the Week of Proper 28 / Ordinary 33
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Spot
Webster's Dictionary
or (1):
(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.
(2):
(n.) A mark on a substance or body made by foreign matter; a blot; a place discolored.
(3):
(n.) A small extent of space; a place; any particular place.
(4):
(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.
(5):
(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.
(6):
(v. t.) To stain; to blemish; to taint; to disgrace; to tarnish, as reputation; to asperse.
(7):
(v. i.) To become stained with spots.
(8):
(n.) A stain on character or reputation; something that soils purity; disgrace; reproach; fault; blemish.
(9):
(n.) A variety of the common domestic pigeon, so called from a spot on its head just above its beak.
(10):
(n.) The southern redfish, or red horse, which has a spot on each side at the base of the tail. See Redfish.
(11):
(n.) Commodities, as merchandise and cotton, sold for immediate delivery.
(12):
(v. t.) To mark or note so as to insure recognition; to recognize; to detect; as, to spot a criminal.
(13):
(a.) on hand for immediate delivery after sale; - said of commodities; as, spot wheat.
(14):
(a.) Lit., being on the spot, or place;
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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Spot'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/s/spot.html. 1828.
