blurred.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A spot; specifically, in printing, a blemish in press-work made by a double impression, or by slipping or scraping, or by a wrinkle in the paper. Also macle, macule.
  • To spot; maculate; blur; especially, in printing, to make a slipped, blurred, or double impression of. Also macule.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun Same as macule.
  • verb To blur, or be blurred, in printing, as if there were a double impression.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun obsolete A blurred or double impression in printing.
  • verb obsolete To blur, or be blurred, in printing, as if there were a double impression.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a printed impression that is blurred or doubled

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Middle English macule, spot, from Old French, from Latin macula.]

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  • I've not actually seen it on one yet! mackle Looks just fine compared to how it looks on my Macs at home.

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