01 n. A mark on a substance or body made by foreign matter; a blot; a place discolored.
-
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.“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.
A variety of the common domestic pigeon, so called from a spot on its head just above its beak.(Zool.)
-
6.
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.(Zool.) Also: goody, Lafayette, masooka, old wife
-
7.
Commodities, as merchandise and cotton, sold for immediate delivery.[Broker's Cant]“It was determined upon the spot.” — Swift.
Phrases & compounds
Crescent spot —
any butterfly of the family Melitaeidae having crescent-shaped white spots along the margins of the red or brown wings.
Spot lens —
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 —
the Hudsonian godwit (Limosa haemastica).
On the spot —
immediately; before moving; without changing place; as, he made his decision on the spot.