spot \spot\ spo^t, n. cf. scot.  d. spat, dan. spette, sw.
   spott spittle, slaver; from the root of e. spit. see spit
   to eject from the mouth, and cf. spatter.
   1. a mark on a substance or body made by foreign matter; a
      blot; a place discolored.
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            out, damned spot out, i say         --shak.
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   2. a stain on character or reputation; something that soils
      purity; disgrace; reproach; fault; blemish.
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            yet chloe, sure, was formed without a spot. --pope.
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   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.
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   4. a small extent of space; a place; any particular place.
      "fixed to one spot." --otway.
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            that spot to which i point is paradise. --milton.
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            "a jolly place," said he, "in times of old
            but something ails it now: the spot is cursed."
                                                  --wordsworth.
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   5. zool. a variety of the common domestic pigeon, so called
      from a spot on its head just above its beak.
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   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.
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   7. pl. commodities, as merchandise and cotton, sold for
      immediate delivery. broker's cant
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   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.
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   syn: stain; flaw; speck; blot; disgrace; reproach; fault;
        blemish; place; site; locality.
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see also:
spit spatter liostomus xanthurus goody lafayette masooka 
old wife redfish crescent spot melitaeidae spot lens 
spotted lens spot rump limosa haemastica spots on the sun sun spot 
sun on the spot upon the spot 

lafayette \la`fa`yette"\, n. zool.
   a the dollar fish.
   b a market fish, the goody, or spot liostomus
       xanthurus, of the southern coast of the united states.
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see also:
liostomus xanthurus