spot Definition

• Eye-spot ((n.))

  A simple visual organ found in many invertebrates, consisting of pigment cells covering a sensory nerve termination.

• Eye-spot ((n.))

  An eyelike spot of color.

• Forty-spot ((n.))

  The Tasmanian forty-spotted diamond bird (Pardalotus quadragintus).

• Spot ((n.))

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

• Spot ((n.))

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

• Spot ((n.))

  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.

• Spot ((n.))

  A small extent of space; a place; any particular place.

• Spot ((n.))

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

• Spot ((n.))

  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.

• Spot ((n.))

  The southern redfish, or red horse, which has a spot on each side at the base of the tail. See Redfish.

• Spot ((n.))

  Commodities, as merchandise and cotton, sold for immediate delivery.

• Spot ((v. t.))

  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.

• Spot ((v. t.))

  To mark or note so as to insure recognition; to recognize; to detect; as, to spot a criminal.

• Spot ((v. t.))

  To stain; to blemish; to taint; to disgrace; to tarnish, as reputation; to asperse.

• Spot ((v. i.))

  To become stained with spots.

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