brindle

A streaky colouration in animals.

An animal so coloured.

I snatch at the puppy closest to me, the brindle, which is limp in my hand, and shove it down my shirt.

Having such a colouration; brindled.

It is brindle. Stripes of black and brown ride its ribs like a zebra’s.

To form streaks of a different color.

Sorely too as I laboured and toiled, the reward of toil would not come ; already my back began to curve, and my hair to brindle itself with gray, yet I saw no luck before me.

It is the perfect opposition of dark and light that brindles the tiger with gold flame and dark flame.