Spot

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·vi To become stained with spots.

II. Spot ·add. ·adj Lit., being on the spot, or place;.

III. Spot ·noun A small extent of space; a place; any particular place.

IV. Spot ·noun Commodities, as merchandise and cotton, sold for immediate delivery.

V. Spot ·noun A mark on a substance or body made by foreign matter; a blot; a place discolored.

VI. Spot ·noun A variety of the common domestic pigeon, so called from a spot on its head just above its beak.

VII. Spot ·add. ·adj on hand for immediate delivery after sale;

— said of commodities; as, spot wheat.

VIII. Spot ·noun A stain on character or reputation; something that soils purity; disgrace; reproach; fault; blemish.

IX. Spot ·noun The southern redfish, or red horse, which has a spot on each side at the base of the tail. ·see Redfish.

X. Spot ·vt To mark or note so as to insure recognition; to Recognize; to Detect; as, to spot a criminal.

XI. Spot ·noun A small part of a different color from the main part, or from the ground upon which it is; as, the spots of a leopard; the spots on a playing card.

XII. Spot ·vt To make visible marks upon with some foreign matter; to discolor in or with spots; to Stain; to cover with spots or figures; as, to spot a garnment; to spot paper.

XIII. Spot ·vt To Stain; to Blemish; to Taint; to Disgrace; to tarnish, as reputation; to Asperse.

XIV. Spot ·noun A sciaenoid food fish (Liostomus xanthurus) of the Atlantic coast of the United States. It has a black spot behind the shoulders and fifteen oblique dark bars on the sides. Called also goody, Lafayette, masooka, and old wife.

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