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Spot n.
1. A mark on a substance or body made by foreign matter; a blot; a place discolored.
Out, damned spot! Out, I say! --Shak.
2. A stain on character or reputation; something that soils purity; disgrace; reproach; fault; blemish.
Yet Chloe, sure, was formed without a spot. --Pope.
3. 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.
4. A small extent of space; a place; any particular place. “Fixed to one spot.”
That spot to which I point is Paradise. --Milton.
“A jolly place,” said he, “in times of old!
But something ails it now: the spot is cursed.” --Wordsworth.
5. Zool. A variety of the common domestic pigeon, so called from a spot on its head just above its beak.
6. Zool. (a) 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. (b) The southern redfish, or red horse, which has a spot on each side at the base of the tail. See Redfish.
7. pl. Commodities, as merchandise and cotton, sold for immediate delivery. [Broker's Cant]
Crescent spot Zool., any butterfly of the family Melitaeidae having crescent-shaped white spots along the margins of the red or brown wings.
Spot lens Microscopy, a condensing lens in which the light is confined to an annular pencil by means of a small, round diaphragm (the spot), and used in dark-field illumination; -- called also spotted lens.
Spot rump Zool., the Hudsonian godwit (Limosa haemastica).
Spots on the sun. Astron. See Sun spot, ander Sun.
On the spot, or Upon the spot, immediately; before moving; without changing place; as, he made his decision on the spot.
It was determined upon the spot. --Swift.
Syn: -- Stain; flaw; speck; blot; disgrace; reproach; fault; blemish; place; site; locality.
Limosa haemastica
n : New World godwit [syn: Hudsonian godwit]